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00:30A Hell's Angel, a Comanchero, a Space Oddity, and the original rock and roll wrestler, Chris Colt tore up the territories in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, thrilling audiences with unhinged performances and outlandish characters.
00:48The seat of his drunk space odyssey, and for all we know, and Colt might well be from outer space.
00:54I'm surprised there were times that Chris didn't get stabbed or shot. That's how good he was as a heel.
01:00A talented performer, Chris Colt's in-ring antics mirrored his volatility outside of the squared circle.
01:09When you looked in his eyes, you thought, my God, this is a madman.
01:13Chris was an outlaw.
01:14He did just what you didn't want him to do, and he was happier doing it his way.
01:18But beneath his psychedelic appearance, a darkness lurked, and Chris's obsession with death was no act.
01:26Chris had his own Vietnam War going on in his head.
01:30I don't think that it was necessarily white picket fence, two kids and a dog, or whatever.
01:36That's definitely not the life that he lived as a child.
01:39They threw rocks at me, called me queer.
01:42Small towns can be so weird and cruel.
01:46Driven by demons and obsessed with death, he became a cult icon and a legend.
01:52But who was Chris Colt?
01:54Chris' favorite saying is, hey man, I'm a homosexual, I'm a drug addict, and I'm an alcoholic,
02:01and I'll match you scar for scar, and you'll look like a virgin.
02:05I mean, Ozzy Osbourne was Mother Teresa next to Chris Colt.
02:10Chris Colt stood out from the average wrestler because he wasn't just a rock star.
02:27He was the most wild, over-the-top, strung-out rock star that he could possibly be.
02:34I'm Jim Cornett.
02:35Before I started my 40-plus year career in professional wrestling, as a kid, I was a fan.
02:40Of Chris Colt.
02:42Chris was overboard in every facet of life.
02:45He wanted to have the most sex, take the most drugs, do the whatever.
02:50One time, he gets booked in a cage match.
02:55What's a cage match for?
02:56It's to keep the wrestlers in, right?
02:58They tell the fans, no way in, no way out.
03:00We're going to settle this.
03:02But they didn't count on Chris Colt taking LSD before he got in the cage.
03:07So now the match is going on.
03:09There's people watching it.
03:10Everything's normal.
03:11And suddenly, Chris Colt, he starts imagining that there are giant spiders coming over the cage to get him.
03:22And you've got to think, what in the world would that be like?
03:25You're almost naked, in spandex, in a ring, surrounded by a cage with thousands of people looking at you.
03:33And suddenly, the giant spiders arrive.
03:37And he's just freaking out.
03:44And finally, he climbs over the cage.
03:48And he starts punching people, fans.
03:50Every fan was like something that needed to be destroyed in his mind.
03:56People, they can't see the spiders.
04:00They don't know the spiders are there.
04:02I'm watching the match from upstairs in the balcony.
04:06Fans are just on top of him, and they're just pummeling him.
04:10But he was invincible.
04:12Chris didn't feel nothing.
04:13He was having bottles broke over his head.
04:16He's like, ah!
04:17He's like a monster.
04:18I came downstairs.
04:21I picked up a metal folding chair, and I started swinging it at the fans.
04:27It just became a riot.
04:30My name is Bill Anderson, 30-year veteran of pro wrestling.
04:34Billy Anderson!
04:36In the summer of 1975, my rookie year, I became a tag team partner for Crazy Chris Colt as Bill Colt.
04:44Cops started arriving, handcuffs going on people.
04:49All I smelled was mace.
04:51It was in my eyes, and everybody was burning.
04:54The world is coming to an end in this arena.
04:57And here I am, 18.
05:00I drank maybe two beers in my entire life.
05:03Wanting to be a pro wrestler, that's all I cared about.
05:06And there's my partner, a bloody mess, drugged out of his mind, beaten up out of his mind.
05:13And that's my new partner to start my career.
05:16And I'm like, wow, what the hell am I getting into?
05:26Chris Colt was one of the early guys in the business who was wrapped up in the rock and roll lifestyle.
05:32And part of rock and roll, especially in those days, was drugs, chemicals, substances.
05:37And when the other wrestlers were, back in the 60s, were, you know, still more old-fashioned,
05:43Chris was on the edge of it, and he spent time around Janis Joplin.
05:47He worked as a roadie for Joe Cocker.
05:50Because you've been bodyguard to Joe Cocker twice, and that was fun.
05:55So this is the notebook in which Chris Colt started to write what he wanted to become a book.
06:04There's about, I think, 100 pages or so here of handwritten notes.
06:09Chris Colt telling his own story.
06:11My name is Ty Haggard, and Chris Colt was my great uncle.
06:17As I read through this stuff, especially as a teenager, it was like, holy cow.
06:21Like, some of this stuff is wild.
06:23Like, I don't know if this is appropriate for a 13-year-old to be reading.
06:27But as I read that stuff, I realized that it was his intentions for his story to get out.
06:32I was bored in Phoenix one weekend and decided I wanted to go to San Francisco for the first time,
06:39as it was always a dream of mine.
06:40All the freedom of the 60s.
06:42People getting high, having open sex on bars, streets.
06:46It was all open.
06:49One night I was walking to Market Street.
06:51I noticed a girl sitting on some steps looking lonely, chugging a gallon of wine.
06:56I gave her a quick look, said hi, and kept walking.
06:59She responded with, hey, want to have a drink?
07:04I turned and I said, sure.
07:06She just smiled.
07:08Beyond her smile, I saw sincere deep eyes.
07:11But I also saw tragedy and hurt and pain.
07:16Then, as he's on his way to leave there, he stops at a head shop and sees a poster on the wall
07:22and realizes that that's the person that he was talking to, and it was Janis Joplin.
07:27And so he went back and asked her, why didn't you tell me who you were?
07:31And she just wanted a friend that wasn't there as a beggar or hanger-on
07:36or somebody who only liked her because she was talented or something.
07:39And he told her, gave her a hug and told her, Janis, I will always be your friend.
07:44I styled myself as a male Janis Joplin in the ring.
08:01Jewelry, chains, clothes, attitude.
08:04She left everything on the stage like he left everything in the ring.
08:08She was living in the moment.
08:10She didn't care about the future, living fast and dying young.
08:14That's the path that he figured he'd take.
08:18Chris told me, if not once, he told me 500 times,
08:24I plan on being dead by 27, just like Janis Joplin.
08:30And he did everything he could to be there.
08:34Born Charles Faye Harris in Idaho in 1946
08:37and raised in the small town of Drain, Oregon,
08:41Chris's chaotic upbringing set the tone for the rest of his life.
08:44Monday through Friday, it was a very loving home.
08:50They had everything they wanted and needed.
08:52They had clothes, they had money, they had food.
08:55It's when they started drinking on the weekends
08:58that everything blew up.
09:03My grandparents drank a lot,
09:05and I've heard stories that on weekends
09:07they would stop and get a case of half gallons of whiskey.
09:11They would get drunk and have brawls
09:13and the kids were all involved
09:16and it got really brutal.
09:20My name's Ronda Rondo
09:22and I am Chris Colt's niece.
09:25My mother was his sister.
09:28Wrestling fans know your uncle as Chris Colt.
09:31What do you call him?
09:32Uncle Chuck.
09:33He'll always be Uncle Chuck.
09:37When he was, I don't know, like 10,
09:40he came home from a friend's house.
09:42It was a Saturday.
09:44Everything was destroyed in the house.
09:46All the dishes were broke.
09:47And his mom was sitting over on the couch with a bloody face
09:51and there was a gun sitting next to her
09:54that Grandpa had hit her in the face with
09:57and split the handle of the gun.
09:59It was a wooden handle.
10:01I thought she was dead.
10:04She was flowing with blood.
10:06Blood out of her nose, mouth, ears.
10:09We put her in the back seat of the car.
10:11A 56 Chevy trying to hide her.
10:14He hadn't had enough of her yet.
10:16He was a raving maniac.
10:19I screamed,
10:20I wish you were dead, you bastard.
10:22He hit me.
10:24Broke my eardrum.
10:24He grabbed another gun
10:28and started firing it at us.
10:37Sis was now behind the wheel,
10:39successfully driving down an old dirt road,
10:42making our escape to the highway.
10:45I think by that time,
10:46my Uncle Chuck was like,
10:48oh my God, I got to get out of here.
10:50Some weekends,
10:55there was professional wrestling in the area.
10:58My mother and my Uncle Chuck,
11:00they would drive to Roseburg,
11:03which was the closest big town
11:04for him to watch wrestling matches.
11:06He just fell in love with it
11:08and that's all he ever wanted to do.
11:10One day in high school,
11:12Drain High,
11:13we were having an orientation class
11:15and the question came up,
11:17what are we going to do with our lives?
11:19My turn came and I said,
11:21professional wrestler.
11:23The class laughed.
11:24It hurt me.
11:26So my uncle went out
11:27for the wrestling team in high school
11:29and he made the team
11:31and was really excited about it
11:32and then decided that he needed
11:35to stand out a little bit
11:36and bleached his hair blonde.
11:39I'm going to look like somebody else,
11:40you know, like,
11:41nobody bleaches their head
11:42in wrestling school.
11:43The wrestling team in school,
11:44I don't know,
11:46but I've done it just to rebalance.
11:47They kicked him off the wrestling team
11:48and kicked him out of school.
11:52He got rocks thrown at him.
11:55And so I think that in his mind,
11:58he was like,
11:59I'm going to show them.
12:01I'm going to make it.
12:03So he jumped on a bus,
12:07went out to Chicago,
12:08walked into wrestling school
12:09and said,
12:10hey, I want to do this.
12:11Well, that wasn't exactly how it worked.
12:13It wasn't just an open invitation.
12:16He found himself in a situation
12:18where he had to make some money.
12:20He met a kid on the street
12:22that was prostituting himself.
12:25He found that to be intriguing
12:26and saw that as a solution
12:29for how he could become
12:31a professional wrestler.
12:32Now remember,
12:34I never had a sex relationship
12:36with anyone,
12:37but I had heavy bisexual feelings.
12:40I was more attracted to men
12:41than women.
12:43I wanted one thing,
12:44to be a professional wrestler.
12:46So with nothing to lose,
12:48I hit the streets
12:49for the first time in my life.
12:51I was scared,
12:52but it was survival.
12:53He had a chip on his shoulder
12:55and I think that that contributed
12:57to the by any means necessary
12:59type attitude
12:59that he took towards it.
13:01He was not going to fail.
13:02He wanted to come back
13:03to his tiny little town
13:05of Drain, Oregon
13:06as a star.
13:15Finding his way in Chicago,
13:17training by day
13:18and hustling by night,
13:20Charles Harris begins
13:21his wrestling career
13:22with a variety of ring names.
13:25Maurice Chevyet,
13:27the Magnificent Chevyet,
13:29and finally,
13:31Chris Colt.
13:33Colt Magazine
13:34was at the time
13:35one of the early
13:36underground gay publications
13:38and that's where he got
13:39the name Chris Colt from.
13:42I was to go into the army
13:43in 1966
13:45and I said,
13:47Chris,
13:47gee, you're going to be drafted
13:48pretty soon too.
13:50And he said,
13:51no, I'm disqualified.
13:52And I said,
13:55disqualified?
13:57Yeah, I checked out.
13:58I like boys.
14:00So,
14:01c'est la vie.
14:03My name is Tom Burke.
14:04I'm a wrestling collector
14:05and historian.
14:07I've been friends
14:08with Chris Colt
14:09since we were teenagers.
14:12It was a different world.
14:14It was a different world.
14:14and so that was my first contact
14:16with a person
14:16coming out
14:18in that sense.
14:20I don't know that it was
14:21that it was a big
14:23coming out party.
14:25The challenge is that
14:26that must have presented him
14:28in the wrestling world
14:29at the time
14:30that he was doing it.
14:31There were a lot
14:33of gay wrestlers
14:35that people didn't know
14:36were gay
14:37but the promoters did
14:39or the boys did
14:40but the fans didn't know.
14:43I'm Princess Victoria.
14:45I was half of the
14:46women's world tag champions
14:47for the WWF.
14:49Princess Victoria
14:50on the warpath.
14:52Another double tomahawk jump.
14:54There was one night
14:55and one of the guys
14:56came over to me
14:57and said,
14:57we want you to go over
14:58and spend some time
14:59with Chris Colt.
15:01I said, why?
15:04And not punching
15:05my own ticket
15:06but he said,
15:07if anybody can turn him straight
15:08you can.
15:10I guess they thought
15:11he was missing something
15:13by not being with women
15:15but that wasn't
15:18the case for Chris.
15:19One thing I noticed
15:20when we were traveling together
15:22and he would talk about
15:23the other boys
15:24in the circuit
15:25and always had this image
15:28in his mind
15:29that they were
15:31backstabbing him
15:32and out to get him.
15:35Any territory
15:36he was in and out
15:37he'd either have
15:38a personal issue
15:39or just something
15:40would happen
15:41and he'd be gone.
15:43The only place
15:43that he stayed
15:44for any significant
15:46portion of his career
15:47was the small territory
15:49in Arizona.
15:51In Arizona
15:53Chris teams
15:53with wrestler
15:54Ron Dupree
15:55and takes the ring name
15:57Paul Dupree
15:58tag teaming
15:59as the Dupree Brothers.
16:01It's a formative relationship
16:02in Chris's life
16:03professionally
16:04and personally.
16:06Ron Dupree
16:06was my Uncle Chuck's
16:08very best friend.
16:10They were
16:11like
16:11very close.
16:12I only got to
16:14be with him
16:15a couple times
16:16in life
16:17but he was
16:18a very, very nice
16:19kind guy.
16:21They were a couple.
16:23You know
16:23Ron was older
16:24probably by about
16:26maybe
16:26eight years
16:27maybe ten.
16:28Their love for the business
16:30kind of gelled
16:31them together.
16:32Chris and Ronnie
16:33became lovers.
16:35You know
16:35I just never asked
16:36a lot of questions
16:37along the way
16:38but it was something
16:39I understood
16:39to be the way it was.
16:41I can't imagine
16:42it would have been easy
16:43to be gay period
16:44in wrestling
16:45in the 50s or 60s
16:47much less
16:47to be a gay couple.
16:49It was not something
16:50that was easily accepted
16:52and it wasn't information
16:53that was offered freely.
16:55So in a lot of cases
16:56a promoter
16:58or a booker
16:59or the wrestlers
17:00in a particular territory
17:01might not even know
17:03and through a number
17:05of different gimmicks
17:06they kind of changed
17:07their looks
17:07and changed
17:08their presentation
17:09but they were always together.
17:11Weighing in
17:11at a combined weight
17:12of 450 pounds
17:13the world tag team champions
17:15the California Hells Angels.
17:17The California Hells Angels
17:18were a chance
17:20for them
17:20to have a gimmick
17:21as a team
17:22and sort of bring
17:24real life
17:24into the thing.
17:26The metal
17:27the studs
17:28the iron cross
17:29the leather
17:30well they sell
17:31all that stuff
17:32in the village
17:32in New York City.
17:34They were so far
17:35ahead of their time
17:36nobody even knew
17:37what the f*** it was.
17:40They said
17:40okay they're bikers
17:41no they're gay.
17:44Same Taylor.
17:48Pushing the limits
17:49of what's acceptable
17:50to audiences
17:51of the era
17:52Chris is determined
17:53to become
17:54the ultimate villain.
17:56Chris was so excited
17:57on TV once
17:58and he knew
17:59Chris knew
17:59how to generate heat.
18:01In those days
18:02in wrestling
18:02trying to push
18:04the envelope
18:05either meant
18:05you could draw money
18:06because people
18:07would be shocked
18:08and surprised
18:09or you could
18:12go too far
18:13and get heat
18:15and the whole company
18:16could go under
18:16in the twinkling
18:17of an eye
18:17because you
18:18thought it would fly
18:20but it wouldn't.
18:23Chris was not
18:24an anti-American
18:25by any means
18:26but he took
18:27an American flag
18:28with a lighter
18:29and lit it on fire
18:30and burned it up.
18:31They went too far
18:34and they got kicked
18:35off the television
18:36for it.
18:37Not the wrestlers
18:38the actual wrestling
18:39program got taken
18:40off the air.
18:41Even in a small territory
18:42in Arizona
18:43even 50 years ago
18:45even back in those days
18:46on a local television show
18:47even if you were
18:48heel wrestlers
18:49it was going
18:50a little too far
18:51to burn the American flag
18:52on television.
18:53Didn't fly.
18:57Chris' time in Arizona
18:59comes to an abrupt end
19:01when his lover
19:01Ron Dupree
19:02suffers a heart attack.
19:04Though Ron
19:04can no longer wrestle
19:06the two continue
19:07their relationship
19:08outside of the ring.
19:09As Chris searches
19:10for a new tag team partner
19:11he ends up in a trio
19:13with Bill Anderson
19:14and Mike Boyette.
19:17Chris had approached me
19:18and he says
19:18I got a proposition
19:19for you
19:20and not that proposition
19:22a different proposition.
19:24He says
19:24I'd like to have you
19:25be Bill Colt
19:26my younger brother.
19:28When they came
19:28to Tennessee
19:29the team
19:30was supposed to be
19:31Chris Colt
19:32and Mike Boyette
19:33with valet Bill Colt.
19:34William Colt
19:35the valet
19:36preceding his brother
19:38and he almost
19:39got run over.
19:40Colt changed outfits
19:42he changed gimmicks
19:43because he was so
19:44wrapped up
19:45in the rock and roll
19:46lifestyle
19:47the makeup
19:48the hair he already had
19:49the personal habits
19:51he already had
19:52he wanted to create
19:53his gimmick
19:54being that he is
19:55a rock star.
19:57Bill at the time
19:58he has no body weight
19:59whatsoever
20:00he just started
20:01so he's a lost ball
20:02in high weeds
20:03and if you were
20:04going to say
20:05okay who is
20:06the professional wrestler
20:07that is using
20:08the most mind
20:09altering substances
20:10if you weren't
20:11pointing at Chris Colt
20:12you'd be pointing
20:13at Mike Boyette
20:14so this team
20:16was destined for disaster
20:18to begin with
20:19one night
20:21we left Johnson City
20:22I'm driving
20:23Mike Boyette's
20:24in the passenger seat
20:25Chris is in the back seat
20:26he's getting high
20:28just like he wants
20:29living the Janis Joplin
20:31Joe Cocker life
20:32and all of a sudden
20:33I feel
20:34a punch
20:35to the side
20:36of my head
20:37and I look
20:38I was like looking
20:39in the mirror
20:39like what are you doing
20:40he says
20:42f*** you
20:43and then he
20:44reached up
20:45with his right hand
20:46and grabbed Mike's
20:47hair
20:47and yanked it
20:50and pulled him back
20:51then Chris reached up
20:52with his other hand
20:53and grabbed my hair
20:54and he's pulling me
20:55and Mike just said
20:56stop the car
20:57stop the car
20:58what I learned
21:01Mike is nobody
21:02to f*** with
21:03he was a Vietnam veteran
21:04he was a
21:06world
21:06judo champion
21:08he was a very tough
21:10legitimate guy
21:11so we pull over
21:12Chris gets out of the car
21:14walks around to my side
21:16boom
21:17as hard as he could
21:17punches me in the face
21:19then he walked back over
21:20to Boyette
21:21did the same thing
21:22Mike says
21:23this is your warning
21:24one more time
21:25and I'll kill you
21:26Chris went to swing
21:27Mike blocked him
21:29hooked him in a front face lock
21:31and just cinched on it
21:32and Chris just went limp
21:36Mike just dropped him
21:39Chris is laying right
21:42beside the car
21:43Mike gets in the
21:45passenger seat
21:46he says
21:47back up
21:48I said
21:49what do you mean
21:49back up
21:50he says
21:50just back up
21:51so I start
21:53slowly backing
21:53I get about
21:55an eighth of a mile
21:56down the road
21:56Mike grabs the wheel
21:58puts his foot
22:00on top of my foot
22:01on the accelerator
22:02on the gas
22:02and he says
22:04I'm killing this
22:05mother
22:06right now
22:07Chris Colt's erratic
22:16and violent behavior
22:17comes to a head
22:18as he's tossed
22:19onto a highway
22:20and stares down
22:21a car
22:21speeding in his direction
22:23Mike says
22:25we're putting an end
22:27to this shift
22:27it's never going to
22:28happen again
22:29ever
22:30it's the headlights
22:31getting brighter
22:33and brighter
22:33and brighter
22:34and brighter
22:35on Chris's body
22:36and at the last second
22:38I hit Mike's arm
22:40just to the side
22:41and I turned the wheel
22:42I says
22:44Mike
22:44we can't kill this guy
22:45we can't kill him
22:46we can't do this
22:47and Mike says
22:49that mother
22:49deserve to die
22:50he says
22:52leave him
22:53leave him
22:53I honestly
22:56did not really
22:57overanalyze
22:58the story
22:59in my mind
23:00until many years
23:01later
23:01that I could have
23:03been in prison
23:04the rest of my life
23:05for murder
23:05the cops could have
23:06easily arrested me
23:07and said
23:07you purposely
23:09ran this guy over
23:11first degree murder
23:12could have been death
23:13easily
23:15Bill Anderson
23:17and Mike Boyette
23:17leave Chris for dead
23:19on the side
23:19of the southern road
23:20but the next day
23:21when Bill makes his way
23:22home to his Nashville
23:23apartment
23:24a surprise is waiting
23:25for him
23:26open the apartment
23:28door
23:28look in
23:29and Chris is sitting
23:31at our dining room
23:32table
23:32and he's just
23:34big smile
23:34comes in his face
23:36come on in
23:37sit down
23:37sit down
23:38sit down
23:38sit down
23:38and I'm like
23:40looking at Chris
23:41never saying a word
23:42like oh
23:43I'm back to being
23:44a brother
23:44maybe a friend
23:46again
23:47I don't know
23:49what's going on
23:49he says
23:51we're getting rid
23:51of Boyette
23:52and that was
23:53the end of Boyette
23:54we were leaving
23:56Tennessee as a tag team
23:58going to wrestle
23:59in Seattle
24:00before I could
24:02even get
24:03off the plane
24:04Chris was already
24:05off the plane
24:06and sitting in a bar
24:07remember it
24:09just like yesterday
24:10remember him
24:12sitting there
24:12with a drink
24:12in front of him
24:13and that's my
24:15last visual
24:16of Chris
24:16and I hadn't
24:18made up my mind
24:18exactly what to do
24:19until right then
24:20and I said
24:21this is it
24:21I can't do this
24:22anymore
24:22and I just
24:25walked away
24:26not long after
24:32his partnership
24:33with Bill Anderson
24:33ends
24:34Chris's attempt
24:35to get his career
24:36restarted
24:37is stopped
24:38when he suffers
24:38an unimaginable
24:39tragedy
24:40it was in
24:42Washington State
24:43at a small show
24:44that Ron Dupree
24:46had ring announced
24:47at
24:47and he had
24:48a heart attack
24:49at ringside
24:49in front of
24:50all the people
24:50they called
24:53an ambulance
24:53Chris rode
24:54with Ron
24:55in the ambulance
24:56to the hospital
24:57and Ron died
24:58on the way
24:59right in front
25:00of Chris
25:00he witnessed
25:01the whole thing
25:01he had loved
25:05Ronnie all his life
25:06that was the only
25:07time that I ever
25:09heard him
25:09come out
25:10and say anything
25:11of emotion
25:13of that way
25:14Chris was holding
25:18his hand
25:19Chris told me
25:20that he just
25:20weeped
25:21and weeped
25:22I don't think
25:23Chris
25:24ever
25:25overcame
25:27the death
25:28of Ron Dupree
25:29he was devastated
25:34because they
25:36were so close
25:37he didn't know
25:37how to go on
25:38without him
25:39my uncle
25:40was like
25:41I don't know
25:42what I'm gonna do
25:43well they'd been
25:44together at that
25:44point for over
25:4510 years
25:46not only
25:46professionally
25:47but personally
25:47that was
25:49a big turning
25:50point for Chris
25:51because he kind
25:51of lost
25:52an anchor
25:53that he had
25:53had
25:54that to
25:54somebody
25:54to keep
25:55him tethered
25:56to some
25:57element
25:58of reality
25:58after losing
26:02my lover
26:02of 6 years
26:03I hit bottom
26:04I thought
26:05the bottom
26:07under the bottom
26:07came later
26:08more dope
26:10was yet to come
26:10more fixes
26:12were to be made
26:12more hearts
26:13were to be broken
26:14mainly mine
26:15and he just
26:17metamorphosized
26:18himself
26:18to fit
26:19whatever mood
26:20he was in
26:20at the time
26:21this is where
26:22he decides
26:22he's not just
26:23going to be
26:23called Chris
26:24Colt
26:24now he's
26:25the Chris
26:26Colt
26:26experience
26:27the Chris
26:28Colt
26:29experience
26:30the referee
26:31Joe Golub
26:32welcome to
26:33my breakdown
26:34and he uses
26:36Alice Cooper's
26:38welcome to
26:38my nightmare
26:39as his
26:40entrance music
26:41what he did
26:43in that period
26:43of time
26:44was invent
26:46modern entrance
26:47music in
26:48wrestling
26:48he saw
26:50the tie-in
26:51that it could
26:52have with the
26:52fans to set
26:53a tone
26:54definitely a
26:57pitch black
26:59dark
26:59psychedelic
27:00edge to
27:02it because
27:02that's where
27:03he was
27:04in his
27:04mind space
27:05I will not
27:07be responsible
27:08for hurting
27:09crippling
27:10or putting
27:11anybody in
27:12the hospital
27:12that I
27:13wrestle up
27:13against right
27:14now man
27:14he'd make
27:15you hate
27:15him
27:15my name's
27:18Edward
27:18Juvenetti
27:18I wrestled for
27:1935 years as
27:20Moondog Ed
27:21Moretti
27:22back then
27:26back then you
27:27didn't have
27:27people like
27:28that he
27:29would shock
27:30people he
27:30would scare
27:31people he's
27:32bizarrity at
27:33its best he
27:34was so bizarre
27:35he got banned
27:36in England
27:37from wrestling
27:38on TV
27:39they called him
27:41the vampire
27:41they couldn't
27:42take how he
27:44was
27:44he was just
27:45too bizarre
27:46he scared
27:46people
27:47and he was
27:48just being
27:49Chris
27:49when you look
27:50at the picture
27:51of Chris
27:51in his younger
27:53years
27:53he's a good
27:54looking guy
27:55as years
27:56progressed
27:57and he got
27:58into his
27:59demonic
28:00possession
28:01image
28:02where
28:03he would
28:04put needles
28:05and stuff
28:05in his face
28:06just totally
28:08strange
28:09it was like
28:10out of a
28:10horror movie
28:11you know
28:12the whole vibe
28:13of welcome
28:13to my nightmare
28:14he was living
28:15it
28:15Chris's life
28:17from that point
28:17didn't get better
28:18definitely got
28:19more out of
28:20control
28:27throughout the
28:28mid-1980s
28:29Chris's erratic
28:30behavior
28:31and appetite
28:31for drugs
28:32are both
28:33wildly out of
28:34control
28:34and another
28:35disappointing
28:36loss for Chris
28:37Colts
28:37into the 80s
28:39if he popped
28:40up here
28:41it's gonna be a fight
28:42my god
28:43he might look
28:43like he hasn't
28:44seen the sun
28:45in 10 years
28:46or if he pops
28:47up over here
28:47and now he's
28:48got more hair
28:49and he's got
28:50a mustache
28:50and a beard
28:51and he's gained
28:51some weight
28:52and he looks
28:53like he might
28:53have once
28:54been out
28:54in the sun
28:55and over here
28:57he's barely
28:58able to stand
28:59up straight
29:00and promoters
29:01kind of got
29:02tired of
29:03you know
29:03is Chris
29:04gonna show up
29:05or you know
29:05and if he does
29:06what shape
29:07is he gonna be in
29:08from Germany
29:09220
29:10several years
29:11later he's
29:11in Alabama
29:12as Chris
29:13Von Colt
29:14and he's a Nazi
29:15he just said
29:16well what is
29:17the most offensive
29:17thing that I can
29:19do to the
29:19general public
29:20ah
29:20I'll become
29:22Chris Von Colt
29:23and I'll be a Nazi
29:24Nazis were big
29:26in wrestling
29:26in the 50s
29:27and 60s
29:27to get all the
29:28heat
29:28because they
29:29were heels
29:29because it was
29:30after World War II
29:31when you get
29:32to 1987
29:33he just wanted
29:34to be a Nazi
29:35just to piss
29:36people off
29:37I think it was
29:38desperation maybe
29:39trying to find
29:41uh
29:42heat
29:43you know
29:44his reputation
29:45was getting
29:46tarnished
29:47left and right
29:48probably because
29:49you know
29:49at that time
29:50I think he was
29:51getting too
29:51absorbed into
29:52drugs
29:52Chris Colt
29:55started doing
29:56cocaine
29:56and I think
29:57that that was
29:58a that was
29:59the beginning
29:59of the turning
30:00point
30:00then from there
30:01it switched
30:02to crystal meth
30:03I think that
30:05that's where
30:05it got really
30:06dark
30:06and that's
30:07where the
30:07desperation
30:07came in
30:08by the late
30:101980s
30:11Chris Colt's
30:12wrestling career
30:12dries up
30:13due in part
30:14to his mounting
30:14substance abuse
30:15issues
30:16after alienating
30:17most of his
30:18friends and allies
30:19he fades
30:20into obscurity
30:20he was done
30:21wrestling
30:22he has no
30:23income
30:23and so
30:25he gets
30:25this idea
30:26that
30:27he'll start
30:29busting drug
30:30houses
30:31I would go on
30:32six and seven
30:33days up
30:34by the way
30:35now I'm addicted
30:36to crystal meth
30:37speed
30:38not like the
30:39cocaine a few
30:40years ago
30:40I'm clean from
30:42coke
30:42I just switched
30:43drugs
30:44a more dangerous
30:45one
30:45one where you
30:46require no
30:47sleep
30:47no food
30:48I'm in a
30:49dope house
30:50in Hollywood
30:50in the Silver
30:51Lake area
30:51one of the
30:52biggest dope
30:53houses around
30:53it took me
30:55four buys
30:55just to get
30:56in
30:56I walk in
30:57confident
30:58and place
30:59my order
30:59for an eight
31:00ball
31:00as soon as
31:01the dealer
31:01shows me
31:02I flash my
31:03badge so fast
31:04they don't
31:04check it
31:04and say
31:05you're all
31:05under arrest
31:06I work for
31:07LAPD
31:08undercover
31:08I tell them
31:10the house
31:10is surrounded
31:11by police
31:12cars
31:12I catch them
31:13off guard
31:13take the dope
31:15and run
31:16you'd always
31:24hear a different
31:24story if you
31:25ask somebody
31:25hey have you
31:26heard anything
31:26about Chris
31:27Colton
31:27they're like
31:28yeah he's in
31:30Portland or
31:30he's in Seattle
31:31but they never
31:32knew anything
31:33definitive
31:34that's what
31:36kind of said
31:37about this
31:37mystique about
31:38Chris Colton
31:39today with the
31:39modern generation
31:40because he
31:42has a 20
31:43year career
31:43with the most
31:44amazing ups
31:45and downs
31:46and all
31:47kinds of
31:48outlandish
31:49behavior
31:49and then
31:50disappears
31:51off the face
31:52of the earth
31:52but I mean
31:54you could have
31:55said oh he's
31:56become an
31:56international
31:57double knot
31:57spy or an
31:58astronaut
31:59it would have
31:59been equally
32:00as believable
32:00because
32:01it was
32:02his whole
32:03life was
32:03insane
32:04and nobody
32:07in wrestling
32:08knew where
32:08Chris Colt
32:09had gone
32:10until somebody
32:12saw an adult
32:14movie
32:14with him as
32:18a gay man
32:20who at least
32:21in his work
32:22always kind of
32:24had to keep
32:24that under wraps
32:26he was attempting
32:27to show the world
32:28that side of
32:29himself
32:29this is not
32:31something that
32:31I see as
32:32shameful
32:32this is who
32:33I am
32:34I have not
32:37seen any of
32:37his productions
32:38but I understand
32:39that again
32:40he was over the
32:42top with
32:42everything
32:43whether it was
32:44wrestling
32:44I got to take
32:45all the bumps
32:45and cause all
32:46the riots
32:47or with sex
32:47I got to have
32:48as much of it
32:49with as many
32:49people as
32:49possible
32:50and I don't
32:50care who
32:51and what
32:51and who's
32:52watching
32:52I did not
32:56hear about
32:56him doing
32:57those videos
32:58until very
32:59late in life
33:01I googled
33:02his name
33:03and what
33:04I saw
33:04was like
33:05oh my
33:07god
33:07that is not
33:09my uncle
33:09that was
33:11very secretive
33:12I had no
33:13idea that
33:14he had done
33:15any of that
33:15now I'm back
33:17I'm back
33:18and I'm in shape
33:19and I'm ready
33:19to fight
33:20and I'll run
33:21you right out
33:21of town
33:22and then
33:23I'll
33:23you
33:23after disappearing
33:32from the wrestling
33:33scene in the mid 80s
33:34Chris Colt resurrects
33:36himself as an adult
33:37film star
33:37shocking many
33:41from his past
33:42Chris was a dream
33:44to work with
33:45I sat him down
33:46in front of the
33:47camera
33:47and as soon
33:49as I turned
33:49the camera on
33:50and yelled
33:51action
33:51Charles Harris
33:53turned into
33:54Chris Colt
33:55the same way
33:57that Norma Jean Baker
33:59turned into
34:00Marilyn Monroe
34:01I'm Jack Fritcher
34:04I've been a writer
34:05and a university
34:07professor
34:07teaching film
34:09and literature
34:10and pop culture
34:11the editor of
34:12Drummer magazine
34:13and I've written
34:1420 books
34:15and I shot
34:15150 videos
34:17well Chris
34:18had been reading
34:19my writing
34:19in Drummer
34:20for years
34:20and he liked
34:23my Palm Drive
34:24Video movies
34:25because Palm Drive
34:26Video's tagline
34:27was
34:27masculine videos
34:29for men
34:30who like men
34:31masculine
34:32in 1987
34:34in 1987
34:34Drummer
34:35had a cover
34:37featuring
34:38the Barbarian Brothers
34:39they were actors
34:40and bodybuilders
34:41but their gimmick
34:43was acting
34:43like pro wrestlers
34:44and shortly
34:45thereafter that
34:46Chris contacted me
34:48about shooting
34:49a video
34:49and we set it all up
34:51that he came here
34:52and stayed for a week
34:53How old were you
34:55you were 17
34:56when you started
34:57what year was that
34:581921
34:591921
35:0064
35:01during the San Francisco
35:03I was 4 years old
35:04I was 4 years old
35:04Palm Drive Video
35:07was like
35:07the USO
35:08entertaining
35:09the American troops
35:10during the war
35:11Palm Drive
35:12entertained
35:13gay men
35:14during the 1980s
35:16we specialized
35:17in solo videos
35:18that is one actor
35:19talking to the viewer
35:21through the camera lens
35:22Chris Colt's heat
35:23was in his person
35:25in his face
35:26and the way
35:27he related directly
35:28to the camera
35:29Yeah I'm the street fighter
35:30I'm the original
35:31rock and roll wrestler
35:32the original
35:33hell's angel of wrestling
35:34Chris knew also
35:35that I was not
35:37going to give him
35:38a script
35:38he could let it all
35:39hang out
35:40and be as crude
35:41and honest
35:42and open
35:43and vulgar
35:44even as he wanted to be
35:45You want a wrestler dick?
35:47A real man?
35:48A professional wrestler dick?
35:50I am the king
35:51of wrestling
35:52He said
35:52one of the greatest powers
35:54he ever felt in his life
35:55was walking into a ring
35:57and making 10,000 fans scream
36:01The way he made
36:0310,000 fans scream
36:04he put that energy
36:05into the camera
36:06to make the viewer come
36:08Most people don't bring
36:10this amount of energy
36:11to the screen right away
36:12you have to build them up to it
36:13but he hit the set running
36:16I mean this is not fake
36:18this is real
36:19That's you in the mask
36:20That's me in the mask
36:22yes
36:22I shall have these moments
36:26to remember
36:27Chris was trying to create
36:29a statement
36:29about his triumph
36:32in wrestling
36:33in his wrestling career
36:35as a homo masculine man
36:37Another victory
36:38One more time
36:40somebody goes down
36:41and they're gonna go down
36:43on me
36:44Pro wrestling
36:46has always been
36:47softcore porn
36:49for gay men
36:49and Chris knew that
36:52as a wrestler
36:53he himself
36:54was a fetish object
36:56I ran Hulk Hogan
36:58out of New York City
36:58He was scared
36:59to sign a mask
37:00with me
37:00because I'd take his belt
37:02and slap his ass
37:03with it
37:03Hulk Hogan
37:05was a god
37:06to the gay community
37:08When Hulk
37:09would play
37:09with the WWF
37:11at the Cow Palace
37:13the Cow Palace
37:13would be
37:14filled with gay men
37:16there
37:16yelling
37:17the Hulkster on
37:18because to them
37:22he was
37:23a strong
37:24powerful
37:25well built
37:27healthy looking man
37:28That is 24 inches
37:30that is
37:31that is incredible
37:32that's awesome
37:32I'll tell you
37:33And they were
37:34strong
37:35powerful men
37:36themselves
37:37but they were
37:37afraid
37:38that they were
37:39going to shrink away
37:40because AIDS
37:41is known
37:43as the wasting disease
37:45Did Chris himself
37:45was he infected?
37:48I don't know
37:49if he was infected
37:50I presume
37:51that all my models
37:52in the 80s
37:52were infected
37:53because you didn't ask
37:54and they didn't tell
37:55and I made sure
37:58that everything on set
37:59was very sterile
38:00and sanitized
38:02and there was no discussion
38:05of that
38:05He looked perfectly healthy
38:07but somebody with AIDS
38:09can look perfectly healthy
38:10And Chris is writing a book
38:12about wrestling
38:13The Inside Story
38:15and I'm going to help him
38:18with it on the final version
38:19That's going to be
38:20You can write the whole thing
38:21Chris came to me
38:22because he knew
38:23he needed a different kind
38:25of publicity and coverage
38:26for this last part
38:28of his career
38:29In a sense
38:30movies are like
38:31a gladiator
38:32entering the coliseum
38:34for his last match
38:35Hail and farewell
38:36We who are about to die
38:38salute you
38:40He had hoped to have
38:47an extra act
38:48by being a trainer
38:50and a coach
38:50but
38:52that never happened
38:55Almost 10 years
39:05after his wrestling career
39:06was over
39:06Chris Colt's wild
39:08and chaotic life
39:09quietly comes to an end
39:11There's so many stories
39:13of how he passed away
39:14What is your understanding
39:16of how Chris passed away?
39:18He was found
39:19in a back alley
39:20in Seattle
39:20I'm sure of that
39:22Sure of that part
39:24How and
39:25what the circumstances
39:26were
39:26in regards to
39:29how he ended up there
39:29I'm not sure
39:31I had heard
39:32through the grapevine
39:33that he was found
39:35in a chair
39:37with a needle
39:39in his arm
39:39when he died
39:40when they found him dead
39:41and he had been dead
39:42for like about
39:43two or three days
39:44Shortly after he died
39:46I got a phone call
39:47from somebody
39:48asking me if I knew
39:49anything about
39:50his death
39:51and I said no
39:51and they told me
39:52that they thought
39:54that he had died
39:56of AIDS
39:57in some kind of
39:59flop house
40:00in Seattle
40:01He died the way
40:02he wanted to die
40:02That was Chris
40:04and it was probably
40:05on the streets
40:05He didn't want to live
40:07in this world
40:08any other way
40:09I don't think
40:10it was peaceful
40:11I can tell you that
40:12He's not the type of guy
40:14who was ever
40:16not at full tilt
40:17and I would believe
40:19that he died
40:20in that same vein
40:23The official death certificate
40:26for Charles Faye Harris
40:28dated May 23rd, 1995
40:31lists HIV
40:32as a factor
40:33in his death
40:34No autopsy
40:36is performed
40:36His listed occupation
40:39Professional wrestler
40:41It's been a lot of years
40:47to try to make it here
40:48That's why this means so much
40:51He lived his life
40:54the way he wanted
40:54to live it
40:55He lived a rock star lifestyle
40:58and that's the way
40:59he would have
41:00wanted it
41:01I mean
41:02if he would do it
41:03over again
41:03he would have done
41:03it the same way
41:04He died too young
41:07although it's what
41:09he wanted
41:09honestly
41:11If he had it his way
41:16it would have been 27
41:17but at 49
41:18his body succumbed
41:20and
41:20I just
41:22I can only just say
41:23I'm really sorry
41:24that he's gone
41:25and
41:25I wish he was here
41:26He was the first
41:29at so many things
41:30and he was so good
41:31at what he did
41:31the way that he could work
41:33the way that he could bump
41:35the way that he could get heat
41:36from the crowd
41:37the way that he could talk
41:38on promos
41:39He was decades
41:41ahead of his time
41:42and his talents
41:43would be in the upper
41:4420% of anybody
41:46in the business today
41:47Chris was just outstanding
41:54He was ahead of his time
41:55I think Chris
41:57was one of the true
41:59icons
42:01of wrestling
42:02a person
42:03who changed
42:05the focus
42:07of wrestling
42:07and brought
42:09rock and roll
42:10into wrestling
42:10far earlier
42:12than
42:13Cyndi Lauper
42:14Hulk Hogan
42:15etc
42:16He was doing things
42:18like coming off
42:19of the top rope
42:20with an elbow
42:21before a lot
42:23of other people
42:23were
42:24If Chris was not
42:26on drugs
42:26and alcohol
42:27Chris would have
42:29been one of the greatest
42:29If you reduce people
42:32to one word
42:32you miss
42:33the entire world
42:35of what they are
42:36really about
42:37and so reducing Chris
42:40to a drug addict
42:41an alcoholic
42:42a faggot
42:43does not come
42:45anywhere near
42:46to the inner truth
42:48of what that man
42:49was about
42:49and I think
42:51a lot of
42:52his addictions
42:53to alcohol
42:54and drugs
42:56grew out
42:57of the homophobia
42:58that he experienced
42:59in the world
43:00and in wrestling
43:01He's a complete
43:02human being
43:03You can go to
43:04online forums
43:05that talk about
43:06pro wrestling
43:07and they'll talk
43:08about the character
43:09that was Chris Cole
43:10This is a real
43:11human being
43:12with his own demons
43:14and family
43:15and people
43:16that he loved
43:16He was a really
43:18really good uncle
43:19You know
43:20he would always
43:20bring us something
43:21when he would
43:23come to visit
43:23Sometimes it might
43:25have just been
43:25a roll of toilet paper
43:26from a motel
43:27but we were happy
43:28to get it from him
43:29because he was
43:30our uncle
43:31The last letter
43:34I got from him
43:35was 1991
43:36I stopped drinking
43:38and drugging
43:39I'm clean and sober
43:41the way
43:42I should have been
43:45and from now on
43:47Chris Cole
43:47is buried
43:48Chuck Harris
43:50lives
43:51I want to talk
43:54to you soon
43:54and he signs off
43:56write well
43:57keep well
43:58your buddy
43:59the legendary
44:02Chris Cole
44:03aka Chuck Harris
44:04such is life
44:07he said
44:11he died
44:12he died
44:12how
44:13he died
44:14he died
44:15so
44:15he died
44:16he died
44:16as a
44:17son of
44:17he could not
44:17go
44:17but he could not
44:18be
44:19the new
44:20one
44:20I'll be
44:21hiding
44:22when he
44:22was
44:23when he
44:23told you
44:24that he had
44:24to have
44:25you
44:26that he was
44:26the new
44:27one
44:28the new
44:29he did
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