Beautiful song! The Midnight Special really was a great show. We would need something like that these days.! ❤ 🇫🇷😎
@jimmyleon2983 Жыл бұрын
John Kay, Jeff Beck, and Joe Walsh were using the Talk Box long before the days of Peter Frampton who got credit for discovering it and using it years later on his Frampton Comes Alive album.
@bak-mariterry5180 Жыл бұрын
Stevie Wonder was also using it also .
@scottlarson1548 Жыл бұрын
I did like Kay's quick explanation of the talkbox. 👍
@martysmith5260 Жыл бұрын
This was a fairly big hit at the time it came out. Strangley, it was a song that basically vanished from the radio, even on oldies stations.
@rosskstar Жыл бұрын
gubmeeint want dat rebanew
@ravynskye1310 Жыл бұрын
It's original from Five Man Electrical Band in Canada
@scottlarson1548 Жыл бұрын
A fairly big hit? It peaked at #105 on the U.S. Hot 200.
@MaxStax1 Жыл бұрын
The front man of Steppenwolf.
@email4barrytheb Жыл бұрын
Bass player and drummer are from Steppenwolf too
@johnmchugh8015 Жыл бұрын
@@email4barrytheb And the lead guitarist, Bobby Cochran also from Steppenwolf
@rubbadubdub6543 Жыл бұрын
So this is basically Steppenwolf then?
@johnmchugh8015 Жыл бұрын
@@rubbadubdub6543 Without the keyboard player that was a regular part of any Steppenwolf line up & of course the two girls are not part of Steppenwolf.
@email4barrytheb Жыл бұрын
@@johnmchugh8015 I thought that looked like him. He wasn't in Steppenwolf until after this.
@flicewatter Жыл бұрын
Slide wah..Cool 😊
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
I don’t if anyone used that voice box before John, but it’s earlier than Walsh or Frampton here. Cool.😊
@williambaxter4628 Жыл бұрын
I970, Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly on the song Butterfly Bleu. I believe he referred to it as the Magic Bag.
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
@@williambaxter4628 Ah, cool!
@bak-mariterry5180 Жыл бұрын
@@StephanieJeanneStevie Wonder was using it also at the time.
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
@@bak-mariterry5180 That's right! Forgot! I wonder who invented it?
@bak-mariterry5180 Жыл бұрын
@@StephanieJeanne Brian Waite (?), a musician in the late 60's.
@jamesdeagle8 ай бұрын
Masterpiece!! James
@toneyisaiah35567 ай бұрын
John Kay was acknowledging when it comes to guitar technology. especially amps.
@lesschoenberger3070 Жыл бұрын
Is that guy that almost fell when he jumped on stage one of the Gibb brothers of the Bee Gees?
@jimmyleon298311 ай бұрын
Yes. Maurice Gibb.
@lesschoenberger307011 ай бұрын
@@jimmyleon2983 Thanks! Thought so...
@Washington-Dreaming Жыл бұрын
I really don’t know who this guy is - someone wrote he’s the singer from Steppenwolf? - but I’ll just bet, without looking, he is from, oh, N’Orleans. That’s the way they pronounce it. But I can just imagine him in a bar on Bourbon Street while I’m drinking a Hurricane. I think that’s the drink’s name. Whether or not I’m right that’s a fun place to go.
@delmedeiros3570 Жыл бұрын
If you've met Steppenwolf, it's impossible not to recognize J. Kay's voice. It is absolutely personal. I don't remember any other singer who has the same tone as him, not to mention his characteristic malice.
@johngleason9407 Жыл бұрын
Communist Germany is a long way from New Orleans 🤪
@richardr9294 Жыл бұрын
@@delmedeiros3570 Here's a brief bio of John Kay. Kay was born on 12 April 1944[2] in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia).[3] His father Fritz, born 1913 in Absteinen near Pogegen in the Memelland (today Opstainys in Pagėgiai Municipality, Lithuania),[4] was killed a month before Kay was born.[5] In early 1945, Kay's mother fled with him from the advancing Soviet troops during the evacuation of East Prussia in harsh winter conditions. Their train got stuck near Arnstadt, which was first occupied by the Americans, but then became part of the East German Soviet occupation zone. In 1949, they crossed the already-fortified border to resettle in Hanover, West Germany (as recounted in his song "Renegade" on the album Steppenwolf 7). Now living in the British occupation zone, the young Joachim, who had eye problems and could not speak or understand English, was first inspired by and learned about rock 'n' roll music while listening to Little Richard on U.S. Armed Forces radio.[6] When his family moved to Toronto in 1958, teachers had a hard time pronouncing his birth name, so he was called John K instead. Five years later, they moved to Buffalo, New York.
@richardr9294 Жыл бұрын
Kay was born on 12 April 1944[2] in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia).[3] His father Fritz, born 1913 in Absteinen near Pogegen in the Memelland (today Opstainys in Pagėgiai Municipality, Lithuania),[4] was killed a month before Kay was born.[5] In early 1945, Kay's mother fled with him from the advancing Soviet troops during the evacuation of East Prussia in harsh winter conditions. Their train got stuck near Arnstadt, which was first occupied by the Americans, but then became part of the East German Soviet occupation zone. In 1949, they crossed the already-fortified border to resettle in Hanover, West Germany (as recounted in his song "Renegade" on the album Steppenwolf 7). Now living in the British occupation zone, the young Joachim, who had eye problems and could not speak or understand English, was first inspired by and learned about rock 'n' roll music while listening to Little Richard on U.S. Armed Forces radio.[6] When his family moved to Toronto in 1958, teachers had a hard time pronouncing his birth name, so he was called John K instead. Five years later, they moved to Buffalo, New York.
@recordguy4321 Жыл бұрын
he 's Canadian and imigrated from East germany back during the cold war
@linpiao1118 ай бұрын
When is this from, cause it is not the John Kay Band, so what is the line up?
@recordguy43218 ай бұрын
jerry Edmonton on drums the only original in this band.. Could be george biondo on bass , and kent henry on guitar from later day Steppenwolf. Clydie king on backgound vocals on the left side
@lesschoenberger30708 ай бұрын
Jerry Edmonton drums, George Biondo bass, Bobby Cochran lead guitar. This lineup would become Steppenwolf when they recorded their "Slow Flux" album in 1974.