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Steppenwolf Live

Steppenwolf

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  Name Artist Time Price  
1 Sookie Sookie (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes
2 Don't Step On the Grass, Sam (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 6:07 $0.99 View In iTunes
3 Tighten Up Your Wig (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 4:13 $0.99 View In iTunes
4 Monster (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 9:55 $0.99 View In iTunes
5 Draft Resister (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes
6 Power Play (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 5:41 $0.99 View In iTunes
7 Corina, Corina (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 3:48 $0.99 View In iTunes
8 Twisted (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 5:02 $0.99 View In iTunes
9 From Here to There Eventually (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 6:41 $0.99 View In iTunes
10 Hey Lawdy Mama (Single) Steppenwolf 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes
11 Magic Carpet Ride (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 4:15 $1.29 View In iTunes
12 The Pusher (Live 1970) Steppenwolf 5:59 $0.99 View In iTunes
13 Born to Be Wild Steppenwolf 5:42 $1.29 View In iTunes

Album Review

Steppenwolf entered the studio for their recording debut in mid-1968 with a lot of confidence — based on a heavy rehearsal schedule before they ever got signed — and it shows on this album, a surprisingly strong debut album from a tight hard rock outfit who was obviously searching for a hook to hang their sound on. The playing is about as loud and powerful as anything being put out by a major record label in 1968, though John Kay's songwriting needed some development before their in-house repertory would catch up with their sound and musicianship. On this album, the best material came from outside the ranks of the active bandmembers: "Born to Be Wild" by ex-member Mars Bonfire, which became not only a chart-topping high-energy anthem for the counterculture (a status solidified by its use in Dennis Hopper's movie Easy Rider the following year), but coined the phrase heavy metal, thus giving a genre-specific name to the brand of music that the band played (and which was already manifesting itself in the work of bands like Vanilla Fudge and the just-emerging Led Zeppelin); the Don Covay soul cover "Sookie, Sookie," which, as a single by the new group, actually got played on some soul stations until they found out that Steppenwolf was white; two superb homages to Chess Records, in the guise of "Berry Rides Again," written (though "adapted" might be a better word) by Kay based on the work of Chuck Berry, and the Willie Dixon cover "Hoochie Coochie Man"; and Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher," an anti-drug song turned into a pounding six-minute tour de force by the band. The rest, apart from the surprisingly lyrical rock ballad "A Girl I Knew," is by-the-numbers hard rock that lacked much except a framework for their playing; only "The Ostrich" ever comes fully to life among the other originals, but the songs would catch up with the musicianship the next time out.

Recent Customer Reviews

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by woodysg1

Had this album when it came out and always loved it. Not a bad tune on it. Unlike albums/cd of today.

Steppenwolf live
     
by misterabbeylane

After 38 years I still play this album and Allman brothers live at fillmore east when I need a good rock fix.


One of the best live albums ever
     
by ChaosDave2

Steppenwolf is a band that many people of my age group (I'm 26) use as a punchline to jokes about what used to be rebellious and is now status quo. Of course, most of them think that their Top 40 fad of the week will last at least as long as Steppenwolf. I absolutely love the band, and their version of "Sookie, Sookie" is one of my favorite all time songs. Despite what the American Idol age group thinks of these guys, they are amazing. This is one of my favorite live albums of anyone in any genre, and it still sounds as fresh and relevant today as it does in my romanticized mental view of what it must have been like in 1970, a full twelve years before I was born. Thirty-eight years after this recording was released, much of the subject matter can be extrapolated and still be relevant today. And the music itself is timeless. Anyone who likes what is now catagorized "classic rock" should definitely pick up this underrated gem.

Biography

Formed: 1967 in Los Angeles, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s

Led by John Kay (born Joachim Krauledat, April 12, 1944), Steppenwolf's blazing biker anthem "Born to Be Wild" roared out of speakers everywhere in the fiery summer of 1968, John Kay's threatening rasp sounding a mesmerizing call to arms to the counterculture movement rapidly sprouting up nationwide....
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