"...I don't want to die, I just want to ride my motorcy...cle."
Breaking up the monotony of a winter's Wednesday night, Arlo Guthrie appears on "The Johnny Cash Show". He performs "The Motorcycle Song" for Johnny, Bobbie Gentry and a full-house at the Ryman Auditorium.
Arlo Guthrie was a huge fan, and long-time rider, of Triumph motor-sickles. The cover of his 1969 LP "Running Down the Road" shows Arlo riding a 1968 Triumph TR6. The TR6 was proudly made in Meriden, from 1956 to 1973. It was a wildly successful model, particularly in the US. The competition version, a.k.a. the "desert sled", won numerous competitions throughout the late 1950's and '60's. Steve McQueen's fondness for the TR6 have been well chronicled and being compared to McQueen was "kinda cool" with Arlo.
A track on the album, "Stealin'", was featured in the film "Two-Lane Blacktop" when The Girl jumps on a strangers motorcycle, dropping her bag and bails on GTO, Driver and The Mechanic. A must-see movie if you've never seen it and if not, why?
