Effects On Entertainment
The term appears in the famous "See See Rider Blues" song recorded by Ma Rainey in 1925. The song and others like it used the loneliness of a rider of the rails or wanderer as a theme in their music.
The 1969 movie Easy Rider had wandering motorcycle riders as its characters, and due to the notoriety of the movie the term again acquired another meaning to fit into the cultural mores of the time to mean a good, usually Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Dennis Hopper, the director of Easy Rider, said in the making-of documentary Shaking the Cage: "An easy rider is a person that is not a pimp, but he lives off a woman; he lives off a whore. He's her easy rider. He's the one that she loves and she gives money to. He doesn't pimp her, but he's her easy rider."
Led Zeppelin, although a rock band, was heavily influenced by early jazz and blues and make reference in numerous songs to an "easy rider." Most notably the song "Out on the Tiles" makes reference to this free love practice and the cultural impact of it as he is both proud and ashamed to be seen with a woman known to be an "easy rider" while at the same time trying to hitchhike a ride.
After contributing his own music to the motion picture Easy Rider, Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write a song of the same name on his album The Cry of Love originally released in 1971. The spelling of the song title was altered to "Ezy Ryder," possibly indicating that the person in the song is named Ezy Ryder.
Hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa had also called himself "Mr. Easy Rider" in some of his tracks.
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Famous quotes containing the word effects:
“Society’s double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.”
—Anne Tucker (b. 1945)