From airplane to starship...

[Mark Kohut]

Bob Dylan was asked to contribute music [to Easy Rider], but was reluctant to use his own recording of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", so a version performed by Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn was used instead. Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “Ballad of Easy Rider” and told the filmmakers, “Give this to McGuinn, he’ll know what to do with it.” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film---wikipedia


--- On Tue, 10/21/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 4:24 PM
> I seem to recall Crosby saying once that his relationship
> with McGuinn was the model for the relationship between
> Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider although, as the
> screenplay was written by (wasn't it?) Terry Southern,
> more likely the models were Henry Green and Slim Pickens.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bandwraith at aol.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 5:27 pm
> Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...
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> Robin:
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> "That would be David Crosby---the first version of
> "Triad" was a
> demo with the Byrds that was the tipping for Roger McGuinn,
> resulting
> in that gun-totin' hippie's ejection from the
> band."
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> 
> Now I ain't claimin' no priority here, pardna'
> That 'ol rootin
> tootin, rip snortin' gun totin' hippie-boy: David
> "Yosemite Sam"
> Crosby might'n well have penned the jig first,... I
> jes'
> was sayin' that Gracie's version reminded me of
> Yash, is all.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby
> 
> Speakin' o' which:
> 
>   "You gonna get your wife-grabbin, piss-yellow,
> slant-eyed
>   ass out here, or am I gonna have to come in there?"
>   Inquired an unhappy voice... There a diminutive figure in
>   a black hat , shirt and guantlets, Bob Meldrum
> unmistakenly,
>   with a mustache so wide Frank could swear its owner had
> to
>   turn sideways to get through the doorway...p. 290
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam
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> 
> Like Stray sez: "Fine idea while the opium supply
> lasts, but sooner or
> later plain old personal meanness gets in the way. Somebody
> runs the
> well dry, somebody rolls her=2
> 0eyes at the wrong husband—"