Smokey Factory Blues - Steppenwolf | The Midnight Special

[@johncronk3939]

Slow Flux….one of my favorite Steppenwolf albums. And this is one of my favorite songs.

[@johnbraun8719]

Excellent song , great to see it played live !

[@ronm6585]

Thank you. Great tune.

[@secordman]

John was great at cover versions. Made them his own.

[@moondogaudiojones1146]

Every album had stellar tracks. This was one of those surprises! Great band!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

I love Steppenwolf they get my motor runnin’ 🏍️🏍️ 🥰 Clydie King is one of my favorite backup singers she’s so pretty, along with the Blackberries. This song is very pretty, too!

[@DannyHaralson-ol1io]

I saw this episode on the members only page. Good show, The Blackberries was a good sound for Steppenwolf. Steppenwolf was the host. Well worth the $ 4.99 I paid for membership. This is from Ep. 108. At the rate the MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is posting the Episodes. It will be over a year before this episode is a premier. So, with my Membership I have already See it. And other great episodes.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

Written by Albert Hammond who wrote "it never rains in Southern California". Was on their 1974 reunion album "Slow flux", was released as the follow up single to "Straight Shootin' woman" which hit #29, but this song didn't chart well but is a very good song. Keyboardist Goldy McJohn always wished they had released "Gang war blues" as a single but they didn't. THANK YOU for putting this on here as well as all of the other great videos! There are great videos of the band out there, and I hope they ALL get discovered and put up so we can see them, and I really hope that their 1971 show at Royal Albert hall gets discovered and put on here!!!

[@ventues9751]

WOW !!! This is such A great song !!!!

[@josephwirtel8765]

Remember it as if yesterday. What a tremendous band. They are so not only about the 3 top 10 hits. Even the bad songs are interesting. Great band in my book. John Kay was a f’n star.

[@StephanieJeanne]

Nice! Great band! I enjoyed this show very much.😎💜

[@rebeccawagner4167]

This is a freaking amazing group on the Midnight Special. I love Steppenwolf. This was an awesome performance. I remember watching this. My generation was the best.

[@АлександрДенисов-е1ъ]

The album "Slow flux" is one of the best albums in the history of rock music!

[@douglasrasmussen9749]

John has such a fantastic voice. This was an excellent song for him , I don’t know why it was never a hit.

[@paolovaleriobellotti3439]

Too "working class" for US charts

[@brucemacmillan9581]

It's really not that great of a tune. Sort of mediocre really. Compared to other Steppenwolf songs.

[@paolovaleriobellotti3439]

@@brucemacmillan9581 such as? Don't mention the 3 that everyone knows even if they don't know they are Steppenwolf 's

[@paolovaleriobellotti3439]

​@@brucemacmillan9581 MEDIOCRE is a term that cannot be applied to Steppenwolf or to their songs, in any case

[@brucemacmillan9581]

@@paolovaleriobellotti3439 Sorry, but just about every band or artist - even the best - have mediocre shit in their closet. If you don't know that, you're not paying attention.

[@klauszander2344]

Best Version !

[@rickallen6378]

Wow, what a wonderful piece of music. Back when it was real.

[@Washington-Dreaming]

Keeping it real! At least that’s what Dave Chapelle might say.

[@jaylevy2108]

Love it!

[@paulvincer199]

Would love to see 2 other performances from this MS episode featuring "Slow Flux" LP songs: Straight Shooting Woman & Gang War Blues. Thanks in advance.

[@ardiris2715]

I actually heard this once on our backwoods AM station, and the single was stocked in what passed for our department store. Johnny Cash also did this song. It is worth searching. (:

[@JavaJohnVideo]

The are the best!

[@fire1777]

John Kay is a great performer

[@luisgustavofuynha675]

Baita som, apesar de ser um cover tem a alma do Steppenwolf

[@Washington-Dreaming]

I like the percussion on this one. I’m certainly no drum expert but I think he’s pretty unique for rock. I was thinking about Neal Peart while watching as of course he was one of the best drummers ever. But Neal danced by the beat of his own drummer too. RIP Neal, you are missed.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

This is the great Jerry Edmonton, listen to some more of his music, you'll like it! Sadly he was in a Jeep crash 11/28/93 that took him from us, he was great!!!

[@Zzyzx_2112]

👍👍

[@larryflanagan8799]

Camera man really drop the ball on Goldy. Goldy eventually appears at time 3:34.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

This was one of the last times Goldy was with the band, he was let go shortly after this and replaced by Andy Chapin who sadly was killed in the Ricky Nelson plane crash.

[@Washington-Dreaming]

It’s hard to hear because of the mix but I watched the bass player a bit. He looks like he knows what he’s doing. I might have to listen to some Steppenwolf studio stuff now as I’ve never really listened much to their music.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

That's George Biondo on bass, listen to his playing on the "Steppenwolf 7" album, the track "Renegade" especially. And also the next album "For Ladies Only", he had some great moments on there too. He then went on to be in the "John Kay band" from 1972-1974 until Steppenwolf reformed in 1974 as seen here, so he spent some years with the band and John. On the first and second albums you will hear Rushton Moreve, he was a very inventive and melodic bass player but was fired after the "Second" album which was a shame. On "Early Steppenwolf" and "At your birthday party" and "Monster" and the "Live" album you'll hear Nick St. Nicholas, he had some good moments but also some bad out of tune ones too as you'll hear on the "Live" album, and when he was fired that's when George Biondo came aboard. Enjoy the Wolf, they were GREAT!!!

[@matthewclark9652]

Steppenwolf went to Mums Records (division of Columbia). Singer songwriter Albert Hammond also did the original (also on Mums Records). kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGLdinWhqJmrock

[@johncronk3939]

Johnny Cash did a version. Wasn’t very good.

[@MemphisCult-h3j]

Got his Sgt Peppers jacket on

[@ΟρέστηςΚαραογλάνης]

Steppen Rules

[@landonlewsaw1762]

On the bass - Derek Smalls. He wrote this.

[@linpiao111]

George Biondo on bass

[@martinnieto1608]

👍🤘💪🔥💥🌄👁️

[@taimeuppe6174]

Close to 50 years ago

[@lesschoenberger3070]

Exactly 50 years ago

[@yeswolf1]

Are these ladies still alive?

[@luisarguello3791]

I don't know if these ladies are still alive but they did choirs with Humble Pie too, their voices were very good

[@KittyGrizGriz]

1:00 Clydie King died 1/7/2019 @ age 75 in a Monrovia, CA hospital from a blood infection. Not sure about the other two ladies.

[@yeswolf1]

@@KittyGrizGriz So sorry to hear that. May she RIP.

[@toneyisaiah3556]

Clydie sang on a lot of a lot of albums.

[@TheRocker27]

Great band. Great songs. Heavy metal noise. 🤘🃏🇺🇸🎸👍

[@Aleaiactaest-1]

Mein Gott, was ist schon an einer acht Stunden Schicht so schlimm? Danach kannst du dich ja auch noch für rund 15 Stunden zu deiner liebsten legen, gell?

[@brucemacmillan9581]

This song is kind of meh. It's ok, but not exactly up there with Born To Be Wild. Or Magic Carpet Ride.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

Not many songs are up there with those two if you think about it.