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[@OhMyGoshIndia]

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[@TheAcworthdude]

Born To Be Wild is their biggest Hit.But they have so many good songs

[@zaviershiloh433]

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[@coenhayes3318]

@Zavier Shiloh Instablaster :)

[@marielaveau5321]

This song was done during a time when we were beginning to lose a lot of beautiful people to heroin and cocaine addiction. Powerful statement. 👍

[@crforfreedom7407]

EChhhh... He's saying there's a difference between a "pusher"; a guy who doesn't care and just sells anything to anyone for the $$, and a 'dealer' who cares about his friends and customers and wants to give them a 'good high' more than making $$. Right. NO SUCH THING.....

[@waynestumbo2408]

@@crforfreedom7407 weed is different then heroin

[@s1d299]

@@waynestumbo2408 than and yes, you're right

[@waynestumbo2408]

@@s1d299 sorry. I confuse then and than

[@ronchrisman]

This song was written before cocaine was a big issue.

[@johnduval8891]

One of my favorite tunes. Not only kick ass but still very relevant today, 50 years later. Pushers suck!!! Still too many people with tombstones in their eyes. Heavy song ☮️

[@neilpatrickhairless]

"Don't Step On The Grass, Sam" is another good one

[@ruthjohnson4380]

Yes, and some of the pushers are M.D.s and drug companies.

[@peterlenihan9007]

Today this song applies to the Pharmaceutical companies and the opioid crisis they caused.

[@bradmeadows7185]

Heroin wasn't as prevalent as today.more addicts now.Its a shame

[@RockN2Country]

Straightforward message by a kickass group with some of the most iconic songs from the 60's and early 70's.

[@ritahall6628]

When John says God Damn the pusher man he means it in a biblical way /to punish the pusher/dealer

[@kevinklemz163]

There’s a difference between a dealer and a pusher. John speaks of this in the song.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

It wasn't God "dam" it was and is "damn", and despite people getting upset about them saying that it was used in the context of "may God DAMN the pusher for what he is doing to people", it isn't the cursing slang like so many people use.

[@chriso5374]

Exactly!

[@RedDawg]

Agreed. As an English professor, I agree with you 100%.

[@RedCedar]

Damn right

[@dennyson3500]

Right he was asking God to "damn" the pusher

[@Moontanman]

You've never heard Steppenwolf? Damn girl, check out more of them, their greatest hits album is a great source!

[@Microscopeification]

In my favorite is Magic Carpet ride

[@Moontanman]

@@Microscopeification I love all their hits, Born to be wild is a fav for sure as well but some of their lesser known stuff like snow blind friend are great as well. India could get a dozen reactions from steppenwolf!

[@wilfbentley6738]

My fave is Born To Be Wild.

[@maryroberts9233]

Steppenwolfs music is featured in the movie Easyrider. Great movie, iconic band. Steppenwolf is the sound of the sixties.

[@otisyoung7061]

How many bands do you know of 50 years before you were 30 years old?

[@annieh5479]

A dealer sold weed, a pusher sold hard drugs. I first heard this live in Indy back when I was in high school.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Yeah big difference between the 2

[@deborahcornell171]

This was on the "Easy Rider" soundtrack album. I remember listening to it in my room as a teen, and how quickly I could leap across the room to turn it down before John Kay yelled out that 1st "God damn". I was afraid my dad would hear it & throw the album away (even though he himself was fond of saying that whenever he was mad or repairing something). Steppenwolf was also one of my 1st big rock concerts, followed shortly by Hendrix and Zeppelin. Good memories!💙

[@RoxyKandyKoRn55]

My first crush, John Kay...😁 I remember him talking when he was young going n he escaping from East Germany...😢

[@daviddixon6408]

I know what you mean, my dad threatened to throw my LP record out the front door.

[@richardmartin9565]

"Tombstones in their eyes" was rare back then. I saw drugs change friends real quick when drugs first got popular. One reason I avoided falling in love with drugs.

[@guidosarducci]

The changes you witnessed depended on what drugs a person chose to partake of.... To be specific, the song is about pushing heroine, which is only one drug...the biggest and nastiest at the time the song was written. And I personally have never heard of a heroine "dealer"... I agree with you, though about "tombstones" being rare...

[@andyfletcher3561]

@@guidosarducci Not at all rare in late 60's early 70s Seattle. Not rare at all. It's always been a hot bed of junkies. Came very close myself. I was lucky, don't really want to expand on that though. And yeah, your "dealer" had grass, maybe a little Hash or LSD. Mostly just selling to partake themselves. The pusher is evil. Talk it up, give you a couple hits for free, then rob your soul, get you to give it up willingly.

[@guidosarducci]

@@andyfletcher3561 WOW! The only experience(s) I had with smack took place in Nashville around 1968-69. I never got into it, but I saw plenty who did...what a sad affair that was. I was glad I just knew "weird Harold", the local neighborhood dealer... :) :)

[@andyfletcher3561]

@@guidosarducci Same time frame friend, and likely the same basic issues in both areas at the time. Tacoma is right next door and it wasn't near as prevalent there. Then again, we left Tacoma when I was in 6th grade, and we were in the western outskirts/suburbs then moved to a small town, largely just middle class, between the two until 9th grade. In Seattle, we lived in like a three block buffer zone between folks fairly well off to the North and ghetto to the south, then barely middle class to the south of that. At the same time, Seattle's economy was tanking with Boeing almost going bankrupt with the cancellation of the SST project.

[@guidosarducci]

@@andyfletcher3561 Well, in the spring of 1969, I had just got thrown out of college for something I didn't do, and decided to hang around with the people that I had met or "knew"...'cause they were fun...LOL! I have no idea how I survived that absolute ridiculousness...finally I made the trek back to my parents' house in PA in mid 1969...

[@jeffkharpoharpo3472]

Went with a bunch of friends to see Steppenwolf back in 1969 and I was driving ! was trippin my rear end off !! Bad Acid ! Bad Trip! for got which way to get home LOL

[@sirslice7531]

The Pusher sells you the "stuff" that takes your mind, soul, and body.

[@biggreentruck4907]

I used to jam the hell out of this song, as a kid. My parents had the Easy Rider soundtrack on vinyl; this, and Born To Be Wild, were on it. That slow, grinding fusion of funk, soul, blues, and rock in this song.... man, I love it. Steppenwolf are legendary 60's counterculture icons. It's interesting; if you listen to their music, many of their songs address the futilities and downsides of the counterculture in that era (and, much is still relevant today). Snowblind Friend, like The Pusher, has a distinctive anti-drug message. There's another song, the title escapes me, that addresses the futility of trying to save the world. They've quite a few songs with deep, thought provoking lyrics. They've also got an awesome library of feel-good, party-time, rock songs. Steppenwolf is one of my favorite rock bands. I've appreciated them, since the very first note, of the very first song, I ever heard from them.

[@baytownbert2]

I 1st heard this in 1969 and was blown away.

[@danfreeman5301]

PLEASE react to these two songs by "Blind Faith"...Can't find My Way Home and In the Presence of the Lord. Both are credited with saving the lives of addicts and others!

[@jamesy5607]

You have to do Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf -- Pusher Man was a heavy sing wh n it came out - I was 12 - love your videos Don't Stop

[@larryc3860]

John Kay & Steppenwolf = the best of psychedelia

[@royalway12]

I was fortunate enough to see them live.

[@Broomrider1492]

Nickel bag. 3 finger lids. This takes me back to my teen years.

[@kevinlay9902]

This song was written by Hoyt Axton. Look him up if you don't know who he is. Steppenwolf is a great band and still around. Try Don't Step On The Grass Sam. Another great weed song. Steppenwolf did not fuck around with that organ running through a leslie.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

" Monster " too.

[@danw2276]

Way to many of his friend gone and some alive but lost for ever. God Damn the pusher man

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

"Radar Love" and "Born to be Bad"... you just can't do Steppenwolf without 'em. ;o)

[@jackfiamingo9180]

I was a teenager in the early 70s. Had a circle of 6 close friends. I'm all that is left. The last of them was gone before he reached the age of 50. The others were gone LONG before that. Every death was drug related. God Damn The Pusher Man.

[@Imokanurnot]

"Pusher" is the name for a "dealer" who specialized in Heroine, Coke, & the harder, or more destructive of drugs - they basically "pushed", or talked those drugs up to young people who didn't realize the highly addictive nature or the damage those drugs could/did do, including the death of many a young person. They relied on the "snag & bag" - the quick addiction, and thus the assurance of "repeat customers" who would (and sometimes did) do anything to get their fix. Check out "Snowblind Friend", also by Steppenwolf .

[@johnfrancis1528]

This song was written by singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton, whose mother wrote Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis Presley. You should check out some of Hoyt's vocals. If you've never heard them, you're missing something.

[@ORagnar]

"Born To Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride" are two big Steppenwolf songs worth listening to.

[@gwag8410]

I saw this band in Tulsa in 78... I think it was 78 ha!

[@billrivenbark8983]

I remember growing up as a child two things that were always in the news. Vietnam and the scourge of Heroin killing young people. It was the 60s and now in the 2000s, its the middle East and Opioids.

[@scoutfinch7727]

Born to be wild!

[@lionheartroar3104]

Best anti drug song ever!

[@Notmypresident2024]

It also got banned back then from the radio

[@cjjenson8212]

Finally, someone knows! Yeah!

[@dalem8332]

Steppenwolf was an incredible group! One of my favourites from 68 to 72. Saw them live in 1969 and again in 1970. Excellent! Classics like Monster, Rock Me, Magic Carpet Ride, Born To Be Wild, Move Over...the list goes on and on. A great catalogue of incredible music. 😎🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦

[@Saturday288]

This is a great song and a real reaction. There is no black and white; only red, white, and blue, like me and you. ❤️❤️❤️

[@laurakennedy9250]

Just went ahead and deleted most of my subscriptions when I realized that I just don't like those people. But, I like you... You're doing a great job just by being yourself!

[@rogermoore9477]

That car is feedback,amazing what a guitar can do

[@dr.anthonytrabue7426]

Thanks for doing this song. I was graduating from university. Viet Nam War was raging. Kids were dying from war, and from drugs. Lots of ruined lives then. This song shows some of the angst we all felt.

[@Bacchus69]

Awesome group! They have many great songs. Their songs are still on heavy rotation on classic rock stations. "Born to be Wild" is an iconic song.

[@slimpickins9124]

"Born To Be Wild" the theme from the movie "Easy Rider" is an epic tune by Steppenwolf.

[@robertvirtue8070]

Pusher was use in the opening of Easy Rider where Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper sold drugs to fiance their trip. Born To Be Wild was then used for the Opening credits. I had the movie sound track on 8 track. Hopper was the director. Supposedly cost only $100,000 and 10 lbs of weed to make it.

[@maryroberts9233]

Hoyt Axton was in the movie Gremlins and also played in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati

[@TomKirkman1]

They coined the term, and were in fact, the world's first "heavy metal" band. And probably one of the very best.

[@rozkidd8645]

I think the credit has to go to Hoyt Axton who wrote the song.

[@larryw4175]

I believe that sound in the song sounds like an airplane crashing or car I believe that's a somebody od'ing like the end crashing death

[@420graffin]

Only two youtube reactions with Pusher on KZbin. God Damn!. Thanks for the reaction. No one has ever seen Easy Rider Damn!

[@rubbersole79]

Lemmy from Motorhead said he'd never do heroin or coke because he got tired of burying his friends.

[@97warlock]

This song …..takes me to a dark long past era Vietnam, Sanfransisco Jippies, Hard drugs, Hard life ……….. but Id give anything to go back to the late 60s

[@cjjenson8212]

Nov 5 2020. I'm with you man! Whole heartedly! Like Fonda said, "We blew it man". I guess finding America is an illusion.

[@artandrade1]

I just viewed your reaction to The Pusher. Awesome song ! I have the original vinyl live performance to The Pusher. Its 21 minutes long, recorded at Matrix in San Francisco, may 14, 1967.

[@notajp]

Yep, got that too. Basically it was a whole album side. Pretty much starts as a monster jam/improvisation that seems to go on forever before finally breaking into The Pusher. Amazing stuff!

[@toddcoolbaugh9978]

Hippo Stomp is maybe my favorite Steppenwolf song

[@bigjay123]

They dont call them 'pushers' anymore. Everyone is a 'dealer' now. He smoked weed, took pills but Coke or Heroin, No way.

[@rossmacintosh5652]

Back in the 70's when I was a teen we differentiated between dealers and pushers. Pushers would try to get people addicted and do things like hang out near schools doing things like giving 'free' samples to entice the youth to grow their business. In contrast dealers primarily serviced existing users -- and many wouldn't sell to anyone they didn't already know. If you didn't know a dealer and you wanted something, you'd get someone who had a relationship with a dealer to buy for you.

[@crforfreedom7407]

@@rossmacintosh5652 YES!!!!!!! EXACTLY. These "kids" today try and differentiate between pot and the other drugs, but the most popular drug of that era was acid. Just like today, there were 'pushers' who sold anything; poor quality; whatever junk they could get their hands on ( where the term "junk" /"junkie" came from), like you said; tried to get people hooked, and 'dealers' who cared more about a 'good high' and their customers than $$. Well I'm calling BS. There's no good junk and no good high, AND NO GOOD DEALERS. Period.

[@stevedamico5793]

You know you're old when someone asks "The Pusher..the Drug dealer maybe?"..Whoa!...Suddenly I feel 6 months older than dirt.

[@davidcouch572]

First song I would play on Juke Box in The Sun Frome UK

[@adamblackwelder1963]

Try "Rock Me" by Steppenwolf. It's more upbeat with some amazing percussion in the middle.

[@ktwebbdevil]

BORN TO BE WILD!!!!

[@VinE83656]

I am sure you've probably heard either Magic Carpet Ride or Born to be Wild. Correct, drug dealers were called "pushers", I guess I am so used to it I thought it was still a common term, but maybe it's not used so much any more. This song was used effectively in the classic film "Easy Rider" which was a great film with a great soundtrack.

[@jypziiatthecrossroads9047]

They are called pharmaceutical companies now. But it is still GD the Pusher Man.

[@jaymcclanahan4060]

I was 5 years old the first time I hear this. I was in a grocery store with my Mom and it was playing over the store speakers really loud. I asked my Mom what a pusher was and she explained it to me. Later when my Dad got home, I told him about it and he chuckled before taking me for a ride and we listened to the whole 8 track. ( My Dad and his brother would take me riding and jamming often) I've been a fan ever since.

[@daleervin816]

Hahahah... brings back memories, I used to sit in my car in my parents driveway and play this as loud as my 8-track tape player could go. Mom was constantly telling me, "the neighbors can hear that" hahaha

[@bradmeadows7185]

Great song.love it.

[@David-su4is]

I had forgotten how amazing their sound was.

[@garycoker1990]

what's funny this song was written by a old country singer and writer hoyt axton who also wrote songs for three dog night.

[@clintezell3298]

he wrote snowblind friend too

[@howardgrover8908]

Hoyt Axton wrote many songs for many artists.

[@andrewhoran7088]

Should look up the story of John Kay's life. It will amaze you

[@snuffymanson]

Makes your spirit scream for help .

[@juliemanarin4127]

A pusher was a drug dealer who dealt in addictive stuff back in the day

[@JimmyFranceable]

We know what a pusher is.

[@truellaksala]

Dunno wuz up. Steppenwolf: Monster/Suicide/America. Lyrics. Apply to 201908.

[@andyfletcher3561]

Absolute truth. *Monster* and GFR's *Survival* were very important in developing my politics and philosophy.

[@todd1276]

You know I smoke alot of grass... Your reaction is priceless. Lmao

[@SFsc616171]

Darlin', go get the song "TheMonster" by Steppenwolf ... quite telling.

[@notajp]

And still relevant today......

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Great song about the state of America

[@pjsin9472]

True story LOL my dad, passed a few years ago. When he was in high school, he was a hippie and one of the best blues guitarists around. The high school let his band of plate in the cafeteria. They opened it with this song. They were escorted out of the school and the doors were locked behind them LOL. That was back when guys were way out of line for having long hair LOL

[@eugeneverlander829]

Would love your reaction to Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower.

[@richardcranium5048]

I'm 51 yrs old and I've listened to this song at least once a week since I was 12

[@nobody1841]

Ha. 9th grade, english lit. We anylized this song. 1971, California - when it was cool.

[@phyllisb4634]

Yep, the pusher was the drug dealer back in the day. I'm not really sure how Steppenwolf felt about dealers 😉😉 Magic Carpet Ride is another great psychedelic hit from the 60's, although their most iconic is Born To Be Wild. As a 60's kid I find it a little weird that so many people relate these classic songs to movies, video games and sporting events. Check out Magic Carpet Ride.

[@neilpatrickhairless]

John Kay was known to be anti-drug

[@phyllisb4634]

@@neilpatrickhairless That's cool. It would be awfully hard to see friends die from overdoses.

[@justinpenner2282]

Play this along with snowblind friend also by Stepenwolf and Neil Young's needle and the damage done

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No I love Neil Young but sick of all the wimpy acoustic stuff all the reaction channels do Neil Young Down by the River

[@tonybarnett1158]

Only John Kay could be screaming, "God damn, god damn" while preaching. Classic. Check out, "Snowblind Friend."

[@feliciaecheverria]

In 1969, I played this song for my 6th grade class. At my early age, this song hit home for me because I saw my brother's struggle with heroin. Fortunately, my teacher didn't send me to the Principal's office.

[@deborahstrickland9845]

Born to be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride.

[@JesusLovesBest]

the soundtrack of my younger years had this song....1974...

[@tresiahall3502]

Girl no sugar coat .. song hits n is still relivant

[@scottmcgregor562]

Another great song about the drug culture of the early 70s was Freddie's Dead off of the Super Fly soundtrack . Right now I'm having a brain cramp trying to remember who sang it. I even had the vinyl album. Damn this age thing.

[@JesusLovesBest]

Yes! Some Curtis Mayfield for sure.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

This was good superfly sucks

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

@@JesusLovesBest absolutely not

[@JesusLovesBest]

Curtis Mayfield

[@Xix1326]

Many of Steepenwolf's lyrics could have been written yesterday. Amazing that not alot has changed in 60 years.

[@shelleybleu4903]

They had some great songs.

[@brettsmith724]

WAR "spill the wine! 👍 Your so sweet!

[@brettsmith724]

If you could react to the group WAR? Spill the 🍷

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No wimpy song

[@dilbertjunkmail]

Thank you for this gem from my past. Steppenwolf was an icon of psychedelic inspired music of the 60s and we would ride around as teenagers listening on 8 track tape players. You've never seen one of them I'm sure! Your reaction is sweet. Most all of our music was ridiculed during that period as we listened to LBJ report the Viet Nam losses each night.

[@kimberlyianaro3774]

Yes, dealers were "pushers" in my era. This particular pusher is a heroin dealer. Everybody smoked weed, took a few pills, but the heroin users in my high school were known as the "track team" and it was sad, man.

[@susanparker1374]

I was born in 1961 and I so enjoy this generations take on older music. Definitely gonna subscribe. Value your thoughts and opinions. Back in the day drug dealers where called pushers straight to the point! ❤️🇨🇦

[@Marcus-Oh-really-yes]

Steppenwolf's two biggest hits were 'Born to Be Wild" (No. 2, 1968, featured prominently in the 1969 "Easy Rider" movie) and "Magic Carpet Ride" (No. 3, 1968). kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5iwiJ96aMt_gJo

[@botabob]

Every time I read a story about a drug overdose, this song rings in my head. Thanks for the reaction.

[@brownie1341]

At the time, Steppenwolf had the fattest and heaviest sound around. This song still sounds good after all this time.

[@mdfield1]

In the Sixties drug dealers were called Pushers because they “pushed” drugs.

[@Xcris_crosX]

Dealers are/were different from pushers. One was your friendly and trusted neighborhood dealer. The pusher had high prices for low quality product, many times mixing lethal substances. Literally making poison for a sale and not caring if the user survives

[@jonduggan7433]

@@Xcris_crosX The " Dealer" sold weed / hash etc. The "Pusher" sold heroin coke etc.

[@Xcris_crosX]

@@jonduggan7433 Ahhh... no

[@PeterWolfe2012]

Written by Hoyt Axton IIRC. Check out the HUGE number of hits he wrote.

[@cathyl5888]

Magic Carpet Ride and Sookie Sookie are amazing songs too!! Both my faves! :) the lady in both videos (Jutta (I think it’s pronounced “yoota”) Maue) is the wife of the lead singer Jon Kay

[@TheAcworthdude]

Love this song .I think it was Writen by Hoyt Axton .

[@TheAcworthdude]

and i commented before the song was done

[@gwag8410]

TheAcworthdude Hoyt was a trip ...

[@keensoundguy6637]

I think Hoyt borrowed that line about "I'd cut him if he stands and I shoot him if he'd run" from an old blues song by Floyd Council.

[@CreatorInTrng]

He made a difference between the dealer (who for a nickel will sell you sweet dreams) and the pusher who wants to get you hooked on the 'hard stuff' to keep you coming back and compromise yourself. I haven't read through all of the comments; maybe someone already pointed that out.

[@raylangley3762]

its sounds to me as if its being said as a prayer rather than a curse word of blasphemy . asking GOD to do something .

[@taun856]

If I recall correctly, that is how the song was defended when it came out... I've heard that it was the first song with "cursing" in it allowed on public airwaves in the US...

[@feliciaecheverria]

Yes, you are correct.

[@beedubb7755]

Amen 🙏

[@beedubb7755]

He is asking G-D to do something

[@christopherbako]

Lovin the drummer...Well they're all Good

[@henrijansen4224]

Good to hear that Steppenwolf in the 70th made difference between hard en soft drugs.

[@royalway12]

This stuff was serious hard core back then.

[@Julian-to7ro]

If you think about it, hard drugs, really dangerous ones, they kill so many people, thousands. And the Pusher (the hard drug dealer) he kills thousands of people but he don't care. The (love) grass is not dangerous at all but makes you happy and heals even pain

[@crforfreedom7407]

I'm calling BS. I've NEVER known a 'dealer' that didn't sell just about everything. NONE. This song is about 'pushers' who sell anything to anyone, no matter the quality or who buys is just for the $$. I've know very few people who only smoked pot. The dropped acid and took shrooms too most commonly. They also liked the PCP laced stuff. IDK what world you live in, but the "Pollyanna pot ferry' doesn't live here anymore. Never did. The 'dealer' is someone who really cares about friends and customers' high; more interested in quality than $$.

[@biggreentruck4907]

I was in the drug scene for a LONG time. It's been my observation and experience that "Love Grass" isn't as harmless as some would like to make it out to be. From what I've seen, the notion that pot is a "gateway drug", isn't so far fetched. This is not to say that everyone who smokes up is an irresponsible a-hole; indeed, I do actually know one habitual user of marijuana that is able to maintain a real job, a household, and a successful marriage. I figure that if one exists, there must be others. I am also not attempting to claim that every single person that starts toking is going to graduate to the hard stuff. I know several guys who stick with beer and pot. And, I'll point out, too, that I believe that everyone has the right to put whatever they want into their bodies. They also have the responsibility to accept the consequences of that, whether those consequences be positive or negative. Still, the majority of pot smokers that I have associated with (in many States, regions, and localities across the United States, mind you), have also dabbled in other drugs; coke, heroin, prescription pills, X, acid, shrooms, etc. I've buried many of them, due to OD's, suicide, and various misadventures while high. Looking back, I am thoroughly amazed that I made it as far as 30... much more amazed that I've surpassed 40. (I walked away from the drug scene, clean. No rehab, no counseling. All I had to do, was put that chit down, and stop associating with those that were still on the scene. When I get to thinking that I might want to revisit this nonsense, I remember that I now have a wife that simply won't tolerate such things. She holds me accountable.)

[@crforfreedom7407]

@@biggreentruck4907 Well said. Hard lived. But too much common sense for this generation, I'm afraid it will go right over their heads. They aren't capable of disseminating such information, common sense is a concept way beyond most of them. They live for the fantasy. _"Life can be anything you want. Anything at all."_ Consequences are racist to them. They're the best at denying reality of any group of humans I've ever met. They blow the love generation away. It's not even close....

[@crforfreedom7407]

@@biggreentruck4907 I was where you were too throughout the 70s and into the 80s. I want to clarify one thing you said, at least, add my perspective: It doesn't matter if one or a handful can do it and function, or not progress to other drugs. Like you, I've seen it, but as the exception, not the rule. It's about the bell curve; where are the averages; the majority of the data lay, to hel with the outliers. You and I have seen the majority and it's not pretty, and it's NOT just the recreational, occasional pot only users. So what if a few outliers can maintain. It's the bulk; the core of the group; the majority that effect society, and it's ALL for the negative. When it gets bad, they're all thieves and con artists; users and takers in the end; the vast majority. All trying to get more money for the next high. That means they nearly ALWAYS effect others in society, and it's nearly ALWAYS negative in the end.. Only the real rich kids who's parents can afford to keep their dependent lifestyle well into their 40s are not an impact on society, unless of course they wreck their cars high which of course they do. Let people get high then ask them to exorcise logical control and restraint over life and death and make good life decisions is madness! Like you, I waked away in 1983 and I never looked back. I'll never forget that feeling of having climbed out of a surreal hole of an Alice in Wonderland world that sober, was no fun at all. I never knew anyone that didn't at least dabble in other drugs. Nobody. I've heard of them, talked to a couple that say so later, but I've never SEEN IT with my own eyes. When life is about the high, what gets you there is secondary and far less important than the ride. To say that they all maintain with MJ is hard for me to believe; I've never seen it, and I've toked on too much stuff that ranged from barley a buzz to comatose (buds in a bong, all day long), so what the hell positive does "just pot" imply anyway?

[@JimmyFranceable]

Grass isn’t dangerous? Ok.

[@oldmcdonald9582]

most popular song in history that never got any radio play .it was banned

[@phillipsarrazine9072]

I had the 45 RPM record when I was a kid and my mom heard the phrase, "God damn the pusher," and she asked, what did he say? And that's when John Kay the lead singer said, "I said, God damn the pusher man." My mom timed that right. I laughed. That was priceless. 😂😂

[@s1d299]

I always thought the long, descending "fuzz" note sounded like an airplane coming in for a landing, but it's really just a strange sound which is open to interpretation. Maybe it is a car. :-)

[@ericdesmeules8117]

I think the sound is usually associated with falling or plane crash

[@davidzornes6863]

The best rock song ever BORN TO BE WILD".

[@legaltidbits]

Still relevant today!

[@alhaskell242]

First album I ever owned ,playing it in my room my dad charged in saying what is this song with all the goddamns in it .Settled him down a bit when I told him it was an anti drug song. A great album.

[@daviddixon6408]

My dad threatened to throw it out the front door the first time he heard it.