![]() ![]() ![]() The lot displays the iconic stars and stripes fuel tank and is the only survivor of the four motorcycles built for filming - including two machines ridden by Dennis Hopper. The pair also wrote and directed the film, managing to pull together a compelling narrative despite a famously fraught atmosphere on set, caused primarily by Hopper's heavy drug and alcohol use. The film stars Dennis Hopper and Henry Fonda as two hippies travelling between LA and New Orleans at the tail end of the 1960s. The chopper is one of four motorbikes made for filming This makes it the most valuable motorcycle ever sold. Another blues bash with fine guitar thrown off almost casually is “Feel So Glad”: as Hopkins’ piano pushes and prods, Miller rises to inspired heights.Peter Fonda's "Captain America" chopper from cult classic Easy Rider achieved $1.3m at Profiles in History in Los Angeles on October 18, an increase of 8.3% on a $1.2m estimate. “Little Girl,” light-footed and glad-hearted, could make it as a single, while “Motherless Children” has a little bit of everything: “dark” ensemble backing, limber harpsichord from Hopkins, electronic squeaks and squawks, a spare, brilliant guitar solo from Miller himself - and all the pieces fit. It all works here, even the down-South scene updated, “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around,” and the freaky “Lost Wombat in Mecca,” with Connie Somebody on slide guitar.įour tracks strike me as potential classics. Your Saving Grace is even more outstanding - due in no small part, I expect, to the presence of Nicky Hopkins on five of the album’s eight cuts. Brave New World proved so much better than it had a right to be after Boz Scaggs’ departure. But the rest’s a long dying fall - nice enough, but from the Byrds you expect more and better.įrom the Miller band, on the other hand, you never expect as much, so it’s always a pleasure and somehow a surprise to hear a good new Miller release. The bottom side’s equally confused - strong and sure for “Jesus Is Just Alright” and a slow-as-molasses-or-Fudge “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.” For the latter, McGuinn contributes a much more inventive vocal than he did for Easy Rider (the film), and White’s guitar spices and spruces everything up. ” A bizarre rendition of “Jack Tarr the Sailor” closes out the top side. McGuinn’s feeling vocal and Clarence White’s hick picking bring it all back home with “Tulsa County Blue”: “I don’t know just where I’ll go. Followed then by old-time Byrds-gospel, “Oil in My Lamp.” Jaunty guitar interplay, but a paltry song. “Fido” comes next - “Bird Dog” revisited - with cowbells and conga rhythms and a definitely non-Byrds harmony (evidently McGuinn’s no longer requiring the other voices to complement his). The title cut, for example, adds strings (!) but it flows gently, sweet Dylan, brief and to the point, and McGuinn’s voice truly makes you feel free. Unfortunately, it’s also only intermittently successful. Byrds (cut after their departure), but it just might for Ballad of Easy Rider - because this album exhibits several cuts with a whole “new” sound. ![]() Everyone who’s written about the Byrds has detected, in retrospect at least, their all-along C&W soul now McGuinn is denying that as mostly mythical, as having been merely the influence of Parsons and Hillman on the group. ![]()
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