Easy Rider - Intro - Born to be wild!

[@TS-wh4ey]

Grew up in the 60s and 70s and this is the first song on a 45 that I bought in my now extensive music collection. And it also compelled me to owning motorcycles and I've been riding for over 40 years. Greatest biker song and greatest biker movie of all time. Thank you Steppenwolf, thank you Easy Rider and RIP Peter and Dennis. 🇺🇸

[@CYBERVISIONSdotCom]

@T S You have “Steppenwolf Live”? I got it when it first came out on vinyl, later on 8-track, then cassette, CD, and MP3. Their early lineup was the best that John Kay ever put together.

[@freddiegrace3770]

I watched Easy Rider for the first time a few years ago, and sent a clip to my son who is named Wyatt. He thought it was funny, but doesn't remember it. He is now 24 and has decided to get a motorcycle! Such a strange thing! Of course I don't want him to do it, but his name is Wyatt!

[@CYBERVISIONSdotCom]

@@freddiegrace3770 You DO know WHY Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper’s characters in the movie are named “Billy” & “Wyatt”, don’t You??🤔😳😎

[@freddiegrace3770]

@@CYBERVISIONSdotCom Cowboys? I have no idea.

[@CYBERVISIONSdotCom]

@@freddiegrace3770 😂😂 Close: Peter Fonda - “Wyatt” (Wyatt Earp) Dennis Hopper - “Billy” - (Billy the Kid)

[@davidlloyd3116]

I am a child of the 60s. I remember the moon landing when I was 4 years old. I am glad I lived through those times, and had the opportunity to enjoy the freedom, free education, a great sense of beauty in the world without constraints as a child, no Internet or mobile phone. Just friendships forged at school, lighting fires in the woods, football the park, not a care in the world growing up. I am so pleased that I had a wonderful childhood. You only get that once.

[@USCG.Brennan]

I was there also and enjoyed it all......great and memorable times they were!

[@coxhoe789]

which moon landing do you mean

[@keithrose6931]

​@@coxhoe789 The first ! 🙄

[@coxhoe789]

there hasn,t been a first

[@USCG.Brennan]

@@coxhoe789 Prove it.....

[@michaeltondi8528]

My Mother ,yes my Mother took me to see this in a small theathre in Iselin, NJ when I was 12, I'm 61 now and still I remember how cool my mom was.

[@CathyC454]

I was 15 and I took my mom to see it at a drive-in...she was scandalized and appalled. :)

[@1941392]

I was in the trunk of the car at the drive in and missed the first five minutes.

[@ducejoe5158]

nice from joe austraila

[@joel8583]

Hi ya, fellow Joe

[@akajeremy]

Iselin NJ! its a different place these days

[@euanelliott3613]

RIP Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Thank you for a great film.

[@stephen2576]

He was a Pedophile

[@Trumper1963]

Fonda and Hopper, two of the coolest dudes to ever hit the big screen. This is one flick I can watch over and over again. It never gets old. And also can't forget about Jack, another cool dude. Sometimes when I'm feeling down in the dumps about life, I just pop in this flick and it always makes me feel better. Thanks guys for making this classic. RIP. Another bad ass flick with Fonda was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. Another classic. Saw that one at a Drive In. Dam I miss them days. Getting old really sucks man. I guess that's life though, you can't stop it. OK later on man.

[@Terence-e5k]

on 2000 times now 2001 in morning too

[@maciejsikora4559]

❤❤❤

[@vickiewoolford5682]

Maybe Heaven has bikes for ya? Get there! Maybe all those cool Dennis, Peter & Mary are there?! That would be GREAT! Just Believe! 🙏✨

[@carl_anderson9315]

I can imagine the rush of adrenaline of the kids listening this hardcore rock song at the theater. This movie was released in 1969, in the hippie era, during Vietnam War, right after Hendrix released Electric Ladyland, after the “Summer of love”, and the same year of Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin I and II, Woodstock, the moonlanding, and the Manson murders. Those years other jewels such as The Heat of the Night, 2001 A Space Oddissey, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Night of the Living Dead were released. All those movies were gamechangers.

[@kenbranaugh8251]

Holy FUCK!

[@pkmatt3]

history, rock, drugs, bikes, long rides priceless, girls hanging on each handlebar...yes those were the days

[@Kosovar_Chicken]

Eventually people will view that time as a renaissance

[@lw2bsoon]

Jesus Christ is your answer. Been there done that shit

[@kalebyoung3510]

And Iggy and black sabbath

[@flynnt1953]

Saw this in '69 when I was 16, it was also the first time I heard 'Born to be Wild'. Those opening chords nearly blew me outta my seat.There is a place in the Space - Time Continuum where it is forever 1969.

[@joeyhuebner10]

If you find the portal to 1969, let the rest of us know, mate.

[@FredJ51]

What an opening to a movie! Once seen, never forgotten. Best movie ever.

[@RobCummings]

Truly an awesome intro to a classic film. Didn't know Toni Basil was in this. I'll have to watch it again, to see if I can pick her out.

[@jonmolina948]

If you didn’t turn the volume up, shame on you!

[@John-ob7dh]

Throwing the watch away .Cool

[@jonmolina948]

@@John-ob7dh He was gonna come back to the watch if that redneck didn’t shoot him.

[@gomer52]

Those beautiful choppers changed a lot of lives.

[@dornkile5616]

Rode for 15 years - greatest experience ever on the open road. Would love to be back at it, but life got in the way. Saw that movie in college (with an illegal smile) - one of the best ever, even after all these years.

[@PatBatemanAtDorsia]

RIP Peter Fonda, thank you for leaving this EPIC film behind for future generations.

[@guavajellyjam]

💔💔💔

[@mikeymike3240]

This film means as much to me today as it did when I first saw it as a spotty teenager. Still one of my all time favourite movies. I never tire of watching it, turn up the surround sound and blast out the tunes while watching motorcycle porn. Oooooh yeeeeeah man

[@pittsburghpirate58]

jwka2001 Fuq trump and all his brainwashed Volksturm fascists supporters! GD white supremacy!! Free people are Born to be MF wild!!!

[@shawnandseanshow192]

Pat Bateman They will be looking back on it as a historic piece of media

[@kenwittlief255]

@@shawnandseanshow192 an historic piece of media shit

[@sidviscous5959]

take it from an old-timer: that opening guitar riff is one of the most iconic of the 60's. Good times, man . . .

[@RUSure-jm9rp]

The birth of Heavy Metal

[@larrypaddie9122]

EASY RIDER...WHAT A CLASSIC TIME AN MOVIE...MERCY??? Daddy 💘

[@furbabydaddy5604]

@@RUSure-jm9rp Heavy metal thunder!!

[@RUSure-jm9rp]

@@furbabydaddy5604 Without a doubt.

[@shuklavinays]

60s ??? I’m still fascinated and dearly missing my 80s. I could only wonder how it was back in 60s. Pure gold life. Things began to suck as we jumped over the 2000s. I literally hate this era. The kids are so plastic today.

[@rickybobby6579]

when I'm down, this movie ALWAYS makes me feel better and helps me keep going in this difficult world, Thank You Dennis and Peter.

[@jeroenspinette7635]

Likewise

[@greatdaneacdc]

I was and will say the same ! ThankYou Peter and Dennis for making this Classic!👍🇨🇦

[@ClaraDunbar]

Me too! I was 15 y.o. and it changed my life. It tought me to be free

[@TheMisterGriswold]

Makes me depressed. What a world. Wyatt and Billy forever.

[@gingaddict]

It made me sad - they were just trying to ride around and it seemed everyone wanted to get rid of them

[@wjack4728]

Remember seeing this at the drive-in back around 1973 along with Two Lane Blacktop. Best drive-in experience I ever had, and still love those movies. Everybody came out of the drive-in smoking tires, lol.

[@terryballard4674]

I found Dennis Hopper's grave in Rancho De Taos, NM. Wasn't hard to find with all the momentos piled up on it!

[@terryballard4674]

@Rob Fiss That he did... I found the old church where the service was held, & found out later that Hopper's family wouldn't let Peter Fonda in! Who woulda thought...

[@denhan5713]

Good place for a drug dealing addict!!! Breaking Bad is a documentary of New Mexico!

[@Mick_A_Knuckle]

I don't think anyone has ever looked cooler in a movie than Peter Fonda at 1:58 when the first chords of Born To Be Wild are struck. Thanks for the memorable films Mr. Fonda!

[@curtlain4934]

So true!!

[@Danno_88]

Agreed along with, for me, Sean Connery saying Bond, James Bond, as he's lighting up a cigarette in Dr No!

[@scottstolper4218]

Peter Fonda was the epitome of cool

[@MegaSammy70]

Until Jack Nicholson comes into the movie.

[@davidedippolito2700]

Well... Another cinematic super badass scene is in terminator 2 when Arnold rides the stolen bike on the notes of 'bad to the bone'

[@andymasters7029]

Forever immortalized on film. Never growing old. Always young. The sole reason i got into riding motorcycles. Watched this movie when i was in my 20s and been riding ever since. RIP. Capt America and Billy the Kid...When you hear a lot of thunder its not a storm coming, It's these two riding thru the sky...💪

[@michaeltaylor3276]

@Nobby Barnes nobhead

[@frankm4277]

I was in my teens and seen all the motorcycle movies that hit the big screen, way too many to list here. BUT, it you are a big fan, I do not have to.

[@vicfirth5515]

🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelvicario2584]

Yes

[@michaelvicario2584]

1pa 2nyc

[@Disasterpiece5150]

I love how he threw away his watch. Says time for me no longer exists. One of the most badass things I've ever seen!

[@timothyhatridge9709]

Need to remake where some one throws away thier cell phone

[@Peter-976]

He threw it away because he doesn`t know how to fuckin tell time!

[@barry7413]

If you think that is badass, you haven't seen much.

[@godsmacked1000]

It's probably broken

[@CaneFu]

@@timothyhatridge9709 Which would be just as stupid because there is no lonelier feeling in the world than when your bike breaks down on the highway; the phone becomes your best friend at that time. The best solution would be just to turn the phone off and save the battery for when you really need it.

[@三浦弘光-g2l]

イージーライダー、懐かしいなぁ50年位い前に 姫路の映画館で観ました。

[@tonytrotta9322]

Dennis Hopper - wore the same Buckskin jacket and hat in the movie My Science Project at the end of the movie! Great song, movie, and scenes here!

[@johnsilva3347]

RIP man. Thank you for giving us an iconic image of cool.

[@MsMesem]

Couple of dead beats.

[@tanha8178]

I think he more cool than Arnold the Terminator. The most cool. He also did living a real life.

[@BobbyOfEarth]

"So help me, if you try another stunt like that again, I'm gonna braid your tits." Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry 1974

[@larrygarrison4102]

I am a true Motorycle enthusiast..... But the movieposter that says that they went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere's totallywrong They found it outin that desert where theerancher loaned them tools to fix wyatts flattire and Invited them to eat with the whole family......Think about it.......

[@davidstrahan9492]

Saw "Easy Rider" when it first came out at a local movie theater. Got infected with the motorcycle virus. Still riding at 66. Live in Louisiana and have been to several areas where the movie was filmed, including where the café scene was filmed.

[@tedGEGI]

A motorcycle and the open road---sheer freedom at its finest. I miss doing that sooo much.

[@craigmanning7393]

tedGEGI I understand. Just spend 10 days on the road riding to see RUSH. Back to reality and a job. As soon as child support is done in 2 years I am totally out. Good luck my brother.

[@paulteirney3587]

Craig Manning In enjoy the time on the road when you are free from the rat race and having to be there for others.

[@user-lo9po5mp5u]

+tedGEGI Why miss it? Biking is about the cheapest way to live there is. Just go for it TED.

[@jedigamer7773]

Great

[@tms372]

I'm 60 and still enjoying the open road, 104 cube and full throttle.

[@AnziNordi-gs5zq]

Der geilste Bikerfilm aller Zeiten; Peter Fonda und Dennis Hopper und auch Jack Nicolson sind so cool; awesome and amazing too ... God bless you three cool guys ... !!!!!! 😊😊😊❤❤❤😮😮😮

[@TheGoldenHawaiianSwordsmanDrag]

Easy Rider: The King of Biker Movies!!!!!

[@matthatter2849]

Just think, we've heard "Born To Be Wild" so many times throughout the decades; in films, classic rock radio, etc. But this was the first time it had ever been used in a movie, a movie that represented the counterculture. It must've been so awesome to hear that start playing when you went to see this in the theaters. Just like "Yeah! This is OUR music!"

[@CaneFu]

I saw this movie when it first showed in my local theater in 1969. I was 13 years old and my friend and I were able to get in to see R-rated movies at the theater whenever a particular old lady was selling tickets out front as she didn't seem to care, although anyone else stopped us. As luck would have it, she was working the ticket booth that Saturday afternoon and we went right in and got our seats in the middle of the theater. There was an obvious group of bikers sitting a couple of rows in front of us, all wearing MC vests with patches, and they all had sunglasses setting on top of their long hair. When this scene came on and "Born To Be Wild" started playing, all the bikers started cheering and hollering at once, it was great. It was at that moment that I realized I would eventually be riding a Harley too and 50 years later I still am. Incidentally, July 14, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of this movie and it will be shown in 400 theaters nationwide....so you can have the chance to experience what I did if you missed it the first time around.

[@jennifersman7990]

And they used this and all the other music in the film because they didn’t have the $$$$ in the budget for a “traditional” music score. The only song written especially for the film was the title song at the end

[@georgeflutey838]

@@CaneFu Awesome story dude

[@if6was929]

@@jennifersman7990 They didn't have to pay exorbitant fees for using songs back then, if they wanted to use a song, they just used it.

[@Starjammerblue]

RIP Peter. Thank you for the dream, the vision. May you and Dennis ride forever in our dreams and among the stars. Rest easy, Easy Rider LIVES!

[@ReneitApelut]

Y

[@Ron71997]

Had to come back to this clip after hearing of Peter Fonda's death. That bike, the helmet and jacket with the American flag...wind blowing through his hair, the coolest sunglasses and him smiling and so happy. This is an iconic image of freedom. God speed Peter. RIP!

[@Tom-ok2rh]

Yep…had the poster in my room growing up as a teen…then it was replaced by Raquel Welch. Lol

[@jamesbond-mp3jz]

I will always enjoy watching this movie again and again.never gets old.

[@USCGCoasttoast]

The 60's...Best times and I was a young kid and still loved it.

[@rogbrown1458]

I'm an old kid and loved those times so much. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

[@anjas.7186]

R.I.P. Peter and Thank you for this great movie. One of my favorites.....

[@mikeysmith3755]

Lasmsnr

[@hanngesyou]

イージー☆ライダー 1970年1月24日 (日本) 15歳、中学3年の時だった。思春期真っ只中に公開されたこの映画は自分には衝撃だった。 「ニューウエイヴ」正に新しい波の中に引き込んでくれたピーターフォンダが憧れだった。 心よりご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。

[@oldschool5539]

You'll ALWAYS Be Captain America, Now and Forever!!!!!!!!! Everytime I'm driving from US 89/US 160 Jct. Towards Monument Vallley, AZ/ UT, YOUR MEMORY LIVES ON FOREVER!(R. I. P. PETER FONDA!!!!!!!!!!!)

[@oldschool5539]

@@MrJones-em7ub 50 Years Later, And This MOVIE Remains A TRUE CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@oldschool5539]

@@MrJones-em7ub when an opportune knocks, and the weather cools down, Check out the Four Corners Region!

[@markanthonyrosalesbarrient4355]

Probably one of the most cult iconic intros in cinema history 🤘✌🔥

[@lindsey607]

For certain.

[@juliannaolate1600]

I rode for over 40 year this is when all started

[@fmagalhaes1521]

I finally got my first Harley-Davidson today. I have been waiting for 41 years. (Life happens). She is an Electric Glide Classic. I call her Western Wind from the horse in the song, “Sign of the Gypsy Queen”, from April Wine.

[@ZigSputnik]

Hmm, for last 50 years I thought it was Electra Glide.

[@fmagalhaes1521]

@@ZigSputnik Harley changed the model name in the 1990’s. The FLHTC is the Electra Glice Classic. The FLHTCU is the Electra Glide Ultra Classic.

[@ZigSputnik]

@@fmagalhaes1521 Thanks for that. But I was actually referring to your saying 'Electric Glide' rather than 'Electra Glide'. I guess though that a true Electric Glide must be just around the corner.

[@fmagalhaes1521]

@@ZigSputnik Copy that.

[@edwardm9227]

RIP dude you inspired countless road trips and I have met many great people thankyou sir

[@luckymuse9590]

Riding bikes started off with my great-grandfather all the way to my son. I have a 76 bicentennial sportster with the original red, white and blue key and love watching this movie. RIP Peter Fonda and now you can ride with Dennis Hopper again!!!!

[@セコム兼続]

Get your motor runnin’ Head out on the highway Lookin’ for adventure And whatever comes our way Yeah Darlin’ go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space I like smoke and lightning Heavy metal thunder Racin’ with the wind And the feelin’ that I’m under Yeah Darlin’ go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space Like a true nature’s child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die Born to be wild Born to be wild

[@ricardoposada9112]

Thank you. 😺

[@craigmitchell4407]

Yeah we can google the lyrics ourselves.

[@jackhodges317]

I was 5 when I first saw this movie, now I'm 60 and I still love it, but when I die I want the last 2 songs off the soundtrack played.

[@gregallen7586]

Saw the movie as a 13yo. (63yo now) Began my life long love of all things motorcycle! Thank you!

[@osvie0167]

The boys are now cruising heaven together. RIP Peter.

[@crspcritter]

I didn’t know he died ; hmmm - somehow I missed that 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 RIP peter -

[@SL-cl9gt]

Billy still causing trouble up there 😂

[@anthonypuccetti8779]

No reason to think they're in heaven.

[@katerisandie4844]

This is 🍕 🍕 🥤 👥 🥤 🍕 🌜 that's 💞

[@carl_anderson9315]

It’s so surreal watching this movie at full HD and feeling that you’re there, 52 years back in time, knowing the boys lived a full life and passed away already. The magic of cinema.

[@slowwavesoftstar]

R.I.P. Mr Peter Fonda. Ever since I watched "Easy Rider"at the age of 9, Easy Rider has been the best movie and Peter has been a favorite actor. It was a movie that decided my life, Set out on heaven with Dennis and another motorcycle!

[@curtlain4934]

Yes! It was a movie that marked me too, the person I was to become. My dad took me to see t when I was 14 and I was never the same again. There was a kindness to Peter Fonda, a gentleness about him, that is so rare.

[@drewhunkins7192]

Excellent film. Among other things, one aspect I really enjoyed when I first saw 'Easy Rider' in the mid 1990s when I was 25 y.o. were the shots of the old 1950s and '60s era gas stations, diners and motels. They're pieces of Americana that one doesn't see much of anymore. Watching the movie now in 2020 makes for a mesmerizing nostalgia trip.

[@mdnucklehead1540]

Just watched it for the first time. 25 years old. The more things change the more they stay the same I guess.

[@drewhunkins7192]

I guess@@mdnucklehead1540

[@michaeldavis5775]

I was 13 back in 1969 when this movie came out. One week later, I bought a Captain America helmet to wear while riding my Taco Mini Bike. The cinematography in this film by Lazlo Kovacs was outstanding, and this opening scene blew us all away when we saw it for the first time in the theater!

[@stevemachain6742]

The film and the music never get old.

[@lubberwalker]

Thanks Peter and Dennis. Rip. This film was new and part of my world as l was leaving school. We thought we could change everything in that world, for the better. A fantastic time. Thank you for making it.

[@wayneworley1293]

Best intro to any movie by far RIP Peter Fonda And Dennis Hopper!

[@lauder64]

R.I.P. Master Peter... You were the inspiration of many of us... EASYRIDERS forever. Thank you, very thank you. Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela, South America.

[@MysteryZen77]

Long Live the Legends of American Freedom

[@philbrown9764]

I was in Nam when ER was made and didn’t see it until a couple of years later. Like Woodstock.

[@andrewkostelnyk272]

RIP Peter thanks for the great films -always loved Easy Rider!

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

Peter Fonda was such a cowboy in this film, his presence on screen is so warm and beautiful actually, how a man should live. RIP to both these cats, the vision of this story is so iconic and symbolic really.

[@carlweaver3243]

Easy Rider was basically a modern day Western, only with Motorcycles instead of Horses. Peter was following in his Pop's footsteps, but on his terms. It's one of the Greatest movies ever made. The campfire scenes with Wyatt, Billy and George were classic cinema.

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

It illustrated what was true and good about being an American, that we were free to go out into the country and just live the way we think we should. There is something so warm about that but it also shows how people Want us to conform to their own beliefs

[@randy56ish]

RIP Peter Fonda. Easy Rider was my favorite movie as a 15 year old kid. I watched it so many times Captain America!

[@johnprekurat6960]

"Easy Rider" and, for some reason, "The Longest Day" - the two films I've seen the most times.

[@mauser5283]

Ist the best film in my young years..1972 was a Special Time..

[@ValterCG]

Unforgettable music and unforgettable movie.

[@tylergann5]

Rest in Peace Peter Fonda, and thank you for this legendary film. Say hi to Dennis Hopper.

[@steveparadis2978]

"Hey, man; you made it."

[@magisterhpp]

.....in hell.

[@Roadking556]

JJ Groves did you know him personally? .i met him at a biker event about twenty years ago seemed like a all right guy to me . we talked and joked about women and bikes. all was light and fun..

[@corybernstein3872]

Amen 1969 50 years later

[@jimmysapien9961]

Amen 🙏

[@myrtlejulia1146]

throwing that watch away captured the emotions of a generation. Brilliant, Epic filmmaking. I love how he throws away his watch its my dream to one day do that and hit the road like that!!!

[@if6was929]

The counterculture as a small part of the Baby Boom generation, most Boomers at that time were just like their parents, they dressed just like their parents, had the same values as their parents and listened to the same music as did their parents.

[@stevenspenneberg7407]

All of the shots of them riding are amazing. For the time and equipment, it’s incredible.

[@kaleidoscopex7213]

Thank you Mr Fonda for what true Americana 60’s style is. Hippies on bikes will forever be a inspiration for me. I’ll show my kids this film when their older

[@mtadams2009]

My sister had this album and we played it all the time. RIP

[@sydrabin3685]

Easy Rider Forever...and what a ride you took us on. RIP Peter Fonda

[@jennifersman7990]

R.I.P. Captain America, you and Billy are together forever now I loved this movie, Fonda’s memoirs were a great read and he was such a cool guy, I wish I could’ve met him

[@icy3950]

R.I.P Peter - now your back by Dennis and you can Ride in Heaven together - we will never forget both of you :-(. Thanks for your great Work.

[@LPJack02]

RIP Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010), aged 74 And RIP Peter Fonda (February 23, 1940 - August 16, 2019), aged 79 You both will always be remembered as legends.

[@scottwolff6946]

Absolutely iconic, man.

[@georgeblumenthal7938]

RIP, thanks for showing us the road.

[@glowiever]

are you still a family with heston blumenthal?

[@curtlain4934]

I re-watched the film a month ago, having first seen it in 1984, then three nights ago I downloaded the soundtrack and listened to it. The next day I saw that Peter Fonda had died. The film was as great as it was the first time I watched it and the soundtrack is amazing. May he continue to travel free, xx

[@jmarcguy]

Chokes me up to see how many people came to THIS video after hearing of Peter Fonda’s passing. I mean you think of Peter Fonda and this is the first thing that probably comes to mind. Rest In Peace.

[@jennifersman7990]

jmarcguy Because this is how we’ll always remember him

[@craigtheschmeg3253]

When I think of Peter Fonda I'm reminded of his tweet ”Rip Barron Trump from his Mother's Arms and Put him in a Cage with Pedophiles". Not a word of condemnation from the sewage that is Pedo Hollywood. Fuck him.

[@Ian-Earle]

This is the best movie ever made this changes history these two guys iconic rip to the greats you will be missed

[@pittsburghpirate58]

Craig TheSchmeg fuck white supremacy

[@John-ob7dh]

Just about to get my 21 year old wide glide out for a ride .Seems a poignant moment.

[@f4tweet]

I was in the Marines in 1969, about 12 guys with bikes in my squadron rode into Savannah to see this on a Sunday matinee. We were the only ones in the theater.

[@RE.MadStag]

This is awesome

[@MOVIEBOY-qx2xb]

Jon Kay & Steppenwolf live at Harvey casino Council Bluffs, Iowa, back in the 90's. What a show, and it was FREE with a players club card.

[@timmymeehan6870]

RIP Peter you were a symbol of freedom to all of us and now you and Dennis Hopper are riding together in the next journey of life

[@pbrucpaul]

One of the best rock singers ever; John Kay belts it out with some Soul

[@dominik8788]

My father was 17 when he saw this masterpiece in cinema for a few Times.. It's his favourite movie and now He has it on vhs and on dvd.. And also the soundtrack on LP and CD

[@johnneedy3164]

I don't have any idea of how many times I've watched this , and the ending always get me

[@rogbrown1458]

I was fortunate enough to meet Peter Fonda some years ago at the Goodwood festival of speed. We exchanged a few words and he signed my copy of his film dirty Mary crazy Larry. His words to me were I had a blast making that. Still have it along with the pen he used to sign and the photo of us together. Great memories. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

[@stretmediq]

I can see them riding off into the sunset together now RIP Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper 😥

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

1940-2019 Peter you made it to the 50th anniversary of Woodstock and Easy Rider. Born to be Wild!

[@Saffron-es2vg]

I just imagine Peter coming back to 1969 to live there forever

[@fhljonjo]

50年前にこの映画を見て自由と悲しさを感じたのがついこの前のようです。ピーター・フォンダさんのご冥福を祈ります。

[@larryfromwisconsin9970]

RIP Peter and Dennis. You will live forever through this masterpiece movie.

[@rickchaffin5210]

Dad took me to see “Easy Rider” at the Admiral Twin drive inn, Tulsa Oklahoma-1970. Thanks Dad.

[@christopheradams5607]

He's not dead, he's riding off into the stars.

[@hawkeye1836]

Amen !!

[@CaneFu]

@JJ Groves Then WTF are you doing here, asshole?

[@weapoolx182]

Christopher Adams Yep, he's riding into space - he never wanna die.

[@weapoolx182]

@JJ Groves You're just a fuckin' born loser

[@fanderory6422]

Yes , with Dennis Hopper.

[@sarassielee41970]

Rest in peace Peter Fonda.🙏🏽 You and Dennis Hopper riding together once again.

[@doncaporino4109]

James Gleason

[@doncaporino4109]

James Gleason 0

[@1sttvbn]

Sarassie Little Doubt it, Hopper didn’t have much use for Fonda.

[@zarrow50]

@@1sttvbn what is that about, then?

[@deanzamboni7286]

He's riding motorcycles in hell, where he belongs. He even turned against his tin-god Obama, he was a nasty and uncouth man - your typical liberal democrat.

[@Mooncat222]

one of the best - sad to say goodbye to such a 60's icon ! bless him x

[@billendy7425]

I was 19 when this movie was first released. Just a kid. Now I'm pushing 71 and both Billy and Capt. America are gone and I am the old man. Time moves on like a river and nothing stops it.

[@JAMEL_EDDINE]

I love you man i really wish i could spend some of my life time with you and learn from you how to live. Peace nd love . I wish you all the best you're a great man you lived a beautiful and a wonderful life

[@connor25]

Wise words Bill, it sure does and sometimes you just don't know how good you had it at that time.

[@deanow3631]

It waits for nobody

[@howareyou857]

Last time I watched this film was when I was 17..I'm 50 now and planning to watch it this Bank Holiday with my 17 year old son. 😁Its raining this weekend in the UK but it'll cheer us up. Cheers to you all. Xx

[@KJL995]

I watched that movie, when I was (just) a kid. A kid in High School. I've never worn a watch, since. 😁 It also motivated me into building my first, chopper, later on. But, I didn't use a Harley panhead motor/trans. (It was too expensive.) I used a Kawasaki 1000 motor/trans. I threw it all into a rigid, frame with a 18" overstock, front end. A springer front end. The ride was BONE JARRING, to say the least. But, fun! 😂 "Ride to Live. Live to Ride." Thanks for the memories, Krzysztof Zajkowski. 😁 Take care.

[@TooLooze]

John Kay of Stepphewolf is an extraordinary friendly and humble person. His music rocked the day. RIP Peter.

[@geraroda2868]

Sure, but his true name is Joachim Fritz Krauledat, in Germanized version, but Kraulėdaitis in original Lithuanian, and he was born in Lithuanian-Prussian border town Tilžė, in 12 April 1944, renamed to Sovietsk, after Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and Lithuania Minor.

[@TooLooze]

@@geraroda2868 Yes, his heritage has never been a secret or anything.

[@Callipygous1975]

FYI: Don't know if people are implying that John Kay wrote this one, but he didn't.

[@charlietaylor9635]

I was born in 1972 but still feel the 60's were a time of important time for change of thinking outside the box!

[@CaneFu]

I was born in 1955 and remember the Sixties very well. It was the decade of the biggest social changes in my lifetime for sure but most people weren't thinking outside of the box very well as it was all short-sided thinking with no solutions. By the seventies all the hippies I knew were working full time jobs to pay for their custom vans....and then the Disco Era hit in the mid 1970s and with it all values of the Sixties disappeared.

[@seagulsinmud]

i was born in 1972 as well and i dont feel the 60s were an important time for change and thinking outside the box. but then again, i am bed bound

[@CaneFu]

@@seagulsinmud How would you know? You never even lived in the sixties and therefore have no firsthand knowledge of it.

[@if6was929]

@@CaneFu Your description doesn't sound like first hand experience, it sounds like you read it in a magazine article. Aside from the fact that you were 13 years old in 1968, it's unlikely you had any personal experiences with the counterculture. In any case you're personal experience is only anecdotal evidence and is not representative of the larger reality of the times. Only a small percentage of Boomers were part of the counterculture and by the 1970's so many people had grown their hair and started smoking pot that you couldn't differentiate genuine freaks from those for whom it was just a fashion. Those dedicated followers of fashion were the ones who became part of the disco craze and they never really had anything to do with the counterculture. The values never disappeared, they just weren't news any longer.

[@CaneFu]

@@if6was929 BULLSHIT, I watched civil rights marches on the school board by my house in person, saw race riots outside my school, and watched live events on the news as they happened. I remember well the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and Bobby Kennedy. I watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. I remember watching the Beatles debut in America on live TV in 1964 on the Ed Sullivan show and watched the culture in my school and hometown change almost overnight as a result. I had older siblings and friends who had parties that I attended with all of its social graces of the times. I watched the generational divide between my parents and their oldest kids. The sixties were experienced through my eyes and ears firsthand as all live experiences are.....from one person's point of view, not by watching documentaries about multiple people like you obviously have. By the late seventies I was in my early twenties and working full time as a bouncer in a large disco and living in the center of the social change firsthand again. Anyone who lived through any event in history and can give a firsthand account of it can only give it to you through their own individual point of view. You don't seem to have a clue what true live experience is; it is ALL only anecdotal as you say because that's what live firsthand experience IS you clueless boob.

[@ronroberts6425]

Just visited the spot where he tossed his watch, Ballarat, CA ghost town. Not much left of the walls they stopped next too. The small stone and concrete column is still there. Just north of the ranch where the Manson family was arrested.

[@stevenchapman8723]

+Ron Roberts Did you find the watch? JK

[@mikeymike3240]

Ron Roberts awesome man, I'd love to recreate their Road trip, preferably on a chopper. 😎 👍 👍

[@dayakwarfighter7477]

Cool

[@ianyonok]

Ron, nice one mate. Thanks for the info. Saw this movie when I was about 15. Game changer....

[@ericlackford6718]

Went to see it inLondon when first released. Been in love with this marvellous piece of art ever since. Must be the best musical soundtrack in history.

[@michaelhegyan7464]

Been riding, since I was 12. I'm 64, now..have a Harley Hertaige, and my father bought me a identical helmet, when that movie, came out...

[@mr.j.perala2861]

This is still a great movie, what show to me why is good to born to be wild. R.I.P. Peter Fonda. And Dennis Hopper, who also direct this classic picture.

[@michaelj2536]

Rest in peace Peter.....the film that spawned a generation of wild riders

[@JamesCarter-ii4up]

Thank you Captain America.... it's a great ride Brothers and Sisters... We all in the same rode and the Wind is on us all..... And it's damn Good.... Ride on...!!

[@DroneCowboy.Gaspésie]

Best regards from the Gaspé Coast Québec Canada.Thanks for the Ride!

[@johnnyberetta9533]

I think I went to the Odeon and watched Easy Rider three times. The music blew me away, especially the Byrd's "I Wasn't Born To Follow" . The movie was shot on a nothing budget, and they had to beg unknown actors, such as Jack Nicholson to appear in it for little pay. The movie was such a success that it made Peter Fonda and a few others multimillionaires. Well deserved, too. I read that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper hated riding those choppers. They found them exceedingly dangerous

[@martinwilson2039]

Saw this at local cinema - I was 16 - Found a copy of Fonda's jacket in a bike mag - bought it - I was peter Fonda, I was the 'Easy Rider' on my BSA Bantam 175cc - Hell Yeah!

[@John-ob7dh]

Ha Ha I remember the Bantam ,I started In 58 on a 48 350cc Matchless ( I was 17 ) damn that matchless was so heavy if I dropped it at 8.5 stone soaking wet I could not pick it up .Great days.

[@Hugatree1]

An absolutely ground breaking and mind blowing movie. Woodstock, Manson, Altamonte and Easy Rider! 1969, it was the best of times it was the worst of times!

[@francesconero1953]

Ciao..by..gio..sss..primo..Milano.. italy....ciaoo

[@sofalugger]

Amazing times, never to be repeated, Halcyon days. . .even had the Iconic Poster on my bedroom wall. . Orta look for a chopper I reckon. . .

[@michaelcarley7016]

This movie has cost me $$$$$, but my life was gloriously lived! Captain America is the most beautiful motorcycle ever! Thanks guys!

[@malindanapier1661]

Saw Steppenwolf in 1969 Louisville Kentucky. I was 14...my mother never knew I went. She would have killed me. I loved it!