STEPPENWOLF - STEPPENWOLF - NEW, SEALED VINYL LP IMPORT 2013
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STEPPENWOLF - STEPPENWOLF - NEW, SEALED VINYL LP IMPORT 2013
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Steppenwolf entered the studio for their recording debut 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.
- Merchant SKU: LAFMOV3334
- LABEL MUSIC ON VINYL
- 180 GRAM VINYL RECORD - LP - SEALED
- TRACK LISTING
- 1. Sookie Sookie
- 2. Everybody's Next One
- 3. Berry Rides Again
- 4. Hoochie Coochie Man
- 5. Born to Be Wild
- 6. Your Wall's Too High
- 7. Desperation
- 8. The Pusher
- 9. A Girl I Knew
- 10. Take What You Need
- 11. The Ostrich
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