Get your motor runnin'Head out on the highwayLooking for adventureIn whatever comes our way
Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happenTake the world in a love embraceFire all of your guns at onceAnd explode into space
Mars Bonfire wrote this diddy. Whointhehell is Mars Bonfire? Good question. A Canadian musician/song writer, born Dennis McCrohan, changed his name to Dennis Edmonton who was in a band with his brother, Jerry McCrohan (who also changed his name to Edmonton), the band was The Sparrows, a reasonably popular band. They moved to NYC for a brief time, then, in 1967-ish, they relocated to San Fran, then ultimately LA, opened for The Doors, The Steve Miller Band, etc.
The Sparrows were morfing into a new group, Steppenwolf, bother Jerry said "Come on", Mars declined, preferring to strike out on his own solo career. Mars, an admitted starving songwriter - wrote this song in a big old apartment complex - where, he couldn't even hookup his amp ("They'd complain"), so he'd whisper the lyrics and ultimately recorded it on an old reel to reel.
I like smoke and lightnin'Heavy metal thunderRacing with the windAnd the feeling that I'm under
Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happenTake the world in a love embraceFire all of your guns at onceAnd explode into space
"I'd purchased my very first car - an old, used Ford Falcon," (this brings me, the cruddy blogwriter, close to his heart, as I'd learned to drive in the postage stamp sized backyard of a buddy in his folks old, used Ford Falcon).. he'd take it out on drives to the ocean up to the mountains... "I'd been trapped in my apartment. I had no idea how incredibly diverse the City was, my car was total freedom. One day, the sky was dark and lightning struck, got so bad I had to pull over. I remembered studying the periodic table of elements in school, and there was a category for heavy metals. The phrase ‘heavy metal thunder’ popped into my head,” said Bonfire. “I had no idea how important those words would soon become.”
This term “heavy metal” took on a life of its own and contributed to the evolution of heavy metal music as a genre. The phrase later influenced bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin.
"Steppenwolf brother Jerry said "Well, if yain't gonna join us, got any songs, lyrics for us? As a matter of fact, I do."
The rest, I guess they say, is history. Born to be Wild recorded, released in 1967... two years later, the cult classic movie Easy Rider was released. Set against a backdrop of motorcycle gang and pure Americana, "Born To Be Wid" broke through the culture barrier going from hit song to generational anthem at a moment in time when the country was finally coming into its own.
“The biker thing was a big surprise to me,” says the song’s writer, Mars Bonfire, who at the time had never even been on a motorcycle. “The truth is, I wrote ‘Born to Be Wild’ about my first car, a beat-up Ford Falcon. It’s not as glamorous as a fire-breathing two-wheeler, but c’mon. Nothing’s as cool as your first car.”
Like a true nature's childWe were born, born to be wildWe can climb so highI never wanna die
Born to be wildBorn to be wild
Strange how the brain works, sorry, kinda. Blog thoughts, prior to typing... "measuring, measuring up..' all kinds of measuring, from our bellies to our disposition, self image.. yada... then, "fun" and the various, diverse ways, we, the people, have, see, fun. Born to be wild, mild, go getter, stand backer, introvert, extrovert, this, that, whatever. Diversity in life, a beautiful thing.
To........... the creed of the fraternity I was in in school... and, a suggested way to 'live out': To believe in the Life of Love...to walk in the Way of Honor...to serve in the Light of Truth...this is the Life, the Way, and the Light of Sigma Nu.
Then I somehow came across Mars... this song.
Get your motor running........
And now you know the rest............... good day, Paul Harvey
Love, Victurd
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