Early Steppenwolf
A raw 1967 club recording capturing the band's heavy blues origins. Gritty organ jams and a massive, harrowing twenty-minute version of The Pusher.
July 1969 · ABC/Dunhill Records
A raw 1967 club recording capturing the band's heavy blues origins. Gritty organ jams and a massive, harrowing twenty-minute version of The Pusher.
July 1969 · ABC/Dunhill Records
This is not the polished, radio-ready Steppenwolf of the late sixties. Instead, it is a window into a smoke-filled San Francisco club in 1967, where the band was still finding its teeth. The sound is thick with the smell of stale beer and tube amps pushed to their breaking point. It feels like a transitional fossil, caught between the polite blues-rock of the mid-sixties and the aggressive, biker-soundtrack hard rock that would soon make them famous. The atmosphere is claustrophobic and heavy, dominated by Goldy McJohn's swirling, distorted Hammond organ.
How does Early Steppenwolf sound next to the rest of Steppenwolf's catalogue?
Intense saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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