What Does Sam Crow Stand for on Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy was a very popular crime-tragedy-drama show that aired on FX from 2008 to 2014, centering on a fictitious motorcycle club. The outlaw MC was called SAMCRO, as in Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original. The biker show took plenty of cues from the real-life Hells Angels Motorcycle Club even going as far as including a few members of Hells Angels as part of its cast.
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One example of this was David Labrava, who had the recurring role of Happy Newman on the show. Happy Newman is SAMCRO's enforcer (assassin) and takes great pleasure in committing murder, as evidenced by him getting a smiley tattooed on his body every time he's killed someone. In reality, David Labrava is an ex-HAMC member and leads a rather quiet life.
Perhaps the most (in)famous HAMC member to appear on the show is Sonny Barger, who was a founding member of the Oakland Chapter of the Hells Angels. Barger had a small role on the show as a character named "Lenny the Pimp" Janowitz, a founding member of the Sons of Anarchy MC.
However, there's another HAMC member in the cast whose real-life story is just about as colorful as the character he plays.
Let's find out more about this Sons of Anarchy star who was a Hells Angel and led a very colorful outlaw life…
Meet Rusty Coones, HAMC Chapter President
Born Howard Irvine Coones but known to all as 'Rusty', this HAMC member stands 6 foot 5 inches tall and is as imposing in real life as he looks on screen. His real-life story is a little more colorful than his reel-life character, but more on that later.
Coones became involved with the show when Charlie Hunnam, the star of SoA visited his motorcycle shop, Illusion, to buy a few extra motorcycles for the show, which were later auctioned off for charity. However, there are rumors circulating that Coones had previously met the show's creator, Kurt Sutter, during a Hells Angels MC toy run in the San Fernando Valley.
Later, Sutter got in touch with Coones, not only having Coones customize a motorcycle for him, but he also brought him on the show as a cast member and technical advisor.
In SAMCRO, He's Rane Quinn
In Sons of Anarchy, Rane Quinn is the President of the Nomads chapter, and he is the guy who brings "Happy Lowman" aka David Labrava to the Sons of Anarchy MC. In season 3, Happy would leave the Nomads chapter in order to join SAMCRO as their enforcer.
In season 5, the Nomads chapter disbands and Quinn goes on to join the Sons of Anarchy Indian Hills Chapter, only to leave that and join SAMCRO in season 6.
On the show, Quinn is a violent man, committing a total of three murders, all enemies of SAMCRO: killing a member of the True IRA, an East Dub member as well as a member of the Lin Triad.
The Real-Life Story Of Rusty Coones
Rusty Coones is more than just a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, he was the President of two HAMC chapters. First San Fernando Valley and then the Orange County chapter, a chapter he founded. So we could almost say he's HAMC royalty.
His real-life story comes with lots of drama and tragedy as well. In the 1980s, his heroin-addicted brother OD'ed, and in response, he opened a rehabilitation center in California. He would close it down in 1995 due to a change in government subsidies that made it impossible to run it and turn a profit. In the late '80s, he also met his wife, Katherine Coones, and went on to have a son and daughter with her. This petite blond has stuck with Rusty Coones through thick and thin.
In the true spirit of being an outlaw biker, Coones himself has been to prison twice. The first time he went down for drugs. In 1999, he bought Illusion Motorsports and was trying to make something out of it by customizing motorcycles, only to go back to prison on drug conspiracy charges, distributing a chemical used to make crystal meth.
This time, he stayed behind bars for six years, and his wife Katherine, kept Illusion Motorsports running for Rusty to have something to do when he got back. When he finally did get back, the economy was failing and Illusion wasn't doing all that well.
It was at this point Coones met Charlie Hunnam and Kurt Sutter, and the rest is, as they say, history.
Coones Feels SOA Was A Godsend
Rusty Coones has been a HAMC member and been to prison twice on some serious charges, that's not the kind of stuff that would endear this bear of a man to anyone.
However, after his role on Sons of Anarchy, a show with some 5 million viewers, Coones has become something of a celebrity of sorts in his town. His exposure on the show was enough to give his business a breath of fresh air. Sutter was so impressed with him that he even featured three songs from Coones' rock-metal band Attika 7 in the show. Being a TV MC member has done Coones a lot of good.
If you want to see more of Rusty Coones, he also appeared on some other TV shows;Orange County Choppers: American Made, and in the SoA spinoff Mayans M.C.
Sources: OCRegister, LATimes, TVLine
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