Fact #64413

Roger McGuinn (The Byrds] : The first time I saw the film of Easy Rider was in the recording studio, because I had to write some music for it. So I didn't see it all in one sitting, just disjointed scenes, and I didn't realise right off that the two central characters were based on myself and David Crosby. Peter Fonda told me that later. I said to him, 'Man, I would have loved to have been in that movie.' And Peter said, 'You were.' Peter is the generally optimistic, everything's gonna work out all right type of character and Dennis Hopper is the paranoid hippy, which is exactly the relationship that Crosby and I had. I was honoured.

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