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  • sure does make me feel old... i guess in a good way. wouldnt change a thing back then . well maybe a few

  • Dylan's contributions to the lyrics helped make this song a masterpiece.

  • What i wouldn't give for a nice old pan like Hoppers

  • nice choppers good ole hogs

  • FUCK YOU!  If you don't

  • Awe,man,..I havent herd this for years.Well done.

  • Karen Black was such a fox!..

    (And a great, great, underrated actress.)

  • most epic ending to a movie ever.

  • fucking motherfucker cocksucker piece of cur shyte youtube!

  • budd I am a fool...this song make me cry

  • Vile Kyle ... Nice Party !

  • youtube if I liked comercials I'd just watch tv,,,,

  • Captain America is WAY cooler than Cap'n Crunch

  • I just saw this film recently and thought it was boring.

  • @rchrdbgi8 well you're either a cop or a socialist

    (HINT) it's about FREEDOM

  • Fantastic song

  • 24 people don't know shit from clay, without 2 tastes.

  • This great movie,along with "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," is Jack Nicholson's

    signature movie.What great music in this movie!!

  • Haunting

  • I want this song played at my funeral

  • fantastic band

  • this is the only music i have seen on youtube, based on pictures, where there is not a 50% negative opinion about it! :)

    beautiful song!

    makes all the difference!

    happy new year!

  • filme marcante

  • Born To Be Wild ! \m/

  • I'm with you Captain America

  • Beautiful

  • Oh god...you look cool man!

  • nikad umiruci

  • @pickolizac100 Jel vozis nesto?

  • It's amazing what's possible with a few easy guitar chords, great words and a master artist that knows how to put them together! 

  • who is that women at 0:35??

  • @1highplains That is Karen Black.

  • It reached #19 in the US during the year 1969! But it was also covered by Diana Ross and the Supremes who took the song to #46 on the US Charts. Many bands have produced and covered versions of this song! Nobody is really sure what year it was written. Wow! I'm very glad that I caught this because you gave credit for this version of the song (which is the original version) to the byrds!!! OMG! I'm glad I'm 47 yrs. young! LOL That's why I know so much about classic rock! I'll cont. this message!

  • Hey There and Hi There! I'd like to just help you out with a bit of trivia about this song. It was written and performed by a band named 'The Band'. It was titled, "The Weight". While only one member of 'The Band' was given credit for having written the song (Robbie Robertson their guitarist) the band claims they ALL had a hand in writing the song and it caused much friction due to the royalties earned not being split properly. This song reached #19 on the US Charts when done by Roberta Flack!

  • So sorry that my children missed this time,its was a good time not like now when a lot of peole are pessimist and dont respekt ithouther.spelling is not my best side.i hope sombody will fix a time mchine!!

  • I think i was born a generation too late and a few bucks too short..............Missed WW2, Vietnam, it seemed like a generation of hope, dreams ands prosperitiy

  • "You'll never know how far you'll fly, unless you get out and spread your wings."

  • This is what everyone wish they could be,....free.

  • I like using this song for every cd I record for the ending and will use it for every playlist in the future.

  • Never heard this song before. I love it!

  • Great movie great music

  • Beautiful!!!!

  • I snuck in to see "Easy Rider" "under age"...well,I didn't feel too young to understand! And now I live at "journey's end' in New Orleans(would never have believed it possible at 16!)It just goes to show that life has SO much more to offer than you can imagine

  • Such a fantastic and moving song. Gaga and Kanye couldn't touch this on their best day.

  • great music

  • about song: not bad, but I've heard much better Byrd's recordings

  • youtube sucks with those commercials, really

  • a masterpiece

  • We've became warmongering pigs and lost our way.

  • Beautiful!!!

  • The Portal was only going to remain open for just a few seconds of Time.And as far as Destiny would give it,well you'd have to be born during a very distinct Time-of-Man,inorder to be able to jump the Portal.For even if it had remained open,well no other generation of man would ever have been able to see it;or even care,to jump it at all.And when you'd come out on the otherside,back then--well your soul would still remain there.Even after the Portal and the Time,would long since,be taken away.

  • Coolest song.

  • RIP Dennis Hopper, you are missed. Bob Dylan wrote the "the river flows, it flows to the sea" part.

  • Times goes by and music will never be the same. People Won't be free. Today you are free if you have job, and roof above your head.

  • Songs reminds me of the most beautiful girl in the world. We traveled across country more than a few times together just for fun. That's my heaven

  • If captain America and Billy had lived to be 40, they'd look back on those times and say "god damn, that was the best.

    "

  • haven't seen this movie in awhile.love this song.the hitchhiker dude who gives cpt.america the acid-liked how they showed how some of those so called "hippies" really are.he's all "look at me,I'm so openminded and live on a comune where everyone's equal",yet he treated billy like shit,and had those 'guards' when he was having that conversation w/peter fonda,like he's a king or some shit.openminded & everyone's equal my ass.but enough of my ranting, love the video!

  • great song and the movie ... wow ... XD

  • 50 years they will be saying the same thing .. what ever happened to the the music they wrote in 2010, they don't write that music any more .. IT'S SIMPLE : stop listen to the SHEIST that the INDUSTRY pushes on and do some research .. blogs abound pointing you in the right direction :)

  • @carlafierro7 First sensible comment I have seen on Youtube for a long time.

  • @carlafierro7

    are you shittin me, they don't write music anymore, it's all remix, synthesizers and rap scratchin crap

  • @1KillerBitch listen to Shpongle .. Posford is our musical genius today

  • @carlafierro7 thanks for the vid/link, nice :) but my comment is still from the heart and i can't stand the majority of music made today

  • @1KillerBitch i am with you .. most of it sucks .. good luck in finding the good stuff

  • @carlafierro7 Couldn't agree with you more, there's an amazing abundance of quality music being made all over the planet, ya just got to go looking for it :-)

  • @turningpointtunes No, McGuinn is not as stupid as you think. He sang: pack up your money, pick up your tent, and so it was! Anyway, I love the Byrds!

  • superbe film que j'ai eu le privilège de voir à l'époque de sa sortie dans le festival d'art et essai, on ne pensait pas qu'il aurait autant de succés à cette époque....

  • Possibly Mcguinn's most heartfelt vocal. Love this. Yhank you for posting!

  • Memories.....

  • Byrds soundin' cool.

  • Awesome tune

    

  • /themasterofjukebox if ya guys want some old old school music!!

  • I am a new gen kid I like tge oldies and odd shit

  • this is why music was invented, for enjoying the beautiful things in life, not about banging katy perry or licking barbara streisand's pussy, its not about some kid not hitting puberty (justin bieber) no, its about good times like the 70's or the people you love deeply inside. SCRU U NEW GENERATION!!!!!!

  • DENNIS HOPPER YOU WERE COOL MAN !!! THE BALLARD OF EASY RIDER IS DEDICATED TO YOU SINSE IT WAS YOURE MOVIE

  • I miss Dennis Hopper.

  • so good!

  • What in the hell happened to good music like this? No costumes, artifice, stupid heels that should not be worn outside of a freak show circus. No tits hanging out. Just good music with thoughtful lyrics & rhythm ? The extreme commercialization of music, sacrificing quality fr the promotion of a certain* Image*has devastated these forms of music, I feel, more than any others. The Grammy awards ceremony effectively illustrates this decline. I will probably never hear music the way they made it.

  • @qwertasdf880 If you want me too i can show you good music thats made today, well i think so that is. But this "good music" is never commercialized, because good music doesnt sell nowadays. But things will never be the same, try Mayer Hawthorne, he makes retro music, really good artist.

  • @joaped I personally don't like modern "Retro" music. The 60's and 70's already happened. If we keep recycling the same sounds over and over, nothing will ever evolve.

  • @ThatDisembodiedVoice i think Mayer Hawthorne is evolved Music , but if ya want to miss out then be my guest

  • @ThatDisembodiedVoice Everything is recycled... Can you not tell by listening to most of the mainstream music these days.

  • @joaped So he just does redos of classic hits, right. A song thief?

  • @qwertasdf880 : I could not agree more. Contemporary music is craaaaaaap and full of distractions. You might find minor lables bringing some interesting stuff, but mainstream music is in general totally brain dead. I worry that Oswald Spengler was onto something.... western culture is in its decadent death throes....

  • @cleitophon Daft Punk are awesome, bro.

  • @qwertasdf880

    who dont we all get some instruments and make it happen (:

  • @qwertasdf880 It's a soundtrack song some sellouts made for a movie. Also: You're old.

  • @qwertasdf880 Our generation was "inspired" by all the things happening around them. There was so much turmoil at the time. Listen to all the songs of the era, they were sung from the heart. The struggle was put into song.

  • @qwertasdf880 I sooo agre with you!!! Where are "The Doors, Jefferson Airplaine" and others like them TODAY? I m not saying that music should only be what they produced,but that music should have its own voice. no, as you commented, tits are hanging out...and the music has a "by-the-way"-existence/in the background of the pumping media-machine...exhausting for us to listen to!! thanks for your comment.

  • @qwertasdf880 Whats wrong with tits?

  • @johnrobel without their tits and butts,crotch their music(?) goes down the gutter..................

  • @sandy63666 BS I grew up in the era and that was part of it! The beauty of feminism was militant naked women! That you Glory Stienham! LOL

  • @johnrobe Dude l was talking about Brtitny sp,rehina lady gaga lol.

  • @qwertasdf880 we quickly got bored with that and discovered rock n roll.

  • @qwertasdf880 Since when do the Grammys have anything to do with good music? Pop music has always been shlock, sometimes better sometimes worse. Do you think that in 1969 it was any different than now? Manufactured pop predates rock music. If you want to hear music like this go look for modern folk artists. They're out there and with the internet, it's not as hard to find good music as it used to be. So don't whine about it.

  • @icebox766 Come on now. Music was better in 69. Already tried your suggestion.

  • @goodthing52 Sorry, there was loads of crap then, you just don't remember it. Let's see. Do you think that "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" or Sugar Sugar, both number ones in 1969 are stunning works of art that are far superior to everything today. If you believe that, you're still high. And Google books has billboard mags from the 60s to check. Take a look at the hot hundred, and you'll see every week, some great songs, some forgettable songs, and lots of crap too.

  • @icebox766 Yes , there was some ' crap " back then and some stuff that will be around forever. Today , its mostly all crap. How about I google a top hundred chart from the last couple years. Lets see if I find something on it that people will want to listen to 40 yrs from now.

  • @qwertasdf880 I think you had a point there, but for this to make any sense the word "No" should be should be separated by at least 5 words from the word "tits" :P

  • @qwertasdf880 Yes, what happened to freedom?

  • @qwertasdf880 God only knows why but I dont think Ive listened to this for at least 35yrs.

    What has happened to music since then????

  • go to entrypointrecords. its all free

  • u r right'

    play it  lound an poud

  • @nastysport Don't just play it loud and proud, play it over and over again. I had it on a vinyl compilation album and just about ruined the end of the previous track by putting the stylus down time after time to repeat the track. Didn't matter though, it was only a Janis Joplin shoutfest I was scratching.

  • fuck these ad's

  • I did grow up in the 60s and I saw the Easy Rider movie when it was new at the drive in. I wouldn't have wanted to live any other time :))

  • I find it funny Dennis Hopper became such an old, crotchety conservative.

  • Great tune awrsome movie RIP Dennis

  • If I didn't grow up in the 80's I would have liked to have grown up in the 60's~

  • HOPE YOU LIKE THE NEW FILM!! Clips from the movie! Wanna thank everyone, look at that green bar! And i only had pictures this tells me how much respect and love you guys have for the film and the Song!! Peace

  • When i came to this video I had to watch an anti-drug ad. Irony.

  • RIP Dennis Hopper

  • Ok, so when I finally die, I want this to be the last song I hear. What a great way to go!

  • @dezziwood555 you got it, man. that's a helluva good idea.

  • Beautiful!!!!

  • I put this song at the end of alot of CDs that I record.

  • "Ballad of Easy Rider" (Roger McGuinn/Bob Dylan) – 2:14 * Roger McGuinn (1969)

  • Dennis Hopper rest in peace.In lovin' memory.

  • nicholson was brilliant in this film probarbly his best performance along with one flew over the cuckoos nest

  • hi could someone please send me a letter of the song to translate it into Spanish and French by

  • Love the song! :)

  • i don't think i've ever seen such a green like bar, no reds... one of the best movies of all time, same with the song

  • That's just the most beautiful bike I have ever seen PERIOD. A true work of art.

  • for tomorrow morning (just a good guy?) goo . gl / UUYAO W/O Google, I'm not here. But, you need to remove spaces, NOTEPAD helping muchly. At Big Chill, the simplest message at the beginning is to simply be a good person.
  • Own recent comments:

    allamericangirl28

    West Side Story 9/9 - Tony's Death - Final Scene

    but,

    help Peter Fonda.

    frustrated Said stuff got him in trouble. If I advance his equities which matter, then I am at risk.

    Stuff comes out wanting even when meaning being witty. Please help Peter now? Enter this: henry fonda 12 angry men understand, including why Obama's policies have failed (Is not really progressive, so don't turn to the Tea Party) All demand rational/fair/demagoguery free at once

  • Peter Fonda in frustration said stuff that got him in trouble. If I advance his "equities," which should matter, cause they actually do matter, then I will be at risk. Stuff comes out less than witty even when people mean to be witty. Please now come to the aid of this great great soul? Enter this: henry fonda 12 angry men understand, including why Obama's policies have failed (Is not really progressive, so don't turn to the Tea Party) All demand rational/fair/demagoguery free at once
  • this was the movie that my cousin said changed his life (he said it made him become a hippie). and he sang this song at my uncle's funeral. im planning on seeing the movie very soon and i can't wait <3

  • Was there ever a film more of it's time with the message of intolerance than this? i doubt it...........................

  • I got a " ROYAL ENFIELD "

  • Good times my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Will be playing this great ballad on my biking trip to Ladakh ( the land of high passes)average height 6 km above sea level at the foothills of the Himalyan mountain ranges + such a soothing song... great words !! :-)

  • @qwertasdf880 What bike have you got?.

  • I just saw the movie again.

    It's just amazing.

    But i dont understand why the 2 guys kill them on the end, but i think it has more a symbolic meaning...

  • @EasyRiderRomar it was a killing of the american drean.  freedom . people thought the characters wera a threat against the american way. in my opinion it was a celabration of the american "way" everybody wanted the characters to live happily ever after...but this is what was really like...very dramaticly but still true!!

  • @EasyRiderRomar its hard to understand bigotry, isn't it?

  • We're talking here, about "The Time of Man." The late Nineteen-Forties, through the end of the Seventies. Yes. And we were only going to get, one chance at it. Well yes--for there was no time before it, like it; nor will the hell, that we exist in, now--be anything, other than, worse. Yes. For Destiny would only give Mankind, but three and a half decades, to live; oh, what a shame, for most of mankind. Well yeah. I know...; for I, was there. Yep.

  • Drugs were all real in the film.

  • @TPBXDRicky420

    except the coke

  • @TPBXDRicky420 Yes, you are right I think. Forgot to mention that.....

  • Next to "Chesnut Mare" this is Roger McGuinn's finest moment.

  • I've heard that Dylan came up with the idea for this song (at Peter Fonda's request), then handed it off to Roger McGuinn to finish (McGuinn wrote most of it). Reportedly Dylan said, "Give this to McGuinn...he'll know what to do with it."

  •  fora da caridade nao ha salvação. preceito espirita

  • R.I.P River Phoenix <3

  • It's all about freedom, my friend, all about freedom.

  • Hey! Great job!

    I enjoyed.

    Aloha,

    Jeff

  • Great track listen too Kulu change of heart on youtube.

  • First heard this while in Vietnam, circa; late 1969. When you are in the middle of a complete living hell, you find yourself thinking that riding down George Highway 41 wouldn't be, really, such a bad thing afterall ~ bad guys & rednecks included. It is all relative and, at that point in my life, it would have been a clear 1st choice for this 21 year old.

  • Somebody tried to make a great deal out of this movie pffff... this is the "Metaphysical Message of the Movie": Pot is fucking good, Simple life style is admirable, Hippies are weird, irrational, lack common sense, self-important and goddamn dirty, southern girls are hot and open minded, lawyer can be cool too, hillbillies are bunch of murdering retards, Mardis Gras is meaningless and don't do LSD with hookers.

  • 0:16 Luke Skywalker moment.

  • byrds!!

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  • It was a drag when the rednecks killed jack in the movie, they couldn't handle change.

  • @vvvvvvvvvw ... 50 years on, Easy Rider still makes sense!

  • This movie, along with guys in my neighborhood,who had bikes,. made me want to ride more than anything. After many years of wanting, finally bought my first Harley. With the thought or riding across America just like these guys always on my mind back then .It seemed so easily plausable, just go! Reality is somewhat different. But Iv'e been riding for 20 years still with the image of Easy Rider and the music in my mind.

  • @1beamer11 wtg dude same dream...ride on.

  • Is Roger singing lead on this one???? I am not sure.

  • All I have to say is...anybody that wants to sue Dennis Hopper is going to have to do it from extreamly long range...he'a resting without a care in the world.

    I've got a '54 pan that looks strangely like Hoppers ride...I'm happy.

  • All I have to say is...anybody that wants to sue Dennis Hopper is going to have to do it from extreamly long range...he'a resting without a care in the world.

    I've got a '54 pan that looks strangely like Hoppers ride...I'm happy.

  • Hundreds upon hundreds like this song, 15 "Juffalo's" outta Chicago dislike it.

  • The sound of Byrds meets Donovan 2011:

    Michael Moeller - Where the wind blows

    Its just wonderfull!

  • One of the descriptions of this film is, "A man went looking for America - and couldn't find it anywhere". It's a shame that the drug aspect shown in this film overshadowed one of the most important points it was trying to make - intolerance. Anyone who's ever taken civics has learned the 1st Amendment (which is one of the great things about the US) but when someone doesn't conform to other people's idea of patriotism, they are considered "subversive". That's why are "liberals" so despised.

  • @childofthemarshalsea at least you are not judged  on class like we are in the UK it dose not matter how rich you are here if your working class you are tret like shit and they try to keep you in your place . you lads are so lucky in the US

  • @yorkshiretractors But we are increasingly being judged by political ideology. How many times have I heard people say that Obama is a socialist and that everyone who voted for him should be deported to Cuba or some such nonsense. Many people have rewritten the 1st Amendment to read, "you have the right to your opinion as long as it agrees with mine". It's such a damn shame.

  • @childofthemarshalsea what is going on in London would never go on in the US . but we cant say any thing . i love the US it seems so free . over here in the UK we arnt allowed a voice . we are told what to say and when to say it .

  • @childofthemarshalsea the only thing i dont understand about the US is the way you have a MacDonalds at one side of the road for whites and a MacDonalds on the side of the road for blacks that would never happen here in the UK

  • @yorkshiretractors We don't have that anymore. All public places in the US are now totally desegregated and it's illegal not serve anyone because of race, creed, color, national origin or sexual orientation (which is not to say that discrimination doesn't exist but it is no longer sanctioned). I wouldn't say what is happening in London now would not happen in the US. Remember the '92 LA riots? And many cities had race riots in the '60s. That can happen anywhere, anytime.

  • @childofthemarshalsea i was in a MacDonalds in savannah and every one was looking at us . then a lass came up and said did we know that we was in a black one as there was one for whites up the road i told her we were english and things like that did not matter to us . but i think they were clad when we went . then 2 years ago i was nr banger new england and a shop had a sing up saying it was the whitest town in the whitest state . but i still love your country

  • @yorkshiretractors I am shocked to hear this. I grew up in the South and I can tell you that I never saw such things. What they did was illegal and I don't know how they got away with it. But I love your country too. I am very impressed how your govt subsidizes culture so that it is affordable for everyone. London theaters are much cheaper than those on Broadway. So maybe we can both learn sth from one another.

  • @childofthemarshalsea Yes but is only the culture the rich middle class and upper class go to they subsidizes . to go to a rock gig cost around £30 - £40 that is about $60 - $80 . THAT IS FAR TO MUCK FOR LADS LIKE ME . ALL THE BEST