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

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)

[@gabriel-gr4cv]

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]

Just remember the Vietnam war back then, tuff times

[@albertchapar3954]

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]

Yep rednecks won out just like here

[@timf5875]

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]

100% ja ❤

[@scudfarcus4343]

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

[@zachredner8]

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

[@buddysteele7624]

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

[@scudfarcus4343]

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

[@ianstewart119]

Too true that film changed my life

[@charlesflett2818]

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.

[@charlesfiske8976]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@User-3O3]

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

[@KevSm-li8yy]

Yeah, but they got bumped off by some rednecks 😢

[@charlesflett2818]

Yes everybody got chicken.txting this from Scotland.

[@klausrain111]

Oh yeah we did!😂😂😂

[@KevSm-li8yy]

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.

[@phillipphinney206]

Happy Birthday Jack. 87 today. God love ya.

[@williamloree905]

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.

[@user-jf6gw6ys5i]

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

[@Stereolab2000]

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

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

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

[@KittyGrizGriz]

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

[@terjebergstrom6038]

❤... 100%

[@JustaKubrickFan]

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

[@zachredner8]

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

[@stevejames9167]

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

[@jahrasta4907]

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

[@jamesmeyer1325]

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]

Best comment....

[@glenngordon2352]

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]

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]

Wernt we the stupid ones 🥰

[@dougklapper9028]

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

[@scottjackson163]

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

[@christinequinn5355]

Me too. I was 15.

[@marktemsic485]

Didn’t we all..?

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Billy flipping the bird to the World...

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

@@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]

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

[@Belano1911]

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

[@mrchildgrownold3852]

This will never get old

[@johnthelander1770]

The truth never gets old.

[@keithterry2169]

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

[@martinstremlow2997]

Maybe timeless (?)

[@ZackBlackMusic]

Agreed.

[@MrRappcity]

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

[@Johnconno]

No sh*t. Were you 20 in 1967?

[@keithterry2169]

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

[@WilmerCook]

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

[@EDOGG62]

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

[@roberthevern6169]

But, never forgotten, friend!

[@BrokeDownBob]

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'

[@kenseibert144]

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

[@deirdre108]

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

[@JohnSmith-pn4it]

This movie will NEVER get old! 🤨

[@joachimgoethe7864]

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.

[@rogbrown1458]

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.

[@billmay7364]

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.

[@ronniecozzi8385]

It's 2024. We are all commodities now

[@mikemiller209]

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

[@earlliotti5316]

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

[@ronrobertson59]

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.

[@user-kk3iy7lg4h]

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

[@thra5herxb12s]

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

[@ennodebruyn6107]

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

[@KittyGrizGriz]

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

[@charlesflett2818]

Wow.

[@jameshmattingly.9773]

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

[@homeboy2166]

America once seemed endless and anything seemed possible.

[@ethanmaxton1930]

You all prolly dont give a shit but does any of you know of a tool to get back into an instagram account?? I somehow lost the account password. I love any tips you can offer me.

[@elliscairo3593]

@Ethan Maxton Instablaster :)

[@deadreckoning6288]

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]

Because the baby boomers sold out.

[@shovelhead56]

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]

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]

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

[@johngreves]

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

[@user-gn1uk6pk3m]

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

[@videomaniac108]

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]

Ft. Jackson?

[@videomaniac108]

@@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.

[@codybluetarp]

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

[@user-co7fb6qe5w]

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

[@1911Earthling]

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]

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

[@1911Earthling]

@@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.

[@georgetidd8972]

FREEDOM! That’s what its all about….

[@robertflint2549]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@robertflint2549]

@@wayne5447Indeed, Wayne.

[@alan4sure]

The decade of the greatest music.

[@MicheleJane]

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.

[@charleskerr8415]

Great song, by a great group.

[@johnlamb2754]

Good times long gone,never gonna return.

[@mrchildgrownold3852]

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

[@KittyGrizGriz]

It was great, wasn’t it?

[@joriver5739]

Freedom! Now there is just one left...RIP boys

[@davidlitchke4964]

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]

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]

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

[@blackholeentry3489]

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.

[@Sutterjack]

Probably my favorite Byrds song of all time- classic film

[@Tom-ok2rh]

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

[@petersack5074]

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.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

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

[@Tom-ok2rh]

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

[@brassteeth3355]

That shot of jack waving is priceless

[@roberthevern6169]

The whole opening sequence is so precious!! His 'helmet' foretold his role in Cuckoo's Nest perfectly!!

[@TheKitbonn]

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]

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

[@patrickbodine1300]

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]

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

[@NativWorld]

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

[@lhaley9873]

The Byrds had turned from rock to folk/ country and were exploring deeper into this when they played the Grand Olde Opery. They weren't taken seriously as the audience thought they were going to lampoon them. But the long hairs were accepted, much like Jake and Elwood.

[@paulsmodels]

Nic nic SWAMP!

[@rodneybaker2643]

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 😊👍🎶🙏

[@jonseeker3495]

Camp fire scene as prophetic as it comes …brilliant

[@transleytan]

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

[@NormSimpson-iw5jr]

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

[@danielorlando8172]

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

[@davemesker9600]

I was 16 years old in 69, and bought my first motorcycle. A Yamaha twinjet 100 Cc 67. Bought for a hundred dollars. Went to see this movie with a buddy of mine, his mother took us to see it. Rated R. had to be 17.

[@southernreddog9319]

Now days, you'd be in prison.

[@marclayne9261]

Saw this film at the 'Drive-In'...1970....was never the same...100% disabled Army veteran...

[@alan4sure]

Lol drive in. Sneaking friends in inside the trunk.😅😅

[@marclayne9261]

@@alan4sure and bier...lol

[@alan4sure]

@@marclayne9261 yep, that too. And pot. Then hit the snack bar for chocolate bars, popcorn, licorice, crackerjack, it all tasted excellent. Lol good times....

[@johnh5882]

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]

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

[@hoffmeistertv]

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

[@KittyGrizGriz]

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]

@@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]

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.

[@geekay1349]

One of the great scenes from the American cinema.

[@RobertRoth-oj6zz]

I dig that song by The Byrd's

[@chrisfennell1431]

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

[@pronateceepadm7852]

This movie and "Jesus Chryst Superstar" was the best of contra-culture movie's from all times. This, in particular has a greate sound track.

[@jbfiveash636]

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

[@robertflint2549]

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

[@alan4sure]

Kris Kristofferson wrote it i think...

[@thomaskirchoff2027]

This excerp reminds me i was a young man once and the times help promise and magic

[@claytempleton8516]

Ya gotta give it for Hopper..Hell of an actor.

[@jasjas-rm9kc]

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

[@KevSm-li8yy]

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...

[@johnorgan3]

the boys from Laurel Canyon. I always loved the way Hopper tried to bully Jack in the can, and then after turning him on round the camp fire, they became cosmic buddies. Jack then seemed to be the good friend Hopper needed, but had never seemed to find. I can't watch end of the scene. Jack getting clubbed started a whole different side of what was such a lovely story. amen

[@paulpalmer6364]

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

[@RobertRoth-oj6zz]

The Byrd's were still good in the late 60's.

[@Berniewahlbrinck]

Their music is still awesome.

[@kennyh5083]

This movie is forever etched into my soul!

[@reb1050]

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.

[@Nick_B_Bad]

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]

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

[@dove1925]

Just a smidge too young to get what this movie was about when I saw it as a young sheltered schoolgirl. I did not relate to these characters as they were grown men whose lives had no relationship to mine. I was familiar with the music, so enjoyed it for that, at least. It wasn’t till I watched it again years later that I considered it an historical artifact. Today it attains a higher significance. These filmmakers really understood America. Sadly.

[@paulyflyer8154]

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

[@kennyh5083]

Don't we all.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Yes, very true…

[@rv6205]

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

[@michaelbirke6050]

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

[@gregdayton786]

The cast was so efin good in this movie! The end was very tough to watch!

[@mmccoll7692]

That's what this film was about,losing America. And now we almost have!

[@leejennings8456]

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]

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]

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

[@hardtail84]

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]

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

[@zepfan74]

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

[@glengledhill9867]

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]

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

[@jimringomartin]

I totally agree.

[@jimringomartin]

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]

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

[@marvinacklin792]

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

[@renatosaavedra27]

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.

[@alanconrad8490]

love that song with every fiber of my being

[@dpoland]

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]

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

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Thank god cops have to wear cameras now.

[@alan4sure]

Too many crooks. Trump, for one.😅

[@pagliaccinodlemantra]

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

[@jimw.4161]

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]

@Jim W+Thank you for sharing this.❤️

[@KittyGrizGriz]

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]

@@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! ✌

[@jukkateras2846]

Great song and movie! 🔥😎😇🔥

[@juliam.mallen9019]

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!

[@gregmackenzie5822]

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

[@blackholeentry3489]

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]

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

[@frankcovacevich9578]

Now, is always the perfect time

[@user-gt2lh2ec9e]

Wow, yet again very GOOD MOVIE! John P.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

One of the best movies ever made.

[@brady2528]

what a sound track, still have most of them on my MP3...hahhaha

[@georgestevens1502]

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.

[@lunasoul5791]

J’adore ce film qui me remplit à la fois de joie et de tristesse.Ce passage est excellent, J Nicholson est tellement émouvant ! Sa dernière tirade avant les s….ards.

[@banjammy4116]

Always listen to your surroundings.

[@gaga159]

Best movie ever made about motorcycles and freedom

[@Bluesmuse69]

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]

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]

😮

[@johnsmith-gk4ry]

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