#EASY RIDER SOUNDTRACK SONGS MOVIE#

вЂThe Pusher Man.вЂ™ Followed by the grandeur, out on the highway, of this wonderful country that we were living in. вЂњThe first one was a comment on the hold of drugs that was beginning to take hold in the counterculture. вЂњWhen the first song really hit, it turned into two things,вЂќ Cambern says. The first song heard is вЂњThe PusherвЂќ - a bluesy, explicitly drug-minded song by Steppenwolf - which accompanies a montage of Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt (Fonda) hiding drug money inside their motorcycles. вЂњAnd we kept listening and culling, and listening and culling, and finally getting to the point where we had really worked out, over a long period of time, the music that we felt would be appropriate,вЂќ says вЂњEasy RiderвЂќ editor Donn Cambern.Д«ut there are no Monkees songs in вЂњEasy Rider.вЂќ The radical road movie, which doubles as a travelogue of America with its winsome Laszlo Kovacs photography, moves to rougher rhythms.

It was expensive to hire a composer and an orchestra, so as they edited the film they вЂњtempedвЂќ it with songs from a pile of roughly 200 records. The choice by Fonda and Hopper, the latter of whom also directed, to score the film with rock songs of their generation was as much economical as it was artistic. Produced for around $350,000 by Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson, the film was one of the first hits made outside of the studio system. Two drug-pushing hippies ride their motorcycles across America, picking up hitchhikers, stopping at communes and brushing with the law until they reach their ill-fated end in the Deep South. StrangeloveвЂќ co-writer Terry Southern, вЂњEasy RiderвЂќ railed against institutions both on screen and behind the camera.

#EASY RIDER SOUNDTRACK SONGS MOVIE#

in Hollywood,вЂќ is a movie full of references to hippies and the counterculture, set to a rock вЂ™nвЂ™ roll jukebox soundtrack of its era.ДЇifty years ago, вЂњEasy RiderвЂќ not only helped define the counterculture - with its frank depiction of drugs and free love, of вЂњlonghairsвЂќ squared against square culture - it also revolutionized the movie soundtrack, rejecting a traditional orchestra in favor of a hip вЂњsong score.вЂќД¬onceived by its stars, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, along with вЂњDr. Quentin TarantinoвЂ™s latest, вЂњOnce Upon a Time. A trip to the local theater will throw you back in time to 1969 Hollywood.

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