Hell’s Angels is one of the first pieces Dan McCarthy wrote using the Gonz Cypher - a compositional tool that allows you to take a word, phrase, or even paragraph of political journalist and general dingbat Hunter S. Thompson submit it to the cypher, and and get a weird and likely obnoxious ‘tone row’ back, which is then used to compose the music - serial music rules apply. Here, the primary melody is based on “HELLS ANGELS A STRANGE AND TERRIBLE SAGA” and the primary bassline is based on “GANG”. Other phrases in use are “STOMP” and “OUTLAW MOTORCYCLIST”.