This Is Real!! Steppenwolf - The Pusher REACTION/REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- This Is Real!! Steppenwolf - The Pusher REACTION/REVIEW
BizMatik Reviews and Reacts to Steppenwolf - The Pusher
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This song speaks volumes about the distinction between smoking a little weed versus opiate addicts, tweakers and the like. Not all substances are created equal for sure.
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It's a crucial distinction. I remember some people wanted to attach their own standards to this song, saying things like: "See? Even John Kaye says drugs are bad!" When what he really was saying was "a lot of drugs are bad, but I like to smoke a little weed sometimes"...
Amen, it's like line up 30 people and say they are all alike.
That's an interesting analysis. I agree and never would have thought of that. That movie is better than I thought!
When I got sent to Catholic boarding school, we used to play this song turned up LOUD, in our room with the door wide open, just to annoy the hell outta the nuns down the hall 😇 Good times... Lol That's what I still think of every time I hear this classic.
Damn that's gotta be a memory. "That god he's not a natural man" must of pissed them off
"Snowblind Friend " is another Steppenwolf tune you may not have heard before.
That's one of my favorites!
Did you know that Hoyt axton wrote both snowblind Friend And The Pusher. 🙋
@@chriskroll4166 Yes! There's an old interview that I saw just recently where John Kay mentions Hoyt wrote Snowblind Friend.
I did not know Hoyt wrote The Pusher too. Thanks for the info!
@@chriskroll4166 Hoyt Axton also wrote the "No No Song", covered by Ringo Starr. 👀
@@muchkneaded Hoyt wrote everything 🤣
Next from Steppenwolf? "Monster" very relevant today as it was back then.
Yess!!
Couldn’t agree more!
Absolutely! One of the greatest songs ever written!
Hey Biz, everyone knows Magic Carpet Ride and Born to be Wild by this band. They have a great catalog and this song is one of them. Rock Me Baby, Monster, Don't Step on the Grass Sam, Jupiter's Child are some of the others.
Snow Blind Friend, Tenderness, Monster. Peace out.
Yes
Screaming Night Hog
Is also cool
"It's Never too Late"
Also ¨Ride with Me¨
This song is the reason I bought the soundtrack album to the movie "Easy Rider". Back in 1969 you just didn't hear lyrics like "God Damn the Pusher" anywhere. I just wanted to be able to hear it whenever I wanted. I found out there were a lot of other great songs on the album, "Born To Be Wild", also by Steppenwolf, "If 6 was 9" by Jimi Hendrix, "If You Wanna Be A Bird" by the Holy Modal Rounders, you must see the movie to understand. A Pusher sold the "white powders", Heroin, Cocaine, Crystal Meth, etc, while the Dealer sold Marijuana. I like the Dealers.
Also love the Electric Prunes' Kyrie Eleison...
That is correct "Sir" you don't hear Lyrics like that then. And what's interesting is the song "meant well" and seeing the movie in 1971 was cool.
I rode my custom chop cross country (Cal to Ct), listen to the songs of this album in my head all the way. Born to be wild, and The Pusher still give my chills listeneing to them. Yes, i was on drugs.
Just watched last week, my VHS copy I've owned for years... of EASY RIDER. Such a good movie. The ending❗The soundtrack was Epic🎵🎵🎵 because that era of Rock music was so good. Now, sadly in Florida where I live....non stop deaths from Fentanyl laced cocaine & heroin. God Damn the Pusher. Heartless greedy monsters.
Led me to think
Other than "Magic Carpet Ride," my favorite Steppenwolf song is "Monster." It's brutal, but necessary (which shows in the fact that it's still relevant).
I agree, along with their song, The Ostrich which is also relevant today with so many sticking their heads in the sand.
Hard to get any more 60s sounding than this, 60s at it's best.
🎸💯 Steppenwolf is a badass vibe‼🤯
Parents threw all kinds of fits over this song (back in the day)! I've loved Steppenwolf since the 1st time I heard them‼Thanks Biz‼You ALWAYS get down & dirty with it‼🔥 ☮ ❤ 🎶
Great review of a great song,,,,,💥💥💥💥👍😎
God Damn,,,,The Pusher,,,😡😡😡👊
At the time Steppenwolf recorded this song, young people were dying by the hundreds every day from opioid overdoses. As musicians, I have no doubt they were personally affected by this epidemic. I feel what they are saying, and I believe they are damn serious about the lamentation to "damn the pusher man". The message could easily be repeated today.
That PUSHERMAN is the BIG GOVERNMENT …i posted a list of the “chain of command” yesterday on here…they were drug running and money laundering during Vietnam…ALL WARS AND DRUGS are pushed by the PUSHERMAN
Look what is Crossing the Borders Every Day! Crime stops when the hammer drops 🇺🇸🪖💪🙏
Today ... It's God Damn the Mexican Drug Cartels ✊
prescription
Bullshit. Options? Heroin. Opium. We didn't have any of that other shit.
This was a very controversial song in the day. Many radio stations would not play it. I think this song just represents a very underrated group. Steppenwolf was big in the day but has kinda gotten lost over time to other groups, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Stones. I don't know why I never heard it before, because I've heard this song countless times, but this song is straight up blues and it fits so perfectly to the blues.
Oops
To be Wild
Dealer is selling weed while the pusher is seller heroin.
I agree with Eric ...... Monster should be next.
Same here! 👍
I remember this in 1970 I was 13 and thought this song was kinda ahead of it's time. This was even before Curtis Mayfields Super-fly, and that was also ahead of it's time. Steppenwolf is a badass Group.
Snow Blind Friend is a great running mate to this song.
This song fits the time exactly. People were dying from smack overdoses left & right...I still get a smell from this song. Real and raw.
Next from Steppenwolf? How about "Snow Blind Friend"? It's another dark song about the wreckage of drugs. One of my favorite bands from the "golden age" of rock. Great reactions, Biz.
I commented the same thing after you! 👍
"Snowblind Friend" is a relatively unknown perfect classic song by Steppenwolf. Like "The Pusher" it was written by Hoyt Axton, who also wrote Ringo Starr's drug song hit, "The No No Song".
@@user-gt2uf8cq9y btb, Hoyt Axton's mother, Mary Axton, wrote Blue Bayou.
Snow blind friend. Approaching my eighth decade of life and had not listened to it for many years. A song that I loved, turns out I STILL DO.
Saw them live in SF when they were called 'The Sparrow', with a headfull of Owsley's finest. At top volume, this was REALLY POWERFUL. The Bass player did the dive -bomb sound, IIRC.
I saw Steppenwolf at a festival in Bath (UK) in 1970. They came on on saturday night and just blew us away. One of the best gigs i have ever seen.
I'm an 82 year old great,great,great, grandmother.This is one of my favorites.Also love ac/dc,Stones, Led Zepplin, Animals,love all the 70's rock!
Biz!!! I wish I could give this reaction more than one thumbs up! I first heard this song on the Easy Rider soundtrack way back when I was a little kid. I saw it at the drive in with my parents back in 69 or 70. I have an original copy of this soundtrack on album that I listen to very frequently. Thank you so much for this one Biz, my daddy died in 71 and Steppenwolf always reminds me of him. Keep it up my friend. Greetings from South Carolina 😊
This song is in my opinion in my top 100 most brilliant compositions of all time. I had the pleasure of seeing Steppenwold back in the 60's.
"Jupiter's Child" is a great rocker by Steppenwolf...
"Hodge Podge Strained Through A Leslie" is another deep track!
"Steppewolf - The Second" is a great album. Especially the Side 2 medley.
Thank you. This song saved many lives.
This was the strongest anti drug song I ever heard when it came out with Easy Rider. I was 17 in 1969 and it kept me off it all. The message was all to clear and seemed real from the USA.
John Kay had a tough birth.His mom was part of the big retreat from East Prussia in the middle of a Siberian winter with the Russian Army bent on revenge close on her heals.Russian tanks would roll over the masses crushing them into the snow.As a newborn it was amazing he survived
you are one of my favorite reactors because you explain what you are feeling...kudos my man!
Thank you
Dealer sells pot and psychedelics. The Pusher sells meth, coke and heroine. Completely different things. You have to hear "Don't Step OnThe Grass Sam."
Yep. The dealer sells non-addictive drugs and the pusher sells the stuff that hooks you and destroys lives.
Back in the day a 'pusher' was somebody that purposly got you hooked by shooting you up with something when you were passed out on booze or dropping a hit of something into your drink
@@bobsblues9944 or pushers would give teens free samples to get them hooked to create business. EVIL!
truth
I used to hang out in a pub, of the sort that no longer exists, in St Albans. Full of students, bikers and smoke. This was always on the juke box. Miss those times.
I grew up listening to Steppenwolf. They were mis-labeled as a biker band but were much more than that. They were into social injustice, the environment and anti war sentiment. I cannot believe they were not inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame ! Listen to everything they recorded.
Clearly one of the greatest bands of the late 60's.
So I was 10, playing Steppenwolf live on my little record player, cranked as loud as it could go. Dad walks by, hears God damn the pusher! He goes, What's that? I said, No, Dad, it's against drugs! He says, Ok, just don't let your mother hear it😉. He was cool😎
In the 90s The remnants and mostly new people played at Ft Washington Harley Davidson. Freaking great. Been a fan since 1970. When I was 12, my big bro was blasting this.
John Kay & Steppenwolf = the best of psychedelia
Don't mess with opiates, don't lose your soul. That was Steppenwolf's message then, and it should be everyone's message now.
John Kay.. the legend.. Mr. heavy metal himself..
The bass is also incredible
We played this at a church social. Our shortest gig of all time
What a great song.
Thank you VERY MUCH.
I had forgoten about this song.
It is much needed today with the fentanyl pandemic
thanks for reacting and reviewing this!
So glad you like the song ....... This was one of my favorite Albums and song That I had back then .... The Pusher was my favorite on the Album
Came back for another listen. Miss you Biz, I hope thing are going well for you.
When I was a young man that was one of my All Time Favorite Albums!!!! I wore out a couple of their 8 tracks!
Lyrics and groove makes goose pumps description of nowodays misery !!!!
The Pusher is the first cut on the Easy Rider movie soundtrack LP. Everyone had that one when I was in high school. I still listen to it.
LOVE STEPPENWOLF
I haven't listened to this song for a long time but it's always what starts playing in my head when I see someone sitting on a sidewalk nodding or down on the next corner tweaking. It's some sad ish. 💉
This was written by a really good songwriter, Hoyt Axton, a recording artist in his own right who was more folk and country. He wrote a couple of big hits for Three Dog Night as well...
I remember this album chillin' out to 40 days and 40 nights, Ball Crusher, and Snowblind Friend.
Some songs just get more powerful as they get older. Incredible track, as legit as the day it was laid in the grooves.
Those lyrics still hold true today.
"The Pusher" is a rock song written by Hoyt Axton, made popular by the 1969 movie Easy Rider which used Steppenwolf's version
I love this song. Beware: I will say that about every song I comment on that you react to! 🤣 I really just love all kinds of music and this is a great song!
Great reaction and comments on a GREAT Song !!
Song goes hard. Always loved this one ☝️
Real acid rock done in the blues with real life meaning
This was a warning for a generation. Sadly, not everyone got the message. We need a contemporary artist to step up and tell us again. Lots of emotion in the song (vocals and music both) and in your reaction. Thanks, Biz!
"Born To Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride' are their best songs.
We all smoked a lot of grass and popped a lot of pills in the 70’s-😬-but this was to discourage heroin use.
They used this in a movie. Two steppenwolf song . This and born to be wild . ( easy rider ) 1969 .
It's very straightforward, Brother Biz, dealers were the guys who sold pot and maybe acid, reds and black mollies...he so-called "soft drugs" that normally were considered recreational drugs. The pusher was the guy selling so-called "hard drugs"...mainly heroin. In those days dealers were usually guys you knew--friend, friend of a friend--and you'd sit down with him, maybe burn a joint or share a hit of acid and crash at his home for a few hours...everything was cool with dealers. Pushers were never your friends, they were the guys standing on a street corner selling horse (heroin) and their only interest was. money and getting people hooked...fast turnover and no conversation.
Snowblind friend, Don't step on the grass, Sam.
You want to be BLOWN AWAY! The next Steppenwolf Song you do needs to be Monster and I recommend the live version! You also need to hear Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild.
Great Song🎵
The “Dealer” IS the “Pusher” and he don’t give a fuck about anything but that Cold Hard Cash. This music ain’t hiding nothing, it’s straight up.
a school friend in our rural high school was telling me about this song when it first came out and both of us didn't know what a Pusher was
things have changed drugs hit the schools 2 to 3 years after I graduated. before the advent we never locked our doors
That song is of grief, and anger... Written when John Kay lost a dear friend to drugs. Back in the late 60's early 70's, heroin came along and we lost so many good musicians and people to it... Remarkable song. Guys, i'don't know what your favorite "poison" is for recreational purposes, but do stay away from pushers and take care of yourselves.
Great song, popularized by Steppenwolf in 1968, but it was actually written by the great Hoyt Axton in the same year and he released in 1971. He wrote a great many songs, some recorded by him but many also covered by other artists.
Hoyt Axton ua-cam.com/video/6-7WpPk00jA/v-deo.html
Hoyt Axton wrote this song, his mom wrote “Heartbreak Hotel.”
One of the great voices of Rock history, his conversational voice defies his singing voice.
This song was written by singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton, whose mother wrote Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis Presley. You should check out some of Hoyt's vocals. If you've never heard them, you're missing something.
I love the guitar intro to the
song.
Great great tune Biz.
This tune, Master of Puppets (Metallica)That Smell, and the needle and the spoon, (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and so many other tunes talk about this subject. Love this tune. Loved them in concert.
YES! He REALLY wants god to damn the pusher! My aunt had a problem with how much he said that phrase, lol, my brother tried to explain to her that he's just express how much he hates the pusher, but it didn't make much deference in her opinion, lol. There's plenty to choose from the Steppenwolf library, like "Rock Me", "Ride With Me", Hey Lawdy Mama", "Snowblind Friend", "Who Needs Ya" and "Jupiter's Child". Thanks for this reaction, rock on!
Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride are a must
This guitar intro is awesome!!!
Written by Hoyt Axton after the OD of a friend. Hoyt wrote a LOT of fantastic songs that were BIG hits for other people.
Back in the day there were two types. One was your friendly neighborhood dealer sharing and selling sweet pills and love grass wanting to keep his returning clients happy. The other was the heartless pusher that preyed on people's addiction by selling contaminated hard drugs that slowly killed the soul before killing the person. A pusher is like a parasite that simply lives off another organism and keeping it's host alive long enough to benefit from it before it weakens and dies
Thx for the heart Mr Biz, i must ask about your necklace..is it what i think it is? 🤭 Nice clean and original
My pendant is Haiti
@@watchbizmatik Ah ok, my words still stands - nice
You nailed it. Exactly Right. The band Aerosmith axl rose wrote about mister brownstone won't leave him alone and that was about the bands Yusuf heroine which damn near killed Them off Until they got clean
Hoyt Aston wrote the tune ,and probably not a guy you'd ever sell to . I did and sold all green when I was a stupid kid. The tune was a wake up later when many friends in highschool died . In and around 75 we had the highest death rate do to chemical drugs in Minnesota. So easy to dump a handful pills or torch up too much dust . I saw the destruction in friends and in the mirror. 😎
Psychedelic!
Great one Biz
Good Ones: 'Rock Me Baby' 'Screaming Nighthog' 'Hey Lawdy Mama' etc....
yes yes steppenwolf, most every song has social content and message and of course the music, these guys were great musicians. P.S sweet dreams did cost more than a nickel and they were very sweet
"Snow Blind Friend" , "Hey Lawdy Mama" , "Tenderness" next.
Love this song.
Love it!
Saw Steppenwolf perform live at the Texas Tech University in 1968 or early '69. It wasn't at their nice theater where I saw a "double bill" with Ravi Shankar and Ray Charles & the Raelettes perform, it was in what I remember to be a gymnasium, and probably less than 100 people showed up in that pick-up drivin', "redneck" town (nice people lived there, too). I was stationed at the Air Force base about 10 miles from Lubbock, TX, so it was my "home away from home" from 2.5 years.
A dealer basically sells you what you want, the pusher wants to get you addicted to profit. Some dealers will cut you off but not the pusher man
It was heavy then and it is still is now, many nights.
You should check out the long version of this song it takes up one side of a LP the sound affects makes it sound like your on a trip
You need to listen to 'HEROIN' by Lou Reed on his live album 'ROCK n ROLL ANIMAL'. I was a young man in the service when Steppenwolf released this song, The Pusher, and it was so controversial many radio stations would not play it.
There's another version of this, 21 minutes and change. The album is Early Steppenwolf
Hoyt axton! That's who steppenwolf was listening to because Hoyt is badass!
Amazing the sounds from 1968, huh.
Written by Hoyt Axton, Steppenwolf nailed it.
"Needle and the Spoon", that was 🍁Neil Young🍁 ... Lynyrd Skynyrd did "That Smell"... But, yeah... I felt your reaction. I love it when I see reactors really listen, and connect to, a song's lyrics and then be able to describe what they're hearing.
Awesome reaction. Thank you.
Cheers!
Ooh that smell. The smell of death surrounds you ♤
Powerful song.
This song featured in the movie Easy Rider. Great watch.
Keep the grind going...you are a breath of fresh air in the reaction game, you are real.