Steppenwolf 8-9-68 late night TV performance 2 songs
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- John Kay from Steppenwolf is interviewed on a late night television show, before performing two songs with the band, taped 8-9-68 on a Hollywood soundstage outfitted to look like Hugh Hefner's penthouse (albeit "After Dark") and broadcast six months later, on 2-2-69. The show was filmed on a CBS Television City soundstage in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, located at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of Fairfax Avenue. The BetaGems channel also has the band on another episode of the same TV show, "Playboy After Dark 12-17-69 Steppenwolf, John Hartford, Delores Hull," as well as the entire episode this was excerpted from, "Playboy After Dark 2-2-69 Steppenwolf, Tony Bennett, George Plympton." We also have "Steppenwolf 1-29-88 late night TV performance."
You can find more Playboy After Dark in uploads such as "Playboy After Dark 5-30-69 Marvin Gaye, The Byrds, The Committee," "Playboy After Dark 2-20-70 Smokey Robinson, Vic Damone," "Playboy After Dark 2-2-69 Steppenwolf, Tony Bennett, George Plympton," "Playboy magazine TV commercial 1985," "Playboy Cartoonist Interviews 1985: Gahan Wilson, Frank Thorne, more," and "Playboy After Dark 9-29-68 Buddy Miles, Tommy Smothers, John Stewart."
BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on RUclips or online.
Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.
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Big FU to the rock and roll hall of fame, John Kay is a legend
Why do people still ascribe any credibility to HOF?
@@roblawhorne1015 HoF just proves there is a sucker born every minute
@@errorsofmodernism7331and evil , cheating people !
RRHOF is a joke 🤡
@@jallenshaw A fan said RocknRoll Hall of Fame was a good idea but the Suits strangled it in the crib . I say it got to live to be a teenager . Inductee Steve Miller said it is a corrupt organization run by a bunch of f*****g gangsters and crooks !
No autotune, no overdubs, no double-tracking ... just awesome, live rock-n-roll!
😴
And the girls are all natural too. No implants, piercings or tattoos.
@@tp10488Men get tats too...
Unfortunately also no bass guitar tuners.
y antes no guitar electgric no electricidad, siempre cambia todo , y no eres inocente, sos ,somos , parte del cambio, y las musucas tambien cambian, jazz, blue tecno samba goospel ect ect ect ect ect
Legendary band.
Such a massive sound, and John Kay is one of the greatest voices in the history of rock.
Damn nice live performance 👍 🎶
John Kay just standing there in his classic stance with his shades on happens to be the coolest, the coolest lead singer to ever front a Rock and Roll Band.
@@user-yv7ei4wf6l , John has had a vision issue since his early childhood in Germany.......and he has been legally blind throughout his adult life. So the sunglasses did provide the "cool factor" but they were helpful to him to deal with bright light under different circumstances.
To be honest I thought his voice was a bit weak here.
I think this band was half Canadian and half American.
Steppenwolf, another great band from the greatest generation of bands.
Live and no lip-synch. The way it should be!
Autotune Free, too!
AMEN!! 👍👍
Shame about the oh so groovy dancing!!
@@trefwoordpunk2225 Seriously?! It's past your bedtime, kid.
@@trefwoordpunk2225 You kidding me? THAT was the trip! This is reminiscent of tribal ritual dance. That's the stuff that sent these people into the trance of the music. It was the birth of the psychedelic era. There's hardly an era of dancing to rock music where the dance actually looked and felt like the music sounded. We should be rejoicing in the magic that this interaction of dance and music brought to our culture.
If you think about it that way, maybe you'll see what's in it enough to appreciate it.
Now, everything is a phony, acted out, processed, over produced, plasticine made-for-TV staged event.
~JSV
One if the best bands ever... They define the 60ies sound...
It’s a crime Steppenwolf is not in the Rock Hall of Fame, same with Grand Funk Railroad.
No, the Beatles do.
If you are talking the “acid rock” sound then Iron Butterfly goes far out there man! 🤘🤘🤘
@@TAllyn-qr3ioGod damn, the pusher man
@@debrachampagne7715 Yea, like, for real man. What a piece of work you are!
Steppenwolf while still the original lineup. What a time to be alive, love the way those girls dressed back then, too much good times.
😍 They often had on perfume - not tattoos ✨️
And no visible tattoos or fishing tackle in their face, and as far as we can tell, the women are real women.
somebody hurry up with inventing that time machine already , (we're in hell in the 2020s)
@@chrishultgren777 especially with the Democrats ruining the world.
Most of the dancers boogying in this video are in their 80s now.
When any Steppenwolf song comes on the radio in my truck, it gets turned up to the max. My grandchildren think I'm a wild man. That's fine with me.
You Gotta Be You , Just As I Remind My Children about Me , And I Truly Miss All my Old Albums of Records !!! I Crank Them Up Also !!!!
Ha ha-that is excellent! Rock on Grandpa!
Wild older man!
Love it!
Born to be wild!
Love so much to see genuine late 1960s outfits and dancing styles!
You mean dancing styles have changed?
Yeah people were more GROOVY man! 🙂@@cliffpeebles9705
I want to go back and live in 1968 FOREVER. Think of all the HOT CARS you could buy, BRAND NEW...!!!! I am so glad I lived thru those years, the Zenith of our America. to me
Even through Vietnam?
The 68 69 Cars that used to roll through the Intersections on a Friday Night .. what a Sight and sound .. Wish I had PHOTOS of it cuz it were just beyond description .. Unfortunately us " Kids" did not travel around with 35MM cameras, and most of us did not even own a Camera back them..
I agree wholeheartedly !! I was born in 1960 ! Peace and love to you
What amazes me about steppenwolf. How long and how many times I've heard their songs after 1969. The staying power and how far they were ahead of their time. They still seem hip even now. And even still beyond current. That original image and that originality in their songs.
So great; they should've gotten much more credit-Steppenwolf deserved it!
Kay arrived in Canada not speaking a word of English. A short time later he was writing songs like this. A true genius.
yes, they left Germany after the war. his father lost his life fighting the Soviets.
@@volvo1354 the Krauledat’s were Prussian. From modern day Kaliningrad. Lithuania. He is Slavik. Only escaped to Germany.
Not a short time. Get your facts straight. He was 14 when they moved to Canada. It was 9 years before he wrote those songs.
@@dr.krinkleweldon5934thanks for the clarification. his father was possibly conscripted by the Germans, although many willingly fought on the German side. nonetheless, John was brilliant lyricist and writer.
@@volvo1354 certainly. And he is still living. I guess the Hall is going to wait until he is dead to give him his place.
0:57 John understood that playing the amplifier was much more than “turning it up to 11” as many of my colleagues still believe. It’s not music if it causes pain and you can’t understand the message of the lyrics if you can’t hear at all. 😇
🦊The summer of ‘68 , one of best summers of my live ; cruising in my ‘65 GTO , Steppenwolf playing on the 8 track and my gorgeous girl nibbling on my ear 😃
They had 8-tracks in 1968? They barely had cassettes!
@@jaybee9269 🦊 read a history book .
That’s what I was thinking...how could any guy just chill out then with the draft hanging over their heads? @@MichaelMosesHammer
@@jaybee9269 Ford started using them in 1965. Not sure it would be for a 65 GTO but people put them in aftermarket. Before that they were using in dash turn tables which were a major fail.
To add, cassette was introduced in 68. I remember my dad had a crap ton by 1970.
The original band, the one that made that classic Steppenwolf sound on those first two albums.
The underated Michael Monarch.
@@sonofadeadbeat3051 and Rushton Moreve
You are right about that Sir.
John Kay was 24 in the video.
MY FRIEND RUSHTON MOREVE ON BASS
How can these guys not be in the Hall. Unbelievable.
Do you really care?
They refused the "Honour"?
No one is acting ghetto,amazing!
It's a shame. Look at who's in the rock- roll hall of Fame these days that's not rock WTH
John Kay led such an unusual and difficult life
Finally some decent footage of Jerry Edmonton on drums. He was the driving force of the band.
Totally agreed
…and born in Canada.
@royjohnson465 👍Never met anyone from Canada I did not like 🇨🇦 ✨️
That bass player was throwing as well!!!
Very rare to see video of Rushton Moreve, the original and best bass player imho.
@@bjones8470
Pure psychedelic rock! Some of the best ever and the dance choreography by these professional dancers for atmospheric show was outstanding! This scene exemplifies the times back then, the fashions, the dances, the thoughts, concerns and pure coolness the way it was all presented.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THESE GUYS STILL ARE NOT IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME!
Why aren't they? I'm an 80s baby so I'm clueless.
@@MichaelMosesHammer professionals none the less right? 😀
I met John Kay and the drummer in St. Louis Missouri in 1989 at a place called The Big Kahuna . Was just standing there and turned around and there they were . I said you guys are doing a hell of a job , he smiled and said Thank you very politely. It was a great honor for me to say the least . I was born in 1963 and always been a huge fan .
The fact that Hugh Hefner put a show together that had musicians and bands from EVERY genre and had them play LIVE!!! Its just amazing. He was the first to showcase black musicians in their own world, the way they wanted it, not how they were sold to white America. Jazz greats, hard rock, soul, country......all of it, live. Amazing.
It’s crazy I’ve never seen clips of this show before
@@bjones8470 The show was called Playboy After Dark. Amazing!!
John is so cool and collected !!
Always! His stage moves were always so precise and cool!
Isn't he though? I suppose once you've lived through two totalitarian regimes, while legally blind, there's not a whole lot that can ruffle you.
@@Hollylivengood I guess what you don't know won't hurt you.
@@Pashasmom1 What does that mean.
@@Pashasmom1 What actually do you mean?
Steppenwolf had a dynamic sound in the '60s and I think they are one of the most underrated and under-recognized bands of all time. They were actually ahead of their time. Steppenwolf Live, to me, is an all-time classic rock album
After “For Ladies Only”, it was done.
Saw them twice at the Stonehenge in Lebanon, IL & few months later at the Kiel Opera House in 1983-4. I sat in the balcony right over the keyboard player with Ray Wheat of Iowa, at the Stonehenge, which was just a big bar(n) and it was an amazing show! A hundred or more Harleys outside. We were at Scott AFB and only 22 or 23 years old...fun night!
Is that the album cover with the dickmobile?
So true they were ahead of they time you are absolutely right they had this KILLA signature sound so unique that as soon as you hear the intro you know it’s SteppenWolf
the playboy mansion, quite the icon for a couple/three decades. i'm old enough to remember listening to their first record as a pre-teen, ground breaking stuff in those days, hilarious how they talked about the volume and amplified music.
Get these guys in the Rock n Roll hall of Fame…now!
I miss the 70s so much I can cry, no rap & pop just coool people and great music , come on rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame put them in it already
Got to see these guys 3 times back in the day. What an experience. Was pretty young then and still listen today.
Hello - This is Thom Morris - After working as a Rock Promoter in San Diego Ca - I brought John Kay and Steppenwolf to a Grand Vue Park one mile outside of Moundsville WV July 18th 1981 - John Kay is like no other - I had a group from Cleveland open up Deajvu and Teaser from Wheeling WV
Got them 2 shows at the Sound Factory in Sacramento. Blew my mind
Guitarist is holding back. No solos. His tone on the album is killer.
The great great Michael Monarch
I was bummed they ended the broadcast before the song actually ended who knows what may have happened in that ending
Yeah I expected the fills. Then I considered the -6k tele had a role. Nope.
Then I just appreciated that he laid out solid sustain throughout with just enough punch and it really worked.
Goldie Mc John one of the best keyboards of the era
…and born in Canada.
@@royjohnson465 Saw him in Davenport Iowa at the Col Ballroom playing with Steve Marriott around 85 I think.
And what an epic Afro.
@@royjohnson465 Canada sucks.
@@Emanresuadeen Indeed! When i saw him with Steve Marriott, I had always heard that English singers spit quite a bit, They were playing and Steve Marriott came up and layed a big hocker right in Goldies fro. No harm no fowl I guess. I doubt Goldie ever knew it
One of the many fun parties at Hugh's place. Good times. Great memories and Great band. I miss my youth sometimes but glad as hell I had it.
He preferred to be called Hef
Steppenwolf was ( and is) one of the greatest rock bands of all time.....I'll never forget the first Steppenwolf album and when my now RIP brother , Tommy, told me about them.
This was a really cool reminder, thank you for for everything !
Im 10 yrs old riding with my big brother with his first car at 16 in 1970, listening to Steppenwolf, thinking i must be the coolest 10 yr old in the world!🤣
Guitarist is great. His Born to be Wild chordal riff is such a classic.
What an amazing time. I was 12 and had no idea what I was in for. But I loved it 😊
I remember hearing Steppenwolf coming out of my older brother's room and thinking WOW, that is different than anything I was listening to. I was 11 at the time. I fell in love with Steppenwolf and that "sound". Thank you big brother! Magic Carpet Ride was a mind blower 🤯💯
IMO, Magic Carpet Ride is one of the 5 greatest rock songs ever recorded! That mid section instrumental still blows my mind away! I still get an adrenaline rush whenever I hear it!
Dynamite band I’ve dug since the late sixties. Great musicians with Kaye’s fantastic voice!
Far out !! ..blowing my mind with Playboy After Dark. ....I used to love to watch this show !! And don't forget to Playboy magazine Annual Jazz Pole . . .
I always loved Steppenwolf because of their wild sound.
No lip sync, no backing track. Absolutely live and powerful. What a band and John Kay what a legendary rock singer.
Its not so powerful
The Steppenwolf Live recording is the best best of collection you could have.
The songs are mostly expanded versions and they play their asses off.
Heavy metal thunder baby
This was an awesome performance!! Two excellent songs for the "price" of one!! And on TV!! Kudos, Steppenwolf!! ❤🎵🎶
Man, the way people were dancing, and on a popular late night show! These were very different times.
John Kay is being interviewed by Hugh Hufner, as in the founder of 'Playboy', on his own show called 'Playboy After Dark' on CBS for two seasons, 1969/1970. Other bands that played over the life of the show, Iron Butterfly, Deep Purple, Grateful Dead, Ike & Tina Turner, James Brown, Linda Ronstadt, The Byrds, Sarah Vaughan and the Sir Douglas Quintet to mention a handful I remember. 🐇🎸
Totally "groovy" bands.
The Doors would have also fit right into that mix...
@timtonner946 Not if Morrison had sang " Girl, we couldn't get much higher ".
Totally groovy Pad too!@@timtonner946
I'll bet John had no idea back then how many times he would sing this song over the many years and how popular it would become!!
He played in a old carpet shop back in 82. Just a few of us there. Spoke to him. A real down to earth guy. Big or small show. He sang and played his heart out. So much fun to be that close to a stage. That was only 18 inches high.
Steppenwolf 7, an absolute gem of an album. Highly, highly recommend.....
Love the music and ladies of the late 1960s....
First live rock concert I ever went to. I was 16. It was Steppenwolf at the Boston Arena. Their warm up acts were The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and The Youngbloods.
It changed the course of my life.
Arthur Brown did “Fire”. I love that song.
@@rickjason215 We all did at the time, but sadly Arthur Brown was a bit of a one trick pony. Steppenwolf on the other hand, had some real depth and diversity, with many different sounding good hit songs.
No hes not, he went on to form a band called Kingdom Come , more crazy stuff like fire .. at least 3 albums worth good avant garde rock but crazy and funny @@williardbillmore5713
We are the generation who has kids & grandkids play our music. I miss the freedom of those times. Still Born to Be Wild!
I am 65 years old and I was able to see John playing with his band in a park in Washington State and people were drinking beer and enjoying themselves in a open park sitting on the grass. He was featured on the marquee for Enchanted Parkway. ❤🎉
This airing was just 5 days shy of being a year before I was born. My birth date is Feb. 7 1969. As a side note: My Mom went to see Hermans Hermits and The Monkees in 1968 when she was pregnant with me. I replied with a big laugh "Ah, so that's why I like music so much, because i was right there with you!" and then she laughed too!
It was actually just 5 days before you were born. The correct air date was February 2, 1969.
@@tomsaylor9136 thanks, I thought it was a year earlier lol!
Great band , one of the best ! Should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame !!!
HEF!!!!!!!!!!! They sounded great! John Kay! How kool was he??!!
Kucumber kool.
The Steppenwolf double live album is awesome.
When you consider the transition from the 60's to the 70's, Steppenwolf totally captures the sound and essence...and the look!
My grandmother bought me the Born to be Wild album when I was 12...pretty cool Gramma😂♥️
Absolutely LEGENDARY! One of my all time most favourite Rock’n’Roll band Steppenwolf is legendary this performance BLOWN MY BRAINS OUT !!!
I was watching this when I was 10 years old, I think the show was called Hugh Hefner's penthouse. Steppenwolf never got the radio time it deserved because of the content of their music but songs like "Never to late" and" Snowblind friend" were songs of inspiration and hope.
I think it was called Playboy After Dark
@@mkhnly Correct. Hugh would never allow a reference to Penthouse magazine. But I respect Mopar's fading memories, as mine are too. I was 14 when this aired.
Back in the day, local radio stations did airplay the hits like Born to be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride. However, most would botch up Magic Carpet Ride by removing the great mid song instrumental. Use to drive me insane!
Their debut album had been released just a few days before this performance.
No kidding, I didn't realize that! Thanks for the additional data -
Weird...I just clicked on this video randomly, because I am piss drunk and looking for things to entertain me before I pass out, and realized that this was recorded the day after my birthday, my actual birthday that is; 2-1-1969. Suppose I was being circumcised at about the same time they were playing. Glad that I don't remember THAT!
It still works. It's like Steppenwolf; goes on and on.
This was 68 not 69...sorry to but your bubble lol😅
That's the way you dance and feel rock n roll!!! And surely Steppenwolf are legendary!!!
I was 8 in 1968. Me & my mom were shopping for school stuff in Kmart. I was always in the record section checking out albums. I saw their first album & was like WOAH...who are THESE guys? I took the album to my mom & asked if I could get it. She looked it over, checked out the back & asked "are you sure you're going to like this?" I shrugged & nodded at the same time. She said "Ok". My little world shifted when I got home & put this on my "record player". 😂🤣😂🤣😂 (She had already turned me on to the Beatles & Stones when I was 5 & 6) I was fortunate enough later in life that one of my old bands got to warm up for Steppenwolf (and Iron Butterfly) in '78. John Kay and Steppenwolf are legendary. Some of the best rock from my "formulative" years!
Doesn't get much Better than this !!
My neck was aching after watching this with the whiplash dancing. This was a few years before my time, but I love tunes from the 60's into the 70's. Real music! Thanks for posting this historic video, I miss the old analog VHS, brings back the memories. 👍
We used to say, "Let it all hang out." That's what these dancers were doing! 😊
Actually, it was my favorite era of dancing. The young women in their hot mini skirts and go-go boots would drive me nuts! 😆
One of the the greatest Rock Bands from the 1960'. Very cool gig for the band I bet and is that the original bass player who helped write Magic Carpet Ride...Groovy man...
What a great voice!
John Kay ladies an gentleman.
Hefner the philanthropist, making dreams come true.
Jerry playing a BDP Rogers set! Cool!..
He mentions some bands play too loud - performance live - all distorted.....love it
This is such beautiful singing and dancing!
John Kay is a mysterious dude! Love the image!
Rushton Moreve & Jerry Edmonton were mysterious dudes.
This is solid gold, thanx for uploading.
Man, John looks great. They all do.
I was 10 years old in 1968. Steppenwolf was my favorite band
Their drummer all the musicians were great
Lead singer sounds great and SO cool
Awesome!!! Thanks for uploading this.
I could those bikes reve'n up
Before the Song even started,
One of the best ROCK SONGS
Ever.
I saw Steppenwolf at The Wiltern in about 1984. I've been to many concerts, this was one of better ones.
Thanks for posting this, one of the few clips I've seen where you get to see Rushton.
That one with the white go-go boots…SMOKING HOT@!
Cool happening Hef it freaks me out baby yea! 😎✌️
My first Concert! 1968 Duluth Minnesota, Born to be Wild!
Monster/Suicide/America medley is still one of the most honest political statements ever made about this country via rock and roll …
“The amplified sound….” Dr. Irwin Corey!!!! Didn’t expect that.
I always loved Steppenwolf and of course Playboy! I'm 67 and I got to see and hear all of this stuff when it was happening! Kids today don't have shit going on.
John Kay absolutely looks like a “Rockstar”! The attitude, movements and looks. My dad got me the album “At Your Birthday Party” when I was very young. 🤘🤘🤘
The 60's had it all.
Early 70's, too!
“ Sookie Sookie” and its more popular flip side “ Born To Be Wild”. They still sound great, 55 years later.
I remember seeing this on "Playboy After Dark" back in '68. Hopelessly distorted but a good time!
I saw John Kay live in 1982 and he still rocked.
Heavy metal thunder. This is where that term was born.
Fantastic band. Mars Bonfire had that certain keyboard sound. I used to love that Leslie cabinet. “Hodge Podge thru a Leslie” 😅
That’s Goldy McJohn on keys. Dennis Edmonton alias Mars Bonfire, joined later, as their guitar player. The bass player is Rushton Moreve, to be replaced by Nick St. Nicholas.
Dennis Edmonton alias Mars Bonfire was never in Steppenwolf but in their predecessor band, Sparrow. Steppenwolf's first guitar player was Michael Monarch, who was replaced by Larry Bryom and later Kent Henry.@@richardlundberg1862
mr.john kay...there will never bee another..so-unique!!!!!
I've been around da sun 65 times. It never ceases to amaze me what I can see on u toob! Hugh Hefner interviewing John Kay, on television! KEEAWSOME!
Playboy After Dark was the slickest back then. If one could find a station that broadcast it.
TheFRIST ALBUM
i ordered from the
RECORD CLUB!!🤫EASY RIDER
CLASSIAC!
Sunset Rollerama Tucson Az 1968! I remember John Kay ring 30’ tall with some long arms.
wow, how I loved this band and now i'm 75 and embarrassed! Legendary words ....
Wow! Does this ever take me back!
John kaysteppenwolf is the all time greatest band totally professionally performed in every song they sung