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Other than Steppenwolf, what are the best biker tunes?
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Beach Boys... Am I an old dweeb or what? 
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Beach Boys... Am I an old dweeb or what?
Well Paul, having been born and bred in SoCal, and just a stone's throw from where the Wilson brothers were also born and bred, I too have been a Beach Boys fan since I was a YOUNG dweeb, but I think Larry asked about "Biker Tunes" here.
And so, other than the following catchy little ditty by the Boys, I'm not sure if mentioning them here is really what Larry had in mind. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viYfWqSECAk&feature=fvw
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Love that song!  I don't really know why, but I think anything by Jimi Hendrix would work for biker tunes.
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Well Paul, having been born and bred in SoCal
Being a simple-minded country boy that "born & bred" axiom never quite added up to me. Seems the bred part should come before the born part. But that's just me 
Seems most biker music is recorded by a 3 piece band; including lead guitar, bass guitar, and a drummer played loud enough to drown out some guy who can't sing
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 hmmmmm. When I think motorcycles , Enya's Watermark comes to mind 
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Sono qui per la birra
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English Bikes , English tunes dooooodes  You wont get fooled again !!!!! (the who)  Crossroads (cream)
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Saxon - Wheels of Steel
AC/DC - Ride On
Hawkwind - Silver Machine
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down the Highway
Girls School - Race with the Devil
AC/DC - Highway to ******
Deep Purple - Speed King
Vardis - 100MPH
Judas Priest - Leather Rebel
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Bob Seger, Roll me away??? oh there are sooo many its hard to choose just one.
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Golden Earing...Radar love
Little Feet...Let It Roll
Skynrd..Statesboro Blues...Call Me the Breeze..That Smell almost any of their stuff
The Byrds...Ballad of Easyrider
REO Speedwagon...Ridin' the Storm Out
Stillwater....Mind Bender
Blue Oyster Cult...City on Flame with Rock and Roll
Zombies...Shes Not There
Metalica...Enter Sandman
Booker T...Green Onion
Ram Jam...Black Betty
Sammy Hagar...I can't Drive 55
Nugent...Free For All and Cat Scratch Feaver
Foghat...Ride Ride Ride
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World Turnin' can't remember who sang it.
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try to look this up, matt mays, canadian artist has a song called "850 Commando" about a ...you guessed it. excellent tune, worth the effort
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Montrose with Sammy Hagar- Bad Motor Scooter! Get on your bad motor scooter and ride!!!!!
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English Bikes , English tunes dooooodes
Anything by Wham??? 
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This one here, '1952 Vincent Black Lightning' by Richard Thompson has to be one o' the best ever. Brilliant!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o
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Black Denim Trouser and Motorcycle Boots - The Cheers Click Here Rumble - Link Wray (well, just about any Link Wray, really) Click Here I'm a young guy from OrYgun, but I love me the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and of course our Northwesties a little band called the Ventures Click Here and the Sonics Click Here I think most Surf and Garage music (pre-psychedelia)is the greatest stuff in the world to ride to...IMHO. ~Brent Great, now I can't stop surfing YouTube for more songs...ugh.
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English Bikes , English tunes dooooodes
Wot, like this one??
or even this one.
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the "Terror of Highway 101" hehe great line.
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My favorite is Toby Keith-"God Love Her"
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Hey guys, GREAT contributions here... I listened to 'em all. But I gotta put Richard Thompson's '1952 Vincent Black Lightning' at the top of the heap for artistic merit, musicianship and bikerness (new word). And he says the song just sort of came to him... but I think somewhere in the depths of his mind he's had a thing for the Black Lightening for a very long time.
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I had a feeling you'd agree Barry! 
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IMHO the two extremes of biker tunes would be: Little Honda by the Beach Boys and Road House Blues by the Doors. 
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Heres one...haha Dead Pegasus (my band) - Motorcycle Black www.myspace.com/vomitonthechildrenoh and Metallica - Damage Inc
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The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff, Powerful Stuff
Tom Petty - Rebels
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I DONT WANT A PICKLE, JUST WANNA RIDE MY MOTORCY...CLE DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS ONE? "I WANNA BE A BIRD" NOT BIKER PER SAY BUT, WHAT ABOUT MITCH RIDER DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER HIM AND THE DETROIT WHEELS??? HE HAD SOME BADAS SONGS THAT ARE GREAT TO LISTEN TO WHILE RIDEING. "DEVIL IN THE BLUE DRESS, AND SPINNIN LIKE A SPINNIN TOP OR JENNY JENNY JENNY?"?? SOME BAD TUNES!!! JUST ABOUT ALL MICHIGAN ROCK AND ROLL IS BIKER FRIENDLY, ANYTHING BY MARK FARNER OR GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, MC5, TED AND SEGER OF COURSE BUT LISTEN TO JUST ABOUT ANY ROCK AND ROLL FROM MICHIGAN AND IT TENDS TO BLEED BIKER. EVEN KID ROCK HAS SOME PRETTY GOOD TUNES TO LISTEN TO WHILE RIDEING OR WILL MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT RIDING. WONDER WHY THAT IS???
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Who doesn't like Arlo? Well, maybe my wife, 'cause I sing that song waaaayyy too much. The Bird Song - another classic scoot tune, but I have to slow down for that one.  The Byrds, almost any Steppenwolf (including The Pusher) and "Take a Load Off Annie", but I don't know who did that last one.
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Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
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..."Take a Load Off Annie", but I don't know who did that last one.
I logged into this site, I was feelin' 'bout half past dead
Then saw this question, and I started to rack my head
Steve asked if anybody knew this song, and yes is what I said
The name o' this song is "The Weight", and The Band did it, and...
and...
and...now I wish I had another rhyme to this..
(yep Steve, that's a great song alright...it's one o' MY favorites too!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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This thread just keeps getting better... I had completely forgotten about the ol' 'I don't want a pickle... just wanna ride my motorsycle' song by our beloved Arlo Guthrie. And others presented here also jogged my memory. But Dwight I gotta say... I just don't remember the lyrics to 'The Weight' by The Band being quite like that. Of course it does have a lot of verses and I mighta forgotten the one you quoted!!! 
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When I read whatever Dwight writes, the "Crazy Chester" verse comes to mind....................
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Motorcycle Mama by Neil Young
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Now who could forget Allman Brothers " Midnight Rider " ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7A2acBVENA".......nobody's gonna catch the midnight rider ......" ( unless his igniter goes out )
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Now who could forget Allman Brothers " Midnight Rider " ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7A2acBVENA
".......nobody's gonna catch the midnight rider ......"
( unless his igniter goes out )
Or he rides a Hardley.
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