{"id":13962,"date":"2018-01-19T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2018-01-19T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:04:32","slug":"a-look-back-at-steppenwolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/a-look-back-at-steppenwolf\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at &#8216;Steppenwolf&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13963\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steppenwolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steppenwolf.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steppenwolf-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/steppenwolf-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>This feature originally appeared on<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/\">BestClassicBands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in Toronto and adding two Los Angeles-based musicians, Steppenwolf came on the music scene just as hard rock was heading toward its ascendancy. Looking for all the world like a biker gang, Steppenwolf could have been created by central casting to portray a hard-edged, leather-clad group of rockers. But in fact the band \u2013 led by vocalist and guitarist John Kay \u2013 was a real group.<\/p>\n<p>Steppenwolf had released its debut single \u2013 \u201cA Girl I Knew\u201d b\/w \u201cThe Ostrich\u201d \u2013 in late 1967, but the 45 went largely unnoticed, making not a ripple on the singles charts. Both tunes would be included on the group&#8217;s self-titled LP, recorded in the fall of &#8217;67 and released in January 1968. In fact 8 of the album&#8217;s 11 tracks would eventually appear on singles as the band&#8217;s reputation took off.<\/p>\n<p>For its debut album, the band worked with Gabriel Mekler, house producer at Dunhill Records. Mekler&#8217;s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 at that point was quite thin; his only previous production credits were three singles by Dunhill act Lamp of Childhood. But working together, Mekler and Steppenwolf crafted a debut album that defined the new rock subgenre that would come to be known as heavy metal. (The term would eventually come to represent a very different style of music, but in 1968, heavy metal meant Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer and other heavy, loud rock acts.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/steppenwolf-debut-album-11-27-17\/\">Click here to visit BestClassicBands and read the entire review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feature originally appeared on BestClassicBands. Formed in Toronto and adding two Los Angeles-based musicians, Steppenwolf came on the music scene just as hard rock was heading toward its ascendancy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65],"tags":[2603],"class_list":["post-13962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rawk","category-review","tag-steppenwolf","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13964,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions\/13964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}