#Early steppenwolf vinyl album ds 50060 plus#“Monster” opens with the medley “Monster/Suicide/America” a nine minute plus opus, penned by Kay, Edmonton, St. Thus, guitarist Byrom aside, “Monster” was the work of Sparrow, guitarist Mars Bonfire (Dennis Edmonton) the only member missing from the Canadian based quintet which recorded a couple of singles in 1966, and who relocated to Los Angeles at the urging of Gabriel Mekler, who got the band a recording contract with ABC/Dunhill Records, resulting in the release of their debut single “A Girl I Knew” b/w “The Ostrich” in 1967, and their s/t debut January 1968 LP which contained both sides of the single, along with nine other tracks, including the band’s signature tune “Born To Be Wild” penned by guitarist Bonfire, and the album and related singles having previously been the focus of The Steppenwolf Story-Chapter One recently published here in It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine. The nucleus of vocalist/rhythm guitarist/harmonica player John Kay, drummer/vocalist Jerry Edmonton and organ/piano player Goldy McJohn remained. Nicholas was the band leader and bassist of. Nicholas had appeared on the band’s fourth LP, “Early Steppenwolf” but that recording, as previously mentioned, was actually the work of Sparrow, the pre-Steppenwolf band which St. (Trust In Men Everywhere) members Larry Byrom on lead guitar and Nick St. “Monster” was the first album to feature former T.I.M.E. The long player did include two Top 40 singles, “Move Over” released in mid-August 1969 that reached #31 and the title track, released in late December 1969, which eked in at #39. Consisting of seven tracks, highlighted by the opening, nine minute, fifteen second, medley, of which the title track was the opening section, it was Steppenwollf’s most political album and their first to not make the Top 10 on the Billboard charts, peaking at #17 in early 1970. The Steppenwolf Story – Chapter Five “Monster,” Steppenwolf’s fifth LP, fourth from the studio, was released in November 1969, a mere four months after “Early Steppenwolf” a live set recorded May 14, 1967, while the band was still performing under their original moniker, Sparrow.
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