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‘HEAVY METAL THUNDER’ STEPPENWOLF

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 29, 2020…ON THIS DATE IN 1968 STEPPENWOLF RELEASED THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. THE ALBUM FEATURED THE BIKER CLASSIC ‘BORN TO BE WILD’ . THE TERM “HEAVY METAL THUNDER” IN THE SONG IS THE FIRST REFERENCE TO HEAVY METAL IN ANY SONG. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE WRITER OF ‘BORN TO BE WILD’ WROTE THE SONG AS A BALLAD ! STEPPENWOLF SPED IT UP AND PUT SOME OOMPH INTO IT ON THEIR ALBUM. THE ALBUM ALSO FEATURED THE SONG ‘THE PUSHER’. BOTH SONGS ALSO APPEARED IN THE MOVIE ‘EASY RIDER’ . THIS IS A 1969 STEPPENWOLF TV APPEARANCE WITH THE BAND PERFORMING ‘BORN TO BE WILD’

HERE’S A GREAT LIVE VERSION OF ‘THE PUSHER’