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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelEsot, ESOTERIC
UPC5013929477780
eBay Product ID (ePID)6049150783
Product Key Features
Release Year2021
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistSteppenwolf
Release TitleMagic Carpet Ride: the Dunhill / ABC Years 1967-1971
Dimensions
Item Height2.05 in
Item Weight0.86 lb
Item Length5.38 in
Item Width5.29 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks53
Number of Discs8
Tracks1.1 Sookie Sookie 1.2 Everybody's Next One 1.3 Berry Rides Again 1.4 Hootchie Kootchie Man 1.5 Born to Be Wild 1.6 Your Wall's Too High 1.7 Desperation 1.8 The Pusher 1.9 A Girl I Knew 1.10 Take What You Need 1.11 The Ostrich 1.12 Sookie Sookie 1.13 Born to Be Wild 1.14 Everybody's Next One 1.15 Take What You Need 1.16 A Girl I Knew 1.17 The Ostrich 1.18 The Pusher 1.19 Berry Rides Again 2.1 Faster Than the Speed of Life 2.2 Tighten Up Your Wig 2.3 None of Your Doing 2.4 Spiritual Fantasy 2.5 Don't Step on the Grass Sam 2.6 28 2.7 Magic Carpet Ride 2.8 Disappointment Number (Unknown) 2.9 Lost and Found By Trial and Error 2.10 Hodge, Podge, Strained Through a Leslie 2.11 Resurrection 2.12 Reflections 2.13 Magic Carpet Ride (Mono Single Version) 2.14 Spiritual Fantasy (Mono Single Version 3.1 Don't Cry 3.2 Chicken Wolf 3.3 Lovely Meter 3.4 Round and Down 3.5 It's Never Too Late 3.6 Sleeping Dreaming 3.7 Jupiter Child 3.8 She'll Be Better 3.9 Cat Killer 3.10 Rock Me 3.11 God Fearing Man 3.12 Mango Juice 3.13 Happy Birthday 3.14 Rock Me 3.15 Jupiter Child 3.16 1It's Never Too Late 17 Happy Birthday 4.1 Power Play 4.2 Howlin' for My Baby 3 Goin' Upstairs 4.3 Corina, Corina 4.4 Tighten Up Your Wig 6 the Pusher
NotesEight CD set. Remastered From The Original Dunhill/Abc Master Tapes. Steppenwolf was formed in 1967 in LA by John Kay (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Goldy McJohn (organ, piano) and Jerry Edmonton (drums) who were previously members of the Canadian band The Sparrows. They were joined by Michael Monarch (lead guitar) and Rushton Moreve (bass). The band signed to Dunhill/ABC the same year and with producer Gabriel Mekler they recorded their self-titled debut album. The band were propelled to success with their classic single 'Born To Be Wild' (a #2 hit in the USA) and became even wider known when the track was featured, along with their version of 'The Pusher' in the classic 1969 counterculture film Easy Rider. 'The Second' was released in October '68 and featured the hit single 'Magic Carpet Ride' (another US #2 hit). In March '69 'At Your Birthday Party' was released to further success and was their first record to feature Nick St Nicholas on bass and their last to feature Michael Monarch. The July 1969 release 'Early Steppenwolf' featured live recordings made at The Matrix in San Francisco in May 1967 and featured a 20-minute version of 'The Pusher'. The band's next studio album, 'Monster', was issued in November 1969 and dealt with America's involvement in the Vietnam War. 1970 saw the band release two albums, the double LP 'Steppenwolf Live' and 'Steppenwolf 7'. By the release of the latter the band's popularity began to wain slightly, although they would retain a large and loyal fan base. Their November 1971 album 'For Ladies Only' was their last for Dunhill/ABC and Steppenwolf disbanded in February 1972 only to reform in 1974.
This collection contains all of the albums released by Dunhill Records by Steppenwolf. They include all but one of the images from the albums. For some odd reason the back of Steppenwolf 7 is different than the original cover. Strange! However, most of the 8 CDs contain the mono re-mixes from the singles which are sometimes peculiar. Check out the single edit of Monster. Even John Kay couldn't bring himself to include it on a recent Steppenwolf singles compilation. Just FYI, it's also available on 16 Greatest Hits but it IS the last track on that compilation. If you can find one grab it. It's obvious they didn't make enough of these!