"And We Wanna Get Loaded!"

Peter Fonda. Nancy Sinatra. Bruce Dern. Diane Ladd. Roger Corman. Hells Angels. Davie Allan and the Arrows. What could bring them all together? A little movie called The Wild Angels. It's a biker film from 1966, and it gives us all the things a biker film should. It brings the choppers, the fights, the mamas, the beers, the reefer, the freaking out of the squares, the fuzz guitar theme song, the Iron crosses and racial hatred, the motorcycle cops and most importantly the cool of Peter Fonda and the heat of Bruce Dern. I have to agree with allmovie.com on this one. It's definitive.

The Wild Angels also contains Fonda's famous speech about freedom. It's a speech that launched some powerfully sleazy rock songs by the likes of Primal Scream, Mudhoney and more. Here it is: "We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that's what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time. We are gonna have a party."