Get your motor runnin’.
Head out on the highway.
Lookin’ for adventure.
And whatever comes our way.
Some songs and performers are permanently linked in memory for me. The performers have other hits, but one song first comes to mind when I hear their name. Say Pink Floyd, and I think, “Money”. AC/DC, “Highway to Hell”. The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. Black Sabbath: “Paranoid”.
For Steppenwolf, it’s a ditty called “Born to be Wild”. I was enamored of Steppenwolf when I was thirteen. That would have been 1969. My friends weren’t as impressed. Mom knew I liked them, though. She showed me a newspaper article about John Kay’s escape from Russia. Then Easy Rider came out, featuring the song. Yes, I had a poster of Hopper and Fonda on their choppers on my wall.
“Born to be Wild”, from 1968.
Michael Seidel, writer 
I wasn’t a motorcycle fan, but I did like the song, as well as the others you mentioned. I was 13 in 1969 also.
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No, I wasn’t a motorcycle fan, either. The movie appealed to my sense of freedom and adventure.
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I loved Born To Be Wild…saw Easy Rider, bought the album of the movie soundtrack. All in all, ‘69 was a pretty good year.
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’69 was a pretty good year for me, too. It all went up and down forever after that.
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Up and down…such is life. One thing you can count on is that with time, bad gets better and good slips away.
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