Indian Motorcycle®, America’s first motorcycle company, today announced it has joined forces with Rolling Stone in this week’s release of a chronology of the “40 Most Groundbreaking Albums of all Time,” exclusively presented by the groundbreaking new 2015 Indian® Scout™. The compilation by the editorial staff of Rolling Stone – the leading voice of music and popular culture for more than 45 years. – identifies the most “monumental musical statements that changed the world.”
The chronological listing spans the nearly 60 years from Woody Guthrie’s 1940 “Dust Bowl Ballads” to Kanye West’s 2008 album “808s & Heartbreak,” and includes dozens of groundbreaking albums from the likes of Radiohead, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis and the Grateful Dead.
“We are proud to align with the folks at Rolling Stone on this seminal project to identify the 40 most important, industry-changing albums dating back to 1940, and we knew our industry-changing 2015 Indian Scout had to be associated with this endeavor,” said Scott Meek, marketing director for Indian Motorcycle. “The Indian Scout has been around for roughly that same timeframe, and it clearly changed the history of motorcycling and was an important part of American culture. We think the new 2015 Indian Scout is destined to be a monumental motorcycling statement that will change the course of our industry.”
The 2015 Scout is the first truly new Indian Scout in more than 70 years, yet its design pays homage to the legendary early Scouts that conquered the infamous “Wall of Death” and notched countless innovations, racing wins, world records and industry firsts along the way. A 1920 Indian Scout earned the title of the “world’s fastest Indian” at the hands of Burt Munro in 1967. The new Scout is powered by an all-new, 69 cubic inch, 100 HP V-twin engine that combines the design, performance and reliability elements that made the original Scouts unstoppable and combines it with cutting edge technologies and industry-leading engineering for unparalleled durability and reliability. The 2015 Indian Scout is available at a starting MSRP of $10,999. (Top picture: Rich Christoff, lead designer of the Indian Scout. Bottom picture: Clay model used in the Scout engineering process)
The hype seems endless, doesn’t it?
I imagine once these bikes flood the streets it may taper off
The HD advertising machine has new competition for OTT.
I used to read the Rolling Stone in the 70’s and early 80’s I probably wouldn’t know the music of any “artist” in an issue today. Somehow Woody Guthrie and Kanye west in the same sentence just isn’t right.
Kanyne west? Didn’t know rap music was that important to the demographics for motorcycles. Like a lot of print publications Rolling Stone will go away.
Rolling Stone is an excellent magazine.
II like this bike, but they should hire Stretch Armstrong as their official spokesperson.
To associate the Scout with Rolling Stone is good for the Scout image.
Love the bottom picture of the Scout clay model.
I thought most biker’s were conservative in their views. Isn’t Rolling Stone run by those bleeding heart radical liberals and socialists? Didn’t they feature that Boston Marathon terrorist on their cover a while back? And, look what happened just recently when the editors never fact checked the story when that Femme Nazi reporter made up those fake rapes at that Virginia college. And rap music and motorcycles going together? Rap music is so repetitive it kind of sounds like listening to polka rock!
Right on! Tom
Pretty much agree with Tom, until you got to rap. Rock n Roll is the same three cords repeated over and over in slightly different patterns. The best part of Rock n Roll is its thumbing its nose at the status quo and creating something totally new in music. The closest thing we have to that today is rap. All the classic rock fans claiming today’s music is crap is exactly what their parents said about the Stones, Skynard, etc.
I still dig that bike. Rolling Stone, not that much.
Can’t wait to hear their pics … Indian Motorcycles have always produced quality bikes as well, so I hope to try one of their new rides soon!
WTF? Rock and Roll and the Indian Scout????
Bob, R&R is not three chords repeated over and over again as you claim (I’ll send you copies of sheet music if you think that is true)
90% of Todays “popular (and country) music IS crap. I only say that not because I’m old, but because musically, it’s true. The other 10% has some great lyrics and melodies.
Yes, a clay model: that’s what a Scout looks like…
Well, at least most realize that the “hype” is getting out of control.
And -Yes-:
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“… The best part of Rock n Roll is its thumbing its nose at the status quo …”
So, from that perspective one might draw some parallel between to the “Rebel without a clue” aspects of motorcycling’s legacy era and the development of Rock & Roll.
But to go about equating such imagery with “Rap” is like trying to imagine some similarity between between Martha Stewart and Alice B. Toklis.
Comparing R&R and Rap is an apples & oranges exercise.
Where one is an endeavor in cultural divergence the other is more like a primitive ritual focused on tribal unification to face some cultural challenge.
IMHO anyway.
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It stillvhas a radiator and no cooling fins………….
The POLARIS SCOUT [P.S.] is simply a FIRST GEN HD V-ROD with a different frame.
So, as an innovation project, it is a bout as creative as a rolling stone…
The fenders (im-not-so-ho) is utterly UKING FUGLY and makes the thing look an eighty year old wearing knickerbockers. Just like ‘rap’ it is one letter short the most apt description – namely ‘CRAP’.
Strip away, or trim the fenders, then the P.S. begins to show potential – and has subsequently started to grow on me.
Below is where I would take the P.S., but nobody really care, so I will conclude by predicting that the smart business would be AFTER-MARKET FENDERS FOR THE P.S. Perhaps Roland “Little-Prick” Sands, or the extended-family NESS could do – they certainly have the infrastructure, etc. I wish I did – I would done it already.
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Using Rolling Stone to sell their bikes? LOL…I can hear it now. ..”Woodie made me buy it Ma!” I love my music, don’t get me wrong but double marketing first time out puts me in the hmmm what’s up mode already. I hope the bikes make good, it would be nice to have another good choice.
The list of albums………u can argue this lists all day, but they sure left out many, too many
The cross/double marketing of this and the Scout ??? iam like Kathy not sure about “double marketing ”
To me its just unreal what Polaris has done for marketing or hype if you call it that, for the Scout !!!
Translation = Irrelevant left-leaning rag Rolling Stone begged (and paid) Indian for a sponsorship.
Jeff Diamond. Rock’n roll has never been and will never be right wing. Rolling Stone is a magazine respected by all the media industry. And if it’s not your leaning side, who cares?
who is this good for? Rolling Stone?? Are you kidding? No person who knows what is going on with Music reads that garbage. Rolling Stone hasn’t been relevant since about 1980. The only time they make any news is when they put people the the Boston Marathon Bomber on the cover.
Kayne West makes the list…I thought this was most significant musical statements. They left out one of the most influential and game changing albums of all times with the Doors self titled album. Like Nirvana that followed the Doors had a sound that was and still is recognizable and all their own. Rolling Stone has become nothing more than an agenda based political magazine with their own slant in mind. By definition that is not journalism but merely propaganda. FAIL
No Stones ’68 – ’74? Shameful ….
What is a “Kayne West”……… ???
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