Steppenwolf was ahead of their time musically. They have a good library of songs. You may want to give a listen to The Pusher, and also Don’t Step On The Grass Sam.
Psychedelic rock or Acid rock. In A Gadda da Vita - Iron Butterfly is another great one in this genre but it must be the original 17 minute version. This one song took up an entire side of the album.
My older brother and I were driving home from the grocery story. All of a sudden the radio starts hissing and making all sorts of garbage noises. My brother starts bashing the radio to try and fix it...then the song erupts from the audio chaos. That was a sublime way to first hear this song.
I was in 8th grade when this came out. As I recall, it seemed like guys were really more into Steppenwolf than girls were (at least in the 60's) Steppenwolf was a little rough and raw, which guys could get away with listening to. Where as girls' parents back then monitored what their daughters listened to. Once we got into the 70's, Steppenwolf had made their mark and their songs were considered classics! They were definitely part of the Soundtrack of the Baby Boomers lives and they paved the way for a lot of great music to come!
"Magic Carpet Ride" got plenty of radio play back when and still does to this day on classic rock stations in the USA. The song even features in a key scene in the 1996 movie "Star Trek: First Contact". As a side note, the b-side to this single, "Sookie Sookie," is a cover of a Don Covay bop from 1965. Covay wrote "Chain of Fools" among other hit songs. The funkiest version of "Sookie Sookie", however, might be the 11 minute instrumental version Grant Green dropped in 1970. If you like a tasty guitar licks over a funky sixties groove that's the song for you.
"Right between the Sound Machine." He said stereo was new & he was sitting between the speakers. "Let the sound carry you away." One of my fav songs from when I was little & I'd go to the teen center to hang out with "the big kids." Sounds 60's to me. Very physcadelic.
From 1968-70 Steppenwolf was the hottest band in the U.S... I recommend "The Monster" .. Rocky me Baby' The pusher' and many others Steppenwolf kick ass.
Back in the day, it was instantly presumed that this was about getting high. After FM rolled out, anything was fair game on the radio. Generally, only AM was censored. AM was considered more like a public service.
This song has been played on 60s nostalgic radio stations across the US almost daily since 1968. It might even have been played more than say Fleetwood Mac, now that's saying something. For more Steppenwolf try: The Pusher, Rock Me Baby, Snowblind Friend, Monster, Don't Step On the Grass Sam, and my favorite: Earschplittenloudenboomer
Hey, Lady Mama, It's Never Too Late, Sookie Sookie, The Pusher, Snowblind Friend, Power Play, Monster, Don't Step on the Grass, Sam, Berry Rides Again and more!
Just some facts: The real name of the singer "John Kay" is "Joachim Fritz Krauledat" as he is a german-canadian who was born in Germany in 1944. As refugees (WW2) his parents took refuge to Canada. You see him most of the time with sun-glasses as he is defined as "legally blind". He only has a eyesight of 21% and is color blind as well :-/ Later he did amazing solo albums ... my favourite is "Heretics and Privateers" released in 2000 with includes the same titled song. Very bluesy! :-)
I think this song may have begun in a late 60s pipe dream and finished in an early 70s opium den. 😂 This lyric is hard to understand when they sing it but it one of my favorites; a great mix of humor and disappointment. “Last night I held Aladdin's lamp So I wished that I could stay Before the thing could answer me Well, someone came and took the lamp away I looked Around A lousy candle's all I found” Great song and reaction. Thank you Harri.
I love John Kay & Steppenwolf! Grew up on them. Their deepest songs are "Renegade' about John Kay's experience escaping from behind the Iron Curtain as a child, and 'Monster' which is an epic critique of American history and culture. Also 'The Pusher' and 'Snowblind Friend' about the dangers of drug abuse.
@@ThePeaceableKingdom Hoyt Axton = World class songwriting. He wrote Snowblind Friend and The Pusher by Steppenwolf as well as Never Been to Spain and Joy To the World by Three Dog Night. Among many others.
Got to see them live once. Really good performance. This is a CLASSIC song and exemplifies all that is great about rock n roll! Thanks Harri! You get better everyday! No fear in what you play! 💯
Steppenwolf were a great band! Saw them live twice in the early 70s! This was their second HUGE Top Ten Hit. Their follow up to Born To Be Wild. MONSTER by Steppenwolf is a brilliant gem! Great song! I think you'd absolutely LOVE it! 😎🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦
For my money, John Kay had the perfect voice for authentic Rock 'n Roll. I saw the original Steppenwolf once at the Rochester War Memorial in Rochester, New York, and they didn't disappoint .....
They were so big and they were right there from the begininning. Saw them live in Atlanta. Thanks to Sir Harri and the greatest UA-cam channel ever. Oh, I saw them in Miami, as well.
don leavell, saw them in El Paso, Tx in either 1969-70, been to long ago to really remember. I was 15-16 years old and smoked too much weed to say for sure. I remember thinking they were a better studio band than live but heck, what do you know at that age. Still, good memories.😎😎😎😎😎
The song is about music and its power to transport you to other places....not drugs. This song came to John Kay when he was listening to some music on his stereo while lying down with the two speakers on either side of his head. His stereo is the " sound machine" he mentions in the opening line. In the 60s, if you didn't understand a rock song, the default explanation was that it must be about drugs. I saw them live in 1969.
You're right, it IS a trip (LSD, of course). This is the best example of "psychedelic" music . Did you watch Easy Rider yet ? Back in the 60s and 70s we had FM Radio and they would play all the cool sounds, like this song. There were all kinds of cool DJs and they had their own shows. One such was Allison Steele "The Night Bird" and she'd come on at midnight. Really a great time to be young and hip . In time, FM died out, but the times will always be remembered. (Sometimes, they'd play a whole album !)
Yes it was played on the radio.That is where I first heard "Magic Carpet Ride",and became a fan. 1968 I was 13.Steppenwolf was so kool.They even sang Magic Carpet Ride on the Ed Sullivan show .Ed called them the long haired Steppenwolf.He seemed put off by them.They were kinda high when they performed,but the cool look and John Kay's sunglasses blew me away. Later I found out he was sight impaired due to malnutrition as a child.He has an interesting life story.Check it out sometime. I felt the same way, their sound was ahead of the times. In "Born to be wild" he used the phrase Heavy Metal,which was something new.
I wasn't born yet when this came out, so I don't know how the radio play for it was then, but I definitely heard it a lot on the oldies radio stations my parents listened to when I was growing up from the late 70s through the early 90s.
Good reaction I found Steppenwolf back in the late sixties when my brother was a member of the Columbia record club and they would send an album or 2 every month check out their most famous song would be born to be wild which has been used in many movies also there's A-line in the song that says heavy metal thunder, They are kind of given credit as being the groundbreakers for heavy metal music great reaction keep spreading the music God-bless
Harri - that's dad (bass & backup vocals) on the right behind the bush in between far right (Goldy on keys RIP) and Larry (guitarist). On the far left is Jerry the drummer and album cover artist. He was dads best friend. (RIP) The Pusher would be an obvious suggestion (Check Nina Simone cover as well) but if you would please consider a few songs probably not suggested anywhere else by Steppenwolf (Get into the wind & Gang War Blues) off Slow Flux album both very underrated songs and John Kay on Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heros which has some classics but this (Walkin Blues) version is in my bias opinion the best version I know of! (Dad played on that album as well for John) Peace and Aloha
It got a lot of radio play! It's funny, I never did drugs but love a lot of sings about or influenced by them. Btw, you should play "Kicks," 1st anti-drug rock song.
Harri, have you heard the expression "sex, drugs and rock and roll"? Or how about "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"? I'm here to tell you that those were a real thing, seriously! The late '60s and the '70s, wow, fun times indeed 😁
my brother you can only guess or suppose what our generation's music did to us and shaped our psyches. what a leap into the undefined aspects of reality that has geared us to look into the many facets of possibility that set so many of us free while the dullards sank into the cruelty of narrow minded expectations and dark dreams that only serve to limit and restrict our growth.
Seriously, check out the b-side medley from the "Steppenwolf the Second" album. Also, other great songs from them are "Move Over", "Rock Me", "Renegade", "Tighten Up Your Wig".
Puff, puff pass music back in the days, of Steppenwolf, as well as Iron Butterfly 🦋 17 min song In - a - Gadda -da - Vida will blow you away 🎶 Yes it is like Led Zep, but without Robert P !!
Thanks, Harri. Yeah, the song was on the radio, but the 45 cut the “rave up” part almost completely. I have a different song for you. Actually a bit of a medley. From Steppenwolf’s album “Monster”. The bit titled “Monster/Suicide/America”. Lots to think about in that. Take good care, bud. ✌️
You really need a group of friends and a long and winding dirt road out to a gate leading into a field . You drive along listening to the music and looking for the bonfire. When you arrive you get a beer and hotdogs and dance the night away. Come dawn you drive out to Harrdies to get breakfast and go home to crash on the couch .
None of the bands from this era should be pigeon holed into one style. All of these bands had tons of great writers & musicians that could & did explore multiple avenues.
60's music was different.. Maybe loose but Harri , they could. play.Words very varied.Hippy days were different. NO.Its about sex together. LSD was all over the place then. Even in my school when I was 13.... It was never banned
Harri, another wonderful female singer for you to react to. Nicolette Larson had a big hit with this cover of Neil Young's "A Lotta Love": ua-cam.com/video/tdv69cR_d78/v-deo.html. Beautiful voice, beautiful woman. Peace out.
Organize a great 2 hour set of music, do some shrooms, lay-back and let yourself fly. By this time it would have LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, or mescaline cactus which was generally a reduction in the intensity of the trip with each one. Others may have had a different experience though.
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It was a big hit. The words were ambiguous so it snuck on the radio.
Steppenwolf was ahead of their time musically. They have a good library of songs. You may want to give a listen to The Pusher, and also Don’t Step On The Grass Sam.
Their "Snowblind Friend" and "The Pusher" are two of the rare, right on target anti-drug songs of the time.
Monster
Psychedelic rock or Acid rock. In A Gadda da Vita - Iron Butterfly is another great one in this genre but it must be the original 17 minute version. This one song took up an entire side of the album.
My older brother and I were driving home from the grocery story. All of a sudden the radio starts hissing and making all sorts of garbage noises. My brother starts bashing the radio to try and fix it...then the song erupts from the audio chaos. That was a sublime way to first hear this song.
I was in 8th grade when this came out. As I recall, it seemed like guys were really more into Steppenwolf than girls were (at least in the 60's) Steppenwolf was a little rough and raw, which guys could get away with listening to. Where as girls' parents back then monitored what their daughters listened to. Once we got into the 70's, Steppenwolf had made their mark and their songs were considered classics! They were definitely part of the Soundtrack of the Baby Boomers lives and they paved the way for a lot of great music to come!
"Magic Carpet Ride" got plenty of radio play back when and still does to this day on classic rock stations in the USA. The song even features in a key scene in the 1996 movie "Star Trek: First Contact". As a side note, the b-side to this single, "Sookie Sookie," is a cover of a Don Covay bop from 1965. Covay wrote "Chain of Fools" among other hit songs. The funkiest version of "Sookie Sookie", however, might be the 11 minute instrumental version Grant Green dropped in 1970. If you like a tasty guitar licks over a funky sixties groove that's the song for you.
"Right between the Sound Machine." He said stereo was new & he was sitting between the speakers. "Let the sound carry you away." One of my fav songs from when I was little & I'd go to the teen center to hang out with "the big kids." Sounds 60's to me. Very physcadelic.
"Close your eyes girl, look inside girl, let the sound take you away." Just before the instrumental. The music is the magic carpet ride.
From 1968-70 Steppenwolf was the hottest band in the U.S... I recommend "The Monster" .. Rocky me Baby' The pusher' and many others Steppenwolf kick ass.
I suspect many people in charge of song censoring at the time assumed the song was simply about a harmless Aladdin-type fantasy with magical carpets.
Yes. Our parents were square and the cops didn't even know what weed looked like! Those were the days!
The one thing I'm thankful for from my young teen years...is that I had music like this to shape my musical tastes.
Yes Harry this song was on the radio! The late 60s and 70s by far had the best music! Love the music that you play;
Harri- you have to realize that most all of the songs you are listening to from back in the day assumed the listener was enjoying it while stoned.
😀
This song just blows me away! Awesome tune..
This brings me back to the Viet Nam war, psychedelic era of my early teens. Love your reaction
"Let the sound take you away." And that's what it does. Psychedelic. A trip. Fantastic number. Ya gotta love it.
Music and LSD is a magic carpet ride...
I always thought this song was made to showcase Goldy McJohn's masterful Hammond organ playing.
Back in the day, it was instantly presumed that this was about getting high. After FM rolled out, anything was fair game on the radio. Generally, only AM was censored. AM was considered more like a public service.
This song has been played on 60s nostalgic radio stations across the US almost daily since 1968. It might even have been played more than say Fleetwood Mac, now that's saying something. For more Steppenwolf try: The Pusher, Rock Me Baby, Snowblind Friend, Monster, Don't Step On the Grass Sam, and my favorite: Earschplittenloudenboomer
Hey, Lady Mama, It's Never Too Late, Sookie Sookie, The Pusher, Snowblind Friend, Power Play, Monster, Don't Step on the Grass, Sam, Berry Rides Again and more!
Love Steppenwolf!
Just some facts: The real name of the singer "John Kay" is "Joachim Fritz Krauledat" as he is a german-canadian who was born in Germany in 1944. As refugees (WW2) his parents took refuge to Canada. You see him most of the time with sun-glasses as he is defined as "legally blind". He only has a eyesight of 21% and is color blind as well :-/ Later he did amazing solo albums ... my favourite is "Heretics and Privateers" released in 2000 with includes the same titled song. Very bluesy! :-)
One my favorite songs for driving down the free way. Psychedelic rock at its finest!
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf is an all-time favorite song that will NEVER leave my playlist!
It's like taking a 'trip' on the music (substance).
I think this song may have begun in a late 60s pipe dream and finished in an early 70s opium den. 😂 This lyric is hard to understand when they sing it but it one of my favorites; a great mix of humor and disappointment.
“Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
So I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked
Around
A lousy candle's all I found”
Great song and reaction. Thank you Harri.
I love John Kay & Steppenwolf! Grew up on them. Their deepest songs are "Renegade' about John Kay's experience escaping from behind the Iron Curtain as a child, and 'Monster' which is an epic critique of American history and culture. Also 'The Pusher' and 'Snowblind Friend' about the dangers of drug abuse.
loved that line, "He'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother,
and he'll always be another one of us..."
@@ThePeaceableKingdom Hoyt Axton = World class songwriting. He wrote Snowblind Friend and The Pusher by Steppenwolf as well as Never Been to Spain and Joy To the World by Three Dog Night. Among many others.
@@supasoulproductions Yes. A great song writer and great guitarist.
"Born to Be Wild" is featured in the movie _Easy Rider._ "Magic Carpet Ride" is featured in the movie _Candy._
Two VERY different movies.
"Magic Carpet Ride" is a DEFINITE reference to the psychedelic era from which this music emerged ....... trust me on that
8 track wood paneled station wagon…….blasting
Got to see them live once. Really good performance. This is a CLASSIC song and exemplifies all that is great about rock n roll! Thanks Harri! You get better everyday! No fear in what you play! 💯
Steppenwolf were a great band! Saw them live twice in the early 70s! This was their second HUGE Top Ten Hit. Their follow up to Born To Be Wild. MONSTER by Steppenwolf is a brilliant gem! Great song! I think you'd absolutely LOVE it! 😎🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦
Bubble Puppy-Hot Smoke And Sassafras is a great piece of late 60s psychedelia!!
For my money, John Kay had the perfect voice for authentic Rock 'n Roll. I saw the original Steppenwolf once at the Rochester War Memorial in Rochester, New York, and they didn't disappoint .....
The 🐺 Steppenwolf is rapping!! Here 👍🎭
I dson't know about Great Britain, but it was played constantly (unedited) in the USA in the late 60's.
"Fantasy will set you free". Awesome line! I'm checking out some of your older reactions. Also, check out THE PUSHER.
Pretty much what you heard was in fact on the radio...not too censored
They were so big and they were right there from the begininning. Saw them live in Atlanta. Thanks to Sir Harri and the greatest UA-cam channel ever. Oh, I saw them in Miami, as well.
don leavell, saw them in El Paso, Tx in either 1969-70, been to long ago to really remember. I was 15-16 years old and smoked too much weed to say for sure. I remember thinking they were a better studio band than live but heck, what do you know at that age. Still, good memories.😎😎😎😎😎
The song is about music and its power to transport you to other places....not drugs. This song came to John Kay when he was listening to some music on his stereo while lying down with the two speakers on either side of his head. His stereo is the " sound machine" he mentions in the opening line. In the 60s, if you didn't understand a rock song, the default explanation was that it must be about drugs. I saw them live in 1969.
You're right, it IS a trip (LSD, of course). This is the best example of "psychedelic" music . Did you watch Easy Rider yet ? Back in the 60s and 70s we had FM Radio and they would play all the cool sounds, like this song. There were all kinds of cool DJs and they had their own shows. One such was Allison Steele "The Night Bird" and she'd come on at midnight. Really a great time to be young and hip . In time, FM died out, but the times will always be remembered. (Sometimes, they'd play a whole album !)
Snowblind Friend is my favourite :)
yes great song!! great memories 👍👍🙏🤣✌🏻
Another great one Harri! 🌺✌️
No censored parts. Lots of radio play at the time.
It was a Top 40 Hit!!!!
Yes it was played on the radio.That is where I first heard "Magic Carpet Ride",and became a fan. 1968 I was 13.Steppenwolf was so kool.They even sang Magic Carpet Ride on the Ed Sullivan show .Ed called them the long haired Steppenwolf.He seemed put off by them.They were kinda high when they performed,but the cool look and John Kay's sunglasses blew me away.
Later I found out he was sight impaired due to malnutrition as a child.He has an interesting life story.Check it out sometime.
I felt the same way, their sound was ahead of the times.
In "Born to be wild" he used the phrase Heavy Metal,which was something new.
I wasn't born yet when this came out, so I don't know how the radio play for it was then, but I definitely heard it a lot on the oldies radio stations my parents listened to when I was growing up from the late 70s through the early 90s.
Classic 70's or late 60's ! College was fun with this music :)
Good reaction I found Steppenwolf back in the late sixties when my brother was a member of the Columbia record club and they would send an album or 2 every month check out their most famous song would be born to be wild which has been used in many movies also there's A-line in the song that says heavy metal thunder, They are kind of given credit as being the groundbreakers for heavy metal music great reaction keep spreading the music God-bless
Great song
Music of my youth!
Classic I love this song
This is better than Born to Be Wild. In the instrumental part of this song there are sounds that remind me of whale calls.. Maybe it's just me.
One of the first phsycodelic style music bands of the late 60s their song The Pusher was in the movie Easy Rider
It was all over the a.m. radio, but the short version.
Harri - that's dad (bass & backup vocals) on the right behind the bush in between far right (Goldy on keys RIP) and Larry (guitarist). On the far left is Jerry the drummer and album cover artist. He was dads best friend. (RIP) The Pusher would be an obvious suggestion (Check Nina Simone cover as well) but if you would please consider a few songs probably not suggested anywhere else by Steppenwolf (Get into the wind & Gang War Blues) off Slow Flux album both very underrated songs and John Kay on Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heros which has some classics but this (Walkin Blues) version is in my bias opinion the best version I know of! (Dad played on that album as well for John) Peace and Aloha
Your father was George Biondo?
Oh yes. Smoking weed or dropping a tab of acid. Psychedelic Rock. But also a promise of a new directions in Rock. An anthem or declaration.
I myself, have been on a few magic carpet rides.
Great reaction to a great song.
Bingo Harri! 5:27 lol
It got a lot of radio play! It's funny, I never did drugs but love a lot of sings about or influenced by them. Btw, you should play "Kicks," 1st anti-drug rock song.
Rock me baby or the Pusher were good steppenwolf songs!
"The Pusher"
Ah, my cousin on lead guitar here 😀😀
Harri, have you heard the expression "sex, drugs and rock and roll"? Or how about "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"? I'm here to tell you that those were a real thing, seriously! The late '60s and the '70s, wow, fun times indeed 😁
Great philosophy 😀😂
my brother you can only guess or suppose what our generation's music did to us and shaped our psyches. what a leap into the undefined aspects of reality that has geared us to look into the many facets of possibility that set so many of us free while the dullards sank into the cruelty of narrow minded expectations and dark dreams that only serve to limit and restrict our growth.
Seriously, check out the b-side medley from the "Steppenwolf the Second" album. Also, other great songs from them are "Move Over", "Rock Me", "Renegade", "Tighten Up Your Wig".
Good stuff man. Thanks.
Love it, Mate. Keep on.
Try their song "Snow Blind Friend" Harri
"Monster" as well. Great band.
Mkay. Pretty sure everyone knew what they meant from the get go.
Poor me
Their song "The Pusher" has more of a blues sound.
Puff, puff pass music back in the days, of Steppenwolf, as well as Iron Butterfly 🦋 17 min song In - a - Gadda -da - Vida will blow you away 🎶 Yes it is like Led Zep, but without Robert P !!
For a real groovy vibe, try 'The Pusher', about damning the pusher man.
Written by Hoyt Axton and also covered by Nina Simone and Blind Mellon!
Thanks, Harri.
Yeah, the song was on the radio, but the 45 cut the “rave up” part almost completely.
I have a different song for you. Actually a bit of a medley. From Steppenwolf’s album “Monster”. The bit titled “Monster/Suicide/America”. Lots to think about in that.
Take good care, bud. ✌️
Thqnx Robert
Time to test the warp drive
Definitely Funky. Check out Sookie Sookie!
If you remember the 60's, you were not really there LOL
Listen to ? And TheMysterians
LSD Yes
Which brings me to my next point kids...don't do drugs! Great group though!
You know LSD was legal until 67 .
Vietnam war really affected a lot of the music in the latter part of the sixties to
Need to listen to Nektar rreme.ber the future both sides with words u will hear how alot of bands were influenced.
It was the time of the hippies, drugs, sex , rock and roll and the Vietnam War
Please react to Snow Blind Friend!!!
You really need a group of friends and a long and winding dirt road out to a gate leading into a field . You drive along listening to the music and looking for the bonfire. When you arrive you get a beer and hotdogs and dance the night away. Come dawn you drive out to Harrdies to get breakfast and go home to crash on the couch .
There is no hard line between 31Dec1969 and 1Jan1970
None of the bands from this era should be pigeon holed into one style. All of these bands had tons of great writers & musicians that could & did explore multiple avenues.
60's music was different..
Maybe loose but Harri , they could.
play.Words very varied.Hippy days were different.
NO.Its about sex together.
LSD was all over the place then.
Even in my school when I was 13....
It was never banned
It's about LSD 100%
Any more than 31Dec1979 and 1Jan1980
It’s a helicopter
Vietnam war helicopters they simulated from that era
Harri, another wonderful female singer for you to react to. Nicolette Larson had a big hit with this cover of Neil Young's "A Lotta Love": ua-cam.com/video/tdv69cR_d78/v-deo.html. Beautiful voice, beautiful woman. Peace out.
Organize a great 2 hour set of music, do some shrooms, lay-back and let yourself fly. By this time it would have LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, or mescaline cactus which was generally a reduction in the intensity of the trip with each one. Others may have had a different experience though.
Harri - if think this sounds different, please react to "The Pusher": ua-cam.com/video/YlT5iLICBiM/v-deo.html
Will you react to You Can't Make Old Friends by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton?
ua-cam.com/video/chBNBzE35EI/v-deo.html
Ok Got it noted Debbie..thanx
About a drug trip.