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Easy Rider is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal.
Most of the tracks on the Easy Rider soundtrack were previously released on other albums by their respective artists. On LP, cassette and reel-to-reel releases of Easy Rider, tracks 1-5 appeared as side 1, and tracks 6-10 as side 2. "The Pusher" – 5:49 Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf (1968) "Born to Be Wild" (Mars Bonfire) – 3:37
The character's name was a pun on the movie Easy Rider. Fargo North, Decoder (Skip Hinnant): an Inspector Clouseau-type detective who decoded scrambled word messages and phrases for clients. His name was a pun based on Fargo, North Dakota.
Attempts for a sequel to Easy Rider date as far back as the 80s when Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda discussed a sequel called Easy Rider A.D. which would've featured Hopper and Fonda's characters brought back to life in the far future and riding across a post-apocalyptic United States but disputes between the first film's producer Bert Schneider and Columbia Pictures over the rights to Easy ...
"Don't Bogart That Joint"), which was released on LP in 1968, and subsequently used in the 1969 road movie Easy Rider. [1] The original members included three musicians from Lowell George 's band The Factory – Richie Hayward (later of Little Feat ), Warren Klein , and Martin Kibbee – who joined Elliot Ingber from the Mothers of Invention ...
Robert Hudson Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in films including Easy Rider (1969) and was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. He became less active in later decades.
He also took part in Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage (1999), a documentary about the making of Easy Rider, [9] and the 2003 documentary Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Askew sang Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed songs at The Gaslight Cafe.
Benjamin F. Hardy (1921–1994) was an American custom motorcycle builder who made the Captain America and Billy choppers for the 1969 Peter Fonda road movie Easy Rider. [1] Ben Hardy. Replica of the "Captain America" bike in the Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum.