Easy Rider’s commercial success directly inspired the Warhol Factory’s Trash parody

Evidence

The summer was filled with portents. After many press screenings and a triumphant Cannes premiere, Peter Fonda’s hippie-biker film Easy Rider—praised by Abbie Hoffman as “almost perfect propaganda”—arrived in mid-July. Among other things its success inspired the Factory to send up the drug culture with Morrissey’s Trash, in which Joe Dallesandro played an impotent junkie with Holly Woodlawn as his “female” sidekick. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1464

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the commercial mainstream (Easy Rider) seeding underground imitations — relevant to the reader’s scene-becomes-market thesis.