Genre: Soundtracks
Places I remember: Chaldon Books and Records (Caterham on the hill)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: If Six Was Nine (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Gear costume: Wasn't Born To Follow (The Byrds); The Pusher (Steppenwolf), Ballad Of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
Active compensatory factors: I'm breaking my own guidelines again by featuring a soundtrack album comprised of a variety of groups and artists.
But I just couldn't go past this one this week, as you will understand if you peek into my Jewels For The Thirsty blog.
My memories of the Easy Rider movie and record are all gold plated.
My first viewing was during a weekend poetry camp while I was at Auckland University. Our lecturer, Roger Horrocks, had a print of it which he projected onto the wall in a communal area we all shared.
There were no artificial stimulants - I just simply had a magical experience.
Shortly afterwards, I bought the soundtrack.
It's a weirdly compiled sequence of songs - apparently they appear in the movie in this order, so we get two Steppenwolf songs leading us off (The Pusher and Born To Be Wild) and two Roger McGuinn performances to finish (a Dylan song, then the majestic Ballad Of Easy Rider).
As each song was carefully selected to accompany sections of the film, the whole thing makes sense (apart from Smith going The Band song for contractual reasons) and gives a pretty instant version of the movie each time it's played.
Where do they all belong? Not sure, but it must be one of the first rock soundtracks to compile the actual performances from the movie by various people (rather than incidental music or things like A Hard Day's Night). From around 1970 onwards this was pretty much how all soundtracks appeared.
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