Born To Be Wild-Steppenwolf #shorts #shortsfeed

Lockdown licks no.6!

"Born to Be Wild" intro power chord riff and chorus with dubious pleasure of me singing 😁 feel free to sing over the top so you can't hear me..I would!
It was written by Mars Bonfire and first performed by the band Steppenwolf. The song is often invoked in both popular and counter culture to denote a biker appearance or attitude. It is most notably featured in the 1969 film Easy Rider. It is sometimes described as the first heavy metal song, and the second verse lyric "heavy metal thunder" marks the first use of this term in rock music although not as a description of the musical style.
The song is however using amplified, distorted power chords in the riffs, which became a 'blueprint' for all the heavy metal bands that followed e.g AC/DC/Metalica...to this day!!