2023: from the Yonge Street Strip and Yorkville Village in Toronto, Canada - John K. and the Sparrows. They broke up because you couldn't hit it big internationally from Canada. Some members ended up in California and became Steppenwolf. The name Steppenwolf is a tribute to the greatest piece of German literature by the same name by the author Herman Hesse. John immigrated to Canada from Germany in the late 50s. Believe me, The Sparrows could bring it.
Yep, and if you were riding your bike with your transistor radio, every time you turned your bike, you had to turn the radio for best reception. And, who can forget the one, single white ear bud for private listening?
@@bobwallace9814 We used to do that and while I was talking to a friend, I hit a parked car and landed on the trunk. My Lemon Peeler Schwinn was never the same again.
This song should be the national anthem. I got to see Steppenwolf in Omaha in 71, it was my 1st concert, I was 13. Then saw them in Maui in early 90s. People were dressed the same at both shows! Truly epic!!!!!
@@johanvandermeulen9696 Ja ja ..., das Buch wollte ich mal lesen in meiner Jugend. Aber so um die 68er-Zeit bin ich dann doch lieber einer interessanteren Beschäftigung nachgegangen.... aber trotzdem Dankeschön.
One of THE songs at flower power time, sung by former German Joachim Krauledat (aka John Kay). Remember my feelings of that days 😊😊😊 And of course „Easy Rider“🏍
Krauledat is the shorten Germanised Lithuanian surname. Joachim Kraulėdaitis -- his true Lithuanian surname. There is even Kraulėdaičiai village near Tilžė ("Tilsit" in German) town, where he was born.. There are are more Lithuanian villages with the same name on both sides of the Lithuanian river Nemunas.. :)
This song is sometimes called the first hevie metal due to the fact that the string of it "Heavy Metal Thunder" gave the name of the genre of rock music. She is also called the Biker anthem of the late 1960s - the beginning of the 1970s after it was sounded in the cult film "Easy Rider" (1969)
I was six when my older brother took me to see Easy Rider..It changed my life and insight about what was going on w/ Nam and the movement. John Kay has a voice you'll never forget.AWESOME!!!!
So true. When I left home at age 18 in 1970, I broke every rule I'd ever learned and lived to tell it. Anyone who didn't do drugs was a 'straight' and soon I rarely associated with them except immediate family. Born to be wild. Yes indeed. So many of my friends died from overdose. I was a lucky fool.
Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space I like smoke and lightnin' Heavy metal thunder Racing with the wind And the feeling that I'm under Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space Like a true nature's child We were born Born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die Born to be wild Born to be wild Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space Like a true nature's child We were born Born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die Born to be wild Born to be wild Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Mars Bonfire
oh, it's not 'how many ' drums you have.....(Mr Neal Smith ? from alice cooper ? are you there ?) it is '' how they are expressed '' same as Ringo, Charlie Watts .....etc..
Ein toller Song, den ich in meiner Jugendzeit gern gehört habe, wenn man damals anständige Musik hören wollte, gab es ja nur entweder den MUSIKLADEN oder den BEATCLUB! ❤❤❤❤❤
This is my favorite band growing up . I had all of their albums , so many great songs , even though not all got air play time , my album collection was around 100 , but atlas I lost them all . Wish I still had them , some now days would be worth more then what I paid for them
The Steppenwolf Band Is Stupendous, Very Stunning Too Much, Revolucionary, Magical, Fantastic, Magnificient, Sweet Sound, One Master-Piece, One Art-Work, One Delicious Sound And Music To My Ears!!!
At the time, Steppenwolf represented the Acid Edge of Rock. Their music was thought of as a different approach. A kind of wise abandon. The lyrics of Rock Me say it all. The "She" in the song is the new consciousness of youth: She asked me maybe I could share her sorrow For all the men that tried to treat her wrong Though just a baby, awaiting her tomorrow It's rock me baby, rock me baby, all night long. She needs an answer to her confusion Someone to guide her with tenderness, But when she's askin' for a solution, All that she gets, you know, is something like this: I don't know where we come from, Don't know where we're goin' to, But if all this should have a reason, We would be the last to know So let's just hope there is a promised land. Hang on 'til then, As best as you can. Ev'rybody's ills, you know it fills her with compassion. That's why she tries to save the world alone. She helps the needy in her own fashion, And tries to give them all her own. She needs an answer to her confusion. Someone to guide her with tenderness. But when she's askin' for a solution, All that she gets, you know, is Something like this: I don't know where we come from Don't know where we're goin' to But if all this should have a reason We would be the last to know So let's just hope there is a promised land Hang on 'til then As best as you can
I liked your comment but the song is really about her mistaking sex for love, the thing that everyone was and still is looking for. Also her searching for answers to the question of the purpose of life.
So many people claimed John Kay was really Ernie Douglas from My Three Sons..lolz. Great band live, saw them with ? & The Mysterians, The Association, The Left Banke and The Beach Boys on one bill back around 1967, amazing show for a first concert. Tampa Convention Center I think it was.
Extraordinaria cancion,cantante John K.,estilo J.Morrison,en España tuvo bastante exito,al menos yo compre el single cuando salio finales 60s.A destacar,el organo
Que buena musica, esto es musica la energia que muestra el baterista, el vocalista y el guitarrista.... no esa huevada de musica que actualmente existe..
Nacido para ser rebelde asi debe ser la vlda... rebelde acabar con la monotonia y ese baterista le pone pasion a lo que le gusta... que nunca muera esta musica
Little did they know how many countless times their song would be used all through American culture for more than 50 years and counting. I used this song as a soundtrack for a ski video I made. It was the perfect song!
Goldy, burrhead, was a good friend. He moved somewhere near Vancouver. He wasn't a regular drug user or a drunk. God bless you, Goldy, wherever you are ...
Jon Kay, former artisited, I enjoyed too. Listened too you's, singing and also. Your's voicals, it's clearly. And you's had a fansstactic, yours primed,
Get your motor runnin' 오토바이에 시동을 걸어 Head out on the highway 고속도로로 나가 Lookin' for adventure 모험을 찾아서 And whatever comes our way 무엇이든 우리에게 온다면. Yeah Good I gonna make it happen 그래 좋아 되게 만들거야 Take the world in a love embrace 사랑의 포옹으로 세상을 가져봐 Fire all of your guns at once 니가 가진총을 한번에 발사해봐 And explode into space 그리고 우주로 폭발해봐 I like smoke and lightning 난 연기와 번개를 좋아하지. HEAVY METAL Thunder 헤비메탈 번개와 Racin' with the wind 바람과 함께 달리고 And the feelin' that I'm under 그리고 내가 그밑에 있다고 느껴 Yeah God I gonna make it happen 오 하나님 되게 만들거에요 Take the world in a love embrace 사랑의 포옹으로 세상을 가지고 Fire all of your guns at once 네가 가진총을 한번에 발사해서 And explode into space 우주로 폭발할거에요 Like a true nature's child 참된 자연의 아이처럼 We were born, born to be wild 우리는 거칠게 태어났지 We can climb so high 우리는 아주 높이 기어올라갈수있어 I never wanna die 절대로 죽고싶지 않아 Born to be wild 거칠게 태어났지 Get your motor runnin' 오토바이에 시동을 걸어 Head out on the highway 고속도로로 나가 Lookin' for adventure 모험을 찾아서 And whatever comes our way 무엇이든 우리에게 온다면. Yeah Good I gonna make it happen 그래 좋아 되게 만들거야 Take the world in a love embrace 사랑의 포옹으로 세상을 가져봐 Fire all of your guns at once 니가 가진총을 한번에 발사해봐 And explode into space 그리고 우주로 폭발해봐 Like a true nature's child 참된 자연의 아이처럼 We were born, born to be wild 우리는 거칠게 태어났네 We can climb so high 아주 높이 기어올라갈수 있어 I never wanna die 절대로 지고싶지 않아
this song will never grow old
You have that right!
It’s is old, 54 years old.
Why do you feel the need to send such a negative comment? To most of us this great song will NEVER get old.
@@Patriot-oi7mj 😂 Not negative, factual.
just kiddie shit
А legend of rock, it is impossible to imagine motorcycle riders and the movie "Easy rider" without this song.
Actually Hendrix easy Rider would be harder to believe to not be there in that movie
One of the greatest songs is Easy Rider by Iron Butterfly
This Song makes me Happy when I Listen. Good Song of 60´s.
2023: from the Yonge Street Strip and Yorkville Village in Toronto, Canada - John K. and the Sparrows. They broke up because you couldn't hit it big internationally from Canada. Some members ended up in California and became Steppenwolf. The name Steppenwolf is a tribute to the greatest piece of German literature by the same name by the author Herman Hesse. John immigrated to Canada from Germany in the late 50s. Believe me, The Sparrows could bring it.
Back in those days this was a HUGE hit.
Brought to us all in mono on AM radio.
As Maxwell Smart would say, " And Loving It"! 😏
Yep, and if you were riding your bike with your transistor radio, every time you turned your bike, you had to turn the radio for best reception. And, who can forget the one, single white ear bud for private listening?
@@ConvairDart106 We all rode side by side for that stereo effect.
@@bobwallace9814 We used to do that and while I was talking to a friend, I hit a parked car and landed on the trunk. My Lemon Peeler Schwinn was never the same again.
I put the speakers on both sides of my head.
This song should be the national anthem. I got to see Steppenwolf in Omaha in 71, it was my 1st concert, I was 13. Then saw them in Maui in early 90s. People were dressed the same at both shows! Truly epic!!!!!
where does the name steppenwolf come from...?
It is Indeed the USA national Anthem.
Got to see them three times and each time they sounded like their albums !
@@maxsugar6394 Steppenwolf ist ein berühmter Roman des Schriftstellers Hermann Hesse.
@@johanvandermeulen9696 Ja ja ..., das Buch wollte ich mal lesen in meiner Jugend. Aber so um die 68er-Zeit bin ich dann doch lieber einer interessanteren Beschäftigung nachgegangen.... aber trotzdem Dankeschön.
Legendery: HardRock era was born!!
Heavy metal, not hard rock.
@@nicoladigioia7667 not Steppenwolf! Black Sabbath is heavy metal mylady! " Wheels on confusion, Children of the grave, and Iron man" 4 exemples^^.
A blueprint for the genres with a harder edge.
🤣🤣🤣It's rock n roll man.
What a legendary tune
A Stone Classic!
イージイライダーの映像と共に浮かぶロックの名曲。
いいバンド、いい曲です。
My first concert 1967! I will never forget it.
Los 60".... nostalgia...lo mejor de lo mejor...por siempre y para siempre será... Saludos de Perú Región JUNIN.
🇺🇸 🤍 🇵🇪 , forever, amigo!! How far from Lima?
STEPPENWOLF Live in Offenbach/Germany 🎸🥁🎸🥁Great Concert.
Habe die Eintrittskarte noch 🥁🎸🥁🎸
I can remember being a little kid and going nuts whenever this song came on. Truly one of the best.
I was 19 when the rock & roll generation took off. This was the Anthem we lived by!
What a group. Powerful! How many have been influenced by the magical group. Their music still plays. It is still relevant!
Essa música é um clássico do rock in roll.🎸🎸🎸🎸
Olaf Is dominating the race!
I saw them in Miami around this time 1969-70. Great band.
Seen the group in Toronto Okeefe Centre in 1970 and John has left us some great music Thank you Steppen Wolf.
I got to see Steppenwolf and The Starship together at Pine knob years ago loved it
I saw them both at a show in Alaska.
Ottawa civic Center had a blast
This song never gets old to hear.
John Kay is the best lead singer of his era..rock'n roll grit..
One of THE songs at flower power time, sung by former German Joachim Krauledat (aka John Kay). Remember my feelings of that days 😊😊😊 And of course „Easy Rider“🏍
Krauledat is the shorten Germanised Lithuanian surname. Joachim Kraulėdaitis -- his true Lithuanian surname. There is even Kraulėdaičiai village near Tilžė ("Tilsit" in German) town, where he was born.. There are are more Lithuanian villages with the same name on both sides of the Lithuanian river Nemunas.. :)
This song is sometimes called the first hevie metal due to the fact that the string of it "Heavy Metal Thunder" gave the name of the genre of rock music. She is also called the Biker anthem of the late 1960s - the beginning of the 1970s after it was sounded in the cult film "Easy Rider" (1969)
I wish I was present being one of the audiences during that day in 1969 when Steppenwolf performed on The Beat Club German TV show.
One of the great rock anthems.
Классный рок. Моя молодость 👍👏😄
Мне было 17. Я это записывал!
I was six when my older brother took me to see Easy Rider..It changed my life and insight about what was going on w/ Nam and the movement. John Kay has a voice you'll never forget.AWESOME!!!!
Totally AMAZING how their guitars play out the sound without being plugged into their amplifiers! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!
Thats how the British liked it in those days
Bluetooth!!!
Not only that, this live show is an EXACT REPLICA, note for note, of the original record. Amazing!
It was Lypsycing! Get over it & enjoy.
@@jf8085 They weren't British.
Those who are listening to this kind of song are ultra legend
Definitely one of world 100 best rock gigs ever
"Heavy metal thunder"
Says it all!
They were my first concert. Opening act was sonny and cher, also canned heat and I was 12yrs old. 👵🎸
Powerful song ✌️🌿
So true. When I left home at age 18 in 1970, I broke every rule I'd ever learned and lived to tell it. Anyone who didn't do drugs was a 'straight' and soon I rarely associated with them except immediate family. Born to be wild. Yes indeed. So many of my friends died from overdose. I was a lucky fool.
America's rock anthem - epic performance
An anthem of it's time that still sounds great today, Slade do a very good live version of this, well worth a listen.
Tengo 68 años y todavía me gusta
great voice great band
Muito bom O som da banda. Tudo dos anos 60 e 70 marcou demais.
Wow his voice sounds spot on unlike the video I just saw from the 80’s just wow
it's called playback
They were smooth and just plain cool..!!
A phenomenal track from a great band. You only had to hear it once and you never forgot exactly how it went.
O puro rock and roll é eterno mesmo
Grew up listening to the song and the music of the day and now in today's world it's my ringtone how kool man 🇺🇸✌
I am 67 and had to 15 or 16 the 1st time I heard this. Next was the Pusher I think. Killer music!
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way
Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
I like smoke and lightnin'
Heavy metal thunder
Racing with the wind
And the feeling that I'm under
Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born
Born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way
Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born
Born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Mars Bonfire
AWESOME GOLDY!!!
Muy buena banda excelente
Классика не стареет, а становиться как хороший выдержанный напиток🤘🎸
Great band the songs will live forever 🎵 🎹 🎶 🎸 🎼 🥁 🎵
Som de primeira. Banda lindíssima
Ficou na saudades.
John Kay was my favorite growing up.
Captures the lawless vibe of the era. I know, I was 17 when this track ruled the charts.
I've been to many of your concerts Glad to see you again
That was one good meal at the C as you made your get away. Awesome dude😃❤💚
THERE, WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER group, so tight, so together, expressing lyrics, in every instrument, = total cohesion, of expressing the ' mood '.
oh, it's not 'how many ' drums you have.....(Mr Neal Smith ? from alice cooper ? are you there ?) it is '' how they are expressed '' same as Ringo, Charlie Watts .....etc..
Gran temazo de los 70, benditos años.
Esta rola es de finales de los 60s
Ein toller Song, den ich in meiner Jugendzeit gern gehört habe, wenn man damals anständige Musik hören wollte, gab es ja nur entweder den MUSIKLADEN oder den BEATCLUB! ❤❤❤❤❤
This is my favorite band growing up . I had all of their albums , so many great songs , even though not all got air play time , my album collection was around 100 , but atlas I lost them all . Wish I still had them , some now days would be worth more then what I paid for them
Brasil tambem escuta Stepenwolf.
Perfeitamente
Sim kkjj
yeahh
Kkkkkkkkkk
The Steppenwolf Band Is Stupendous, Very Stunning Too Much, Revolucionary, Magical, Fantastic, Magnificient, Sweet Sound, One Master-Piece, One Art-Work, One Delicious Sound And Music To My Ears!!!
Love it....
Fresh wind from the past, when music was a music, drugs were the drugs)))
Tremendo, potente, verraco.
Must have been pretty exciting for Steppenwolf to have their song chosen for some B-Rated movie called Easy Rider and become legendary.
I bet you missed out living in that era, aye!
@@galupas Missed what? Everybody starting to get into drugs?
Easy Rider was a huge worldwide hit, and is in the national historic film registry.
This song inspired me to buy and ride Harley Davidson motorcycles and after 50 years, still riding. Classic hit!
Same here. And always remember, keep your rubber side down 👍
Супер музыка нашего детства!
At the time, Steppenwolf represented the Acid Edge of Rock. Their music was thought of as a different approach. A kind of wise abandon. The lyrics of Rock Me say it all. The "She" in the song is the new consciousness of youth:
She asked me maybe I could share her sorrow
For all the men that tried to treat her wrong
Though just a baby, awaiting her tomorrow
It's rock me baby, rock me baby, all night long.
She needs an answer to her confusion
Someone to guide her with tenderness,
But when she's askin' for a solution,
All that she gets, you know, is something like this:
I don't know where we come from,
Don't know where we're goin' to,
But if all this should have a reason,
We would be the last to know
So let's just hope there is a promised land.
Hang on 'til then,
As best as you can.
Ev'rybody's ills, you know it fills her with compassion.
That's why she tries to save the world alone.
She helps the needy in her own fashion,
And tries to give them all her own.
She needs an answer to her confusion.
Someone to guide her with tenderness.
But when she's askin' for a solution,
All that she gets, you know, is
Something like this:
I don't know where we come from
Don't know where we're goin' to
But if all this should have a reason
We would be the last to know
So let's just hope there is a promised land
Hang on 'til then
As best as you can
I liked your comment but the song is really about her mistaking sex for love, the thing that everyone was and still is looking for. Also her searching for answers to the question of the purpose of life.
Nacido para ser salvaje, tema legendario!!!!
The First band in the world to say HEAVY METAL in a song....they Never knew the impact that those words would have on music 😎 Bloody brilliant.
Este es un tema de los mas escuchados...siempre alguien lo sintoniza..
John Kay, one of the coolest dudes of his time.... Saw him at big boulder (Pocono) bikers rally roughly 20 years ago
You're lucky
Love this song!!!
Bravo¡ with this song I got in love driving a 71 Chevy Nova..in Santiago Chile¡ ¡...still loving this fantastic band. ¡¡¡¡.
So many people claimed John Kay was really Ernie Douglas from My Three Sons..lolz. Great band live, saw them with ? & The Mysterians, The Association, The Left Banke and The Beach Boys on one bill back around 1967, amazing show for a first concert. Tampa Convention Center I think it was.
Quite the eclectic lineup! The variety of music back then really was incredible. I'd vote 1966-1968 as the best period of modern popular music ever!
The best years 70 s,,,,🎼💉☄️🎸🎵🎹
A champion band of our world.🤑
Super Erinnerungen an den Beat-Club
This is the first song I learned to play on drums back in 1969.
Muy buena la canción por cierto también una banda sonora de una película en la que sale Peter Fonda Denis hooper y Jack Nicholson 'Easy Rider'
Georgia is the State of Adventure and ...I am Living it...Wild Man at Alikzam...try me...
Heavy Metal Thunder! 🤘🤘
Jamming to this song NOW !
Jamming to this song also Now!
Extraordinaria cancion,cantante John K.,estilo J.Morrison,en España tuvo bastante exito,al menos yo compre el single cuando salio finales 60s.A destacar,el organo
Que buena musica, esto es musica la energia que muestra el baterista, el vocalista y el guitarrista.... no esa huevada de musica que actualmente existe..
I was 9 years old when we listened to them
Whoever has posted this video, this song was actually released and charted in 1968.
Nacido para ser rebelde asi debe ser la vlda... rebelde acabar con la monotonia y ese baterista le pone pasion a lo que le gusta... que nunca muera esta musica
Love this song happy Sunday to you
Little did they know how many countless times their song would be used all through American culture for more than 50 years and counting.
I used this song as a soundtrack for a ski video I made. It was the perfect song!
I was 15 in the year 1969. Santa give this vinyl to me and my brother. Everything was not same.as before - Born to be wild and man fly to the moon.
I was 10
Someone please tell me why Steppenwolf has NOT been inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
Goldy, burrhead, was a good friend. He moved somewhere near Vancouver. He wasn't a regular drug user or a drunk. God bless you, Goldy, wherever you are ...
Que será de la vida del gran Goldy.
Interesting story, but they all admitted to using LSD back then. Goldy died in 2017.
I believe he is on heaven. I married his ex wife in Canada for 3 yrs.
Jon Kay, former artisited, I enjoyed too. Listened too you's, singing and also. Your's voicals, it's clearly. And you's had a fansstactic, yours primed,
I remember watching American Bandstand & their drummer collapsed during their song. Instant Test Pattern on TV!!
People Googling Test Pattern...
@@user-ho5vz5tg3r That's funny, but true!
@@johnnyintrieri Remember when TV signed off at night? They would play The National Anthem and then Test Patterns!
@@user-ho5vz5tg3r 💯!!!! 👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻
Perfect. Thanks ❤️
This was an inflection point in evolution, this performance was incredible, viva México, again
It was lip-synched.
Get your motor runnin'
오토바이에 시동을 걸어
Head out on the highway
고속도로로 나가
Lookin' for adventure
모험을 찾아서
And whatever comes our way
무엇이든 우리에게 온다면.
Yeah Good I gonna make it happen
그래 좋아 되게 만들거야
Take the world in a love embrace
사랑의 포옹으로 세상을 가져봐
Fire all of your guns at once
니가 가진총을 한번에 발사해봐
And explode into space
그리고 우주로 폭발해봐
I like smoke and lightning
난 연기와 번개를 좋아하지.
HEAVY METAL Thunder
헤비메탈 번개와
Racin' with the wind
바람과 함께 달리고
And the feelin' that I'm under
그리고 내가 그밑에 있다고 느껴
Yeah God I gonna make it happen
오 하나님 되게 만들거에요
Take the world in a love embrace
사랑의 포옹으로 세상을 가지고
Fire all of your guns at once
네가 가진총을 한번에 발사해서
And explode into space
우주로 폭발할거에요
Like a true nature's child
참된 자연의 아이처럼
We were born, born to be wild
우리는 거칠게 태어났지
We can climb so high
우리는 아주 높이 기어올라갈수있어
I never wanna die
절대로 죽고싶지 않아
Born to be wild
거칠게 태어났지
Get your motor runnin'
오토바이에 시동을 걸어
Head out on the highway
고속도로로 나가
Lookin' for adventure
모험을 찾아서
And whatever comes our way
무엇이든 우리에게 온다면.
Yeah Good I gonna make it happen
그래 좋아 되게 만들거야
Take the world in a love embrace
사랑의 포옹으로 세상을 가져봐
Fire all of your guns at once
니가 가진총을 한번에 발사해봐
And explode into space
그리고 우주로 폭발해봐
Like a true nature's child
참된 자연의 아이처럼
We were born, born to be wild
우리는 거칠게 태어났네
We can climb so high
아주 높이 기어올라갈수 있어
I never wanna die
절대로 지고싶지 않아
Bad Boy Smarter
Born to be Wild feelin'@60's
I can still hear this playing in my mind, only with Huey rotors beating the air loudly in the background.
So bad ass
Super song 💖