Easy Rider - Wasn't Born To Follow (The Byrds)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 май 2010
  • Easy Rider, 1969
    Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern
    Produced by Fonda.
    Directed by Hopper.
    Song by The Byrds
    Wasn't Born to Follow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
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  • @gabriel-gr4cv
    @gabriel-gr4cv 11 месяцев назад +447

    nowadays, when I watch the "old" movies, I want to cry because it remebers me of what times used to be and what BS we are living in now ...

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 8 месяцев назад +25

      Just remember the Vietnam war back then, tuff times

    • @albertchapar3954
      @albertchapar3954 6 месяцев назад +34

      I lived those times too. We reminisce because we were young. Our joints didn't hurt. Our whole world was in front of us. We didn't think about sky high inflation, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK. The riots. Vietnam. Because we were young. Today's young people are going to remember their days in the same way. Because their joints don't hurt now. They don't have the responsibilities we have. They haven't lost most of their families to death or disability. And so on. But it's okay for us in the same generation to look back and smile at the great music and the good times we had.

    • @brianhogg9857
      @brianhogg9857 6 месяцев назад

      Yep rednecks won out just like here

    • @timf5875
      @timf5875 6 месяцев назад +16

      I saw this with my Dad, I was 14 and walked out a different person, my Dad didn’t know what to make of it back in ‘69. To be completely free again…

    • @emilhawking8504
      @emilhawking8504 6 месяцев назад +2

      100% ja ❤

  • @charlesfiske8976
    @charlesfiske8976 Месяц назад +101

    I'm 70 now, and it's hard for me not to be sad that those times are gone. So many ways I miss them! But that's what is life

    • @warthog2292
      @warthog2292 Месяц назад +10

      I'm nearly 74 and they were some of the best years of my life. We will never recoup them. This world we live in now is sad.

    • @1911Earthling
      @1911Earthling Месяц назад +3

      Me too I saw that movie when it first came out with my biker friends and screamed at the movie screen when captain America and Billy were shot gunned down. I jumped up screaming and shook my fist in anger at the screen. Never had that gut wrenching reaction before or since to a movie. I was on the trip with those dudes they had me along with them , then they were gunned down. Wrenching. Loved the music , the drugs , the girls and the bikes. The guys were great. Great trip across America!

    • @rexhaney9806
      @rexhaney9806 Месяц назад +1

      God do i miss you more days and i'm going to be 66 i love them days i grew up and then they say are my my love i love this old days i love the Grateful Dead too

    • @brauereibesitzer
      @brauereibesitzer 28 дней назад +2

      Ich bin auch 70, mein neuer Helm , der gleiche wie vom Fonda , eben forever young

    • @brauereibesitzer
      @brauereibesitzer 27 дней назад +1

      Quatsch, setzt dich auf das Moped und fahr. Habe mir einen einen neuen Helm gekauft, en wie Peter Fonda den hatte.
      Ach so, bin auch 70, und immer noch Born to be wild

  • @jackoboyle2833
    @jackoboyle2833 13 дней назад +19

    I was 19. I loved this film. I thought it was a masterpiece then and I still think it is. I bought my ‘55 FLH Panhead, chopped it, and rode. Those were special times, never to be lived again. We had so much.

  • @loslaureles1883
    @loslaureles1883 12 дней назад +30

    I'm 82 and have had the good fortune to live through all the hest times late 50's, 60's 70's and 80's.

    • @garylester8621
      @garylester8621 11 дней назад +5

      77 here. Magical times indeed my friend.

    • @klausuhlig7141
      @klausuhlig7141 5 дней назад

      Me too, I'm almost 80, but had the sense to get out of US and Canada over 40 yrs ago, living free in Mexico,

  • @scudfarcus4343
    @scudfarcus4343 Месяц назад +106

    Anyone who was alive back then realizes those times are gone forever.

    • @zachredner8
      @zachredner8 Месяц назад +4

      You're so right! SADLY, you are so Right!

    • @buddysteele7624
      @buddysteele7624 Месяц назад +1

      every era that has ever been, every decade, is gone forever

    • @scudfarcus4343
      @scudfarcus4343 Месяц назад +2

      @@buddysteele7624 Not really. There hasn't been much change in the last three decades or so; things seem pretty much the same.

    • @ianstewart119
      @ianstewart119 Месяц назад +2

      Too true that film changed my life

    • @charlesflett2818
      @charlesflett2818 Месяц назад +3

      I know. It makes me sad too. Knowing the wonder of those days. Still better to have known and lost than never knowing at all.

  • @andrerodriguez7603
    @andrerodriguez7603 5 дней назад +8

    I saw this movie in 1969, when I was thirteen, I saw it with my elementary school friends. My best friend was all into politics at this young age. I remember going to political rally’s with him. We saw Humphrey and Wallace (before he was in a wheelchair). I remember Vietnam, and despised L.B. Johnson getting us into that war, and hated Nixon for keeping us in it. As kids we hang out at “Poo Bah” records and ‘Head shops’ in Pasadena. Riding our ‘Sting Ray’ bikes all around town. My friend became a Political Science professor at UCLA, I eventually did graphic design after various jobs before that. I sure miss the fun times of my youth. Today politics seem way worse than back than. We had “love and peace”, back in the 60’s. Today it’s just ‘vindictiveness and hatred’. Political times are bad with no end in sight. 😢

    • @benjaminmorgan6
      @benjaminmorgan6 5 дней назад +1

      I was the same age at the same time in Sacramento, could not agree more

    • @oscarsajovic6
      @oscarsajovic6 3 дня назад

      Lindon B Johnson foi sócio de uma fazenda de Café no Paraguai, valioso Irmão.
      Mas foi tudo abandonado depois da geada de 1975 que queimou os cafezais ate o chão.
      Havia uma irrigação preparada para molhar os cafezais antes do nascer do sol, impedindo o estrago que a geada faria.
      Mas, na falta de profissionais preparados, demoraram para ligar a irrigação e a água congelou nos canos, impedindo sua utilização.
      Assisti esse filme aos 14 anos, tenho 70 hoje.
      A música, as paisagens e as motos eram lindas naquela época.
      Continuam lindas até hoje.

  • @GeorgeVreelandHill
    @GeorgeVreelandHill 10 месяцев назад +183

    Easy Rider showed the real 1960s at that time. It is a masterpiece and really, a lesson in history.

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 8 месяцев назад +1

      Red necks killing biker’s, Vietnam War, Civil~Women’s Right’s Movement. Tons of upheaval back then

    • @terjebergstrom6038
      @terjebergstrom6038 2 месяца назад +5

      ❤... 100%

    • @JustaKubrickFan
      @JustaKubrickFan 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@terjebergstrom6038I just made thumbs up to 100 in your honor.😊

    • @zachredner8
      @zachredner8 Месяц назад +4

      A lesson in History that they can't "tear down" and "hide." But they'll try!

  • @jameshmattingly.9773
    @jameshmattingly.9773 Месяц назад +21

    Yes I 74 years old and I remember Easy Rider Wood Stock so many memories of days gone by Rock on brother!

  • @phillipphinney206
    @phillipphinney206 Месяц назад +31

    Happy Birthday Jack. 87 today. God love ya.

  • @User-3O3
    @User-3O3 Месяц назад +56

    "This used to be a great country." They had no idea how good they had it back then.

    • @KevSm-li8yy
      @KevSm-li8yy Месяц назад

      Yeah, but they got bumped off by some rednecks 😢

    • @charlesflett2818
      @charlesflett2818 Месяц назад +2

      Yes everybody got chicken.txting this from Scotland.

    • @klausrain111
      @klausrain111 Месяц назад +1

      Oh yeah we did!😂😂😂

    • @KevSm-li8yy
      @KevSm-li8yy Месяц назад +4

      Well, yes and no. if you were a teenage American male in the very early 1970s, you were crapping your pants when they had those drawings to see whose birthdays were at the top of the draft list. Mine was No.246.

    • @Zuluboppa
      @Zuluboppa 11 дней назад

      Not if you were Not white!

  • @greasyflight6609
    @greasyflight6609 12 дней назад +9

    I saw this movie...late night broadcast...mid 1970s...young teenager...I was never the same after

  • @user-jf6gw6ys5i
    @user-jf6gw6ys5i Месяц назад +50

    One of the greatest movies ever made. It marked a beautiful era.

    • @thomashugus5686
      @thomashugus5686 11 дней назад +1

      Except for Vietnam! That wasn’t so great!😅😅

  • @joannemendes2589
    @joannemendes2589 7 дней назад +3

    Im 70 too. Glad to have been there to witness all of it.

  • @stevejames9167
    @stevejames9167 9 месяцев назад +69

    I saw this for the first time 45 years ago. Still love it

  • @earlliotti5316
    @earlliotti5316 Год назад +14

    This scene was filmed outside Flagstaff, AZ on the road to Sunset Crater. Used to sit up there and look out at the painted desert. Beautiful place...before it was discovered

  • @mrchildgrownold3852
    @mrchildgrownold3852 11 месяцев назад +81

    This will never get old

  • @jamesmeyer1325
    @jamesmeyer1325 11 месяцев назад +76

    This song takes me back to the hopeful times when we believed that the salvation of mankind and the planet was just around the corner.

    • @marclayne9261
      @marclayne9261 3 месяца назад +3

      Best comment....

    • @glenngordon2352
      @glenngordon2352 2 месяца назад

      Well said! How many billions of dollars are being spent trying to get us back to the moon and Mars. We already have a planet..Use the money to fix the earth.

    • @ronniecozzi8385
      @ronniecozzi8385 2 месяца назад +3

      Well they were more hopeful times even though the United States had some serious problems. Vietnam of course and many others. But by the 1980s we took a deep dive into greed, consumerism, materialism led by the baby boomers.
      P.S Don't blame Reagan.

    • @georgepointer1127
      @georgepointer1127 Месяц назад +1

      Wernt we the stupid ones 🥰

    • @dougklapper9028
      @dougklapper9028 Месяц назад

      @@ronniecozzi8385
      Ronald Reagan was definitely part of the problem and not part of any real solution.

  • @keithterry2169
    @keithterry2169 10 лет назад +291

    Jack Nicholson's observations on freedom - even more true today than it was back then.

    • @martinstremlow2997
      @martinstremlow2997 2 года назад +15

      Maybe timeless (?)

    • @ZackBlackMusic
      @ZackBlackMusic 2 года назад +12

      Agreed.

    • @MrRappcity
      @MrRappcity Год назад +12

      Laws are pretty much still the same...your rights, well we've lost a few.

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Год назад +3

      No sh*t. Were you 20 in 1967?

    • @keithterry2169
      @keithterry2169 Год назад +9

      @@Johnconno No, I was 18 for most of that year .

  • @Stereolab2000
    @Stereolab2000 2 месяца назад +25

    The Byrds were pioneers, a combination of Dylan and the Beatles.

  • @scottjackson163
    @scottjackson163 Год назад +62

    I love this movie. When I was 12, I had an Easy Rider poster on my bedroom wall.

    • @christinequinn5355
      @christinequinn5355 Год назад +8

      Me too. I was 15.

    • @marktemsic485
      @marktemsic485 4 месяца назад +7

      Didn’t we all..?

    • @t.j.payeur5331
      @t.j.payeur5331 2 месяца назад +2

      Billy flipping the bird to the World...

    • @TerlinguaTalkeetna
      @TerlinguaTalkeetna 2 месяца назад

      @@t.j.payeur5331 That's the one I had. It lasted 3hrs until my Mother saw it in my room! Down she went. I was 12

    • @Tom-ok2rh
      @Tom-ok2rh Месяц назад +1

      I did too..and Farrah Fawcett was next up there when I got a little older 😊😊

  • @EDOGG62
    @EDOGG62 Год назад +46

    This song, this film, and this time... so much has been lost.

    • @roberthevern6169
      @roberthevern6169 2 месяца назад +2

      But, never forgotten, friend!

    • @BrokeDownBob
      @BrokeDownBob Месяц назад

      We are another generation. The people today have no interest in motorcycles. Even worse, they do not understand the freedom it brings. I have no answer, it's just sad on so many levels'

  • @thra5herxb12s
    @thra5herxb12s 11 месяцев назад +59

    They played this at my buddys funeral. I was holding up until that point. RIP Bodge, never forgotten.

    • @ennodebruyn6107
      @ennodebruyn6107 11 месяцев назад +4

      His now in bikersheaven and drinking a Jim's or Jack's , sorry for loss

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 11 месяцев назад +5

      Bless you, may your great memories of Bodge lift you up🕊️, peace.

    • @charlesflett2818
      @charlesflett2818 2 месяца назад +1

      Wow.

    • @lesterdiamond6190
      @lesterdiamond6190 18 дней назад

      Damn that hits bro

  • @immaterialimmaterial5195
    @immaterialimmaterial5195 8 дней назад +2

    Haven't seen this film in years. Going to have to dig out the DVD and watch it now! It's not just the music, it's the attitude and the zeitgeist. Magical!

  • @ronrobertson59
    @ronrobertson59 6 месяцев назад +19

    I saw this at the old Strand theater in Wadsworth Ohio in 1969. Brought a Harley Davidson as soon as I could and been riding ever since and I still have my 1972 FLH.

  • @MrLive2win
    @MrLive2win 24 дня назад +17

    A little later in the film Peter Fonda's character tells Hopper's- " We Blew It Man, We Blew it". Today that line could easily reference our entire country. Just a masterpiece of independent filmmaking.

  • @billmay7364
    @billmay7364 Год назад +36

    Words of Wisdom Jack.
    They Fear what you Represent.
    Freedom.
    This Stands True Today.
    Just look around.
    You See it.
    You Hear it and Feel it.
    All about Control.

    • @Bungaroosh
      @Bungaroosh 11 дней назад

      They'll talk to you and talk to you and TALK to you about individual freedom, but you show them a free individual....

    • @jackoboyle2833
      @jackoboyle2833 11 дней назад

      George: When they see a free individual it’s gonna scare ’em.
      Billy: Yeah, well, it don’t make ‘em runnin’ scared.
      George: No. It makes ‘em dangerous.

    • @BabsKaz
      @BabsKaz 6 дней назад

      The plandemic in a nutshell. Control compliance and surveillance. We the People demand accountability now! Let's go Team Kennedy 🎉

  • @codybluetarp
    @codybluetarp 2 месяца назад +10

    "Oh, I got a helmet!" A great scene representing the, "be in the moment" lesson of the 60's.

    • @user-co7fb6qe5w
      @user-co7fb6qe5w 2 месяца назад

      First drink of the day stands the test of time..."yehhhh nip, nip, nip...ahhhh

  • @jahrasta4907
    @jahrasta4907 Месяц назад +10

    I saved Dennis Hopper's life in the mid 1990's. Legend had to be protected!

  • @JohnSmith-pn4it
    @JohnSmith-pn4it Месяц назад +5

    This movie will NEVER get old! 🤨

  • @rogbrown1458
    @rogbrown1458 11 месяцев назад +5

    Met and had a chat with Peter Fonda some years back and he was a real nice guy.Gave me his autograph on a bookof a later film he had made.The Real deal.Rog.Pacific Sunset Records.

  • @shovelhead56
    @shovelhead56 Год назад +42

    This movie struck me as a 12 yr old. Always fantasized about hitting the open road on a chopper. 66 now, no chopper but been on a shovel past 40 years

    • @12babyapes59
      @12babyapes59 Год назад

      Simon, same thing started on a sporty 20yrs ago now a 2020 114 Heritage, this film had a lot to do with it, I started late but it was a bucket list item to own a HD.

    • @shovelhead56
      @shovelhead56 Год назад +1

      @@12babyapes59 Right On Man! Be safe out there🤙

  • @videomaniac108
    @videomaniac108 2 месяца назад +12

    In the fall of 1969 I was stationed at an Army fort in South Carolina finishing up infantry training and saw this at a theater in the nearby town of Columbia. I had to sneak off post at night to see it but that was no problem. After seeing the movie, I spent some time at an anti-war G.I. coffee house called the UFO. It was designated as a subversive organization and was specified as off limits to military personnel. My feeling was that the Army wasn't going to do anything worse to me than what it already had planned for us anyway. The movie captured the mood of the times quite well, as drug use and morale problems were rampant throughout the Army during that time.

    • @danmcgrath7129
      @danmcgrath7129 Месяц назад +1

      Ft. Jackson?

    • @videomaniac108
      @videomaniac108 Месяц назад +1

      @@danmcgrath7129 Yes, a major Army training center with a Reception Station, two basic combat training brigades, an advanced infantry training brigade and a combat support training brigade. I have no idea as to how it's organized today.

  • @Sutterjack
    @Sutterjack Год назад +44

    Probably my favorite Byrds song of all time- classic film

    • @Tom-ok2rh
      @Tom-ok2rh 3 месяца назад +1

      Great song but Eight Miles High gets the nod from me..

  • @johnh5882
    @johnh5882 2 года назад +162

    Went to see this brilliant film in 1969, I was 15, what great songs! Ever since, wanted to fly over the pond and bike across the states, still on my bucket list - I think lol. Perhaps in the next life 😂. RIP Dennis and Peter you left your mark fellas 👍

    • @jimharper5978
      @jimharper5978 Год назад +16

      I did it back in 2018. It was one of the best times fo my life - From Southern California to the Florida Keys.....

    • @hoffmeistertv
      @hoffmeistertv Год назад +4

      @@jimharper5978 i just did it with the greyhound bus. coast to coast NYC - LA back in 1978. will always stay with me!

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz Год назад +6

      Hope you get to ride, I did; back of Honda Goldwing 1500 Portland, OR to south central USA. Pure bliss and freedom, no better feeling! Best part was the Beartooth Hwy in MT~WY, elevation to 11,000ft “BIGSKY’S” & mountain tops all around in every direction. Caught hail on the summit in July & decent was slick roads & butt stuck to seat~scariness but so darn worth it! Do it people if you’re not too chicken, that is! 😘

    • @blackholeentry3489
      @blackholeentry3489 Год назад +3

      @@jimharper5978 I did the same ride in 2013, from the Monterey Bay area of CA, only I also rode in the 13 states I had never previously been in before......ALL of them east of the MS River. It wasn't preplanned, but llionois just happened to be my 50th state....the state where my father was born.
      Guess I had made that statement to my wife once too often and she told me, "Quit talking about it and go do it!"...so I did. So, I can now say I've been in all 50 states. (although AK and HI not via motorcycle)
      Because, as a lifetime amatuer astronomer, I've chased total solar eclipses all around the world, have now visited six continents and have now viewed ten. Once had chance to fly to Antarctica from Melbourne, AU, for $60, but for reasons too long to go into here, passed and have now kicked myself ever since for not doing so. BHE

    • @unokarpa4405
      @unokarpa4405 Год назад +6

      просто купи любой дешёвый мотоцикл и отправься в дорогу,
      чтобы начать путешествие тебе не нужно ничего кроме мотоцикла и шлема,
      всё что действительно понадобится в дороге найдёшь в дороге.

  • @MicheleJane
    @MicheleJane Год назад +14

    Always think of my dear brother when I see this movie. We saw it back in '69 when we were teenagers. He ended up riding from FL to San Francisco on his bike with a buddy.

  • @robertflint2549
    @robertflint2549 6 месяцев назад +29

    A truly great song. God, this movie really blew us all away when it was first released at the start of the 70s. A breath of fresh air.

    • @blackvulcan100
      @blackvulcan100 5 месяцев назад +3

      At the age of 76 this reminds me of my youth I think this film started me on my love of journeys we travel all over Spain and the scenery looks likes it does in the film. God bless America my dream to return ( was there in 1969 ) before I die.

    • @robertflint2549
      @robertflint2549 5 месяцев назад +3

      Indeed. I am 73. This clip takes me back to the start of my 20s. We thought us young people could conquer the world back then, albeit in a peaceful way. Alas...

    • @wayne5447
      @wayne5447 5 месяцев назад +2

      At 66, I'm sorry that today's generation can't enjoy the days we had!

    • @robertflint2549
      @robertflint2549 5 месяцев назад

      @@wayne5447Indeed, Wayne.

    • @alan4sure
      @alan4sure 2 месяца назад +2

      The decade of the greatest music.

  • @LeeWilliamson-bt8qe
    @LeeWilliamson-bt8qe Месяц назад +3

    A Great time to be Alive.....

  • @KittyGrizGriz
    @KittyGrizGriz 11 месяцев назад +35

    Love this song and the beautiful scenery, the crickets at night, fire crackling with friends around a campfire … blissful. ❤

    • @Tom-ok2rh
      @Tom-ok2rh 3 месяца назад

      Yea is was blissful for a while until they got the hell beat out of them..

  • @deirdre108
    @deirdre108 9 месяцев назад +30

    One of my favorite Carole King songs and the Byrds cover of it is perfect!

  • @homeboy2166
    @homeboy2166 10 лет назад +34

    America once seemed endless and anything seemed possible.

    • @ethanmaxton1930
      @ethanmaxton1930 2 года назад

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      I somehow lost the account password. I love any tips you can offer me.

    • @elliscairo3593
      @elliscairo3593 2 года назад

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    • @deadreckoning6288
      @deadreckoning6288 Год назад +2

      Still seemed that way in the 70's. Not anymore. One gets the feeling the walls are closing in, the psychopaths have taken over, and we're on a sinking ship.

    • @ronniecozzi8385
      @ronniecozzi8385 Месяц назад

      Because the baby boomers sold out.

    • @seanmackenzie8726
      @seanmackenzie8726 22 дня назад

      No More.!!!

  • @rodneybaker2643
    @rodneybaker2643 10 месяцев назад +10

    Saw this -Tasmania when i was 16 😁 now 72 ! Byrds ahave allways been my favourite yankee band -but this song is just so damn beautiful and brilliant-my favourite Byrds song forever ( the writers version - Carol King -yep )is pretty special as well -sorta bluegrass 😊👍🎶🙏

  • @joachimgoethe7864
    @joachimgoethe7864 11 месяцев назад +12

    This movie was made on a budget that would be considered pennies compared to production costs today.
    Just great actors portraying great characters.
    When movies were great. Movies today suck.

  • @chegeny
    @chegeny 4 дня назад +1

    I really liked Easy Rider. It makes me think of how our lives are over so quickly. We should not give in to fear and resentment. It's a brave thing to be kind and look after one another.

  • @pagliaccinodlemantra
    @pagliaccinodlemantra 12 лет назад +29

    Love this video for 3 things:
    1.- Love EASY RIDER
    2.- Love 60's
    3.- Love Jack's Scene xD

  • @Belano1911
    @Belano1911 10 месяцев назад +24

    In every age at every time what Jack Nicholson says about freedom is true.

  • @juliam.mallen9019
    @juliam.mallen9019 Год назад +27

    Incredible footage Jack Nicholson was at the top of his game of talent and authenticity! His words about freedom should be written into law and put in every college required reading before Thier first semester even begins! Awesome riding footage and the song was pretty dang great too!
    Classic timeless excellence bravo!

  • @1911Earthling
    @1911Earthling 11 месяцев назад +17

    In 1969 I watched this movie with my biker friends. I jumped up and shook my my fist and screamed at the screen at the end. I was very angry. A real gut punch.

    • @susanborkenhagen58
      @susanborkenhagen58 Месяц назад

      Do you know if Dennis Hopper really did the stunts himself? I'm not a biker but it looks impressive to me.

    • @1911Earthling
      @1911Earthling Месяц назад

      @@susanborkenhagen58 Dennis and Peter did all their own stunts they only had a few thousand dollars to make the freaking picture. Dennis and Peter RODE those bikes no GREEN screen. Peter’s bike a bitch to ride.

  • @jimw.4161
    @jimw.4161 Год назад +28

    Brilliant scene from a truly transformational film.
    Directed by Dennis Hopper.
    I first saw this film in Baltimore in 1969 when I was attending M.I. school at Fort Holabird. It was quite a morale booster, believe me.
    In those days I couldn't envision that you could actually own the film and watch it at your leisure. Incredible!
    I should also mention for you youngins that the soundtrack was also revolutionary.
    I strongly identified with Billy (Dennis Hopper) - well, the U.S. Army Vietnam Era white-sidewalls version anyway...
    Needless to say, the hippie girls of Baltimore were less than impressed with us short haired Army freaks.
    It was a tough time in my life, and this movie really lifted my rock bottom spirits - along with a million other G.I.s.
    It will always remain a very SPECIAL (!!) movie for me. 👍

    • @themightyafricanbullfrog
      @themightyafricanbullfrog Год назад +3

      @Jim W+Thank you for sharing this.❤️

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 11 месяцев назад +1

      Loved reading this and thank you for some words of wisdom, I was only 10 but felt what you guys were going through, ☮️.

    • @jimw.4161
      @jimw.4161 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@KittyGrizGriz
      Kitty.
      Thank you for the kind words - they are very much appreciated and mean more to me than I'm sure you realize.
      I am now definitely in my twilight years (79), but every time I hear a song from that great soundtrack I flash back to the year, during the war, that I spent in Baltimore and saw this movie.
      It reminds me of the Army friends I made and, at the same, the profound loneliness that I experienced.
      It was an unpopular war and we were treated accordingly by people of our generation who weren't in the service.
      As I said, this movie was a great morale booster for those of us destined to spend a year in Vietnam fighting a fruitless war - without the support of the home folks.
      To this day I know several veterans who are still unable to shed their bitterness over events that happened more than 50 years ago.
      They didn't die in the war, but it killed them (in spirit) just the same.
      Your kind words of appreciation are a healing balm to a wounded soul.
      Wish you well and hope that you enjoyed a beautiful life with loved ones.
      Thank You! ✌

  • @TheKitbonn
    @TheKitbonn 12 лет назад +20

    All the fantastic landscapes and the happenings in the name of peace - and the absolute opposite -intolerance - the world lost its innocence - if it ever had one.
    I was born in 1952 and a teen in the sixties - and God, would I love the hippie culture to show itself in our selfish, materialistic world, but I guess it would only lead to more bloodshed.
    Bless all of you who try to give the world some love every day - and good luck!
    Greetings from The Kitbonn

    • @mustangmikep51
      @mustangmikep51 2 года назад +5

      born in 1954,,,boy I miss America the way it used to be...great days of my youth

    • @patrickbodine1300
      @patrickbodine1300 Год назад +4

      Some, if not most, of the best times of my life.
      And I survived it all just to see what has happened to this country.
      DAMN.

    • @jamesrath7509
      @jamesrath7509 Месяц назад +1

      We damn lucky to be born when we were, this brings a tear to my eye, love your grandkids if you have em

    • @NativWorld
      @NativWorld Месяц назад

      Our Generation spld out. IR a special rarity. Me. too. '53.

  • @jonseeker3495
    @jonseeker3495 Год назад +9

    Camp fire scene as prophetic as it comes …brilliant

  • @georgestevens1502
    @georgestevens1502 10 месяцев назад +12

    Love this song. Love the way the guitar tones soar. Lucky enough to see Clarence White in The Byrds at a concert at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Resplendent in a white suit with a white cape. Fantastic guitar work. Thank you Clarence for such great memories.

  • @GeorgeVreelandHill
    @GeorgeVreelandHill Год назад +9

    One of the best movies ever made.

  • @johngreves
    @johngreves Месяц назад +3

    Bought this album @ a garage sale for a quarter when I was 12... Played it a thousand times!

  • @davidlitchke4964
    @davidlitchke4964 Год назад +12

    A lot of young guys after seeing this great film, wanted to take off on a chopper across the country. I was one of them.

    • @ivogarza9339
      @ivogarza9339 11 месяцев назад +1

      Did you ever make the trip? I truly hope you've felt that freedom of a bike, the summer, and an endless road at least once.

    • @davidlitchke4964
      @davidlitchke4964 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@ivogarza9339 I did. On my 1979 Harley low rider. That was in 1980. Minnesota to California. Quite an adventure.

    • @blackholeentry3489
      @blackholeentry3489 10 месяцев назад

      Actually, at the age of 16, I took off across the country on a Harley about a decade prior to this movie, and....I took my 15 year old brother with me.

  • @kenseibert144
    @kenseibert144 Месяц назад +4

    Easy Rider 1969 and the Birds singing in that movie Excellent and Perfect in every way I Love that movie -Easy Rider ❤️❤️❤️😂😂😂🎉🎉❤

  • @johnlamb2754
    @johnlamb2754 11 месяцев назад +8

    Good times long gone,never gonna return.

    • @mrchildgrownold3852
      @mrchildgrownold3852 11 месяцев назад +1

      In my imagination it's always here. Born in 57 this was my dream

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 11 месяцев назад +1

      It was great, wasn’t it?

  • @hardtail84
    @hardtail84 11 месяцев назад +7

    This movie changed my life. Built my first harley that was styled after captan America bike. Been all over the U.S. on Harlies, and never looked back.

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 8 месяцев назад

      Cool, I love Goldwing’s w/matching trailer for cross country travel 😎

  • @NormSimpson-iw5jr
    @NormSimpson-iw5jr 6 месяцев назад +3

    Easy Rider is the Best American movie ever made. I haven't been able to watch the ending in over 40 years....

  • @paulyflyer8154
    @paulyflyer8154 Год назад +11

    God I wish I could go back to those times 😢.

    • @kennyh5083
      @kennyh5083 Год назад +3

      Don't we all.

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, very true…

    • @rv6205
      @rv6205 3 месяца назад +1

      we all do.....this world is a pile of shit now

    • @michaelbirke6050
      @michaelbirke6050 2 месяца назад

      We can’t go back. Just cherish it memories.

  • @ronniecozzi8385
    @ronniecozzi8385 2 месяца назад +14

    It's 2024. We are all commodities now

    • @seanmackenzie8726
      @seanmackenzie8726 27 дней назад

      We Always Have Been, Duh! since when did you learn this.!!! ???

    • @ronniecozzi8385
      @ronniecozzi8385 27 дней назад

      @@seanmackenzie8726 Always? Since Adam and Eve. Put a date on it.

    • @gugoesjones3678
      @gugoesjones3678 16 дней назад

      Even our planet !

  • @geekay1349
    @geekay1349 10 месяцев назад +6

    One of the great scenes from the American cinema.

  • @alanconrad8490
    @alanconrad8490 Год назад +18

    love that song with every fiber of my being

  • @leejennings8456
    @leejennings8456 Год назад +12

    I graduated high school in a small conservative town in central Ca. not far from S.F.. in 1966. We used to drive over to look at the hippies. Never though about hurting anyone. We were all pretty free and I long for those days. Some were just more free than others. I have been riding for 62 years now and have seen most states. On my motorcycle is where I feel most free. I meet a lot of riders touring from other countries. They are amazed and thrilled with the size and scope of the great western U.S. I encourage any rider who can comer over and ride to do so.

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz 11 месяцев назад

      Loved your story; have ridden cross country also. Coolest thing I saw was a motorcyclist with his goggle wearing dog riding in his sidecar; he said his dog was a “lady magnet”.😂

    • @garystevens1532
      @garystevens1532 2 месяца назад

      Done a couple of cross country rides before I lost my leg in bike accident when I was sixty-two. Don’t ride any more, but I’ll always have the memories. “Where ya been is good and gone; all ya keep’s the gettin’ there.” Towne Van Zandt, To Live’s to Fly

  • @paulpalmer6364
    @paulpalmer6364 3 месяца назад +2

    I got out of the service in 86, 18 years 6 months, went on a 20 year mc journey. Lived the movie.

  • @jukkateras2846
    @jukkateras2846 Год назад +14

    Great song and movie! 🔥😎😇🔥

  • @gregmackenzie5822
    @gregmackenzie5822 Год назад +11

    A great classic movie , 3 great actors , a great song , whats not to like .

    • @blackholeentry3489
      @blackholeentry3489 11 месяцев назад +1

      Harleys. I put 140K on four of them over a period of 14 years including riding 100 miles/day to work for three years. Then, in 1970 my BIL rode up my driveway on a brand new Honda 750. Took it for a short ride....goodbye Harley and I've never looked back. Currently ride a Honda ST 1100, but, at age 82, seriously toying with quitting while I'm ahead....

    • @Tom-ok2rh
      @Tom-ok2rh 3 месяца назад +3

      Entire movie soundtrack was about as good as it gets..

  • @jasjas-rm9kc
    @jasjas-rm9kc 11 месяцев назад +8

    I saw this on 1969. Back when the country wasn’t crazy.

    • @KevSm-li8yy
      @KevSm-li8yy Месяц назад

      There was crazy shit going on in the late 60s, like the assassinations of MLK and Bobby Kennedy, the Sharon Tate murders, My Lai, Ronald Reagan siccing the National Guard on UC Berkeley students, the capture of the Pueblo, the sinking of the Scorpion, the George Wallace candidacy, the election of Tricky Dick, race riots in Detroit and elsewhere...

  • @renatosaavedra27
    @renatosaavedra27 Год назад +5

    I saw this movie in 1969 in Santiago Chile with my mother,i was a big fan of the bird's. I came to the US in19f
    70 and as soon as I got a car (Peugeot 304 ) left from Chicago across to the Grand canyon and jump in the water all the way finding the back roads to California and back. It was like that feeling expressed in the movie and that we all seek and few find.

  • @jakethesnake576
    @jakethesnake576 12 лет назад +47

    Going through school and college right now, ive had to sit through numerous talks about injustice, intolerance and coexistance usually with a movie to follow up with it as an example of these things in our society. It always amazes me that they never choose this one, as I cant think of a better one to show unfair persicution and intolerance. One of the greatest movies of all time, easily best soundtrack. Ride on Captain America, Ride on

    • @liamgross7217
      @liamgross7217 Год назад

      Hey Sean, 11 years on what do you think of the world today?

    • @Changesonemack
      @Changesonemack Год назад

      You shudda been sitting through Gov’t Civics, STEM, Finance and other preparation courses and not ridiculous social engineering nonsense.

    • @BrianBoese-im8jm
      @BrianBoese-im8jm 11 месяцев назад

      It was freedom back then. Carry it forward

  • @transleytan
    @transleytan Месяц назад +2

    I remember I saw this film for the first time at the "Cine Coventry", in Montevideo. And I kept watching it a few times a year ever since.
    RIP Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda

  • @danielorlando8172
    @danielorlando8172 Год назад +5

    This scene always makes me cry. George tells Billy to look for bullfrogs in the night and Billy get surprised and George gets killed. This is where we are in America

  • @Nick_B_Bad
    @Nick_B_Bad 11 месяцев назад +6

    The part at the beginning where Peter takes off his watch and tosses it on the ground. What that symbolizes is my biggest goal in life that I will one day reach.

    • @jdshemp
      @jdshemp Месяц назад

      I have done it in Thailand, Thais have a great Biker culture, and are big Motor heads. I will die here, America is done.

  • @mikemiller209
    @mikemiller209 Месяц назад +6

    " OH I've got a helmet.. I've got a beauty".....

  • @chrisfennell1431
    @chrisfennell1431 6 месяцев назад +3

    I love this movie, I miss that time; RIP youth.☮️

  • @marvinacklin792
    @marvinacklin792 7 месяцев назад +4

    I saw it when it came out…those were good times!

  • @charleskerr8415
    @charleskerr8415 3 месяца назад +3

    Great song, by a great group.

  • @henrynevins
    @henrynevins 11 лет назад +32

    Clarence White's guitar playing is just fantastic!

    • @Cap683
      @Cap683 11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for pointing that out to me.

  • @brianbyczek3042
    @brianbyczek3042 2 года назад +21

    wow......i forgot how much i loved this song !!

  • @marianneboyner736
    @marianneboyner736 Год назад +8

    I saw this movie over and over in the bio,it was ultimate freedom to me.thank you.

    • @victorsamon9672
      @victorsamon9672 6 месяцев назад

      1969,,,ME and my new Harley Sportster,,
      As in,,,,"Then Came Bronson" As on TV,,!!
      I am 78,,,now,,with new
      Harley "Fat Boy",,,,!!

    • @marianneboyner736
      @marianneboyner736 6 месяцев назад

      wau,love that.have a blessed day.@@victorsamon9672

  • @Bluesmuse69
    @Bluesmuse69 12 лет назад +54

    I never tire of seeing this movie!!! Each time I watch it, I get a different perspective on life!!! Great music, great storyline, great music.........damn good road trip!!!!

    • @blackholeentry3489
      @blackholeentry3489 11 месяцев назад

      Many of those who don't ride (or never did) probably might be a little hard to identify with, but those of us who have ridden a lifetime can fully comprehend the epic overview of it. I once read somewhere about riding.......It's often too hot, too cold, too windy, too much traffic, too snarky or any of a dozen other things, but when it's just right....aaaaaah!

    • @mikaboskova5982
      @mikaboskova5982 5 месяцев назад

      😮

  • @johnsmith-gk4ry
    @johnsmith-gk4ry 2 месяца назад +2

    We used to sneak into our local movie theater. Saw this movie five nights in a row. One of the best pictures ever.

  • @zepfan74
    @zepfan74 13 лет назад +103

    Greatest song in the greatest movie of all time! RIP Dennis Hopper

    • @glengledhill9867
      @glengledhill9867 Год назад +2

      And now Peter Fonda from a few years ago , I saw that in the cowboys and Indians magazine . That was sad . And I was shocked to read that .

    • @DippyHippie
      @DippyHippie Год назад +1

      Dennis said(I heard it from his mouth)he HATED both his co-stars!😂

    • @jimringomartin
      @jimringomartin Год назад +1

      I totally agree.

    • @jimringomartin
      @jimringomartin Год назад

      I can never listen to this song just once. I always play it about 6 times. It's too dam short and too dam great. Coupled with this really fun scene. What a joy. Thank you.

    • @mgman6000
      @mgman6000 Год назад +3

      One of my favorite Byrd's song I like the way it goes from country to psychedelic and back again pure genius

  • @williamloree905
    @williamloree905 Месяц назад +5

    I related to Peter Fonda’s character in the movie when I was younger & than I related to Dennis Hoppers character when I was older.

  • @GaryT1952
    @GaryT1952 Год назад +8

    Jacks voice almost sounds like a Strother Martin impersonation...ER, just plain brilliant!

  • @jaywalker3087
    @jaywalker3087 10 дней назад +2

    My dad told me that at 7 years old i ' dropped out ' because I didn't like the way the World worked.
    That was 1968 ....
    Peace Love Happiness ☮️

  • @reb1050
    @reb1050 5 месяцев назад +1

    Loved the song and the movie. Reminds me of days gone by. Health issues made me give up my bike, but the memories I have will be with me forever. I started riding when I was 14, and had to quit when I was 70. My last bike was custom built in 2002 and I have no clue how many miles I put on it because I had to change out the speedometer/odometer 3 times. The last one had 87,000 on it when I sold it in 2020.

  • @jbfiveash636
    @jbfiveash636 Год назад +13

    Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.~~~Janice Joplin

    • @robertflint2549
      @robertflint2549 5 месяцев назад +2

      Chris Kristofferson wrote those words for his song Me and Bobby McGee.

    • @alan4sure
      @alan4sure 2 месяца назад

      Kris Kristofferson wrote it i think...

  • @user-kk3iy7lg4h
    @user-kk3iy7lg4h 6 месяцев назад +2

    I feel that the youth culture of the past is very wonderful.

  • @user-gt2lh2ec9e
    @user-gt2lh2ec9e 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow, yet again very GOOD MOVIE! John P.

  • @user-gn1uk6pk3m
    @user-gn1uk6pk3m 5 месяцев назад +2

    One of the best movies i ever habe seen, the Songs ❤ Arena fantastic

  • @WilmerCook
    @WilmerCook Месяц назад +3

    I was 22 yrs old had Triumph 500 twin. In 1969~~~~~~

  • @renekeep6122
    @renekeep6122 Месяц назад +2

    Woodstock /Easy Rider time of my life❤

  • @bagoquarks
    @bagoquarks 10 дней назад

    My introduction to three, fascinating actors. I saw this in London in 1969.

  • @kennyh5083
    @kennyh5083 4 месяца назад +1

    This movie is forever etched into my soul!

  • @maxxbenzz7842
    @maxxbenzz7842 Год назад +12

    This movie wouldn't be as great as it is without this perfect music. What a great song, and scene

  • @superricardo1972
    @superricardo1972 12 лет назад +20

    people just fear what they dont understand.....great song great movie.

  • @georgetidd8972
    @georgetidd8972 8 месяцев назад +4

    FREEDOM! That’s what its all about….

  • @petersack5074
    @petersack5074 Год назад +5

    D.H. LAWRENCE : 1885 - 1930 David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and
    industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct.

  • @dpoland
    @dpoland 13 лет назад +8

    The good old days! Wish I could turn back the hands of time. All the fun in this country is over now. Too many laws, too many cops.

    • @mustangmikep51
      @mustangmikep51 2 года назад +2

      too many nancy pelosi's.....!

    • @KittyGrizGriz
      @KittyGrizGriz Год назад

      Thank god cops have to wear cameras now.

    • @alan4sure
      @alan4sure 2 месяца назад

      Too many crooks. Trump, for one.😅

  • @James-pq7nf
    @James-pq7nf 11 месяцев назад +3

    i love how dennis and jack talk about freedom