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The convergence of the stunning landscape and music continues with the Byrd’s version of, “I Wasn’t Born to Follow” and the Band’s “The Weight” (in the movie the song is performed by The Band, while on the soundtrack album it is performed by the band Smith.) When they enter a commune, a theater troupe is performing an old traditional song, “Let Your Hair Hang Down,” playfully taunting a jumpy Hopper. Hopper doubles down with Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild” as they continue their journey. It establishes an authenticity to the film with the audience knowing that music is made by a real band instead of studio musicians commissioned by the producers to sound like one. After the deal goes down, the opening chords of Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher” blare out as the two begin their journey. There is minimal dialogue in these scenes mostly drowned out by the roar of airplanes. to an interested party played by Phil Spector. The movie begins as Hopper, as the hyper Billy the Kid, and Fonda, as the laid-back Captain America, buy drugs in Mexico and then sell them in L.A. Related: “The Top 5 Dylan Covers by The Byrds” In the commentary on the movie’s Blu-ray release, Hopper says he thinks of the songs and words as part of the story’s narrative. Crosby, Stills and Nash had been considered to do the soundtrack, but Hopper thought the songs chosen served the movie better. Hopper, who was the driving force of Fonda’s idea for the movie, chose the music primarily from songs he was hearing on the radio on his way to editing the film. It was one of the first movies to use a soundtrack with most the of songs not written specifically for it. But underneath those iconic images is a movie with a stark, complex look on what freedom is.
The movie made a profound impact for its portrayal of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as the drifter outlaw bikers, riding through the jaw-dropping southwest landscape, portrayed spectacularly by cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, to songs by Steppenwolf, Hendrix, and others. There will be more on Dylan’s involvement in the movie’s soundtrack, with another assist by McGuinn, later in this look at the film’s music as its 50th-anniversary approaches. The story goes that Bob Dylan was reluctantly involved in the Easy Rider soundtrack, gave Dennis Hopper a note that ends with the line “flow, river flow” and said, “Give this to McGuinn, he’ll know what to do with it.” Roger McGuinn was given the note and wrote the theme to the movie, “The Ballad of Easy Rider.”
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