Come along and take a wild ride...... May I proudly present to you GOTHGIRL.She graciously invited me to her home in San Francisco so that I could interview her and take photographs. I have been looking forward to meeting her since the first time I saw her on the Discovery Channel. I was kicked back at home surfing through the Television channels....and WOW!There she was on her bike thundering across the desert. Wild and fine. Freedom with attitude.As I watched her ride that scooter thousands of miles,my admiration for her grew and I had the feeling we would be meeting one day.I watched the television raptly as she found a dusty old piano in a road house during a pit stop along her route across America.She mesmerized me with the music that flowed from her fingertips..... I admired her talent and was happy to hear that she lived in California.Turns out we have mutual friends.She invited me to a gathering last year.I was excited to hear from her. I pulled on some tight black leather and jumped into my Jeep.It wouldn't start!I missed the gathering. Always gracious, she told me that if I would come and visit her,she would play a concert just for me.She lives in a wonderful section of San Francisco in a loft with a glass wall, a spiral staircase and splushy red carpet that made me kick off my shoes....... .When she opened her door we looked eachother up and down.I was looking at her hair and she was looking at mine.Hers was a beautiful blonde color braided with swirls of purple and blue.Mine was copper braided with pink and magenta.She smiled and said "You look very cool".I smiled and said "I was thinking the same thing about you!".Her talent as a pianist comes along with her astonishing intuitive abilities.She reached into my past along the corridors of my mind and plucked out a song and played it for me.When I was a baby girl my mother would give me a few quarters and send me to the juke box {we had them back then}.Mama would always request that I play her The Tennesse Waltz.GOTHGIRL played the most magnificent heartfelt rendition that I have ever heard.This is a rather obscure tune and when I recognized what she was playing I had tears streaming down my face because it reminded me of my mother who died when she was so young.I had not mentioned this to GOTH,but she knew.A woman of many talents and mysteries.Here is a woman who plays stunt music with the Wall of Death and I hope to go on the road with her this fall and film the performances.She will come riding her Harley my way soon as she traverses the Sierra Nevada Mountains through Yosemite National Park and her new pit stop is my hut on the banks of Rattlesnake Creek.I felt blessed that she made time to perform her music and speak with me.She also allowed me to get some good shots of her riding her Harley.I had a great time with her and look forward to wild adventures making films with her. I recently came to Stickam and asked her how she felt about being featured on my page.She said she would be happy to......................................................... GOTHGIRL Born with a natural love for motorcycles and claiming to have gasoline running through her veins, GOTHGIRL got her first motorcycle in 5th grade-a 125 Kawasaki dirt bike. Her father was her first motorcycle hero and ride- he had an old '47 Knucklehead. Her uncle had fast sport bikes and had her leaning into the curves early on. Looking back, GOTH muses that she has actually never owned a car. Just bikes and horses. And pianos, but we'll get to that part later. Music and motorcycles go hand in hand. While in high school, GOTH met her first "outlaw biker". He almost ran her over (by accident), she (on impulse) flipped him off angrily, he circled back around to sort her out, blocked her path with his bike, looks her up and down and deciding not to kill her says, "do you wanna go for a ride?" Oh, yeah. He was hot, his bike was chopped, so on she hopped. From then on, any boyfriend criteria had to involve a motorcycle. GOTH lives right in the smack of downtown San Francisco with the two main loves in her life- her infamous attack cat Skunk and her '88 H-D. Actually, add to that a newly rebuilt awesome 1913 black Steinway Grand piano. She has always had a grand piano but recently traded up and now has this beautiful Steinway in her loft. GOTH started studying classical piano at the age of five and has studied and played ever since. After becoming fascinated with jazz in high school, she headed east to attend and graduate from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She loved living on the East Coast but being a California native, now lives back in San Francisco. She continues to play piano professionally all over the city. GOTHGIRL founded the Devil Dolls Motorcycle Club in 1999, but has now gone on to other projects. She was one of the 6 women featured in the Discovery Channel show "Motorcycle Women" which still continues to air. Other film/TV credits include Evening Magazine, To Tell The Truth (or as she affectionately titles it "will the real gothgirl please stand up?"), BBC Special 'Maryanne's Bikes', and numerous others. Her most recent ventures included being the 'stunt pianist' featured with the touring Wall of Death (thrillarena.com) with her hero and idol Samantha Morgan, the famous stunt woman who was inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2006 and the new, upcoming creation of the "Motorcycle Femme Fatales" with Samantha, the talented entrepreneurial biker babe Sara Liberte (saraliberte.com), and GOTHGIRL. When these three get together, the sparks fly so watch the horizon for more on these Motorcycle Femme Fatales.