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A Special RetroRewind – The Best Biker Songs Ever.
As today marks my first back from the Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally in Panama City Florida and I’m catching up on everything including getting back into the gym and trying to dry out my liver, I felt this was an appropriate time to delve a bit into the biker world with a special RetroRewind – The Four Greatest Biker songs of all time, as complied be me your host and DJ.I’ve been in more than a few biker bars over the years, those watering holes that cater to anybody in helmets and chaps. They’re kind of like Cheers for Hell’s Angels. So if you find yourself walking in the door of any establishment that advertises itself as “Biker Friendly”, the following characteristics are universal.
- They’ll have Budweiser on IV drip next to the bar stool.
- Half of the parking lot will be cordoned of as “Bike Parking”
- There’ll be a well-endowed chick bartender.
- You can smoke inside
- And one of these five songs will be heard within the first hour.
This list is far from formal or final but I have never been to a purported biker bar that didn’t have one of these tunes playing in the background almost immediately after I walk in.
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Hahahaha! Isn’t it true?!?
Love the pic too!
Thanks T!
We should have done a better job of getting the trashcan and light pole out of the pic…geez.
I think you nailed it, Papa! Everytime I hear Steppenwolf I’m reminded of Peter Fonda & “Easy Rider”… I will give an Honorable Mention to GN’R's “Welcome to the Jungle.”
You can never go wrong with GNR, I also thought about Bob Seger but he isn’t on Groove Shark for some reason…
Chopper Papa you tell the best stories!! I’m glad your sis told me about your blog!
Thanks Elly! Please tell all of your friends, and check out todays post if you’re a parent of girls.
Wow, you’re bike is HUGE! Now Motley Crue and ACDC brings back some memories for me. I’m going to have to put some of that on tonight.
It’s big enough that if I laid it down it’d take the front 4 of the Falcons to get it back up.
Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
I have a few friends who ride religiously, one in particularly drove himself out of the womb and will drive himself into the grave. We discussed this topic last summer and the two songs all agree upon were “Midnight Rider” by the Allman Brothers and “Fire on the Mountain” by the Marshall Tucker Band.
I thought about Fire, but since I already had Midnight Rider that was enough southern.
check out todays post from our conversation about the dancers.
Midnight Rider, yes! What about Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” or “Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood. Even “I Can’t Drive 55″ (Sammy Hagar) would work.
All good ones except Bon Jovi, the ex was from NJ, I’d rather poke ice picks in my ears than listen to anything from that band.
Thanks Kat!
Hey, this is a brand new song. I just wrote it with Derrick Procell who sings it.
You get a free listen to the chorus, and then you’ve got to download it for .99 if you want to hear the rest. But if you don’t have the dough, let me know where to send you the song. I think you’ll dig it.
“I Will Be Your Leather”
FYI, I wrote music recorded by Muddy Waters, Joan Jett, Clarence Clemons and
George Thorogood, and even won a Grammy.
But I’m as proud of this as anything I’ve ever done. You be the judge. Either way,
rock on.
And by the way, I have a divorced dad. He is 87, the greatest dad on Earth and my lifelong hero.
Love HIGHWAY TO HELL the best. But recently heard a new song I’ll hear everyday I get on my bike KEEP ROLLING – A BIKERS TALE by BRANDON ROCKX. It’s a new classic to me.
Check out “Shovelhead” a song from Lanny McGough on the Rebel Soul CD which came out a year before Kid Rocks CD of the same title. It can be found on CD Baby, Itunes and all the rest of the download sites.
Okay – we are now on sound cloud.
Check us out here http://soundcloud.com/terryabrahamsonmusic
to hear all of “I Will Be Your Leather.” Can’t wait to get some feedback.
Rock on!