Label: Geffen Records(Japan), UICY-75559
Style: Rock, Hard Rock
Country: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Time: 74:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 446 Mb
Charts: AUS #16; UK #15: NOR #9; U.S. #7
Steppenwolf Live is primarily a collection of recordings from a single concert early in 1970 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium by Steppenwolf staged in support of their 1969 album Monster. Released in April 1970 by Dunhill Records, it contains Steppenwolf's well-known hits: "Born to Be Wild", "Magic Carpet Ride" and "The Pusher", as well as most of the songs from Monster, including three previous top 40 hits, as well as the top 40 hit "Hey Lawdy Mama" from this album.
(en.wikipedia.org)
Recorded at various concerts in 1970, this double LP (single CD) also infamously includes a handful of studio-created "live" cuts with overdubbed crowd noise on top of what are some surprisingly lean and effective live-in-the-studio performances. It isn't half-bad musically, roughly on a par with Happening Live by the Outsiders (another fake live release) for musical value, and it is one of the choicer pop-culture documents of its era, featuring such topical songs as "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam" (which opens with an offhanded spoken critique of Operation Intercept, the crackdown on marijuana smuggling instituted by the Nixon administration) and "Draft Resister," and longtime parts of their repertory such as "Tighten up Your Wig," "Corina, Corina," "Power Play," and "The Pusher." The obligatory hits, "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Born to Be Wild," are also present, and it is fun listening, featuring essentially the same lineup that recorded the Monster album that preceded it. The guitars of John Kay and Larry Byrom interweave beautifully, and there isn't much excess, even allowing for the presence of a ten-minute version of "Monster." And assuming that the repertory is appealing, listeners should love the longer versions of most of the songs present here, whether they were really live or not.
(allmusic.com/album/live-mca-mw0000653985)
01. Sookie Sookie (03:10)
02. Don't Step On The Grass, Sam (06:07)
03. Tighten Up Your Wig (04:14)
04. Monster (09:54)
05. Draft Resister (03:46)
06. Power Play (05:43)
07. Corina, Corina (03:48)
08. Twisted (05:02)
09. From Here To There Eventually (06:51)
10. Hey Lawdy Mama (02:58)
11. Magic Carpet Ride (04:15)
12. The Pusher (05:59)
13. Born To Be Wild (05:45)
14. Hey Lawdy Mama (Mono Single Version) (03:20)
15. Twisted (Mono Single Version) (03:44)
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