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Posts tagged ‘Easy Rider’

8
May

Peter Fonda Mercedes Commercial

Easy Rider Peter Fonda Commercial

Easy Rider was the biker movie of the sixties & has become an ionic motorcycle movie.

 

This had to be one of the best Super Bowl Commercials of 2017. Read more »

12
Feb

Captain America Chopper Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda and the Captain America Chopper

Peter Fonda talks about the process of building the Captain America Bike.

The Easy Rider chopper inspired a lot of us baby boomers to go out & start building a bike.. Many couldn’t afford to buy a harley back in the days, so they chopped BSA & Triumphs.. when the 750 Honda came out in ’69, those became popular bikes to chop also… I would say Easy Rider changed a lot of people in our generation. Read more »

4
Jul

Motorcycle Song – The Weight (Easy Rider) Grateful Dead

Motorcycle 4th of July – Motorcycle Song

This is a video tribute to Dennis Hopper with Levon Helm & the Band’s “The Weight” covered by the Grateful Dead, w/ movie scenes from Easy Rider….

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of film making during the early 1970s. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998. Read more »

19
Dec

Tribute to Dennis Hopper by the Grateful Dead

Dennis Hopper Easy Rider Tribute

httpv://youtu.be/GD0xgD9f5Fk

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dennis Hopper directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: “With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion.”Film critic Matthew Hays notes that “no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles district of Venice on the morning of May 29, 2010 at the age of 74, due to complications from prostate cancer. Read more »