Easy Rider (1969) The Pusher (Opening Scene) 

That scene immortalizes Peter Fonda for an entire generation of those of us who came of age in the sixties and felt the pull from society in every direction.

That instrumental opening... it defines the whole movie.

I love the scene where Fonda takes off the watch and throws it on the ground, true freedom

The scene is perfect. Not a single word spokes but hundreds of emotions expressed.

Rest In Peace Peter Fonda, finally found freedom

Me and my best friend rented an apartment for 2 weeks in Paris in summer of 2013 and there was a TV/DVD player and a bookshelf of DVDS with Easy Rider being one of them. Had absolutely no idea what to expect had never heard of the movie. One of the most magical experiences I've ever had

You can find life's meaning by watching Easy Rider.....

Phil Spector in his natural habitat

I used to work at a restaurant that had a jukebox, and every chance I got I would play The Pusher.

I didn’t listen to this powerful but addictive song by Steppenwolf for a year, now it’s totally gripped me again with that stunning opening scene, and glorious panoramic view… we’re in for an epic Easy Ride baby, oh Lord!

Had a moment kinda like that back in '96. Standing in the front doorway of my apartment in Fresno with a pack on my back and the house keys in my hand. Looked at 'em for a long moment, then threw 'em on the floor in the hallway, turned and walked away without a backward glance. Left the door wide open. Best decision I ever made.

love the scene where Fonda takes off the watch and throws it on the ground, one of my favorite scenes

Every time I hear this song I have a flash back,chopping my 42'Harley Flathead,just out of high school,a draft reject,a real sense of freedom for a 19 year old

The best opening to any film ever. When ever me and a few friends ever disappear into Europe on the bikes for a couple weeks once a year I always buy a cheap watch that I throw in the dust in Rotterdam. Next year its Budapest.Cant fukin wait.

Vale Peter Fonda. 'Easy Rider' is one of my favourite films.

One of my favorites, I saw in TV when I was 17 years old, now, I'm 45 and still love this great masterpiece

One of the coolest Guitars I ever heard-One of the best Movies I've ever Seen. LIBERTY!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎸RIDE IN HEAVEN NOW!!!

That was 50 years ago this year... crazy man, crazy.

Great movie. I didn't expect it to end the way it did. Very sad, the way life is sometimes.

Greatest opening scene ever.

"You know I smoked a lot of grass, popped a lot of pills, but I've never touched nothing that my spirit could kill"

10 yrs old my brother took me to see this .epic

'The Pusher' ©1968 writ, Hoyt Wayne Axton perf, Steppenwolf (1938-1999) You know I smoked a lot of grass Oh Lord I popped a lot of pills But I never touched nothin That my spirit could kill You know I've seen a lot of people Walking around with tombstone in their eyes But the pusher don't care, ah If you live or if you die God damn hmm the pusher God damn hey I say the pusher I say God damn God damn the pusherman You know the dealer, the dealer is a man With a lot of grass in his hand Ah but the pusher is a monster Good God he's not a natural man The dealer, for a nickel Lord He'll sell you lots of sweet dreams Ah but the pusher'll ruin your body Lord he'll leave... he'll leave your mind to scream God damn ahh the pusher God damn, God damn the pusher I said God damn God, God damn the pusherman Well Lord if I were the president Of this land you know I'd declare Total war on the pusherman I'd cut him if he stands and I shoot him if he'd run and I'd kill him with my bible And my razor and my gun God damn aww the pusher God damn... the pusher I said God damn, God damn the pusherman! Steppenwolf is ↓ John Kay - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica Michael Monarch - lead guitar, backing vocals Rushton Moreve - bass, backing vocals Goldy McJohn - keyboards, backing vocals Jerry Edmonton - drums, backing vocals

I’m so glad they decided to add this track to the soundtrack

legend has it that watch is still there...

And to think of all the times i watched this incredible movie i now live where all the Arizona scenes were filmed on rt 66 and rt 89

Bravo legende uzeti lovu pa bjezati u slobodu , grad je zatvor.

Rest in peace Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper

This song was censored from radio back in 1969 when the movie came out because of the gd word. We had to buy the album to listen to it or see the movie. Great movie by the way. Came out my senior year in high school. This defined cool in the 60s.

You just knew this movie was going to be epic! Watching the opening scene and you'll see why!

No need for Phil Spector to act ...just had to play himself.

One of my favorite movies of all time since i rented it at 18 years old.

That's when u know u are truly on vacation. When time ceases to matter...only remember that happen g twice my entire life. Once was on my first trip to British Columbia..the second was when I went to Greece for a month.

In the actual opening scene, Wyatt and Billy ride their dirt bikes to a dump yard somewhere in Mexico and purchase the white powder drug from their connection in Mexico, who is a cool looking guy wearing sunglasses and a nice suit. This is not the Opening Scene, but is however, one of many great scenes from a 60's classic. I was 13 in 69 and couldn't wait to ride a motorcycle across America. RIP Captain America and Billy.

Best movie ever.

Nothing like that song! Great guitar! I remember those days vividly!

Classic film and Classic rockmusic. The pusher was for me during grade 11 in school always my Favorite song when I came back at home. I slept at a friends house so many times and we smoked weed. I‘ll always remember that( but its just one year ago lol)

Man! I love that chopper!

I’m shocked that this movie got so popular. It wasn’t really ideal to make a movie about dealers in the 60s, and the fact that this video contained to be popular throughout the 80s during the war on drugs is nothing short of a miracle.

R.I.P Peter Fonda, you've been my hero for so long!

The song The Pusher was actually written by Hoyt Axton. I love this song.

01:12 Those opening guitar chords! That tone. Piano can be raunchy. Sax is sleazy. But guitar - guitar my friend is just downright filth.

THIS ONE SEQUENCE IS SO SIMILAR TO SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger 1964) IT KILLS!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!

This has been my dream since almost a decade when I first saw this movie.

one of the 100 best films so far, maybe among the best 50

always thought that was Mike Nesmith of the Monkees trying to shed his image

14 Years old in 1969.........This movie did it for me....(Counter-Culture).....Mini-Bikes, Dirt-Bikes, Big Twin Harley Choppers, Now.=. Harley Street Glides.

Unlike the characters in this film, I'm still riding my '49 Panhead fourty eight years later. "These were the days of kicks, wine, bikes, drugs, and chicks"

great music soundtrack, one of the best

such a unique film that has stood the test of time

Have only heard this Song, never seen a movie with this. Song is good. Very good.

One of the best films ever.

The coolest quote ever from Fonda decades after this movie, when he played in Wild Hogs. " Four guys stand up against 20 bikers, and they're the posers " ?

“you know I smokedd a lot of grass” Damn Fuccn Rightt you did

Love.this scene! Very well done!

Man I loved those bikes. Still do. Don't really like the choppers of today. Think the only thing I'd change would be to put springers on Peter Fonda's bike, but that's about all.

No words said between them makes it cool and weird

This song scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

Brilliant film.

Every time i take vacation at work a throw my god damn watch right on the pavement!

Rip Peter and Dennis. Easy rider lives forever!!

What a song and great film

I remember this movie for this Phil Spector scene and for Jack Nicholson

There is a context here that many fail to appreciate. To fully grasp the extent to which Peter Fonda’s character had transcended the practical norms of our society is to juxtapose his movie, “Easy Rider” with that of his father’s (Henry Fonda) movie, “The Grapes of Wrath”. These movies were produced only a mere three decades apart! Yet the visceral discontinuity is difficult to fathom. But I think they act as bookends to an American era that was radically changed by the effects of a world war and then global economic dominance

No canso de ver esa peli todo un arte

Honda actually used "the pusher" in a commercial. Never saw the commercial again! What were they thinking?

this movie is basically almost about weed and two hippies hopping on a their bikes heading across the United States my dad smoked weed back then so this was his favorite movie back then he also drank a lot of alcohol back then and also swore like they did back then except he is not like he used to be but I’m like he used to I’m 52 years old and my dad was 29 when this movie came out and my mom she yelled at him for watching this every three weeks he also watched the good the bad and the ugly and roped me into making it one of my favorite movies

Awesome song badass movie!!

Great movie and so good memories too.

The dad on Gremlins wrote this song, Hoyt Acton. His mom Co-wrote Heartbreak Hotel, one Elvis's most recognized songs.

The whole scene man. Cast off the watch and escape from L.A. Iron American Dream on RU-vid Share it. Take a ride across the promised land. Ride a Harley.

its what the movie symbolizes to me that counts .

Feels good man! Forever H-D!

707’s, DC-8’s and 727’s. How I miss seeing those loud birds!

1969......What a year.....

Back in the early 70s McDonald's made a white coffee plastic spoon for mixing sugar and cream to your drink. The people got the idea of using them for snorting. After one year of production McDonald's redesigned from a spoon to a flat stirrer.

I love this song

what a fucking insane soundtrack!!

The moment when he came up with the wall of sound.

Loved Peter Fonda and his father Henry. Not a fan of their political views but greatest actors ever.

You'd thing "the pusher" would want to drive something a little less conspicuous.

Hold up, is.... is he wearing Hunter S. Thompson's custom "shooter" aviators?

rip peter fonda and thankyou

Phil Spector and his fez wearing bodyguard are so fuckin' cool. If only Phil could have controlled his demons.

That ROLLS was the "cats meow".

Rare footage of Pete Townshend hitting it hard

I just did a “ bump” and thought of this lol

...... & all along, I was worried how that tube o' cash was going to cut down on the range of that peanut tank. : ( shows what I know. or , knew. Didn't matter at all.

could not have chosen a better tune ..

can't get more cool and badass than captain america

Top 10 on my list

Best movie ever made really opened up my eyes love this movie they were all best friends making this movie and there are there was a movie before this called the trip I think I could be wrong now let me know but it was a nobody really like

I haven't worn a watch since 1998. Peter Fonda was to blame.

Spector and his real Rolls Royce and driver.

Rest in pease Dennis and Peter

God damn, the pusher God damn, I say the pusher I said God damn, God damn the pusher man...

Did Spector look into the camera?

What an implausible way to store that much cash. At the rate that he's putting those rolled up bills in that tube, he'd have 50 feet easy. I'd have to make a better guess, but I just know that it's a ridiculous idea for that much cash. This was one of the first scenes in a movie that really let me know as a kid that hollywood is pretty much full of shit.

So how much cash can one stuff into a rubber hose that is the shoved into a 2.5 gallon peanut tank. No to mention needing gas every 70 miles out in the vast wide oped desert. I've made that trip and fuel can be hard to find in some areas. But... I love that damn movie :)

RIP Peter Fonda