"Complete" version of Ballad Of Easy Rider, under its original title. Thirty tracks. From 1969, with Peter Fonda as Jim-Roger McGuinn, and Dennis Hopper as David Crosby. I was so dumb/stoned when I saw this I thought it was really real, but the realest thing about it was Jack Nicholson's performance. There's acting, there's movie acting, and there's Jack.
Original screed here.
And here's what Sony Japan did:
... and ze Frrrrainch version (e-hon e-hon e-hon):
Favorite Jack?
ReplyDelete! Stealth link?..seemd dead as those 2 ezy ryders!
ReplyDelete"you see this sign?" (as he clears the table...at least in my memory)
ReplyDeleteA SuperStealthLink© has been embedded in the post! Yes, using Al algorithms coded by Al Gorithms himself, the all-new SuperStealthLink© is a quantum leap in Irritation Technology!
ReplyDeleteFound it. Many thanks, Farq.
Delete... and that sense of achievement, of extraordinary fulfillment when you tickle the button! Be honest - this is better than sex, right?
Delete"I’d like a plain omelette. No potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast." And what all that leads to . . . --Muzak McM
ReplyDeleteYou want mountain oyster with that?
DeleteAlso, that French iteration looks like one o' those late-night order-now-while-supplies-last albums (yes, I ordered them regularly!). --Muzak McM.
ReplyDeleteFavorite Jack you say?!? I like the one that many a burly man has claimed as his companion to breaking through the most impenetrable forces known to modern man. Riveting and unmistakably phallic like in design. Forceful, yet capable of being tamed by two gloved hands. Yes, the almighty Jack is my hammer of choice.
ReplyDeleteNo love for Jack Shit? We all know him ...
ReplyDeleteI JUST saw JackShit ( the band) last Satuday...they are soo good! Beau, Pieca and Shorty....from Cochtotan Calif!
DeleteJust a note to be here tomorrow (my time) for a post that's out of this world!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletethanks. fave Jack = Billy “Badass” Buddusky
ReplyDeleteFavorite Jack? Terms of Endearment 1983. Filmed in Houston, Texas. Jack plays a horny, rascal ex-astronaut who lives next door to widower Shirley MacLaine. He has a scene with Shirley filmed at Brennan's restaurant (of NOLA fame) in downtown Houston (still open and great!) that is quintessential Nicholson - up there with the chicken salad sandwich scene and many others.
ReplyDeleteAlso - I really like the Forager deliverable. Thanks!
is the link in the original post..the "point'? . . . 'cause it's dead! (!)
ReplyDelete*facepalm*
DeleteA little slower for the kid in the back row (me): what is the password?
DeleteLook for Jack in the post, and click the point just after it. No pw.
DeleteI'm pretty good at finding your links, but the SuperStealthLink© defeated me ... until you spelled it out. Thank you, BoidBro, for the fun and deliverables.
DeleteAnd I am enjoying "SELFIES," and look forward to reading more later today.
D in California
The wife and I recently worked our way through "The Wild Angels," mainly because we wanted to hear the source of the sample Primal Scream used in "Loaded." Terrible film. It came out when I was ten; Easy Rider came out when I was 13. In the intervening years, there were a lot of these films....Devil's Angels, Angels From Hell, Hells Angels On Wheels, Hells Angels 1969, The Glory Stompers, The Savage Seven....this junk was running regularly at drive-ins here in the East Bay every year until the end of 70's.
ReplyDeleteEasy Rider, though, wasn't lumped with these flicks although the connections are obvious. Something to do with the zeitgeist; the older kids were looking for America. I just wanted a chopper.
Easy Rider was the first of the Seventies School (not bad for a movie made in 69), the whole Raging Bulls & Easy Riders thing when for a decade or so Hollywood made movies worth watching. Then came Star Wars.
Delete(I love that tri-ology of Primal Scream albums - Screamadelica, Echo Dek, Vanishing Point - outstanding work by Andrew Weatherall.)
Yes. That "we want to party" is one of the few memorable bits of dialog in a film full of confused motivations and ridiculous plot points. Of course, then they hold an orgy during their dead buddy's funeral where they rape his "old lady" as part of the party...for no particular reason inside the world of the film. Fonda's got screen presence but his character never shows why he's the leader of the gang other than he looks cooler than the other dolts.
DeleteI liked Easy Rider; I was 14 when I saw it. In retrospect it's a bit aimless like The Wild Angels; there's the question of "why are they doing this?" A year or two I was dropping a lot of acid and that explained a lot about the movie. "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Unlike, say....2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), or Dirty Harry (1971)...I've never recommended Easy Rider to my children (35 and 32 years old). It's that most overused of adjectives, "iconic," but I don't think it's all that good as a story. It might make some sense to remake the other two films, at least from the boffo box office standpoint (CGI for 2001, cast Lt. Callahan with whoever's this week's hot action hero), but what would you do with Easy Rider?
Easy Rider's importance was less in the movie itself than who made it, and with what money. Time has revealed its terrible weaknesses, but I'll still take it over any 1000 Netflix films you'd care to bundle up. It's pretentious, rushed, in dire need of a screenplay, but it's still a movie, a real movie, and has a vivid power that can't be matched today.
DeleteJack the lecherous idle selfish shop-steward conductor off "On The Buses' with a profile like an anthropomorphised shark wearing a hat, given to breaking off from snogging dolly birds to sigh "Coooorrrr".
ReplyDeleteExplain "Reg Varney" to modern-day America, Fanny!
DeleteI was going to suggest Jack Hargreaves (TV presenter of Out of Town and How on Southern Television, England, 1970's), but try explaining him to modern-day America.
DeleteReg was Keir Starmer's mother's milkman circa 1960. Old school East Ender who brought the music to the "knees-up" with his skill on the upright piano, as well as acting as Jack's put-upon colleague and easily-betrayed chum, Stan. A 1976 gig by Reg down under in Oz is sitting in my MP3 player's in-tray.
DeleteJack Hargreaves grew tired of whittling sticks, trapping Moles and baiting his hook for bored audiences awaiting Sunday lunch, doing a "Reggie Perrin" to become a noted biochemical weapons inspector for the UN in Iraq which ultimately didn't end well.
This is the kind of information you just don't get on the so-called MSM.
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