I actually listen to Born to be Wild! Feat Ali

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[@williamcabell142]

It wasn’t made for the Movie, the Movie used it! 🥴

[@mick1583]

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

[@nancy9891]

Great movie. Somehow I think David Crosby should be riding with Dennis Hopper!

[@richschuster1097]

The song pre-dates the movie, but it ended up in the movie and now the two are forever associated for obvious reasons. It was a perfect fit. Try Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf as well.

[@karensilvera6694]

I love that song! Yes please.

[@user-gt2uf8cq9y]

@@karensilvera6694 And Snowblind Friend and The Pusher.

[@djsduke]

Yes! Magic Carpet Ride

[@gregmason2434]

3rd vote for Magic Carpet Ride... Born To Be Wild is more famous/iconic, but Magic Carpet Ride is my personal favorite!

[@greythoundsounds9445]

Let me also recommend The Pusher in addition to Magic Carpet Ride

[@vernhoke7730]

In case you two missed it, this song coined the phrase "Heavy Metal". In a verse near the end, they said the words "heavy metal thunder". And the rest, as they say, is history.

[@pokeysd3886]

That's what I said! (3 hours after you, though)

[@757optim]

The distinctive voice of John Kay. The song wasn't "written for" Easy Rider. Song was released in '68. Used in Easy Rider in '69. It was a natural fit.

[@brenthenderson3983]

As was The Pusher..

[@billyowell0113]

An hour and a half of people riding motorcycles...right up until the end. You should check out some of their other songs. "Magic Carpet Ride", "The Pusher", "Rock Me", "Sookie Sookie".

[@d_Howard]

This song (and movie) came out when I was still in high school. I graduated, went to the service., and when I got home, I had saved enough to buy my first motorcycle. This song was on the radio all the time. And I just had to get my motor running, and get out on the highway!! Go looking for adventure, and whatever came my way!

[@myowndrum286]

Steppenwolf. Born to be Wild is played in the movie Easy Rider. Used to listen to this band a lot back in the 60s. Magic Carpet Ride is another of theirs that I've heard in different movies and such. Now I watch the video. Thanks for the memories.

[@randykrout1804]

10 years old when this came out great time great music to be alive

[@hannejeppesen1809]

The 2 actors are Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda (son of Henry Fonda). Jack Nicholson had a small part in this movie, but he was good, he got noticed, he is the guy with the gold helmet.

[@sylvanaire]

This is the comment I was looking for so now I don’t have to type it, thanks! 😂

[@susanblauss1530]

I guess Im showing my age here,but I saw Steppanwolf in concert back in the mid 70's,love them,love this song!

[@LoisChisholm]

May be the first time the words "heavy metal" were used together.

[@supasoulproductions]

Yes...On a rock record. It's actually a common phrase in science. LOL

[@LoisChisholm]

@@supasoulproductions Agreed. I should have been a little more specific, right?

[@supasoulproductions]

@@LoisChisholm 😎

[@user-pq9zc3uc7m]

Steppenwolf was the '60's mindset. Well known songs are listed in other comments. Lesser-known songs, "Hippo Stomp" or "Earsplittendaloudenboomer", were light and fun. Their darker side came out in, "Snowblind Friend", and "The Pusher". To show how inter-connected the music industry can be "Snowblind Friend" was written by Hoyt Axton. Hoyt was a country singer. ( check out "Boney Fingers"). Hoyt and his Mom wrote "Joy to the World" made popular by Three Dog Night.

[@supasoulproductions]

The Pusher was actually also written by Hoyt.

[@keithcarper8809]

Hoyt's mom Mae Boren Axton co-wrote Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis and Tommy Durden.

[@jimmywilmore1881]

When I bought my first motorcycle I sang this in my head when I would hit the road. Back in the day it was no helmet wind in your hair riding. I think I was 11 or 12. Granted I grew on a farm in a tiny rural community. But I was those guys on bikes in my head.

[@robertprice6830]

Me too

[@RandyGabbert]

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson as the passenger, great movie and great song.

[@ptrlxc]

Steppenwolf (band) is the quintessential 60's band: There even more famous song is Magic Carpet Ride. This song is usually my first song I played on road trips. It was fun riding across Canada on a motorcycle, going east that is. Going west you're constantly riding into the wind and you feel like your fluttering in the wind.

[@teresacartwright5406]

Brown to be Wild is iconic and was released by Steppenwolf in 1968. I always misheard the lyric as "Like a two natured child" (rather than the actual "Like a true nature's child"). Their other big hit was also in 1968 "Magic Carpet Ride".

[@jesselobo3213]

The movie's dark undertones basically lets the viewers know that, yes In America we are supposed to be free, but in truth we are only as free as the dominant class allows, The movie shows these free spirits living the life until they run across the more conservative parts of the country and they don't accept their premise of unconditional freedom and there are consequences for trying to be absolutely free.

[@davidvsr]

this song will Always remind me of the Blizzard of'93 in upstate NY. i was snowed in at the Sheraton where i worked, along with 40 plus co workers, and over 300 guests. no one could go anywhere because they closed all the roads for 2 days. we fed everybody (350+) breakfast, lunch, and dinner both days. hard work. the 2nd night they anounced the roads would re open in the morning. the chef posted a sign in the dining room:kitchen closed at 8pm...out of food". we scraped together a last pot luck meal, and we were All in the bar by 8:15. the karaoke guy was snowed in with us. All us cooks took the stage and belted "Born to be Wild. it was an awesome experience.

[@karensilvera6694]

Great story

[@tomroome4118]

Great to hear all of you made the best of the situation.

[@24471lola]

One of my husband’s favorite movies. He is a 71 year old biker and has been riding since he was 12 years old. He is also a retired engineer from NASA so he’s my wild man hero! 😊

[@stanleynykaza9042]

HEAVY METAL THUNDER ,RACING WITH THE WIND !!

[@1cajun59]

For me, born to be wild was jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Medical conditions have grounded me now, but there is nothing like the thrill of jumping out at about 3 1/2 miles above the ground and of course landing a brief time later

[@glennred4830]

These two brothers are Canadian, real talent, songwriters in this band.

[@1perfectpitch]

Hopper on a chopper and Fonda on a honda.

[@sherrieyoung961]

Magic carpet ride.

[@thirdbase6870]

Am quite sure that Steppenwolf wasn't named for philosophical reasons. It sounds cool and tough.

[@juliajohnston7145]

My best wild was going to college at the age of 42, getting a bachelor's degree in geology (which required a fair amount of keeping up with 20-year-olds climbing around hills and streambeds), then continuing to get a master's working in caves), and the whole time, my engineer husband would plan all of our vacations to amazing geologic places (Iceland, the Canadian Rockies, the Big Bend of Texas). After all the education, I taught geology at college level and tried to instill some of my excitement into them. 🤠

[@annirvin6555]

I was terrified of heights, and still am, so I took up skydiving.

[@lorrainemiller688]

Nothing like a fringed suede coat while on a motorcycle-- no helmet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mustangbill65]

It was sooo fun to dance to!!! I loved the 60's!!! I wish I was back except for the V.N war part..That was so sad for all..

[@DeborahDavis-zi6pm]

That’s Jack Nicholson riding behind Peter Fonda. It was his first acting job and a very small part, but he was an impressive actor even then.

[@montalbans]

Not his first acting job -- he had had small roles in movies and TV for more than 10 years by the time Easy Rider came along.

[@DannyLeeOGT]

I seen these guys at 14, my 1st Concert!!! Magic Carpet Ride was the other big hit

[@iamrichrocker]

Sebs..listen to the Pusher song by this killer band...

[@soultrampamplification8425]

Greatest driving song of all time!

[@warrenfoil6851]

You ask how was I wild? In 1970 I was 16 and went to a three day rock festival. We went co-ed naked swimming, and the headliners? The Allman Brothers Band one year before their famous Fillmore East album was recorded. Bikers stole a dollar and a cowboy hat from me. My friends and I spoke briefly with Duane Allman while just wandering around the festival. 16 and rockin'

[@armadillotoe]

There is nothing quite like a Hammond B3 played through Leslies.

[@stevelambert6404]

In my personal top ten of all songs

[@frankjohnson3669]

Sweet reaction. Most Steppenwolf stuff were what we called speaker busters (we cranked the volume too high and the speakers couldn't handle it). That said, the scariest part of the song Born To Be Wild is when they found a head out on the highway. 😁

[@trudylewis9063]

John Kay was onboard the Flower Power Cruise with some of the greatest musicians from the 60s and 70s! And he's still rockin!! ❤❤

[@diannthomas5653]

Came across a couple of fun songs to add to your country playlist. The Judds: Turn it Loose. and Rocking to the Rhythm of the Rain.

[@827dusty]

Even to this day, this song is played in every Biker Bar in America. Hell's Angels, sort of adopted this as their anthem, but really, every outlaw Biker group loves this song.

[@rickfortier8664]

3 songs you need to listen to by Steppenwolf; 1) The Pusher - kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKeZgYxnd7Z_eKc&ab_channel=Steppenwolf-Topic 2) Snow Blind Friend - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX7bdJxpoc-Ke8k&ab_channel=ELGROOVER 3) America - Monster - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYOoiahnj7RmeLs&ab_channel=Steppenwolf-Topic 1 & 2 written by Hoyt Axton

[@billmeade9029]

At the beginning of the movie it shows a close up of a watch and it's thrown to the ground,that stood out to me as being free never to be anywhere at a certain time again

[@annirvin6555]

The first x- rated film that I went to see at the cinema. X was 18 yrs in England. I was 17, but as I was on my own, they just let me in. The other film on with it ( you got two films for one price) was The Graduate

[@mikeadair3341]

This was the class song of my senior class in 1981.

[@CarolLee-mq8er]

Dennis Harper Peter Fonda those are the two motor cycle riders. The movie was Easy Rider.

[@celticwind99]

Dennis Hopper not Harper and the passenger was Jack Nicholson

[@umarae27]

Best band ever. They came to my area once, & I felt too unworthy to attend their concert. (I related to the free, but not the wild). How funny or sad is that. I still play their songs now & then, they never grow old. Don't step on the grass Sam, G' Da m the pusher man, magic carpet ride, so many good ones! Oh hey, Dan does a banger cover of their Born to be Wild. (Mr. Spot on emphasiser, Dan the man). Thanks for the wonderful morning ride into the past!!

[@garymilner5486]

I saw Stepping Wolf LIVE in Shreveport, La in 79’ and they were still rocking!

[@duanelavely5481]

We played Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" while in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive (1968). In 1968, Steppenwolf also came out with "Magic Carpet Ride" & "The Pusher". I served in Viet. from 1968 to 1969.

[@bobbrinkerhoff3592]

Their first album came out on January 29,1968 . When exactly was Tet ?

[@duanelavely5481]

@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 The Tet Offensive started on Jan. 30, 1968 & went thru April or May. On Jan. 23, 1968 the N. Koreans hijacked the USS Pueblo & its crew. Troops including a squadron of F-4 Phantom II fighters were sent immediately to S. Korea. Under the Korean War agreement, combat troops were only allowed to be stationed on TDY (temporary duty). After Tet ended, I was sent to relieve the original troops at Teague, S. Korea. I was there for 60 days before being relieved by Ca. Nat. Guard. Hitched a ride to Tokyo on an Air America corp. jet & then a C-141 back to Phu Kat.

[@bobbrinkerhoff3592]

@@duanelavely5481 Thank you for your service . I had one cousin that was in country during Tet , with another one sitting off shore cruising around . I was stuck in the fifth grade .

[@floridaboy6051]

This song originated the term “Heavy Metal” used to define a whole genre.

[@annirvin6555]

I still remember all the words☺️

[@marleneguillory6512]

Yes 🙌 ❤

[@haasgrover3422]

How was I born to be wild? Born in 96. My father and I moved from Wisconsin to California when I was 6 years old. I then joined Boyscouts, followed by AFJROTC, my freshman year of high school. Moved back to Wisconsin at 14ish, finished high school early, and joined the National Guard. I injured myself and couldn't complete basic training. Upon coming back, I started my journey. Since then, I have lived in 20 states and have seen almost the entire continental part of our nation and Canada. I have held 12 different jobs, from being a cook to working on pipelines. Now, at 28, I'm about to head to Georgia to learn how to scuba dive. Oh, and I live in a small camper my Father and I have made.

[@827dusty]

That video clip is from the early 70s movie, "Easy Rider." Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper. Extraordinary movie about the clash of cultures in the 60s, and the southern U.S. at that time. Funny, great scenery, and well...I won't spoil the ending, but you must this iconic movie. "Easy Rider." So many great rock songs from the era are in sprinkled throughout the movie. Hope you guys get a chance to check out some Saturday night with a bag of popcorn and your favorite beverage. It's a good one.

[@jmuraidajr]

I had a Chopper back then and when I graduated from college and started teaching, I would drive my chopper to school! The kids at school started calling me Easy like the movie Easy Rider!!!

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Easy Rider, such a good movie at the time and iconic Jack Nicholson riding along with a football helmet.

[@donaldduck2139]

great days/times, miss the way it was...another cool song from these guys is 'Magic Carpet Ride' I worked a lot of years in mining, coal iron gold copper etc and would work remote sites and then you would get your week off I'd stay in pubs...accommodation would be free because I would bounce (bouncer) for the guy that owned the pub...all I'd have to do was get rid of trouble makers ...were some wild times through those years, retired now

[@marksilverman4537]

For many, this song was aspirational. It captured the American spirit of freedom - to do what you want to do, be what you want to be, go where you want to go, etc. The song's pure American rock sound and lyrics evoked that sense of freedom and the zeitgeist of young people living in the late 60's. A song for the times that became their anthem.

[@johnmadden2421]

John Kay, the lead singer, and three other original members were Canadian. John is an interesting, complex character. The film that used the song, Easy Rider, is American, and Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper can both be considered complex characters. Perfect match. The film is more complex than is often allowed. Being a teen on a motorcycle in the late 60s long hair and all, the hostile reception to young people shown in the film is realistic to me, even (or especially) in far away New Zealand. Like a lot of bands from the 60s the members of Steppenwolf were a lot more sophisticated than the older generation recognised, hence using the name of a Herman Hesse novel for the band. All the foregoing being hilarious given I am now 73!

[@craigplatel813]

Actually Kay is German. Born in east Prussia in 44, family escaped to west Germany in 49 then moved up Canada in 58 then buffalo in 63. The info is out there in multiple sources.

[@7thkansascav468]

One of my first rock albums I bought back in 1969 or so was Steppenwolf 7, I still have it.

[@tinagarcia3571]

song from my childhood. spent some of my late teens and twenties as a biker girl, the good and the bad of it. HARLEY-DAVIDSON ALL THE WAY. now i'm a granny. sex drugs rock and roll, bikes.

[@nevgeth40]

I was fortunate enough to see them in 1968. Further loss of innocence after my first concert seeing Jimi Hendrix. I had not clue.

[@Bamaboompa]

Birth of a music genre: 🎼Heavy Metal Thunder🎶 Now you’ve heard this you are ready Monster Trilogy (1969 album - could have been written this morning)

[@TD-mg6cd]

In the early 1980s, I was a patrol officer. Almost every day this song would be played on the radio right about the time we were released from roll call and were getting in our cruisers. I would key the mic for the first four lines. Perfect! Bob Seger has a few good motorcycle riding songs, too. Have you listened to Magic Carpet ride?

[@mikerant4135]

Great Book. Great Track, a great film.............

[@jenniferpickering7808]

Snuck into theatre with a friend to watch "easy rider" , love this song & the memories>>

[@Foxstar42-pb4uk]

This video in song is from the soundtrack of "Easy Rider". Everyone my age is extremely well-aware of this movie, because this movie was the first ever to use rock-based soundtrack. And young people loved it.

[@michaelbarnes4403]

great movie, great band, took my sons to see them in 2006, and YES, watch the movie :)

[@rogersullivan5351]

John Kay's uncle brought him through the wire from east Germany as a child and he tells the story in the song "the wall"

[@bobbrinkerhoff3592]

Not his uncle , but his Mother he was just shy of five years old . The story was also told years earlier in the song Renegade .

[@rogersullivan5351]

@bobbrinkerhoff3592 I don't know about renegade but his song the wall told the story and in an interview years later he told about it

[@bobbrinkerhoff3592]

@@rogersullivan5351 go listen to Renegade closely . John even refers to himself as a Renegade in The Wall . " The man will shoot you down " is in reference to the Russian border guards .

[@allengator1914]

Steppenwolf was a HUGE band in the late 60s and early 70s. They should be in the Rock 'n' Roll hall of Fame.

[@roy19491]

the first reference to "heavy metal" in music........."Born to be Mild" was the title of a Rita Rudner stand up comedy show on HBO in the 80's......

[@lisannebaumholz5028]

Great Canadian band...well used in the film "Easy Rider". Probably the only time that Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson ever appeared on film together. (At least officially!)

[@Janesorensen84014]

Now I want to watch the movie!

[@mikeross14]

that guy sleepin,is Jack Nicholson"the Shining !"movie Guy! Mega-star!

[@heyhey1956]

From 1980 to 2018, John Kay was the only original member involved, having been the lead singer since 1967. The band was called John Kay & Steppenwolf from 1980 to 2018 kzbin.info/www/bejne/roGQkqygn9V0i7M

[@joannparker1977]

Man do I ever need to watch this movie.

[@highrezIII]

Monster, Suicide, America. Off the Monster Album. you can't understand the late 60s or early 70s without listening to this song. If I remember correctly the song came first then the movie.

[@suzanneprock7286]

Steppenwolf was a very popular group in the late 60's and 70's. "Magic Carpet Ride" is their best!

[@gkiferonhs]

You need to dive a little bit into Steppenwolf. You'd like "Magic Carpet Ride" and "The Pusher".

[@lisawhisper2504]

The perfect roadtrip song, blast it!

[@dougieyou]

The guy with the helmet is none other than a young JACK NICHOLSON !!!.... Stepenwolf had a lot fo great tunes you should explore.

[@user-mo6tz6oh9i]

It was a hit record years before the movie.

[@rachelbrachman1510]

Now I want to watch "Easy Rider" again. Fabulous soundtrack and a good movie, too. Y'all should check out the movie.

[@kevindohn6776]

I believe this song was where the expression Heavy Metal was first used !

[@BluesImprov]

Guys. . .YES, those scenes are from the movie. . .It's Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and "that guy" ridin' on the back is freakin' Jack Nicholson. . .and YES, IT'S 1969. . .And NO, the movie is NOT just riding motorcycles. . .They just used the "riding" scenes for this video because they work well for the song. . .And those were three very cool guys and '69 was a very cool time. I know, I was in college in '69. . .

[@johnboydTx]

Fantastic movie full of symbolism and a deep meaning !!!! 🤔 Give it a view ..✌️🤠❤️

[@ernestzamora2500]

Not sure if anybody else knows this small bit of movie trivia, but the bike that Peter Fonda is riding is the same bike that Nicolas Cage ride in Ghost Rider, also featuring Peter Fonda as Mestofalies, aka Lucifer.

[@VinE83656]

Great song and very good band. They had other songs besides Born to Be Wild, like The Pusher (also used in the movie) and very famous Magic Carpet Ride. I was only 10 in 1969 so I saw the movie fate it was in theater and I saw Steppenwolf live supporting Ted Nugent in the late seventies. The movie had a plot and the movie starred Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson. Karen Black (Triology of Terror) and Toni Basil (Hey Mickey Your So Fine fame) were also in the movie.

[@flippinpages6550]

Back in 1970 it wasn't always safe to drive across country and have a California license plate on the vehicle. I was even told off on a trip to Europe 2016 by ladies from Colorado. Also in 1970 a girlfriend of mine was driving cross from California to New York with2 guys in a van. They broke down in the Midwest and some guys stopped to help them, her friends were beat up and she was taken for 3 days to some barn and raped. They didn't kill her and eventually took her back to the van. She made it home. I heard from her 10 years ago and she had become a lawyer and was writing a book about the experience. The movie is gritty like that, not for kids.

[@reneewauchula]

It's kind of about the Vietnam war and the abuse that some of them got when they came back and about a lot of people's total mistrust of people on motorcycles And kind of the beginning of the drug and free love movement too.

[@richardmoss8757]

This song is the reason heavy-metal is called heavy-metal music because of the heavy metals under the sound of a Harley Davidson between

[@terrystinnett1190]

I remember when it first came out . All brothers / sisters were on the roof of our house , so the parent wouldn't wake up , which made the song a true sense of filling free at 13 LOL ...

[@pgrigg]

The Steppenwolfe in Hesse's book was someone who rebels and lives at the edge of normal society. They are symbiotic. Thr rebel cannot create within society, but his creations feed the society. And the Steppenwolfe needs normal society to push against and feed into. I think the band identified with that.

[@karengoodenough827]

Definitely you should check out Pusher by them, fantastic song

[@keithhargraves7497]

Younge people. I miss this lol

[@user-re4kt1pl5r]

The guy on the back of the cycle is Oscar winner Jack Nicholson!!

[@ricksaunders8074]

The cafe scene Many locals were in it I was 13 when this movie came out Not as good as Butch Cassidy n Sundance Kid came out same year Steppanwolf had great music

[@joyceellis9722]

Band 1st. Movie used the song. I'm 67. My 1st concert. Front row center. Jacksonville, Florida

[@bloviatormaximus1766]

The Pusher

[@abisummers7509]

MAGIC CARPET RIDE also strawberry alarm clock ( the band) is excellent

[@KevinPierce-pu4bd]

Steppenwolf is a novel.