The Easy Rider and Biker culture have nothing to do with hippie, hippy, culture. Totally different styles, types of people, and in many ways bikers were the opposite of hippies. Musical eras overlap.
In 66 you'd still hear Sinatra, Patsy Cline, the Beatles, and the Stones at breakfast on the radio. Drove my Mom nuts.

And Born to be Wild was, considered by many, to be the birth of heavy metal.

About the time of Woodstock a cultural shift was taking place. Many of those who were anti-Vietnam and pro peace felt they did their time, and got the result.

I went into the bush about May 1970 and came back out in 1981 to places where there was TV. I lived about 80 miles due north of the middle of Lake Superior. Some places we worked if you walked north you'd never hit a road until somewhere in Russia. -40 all winter. So songs from that 10 years I may have heard, and may have played in the last 2 years when we moved to a small town where I played keys in a band. Jeez we got 8 bucks each and there were 5 of us. I had a Wurlitzer piano and one of the guys had some weird early synth he couldn't play but I could. 1/2 the songs were country and western though.

Back to switching between curling and lacrosse. Good night for TV, there's 3 hockey games on too.

Now I'm itchin' for a beer in the kitchen but need some ambition to perambulate. I used to send my dog. It was slobbery though. Or is it slobberie. Good name for a pale beer. Dog Slobber. LOL.

John Conley
Musica est vita