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  1. "Born to Be Wild" is a song written by #MarsBonfire and first released as a single by #Steppenwolf. Although the lyrics do not specifically mention motorcycles, the song is often invoked in both #popular and #counterculture to denote a #biker appearance or attitude since being featured in the 1969 film #EasyRider. Sometimes, "Born to Be Wild" is described as the first #heavyMetal song.
    youtube.com/watch?v=egMWlD3fLJ8

  2. On August 1st, 2017: #GoldyMcJohn, [John Goadsby] Canadian rock organist ( #Steppenwolf - "Born To Be Wild"; "Magic Carpet Ride"), died at 72.
    #RIP 💐

  3. Herman Hesse -- Steppenwolf

    I can see why this 1927 work, with its drugs, sex, extended passages on the mysteries of personal identity with a sprinkling of "Asian" philosophy was a success with counterculture devotees in the sixties and seventies; you can shelve it with your Carlos Castanedas and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. I have to say that I found much of what engaged the hippie reader to consist of hokey pseudoprofundities.

    Nevertheless, the novel interested me as a product of the German twenties - the encounter of traditions of learning and Bildung with the new urban world of jazz, night clubs, and emancipated women.

    #Books #HermanHesse #Steppenwolf #Literature #Germany #WeimarRepublic #GermanLiterature #1920s

  4. Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” (featured in the 1969 film Easy Rider) captures the fuel-and-freedom spirit that turned a hard rock single into a counterculture anthem. Written by Mars Bonfire and first released as a Steppenwolf single in 1968, the track helped define heavy rock’s public image; it’s often cited for early “heavy metal” usage in popular rock conversation. Its chart impact was immediate and wide-ranging: it topped Canada’s RPM Top Singles and reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, while also cracking the top 20 in Austria and Germany. In the UK it peaked at number 30, and it continued to reappear on European charts later, including a 1990–1991 resurgence in the Netherlands (peaking at number 4 on the Dutch Top 40) and a 1999 UK peak at number 18.

    https://u2be.ovh/w/nSCLarF8MS8pBchyVTkAiW?autoplay=1

    🎵 L Y R I C S 🎵:
    Get your motor runnin′
    Head out on the highway
    Looking for adventure
    In whatever comes our way

    Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
    Take the world in a love embrace
    Fire all of your guns at once
    And explode into space

    I like smoke and lightnin′
    Heavy metal thunder
    Racing with the wind
    And the feeling that I'm under

    Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
    Take the world in a love embrace
    Fire all of your guns at once
    And explode into space

    Like a true nature′s child
    We were born, born to be wild
    We can climb so high
    I never wanna die

    Born to be wild
    Born to be wild

    Get your motor runnin′
    Head out on the highway
    Looking for adventure
    In whatever comes our way
    Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
    Take the world in a love embrace
    Fire all of your guns at once
    And explode into space

    Like a true nature′s child
    We were born, born to be wild
    We can climb so high
    I never wanna die

    Born to be wild
    Born to be wild

    Album Artist: Steppenwolf
    Album(s): Steppenwolf
    Written by: Mars Bonfire
    Music genre(s): Hard Rock, Proto-Metal
    Released: 1968
    Decade for first release: #1960s

    #steppenwolf #born2bewild #bortobeWild #marsbonfire #easyrider #hardrock #promometal #rock #singles #1960s #counterculture #soundtrack #youtubefree #googlefree #metafree #SongOfTheHour #SOTH #songoftheday #SOTD #MeinSongDesTages #MSDT #SongOfTheNight #SOTN #nowplaying #MusicChannel #musicVideo #music

  5. Intensive social media study shows: Everyone is very excited about Berlin-Usedom-Berlin (BUB) or Highland Trail (HT550). Anyone here taking on one of these challenges? #BikeTooter #fahrradbubble #bikepacking #ultracycling #steppenwolf #HT550

  6. A quotation from Herman Hesse

    Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity, he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses; anxious, fearful of giving himself away and easy to rule. Therefore, he has substituted majority for power, law for force, and the polling booth for responsibility.
     
    [Der Bürger nun schätzt nichts höher als das Ich (ein nur rudimentär entwickeltes Ich allerdings). Auf Kosten der Intensität also erreicht er Erhaltung und Sicherheit, statt Gottbesessenheit erntet er Gewissensruhe, statt Lust Behagen, statt Freiheit Bequemlichkeit, statt tödlicher Glut eine angenehme Temperatur. Der Bürger ist deshalb seinem Wesen nach ein Geschöpf von schwachem Lebensantrieb, ängstlich, jede Preisgabe seiner selbst fürchtend, leicht zu regieren. Er hat darum an Stelle der Macht die Majorität gesetzt, an Stelle der Gewalt das Gesetz, an Stelle der Verantwortung das Abstimmungsverfahren.]

    Herman Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss poet, novelist, painter
    Steppenwolf, “Treatise of the Steppenwolf,” ch. 2 (1927) [tr Breighton (1929)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hesse-herman/82858/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hermanhesse #steppenwolf #bourgeois #calm #comfort #convenience #democracy #force #law #liberty #majorityrule #peaceandquiet #power #responsibility #security #selfpreservation #tyrannyofthemajority

  7. "The cities have turned into jungles
    And corruption is strangling the land
    The police force is watching the people
    And the people just can't understand
    We don't know how to mind our own business
    'Cause the whole world's got to be just like us
    Now we are fighting a war over there
    No matter who's the winner, we can't pay the cost"
    #Steppenwolf - from Monster/Suicide/America on their 1969 album "#Monster".
    Even more relevant today, but a reminder that 57 years ago the US were #warmongering.

  8. Am Samstag finden Memorial Rides für Alex Pretti statt. BikepackingCom hat mit RwGPS husammen eine Übersicht erstellt. #WeRideInUnity In Deutschland organisieren bisher #Steppenwolf in Bernau (Berlin) und Kandie Gang in HH Rides bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

    This Weekend, We Ride in Remem...

  9. sent my postcard to participate in the draw of places for the Steppenwolf BUB! 🤞

    #bikepacking #cycling #steppenwolf #gravel

  10. youtu.be/3REXu1ZO3BY?si=-41WC5

    This song is almost 60 years old, and it is perfect for this moment. It had me in tears today. #steppenwolf #musicvideo

  11. RE: mastodon.social/@odoruhako/115

    So, nächste Woche. 🫣

    Mein aktueller Plan ist einmal 160km und dann eine kleine Runde mit 60km damit ich die 16+h beschäftigt bin. Und ich will mir eine große Thermoskanne an den Gepäckträger spannen.

    Der Wetterbericht sieht trocken aus, und so 4°C.

    #nightride #mauerradweg #fahrradbubble #steppenwolf