Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (REACTION) First Time Hearing A Live Version!

[@SaeedReacts.]

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[@ChefBarb58]

LOVE YOUR REACTIONS TO ALL THAT I GREW UP WITH.. I NOTICE YOU CHECKED SOME ROLLIN STONES... HAVE YOU COVEREDTHE SONG ( PATIENCE) THANK YOU HOPE YOUR HOLIDAYS ARE FILLED WITH LOTS OF 💕

[@VIDSTORAGE]

The greatest motorcycle road cruising anthem ever to exist ....

[@patswanson2870]

The lead singer, John Kay, escaped from East Germany with his mother when he was 12 years old and they immigrated to Canada.

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Classic ! I loved Steppenwolf! One of my favourite bands from 1968 to 1972. Born To Be Wild was a huge #1 Song here in Canada 🇨🇦 Summer of 1968❤❤

[@JeanetteFaith]

I was a hippie and this was my theme song. LOL....I am surprised I survived.

[@dougca7086]

If you were alive back then you would be my age mid-70s be thankful that you came up in the age you did you can still enjoy the great music we did

[@williamhargrove8045]

I’ve heard this a million times, but that was FUN one more time.

[@incensejunkie7516]

Steppenwolf is a Canadian band ;-) (with two American members) They originated in Canada and went to the US, as many did to pursue a career in music, and added two US members. Given how vast this country is, I think that's why we have so many great driving songs (also check out another Canadian band, BTO, for more ).

[@CJ-Fischer]

First Song EVER to have the words “Heavy Metal” in it! Food for thought 😂

[@zunbake3]

Used to always throw my Drummer off on the "Born" at the beginning of the Chorus, LOL! The term "Heavy Metal" was first heard in a song on this one "Heavy Metal Thunder". John Kay (Joachim Fritz Krauledat) was smuggled threw the Berlin Wall as young child by his parents.

[@joetallon4968]

When I was young and this song played on the radio, it got your full attention!

[@Royal_BLT]

🇨🇦 Glad you enjoyed our Canadian anthem ! 🇨🇦

[@joycenorthwind6874]

You look like you really enjoyed that! It is such an iconic song. It 's amazing and maybe a little humbling to know sometimes a person's works can live on and on and everyone knows what you're talking about if it's mentioned. If it brings joy so much the better.

[@franchk8372]

Sooo love this one ... definitely 'born to be wild.' I always watch the movie scene with this one on KZbin. 🚲😎🕊☮

[@KenBlair-jp5nz]

Dennis Edmonton (born Dennis Eugene McCrohan; 21 April 1943), also known by the stage name Mars Bonfire, is a Canadian rock musician and songwriter, best known for writing the hit song "Born to Be Wild" for Steppenwolf. Steppinwolf were a Canadian band with some band members who were American .

[@Jones9guitars]

It's the line "heavy metal thunder" is why it's connected, possibly the first person to coin the term.

[@CharCanuck14]

Lead singer John Kay was born in Germany and eventually came to Canada. I remember before Steppenwolf he was in a Toronto band called The Sparrows. In 1969 (Toronto) I was at a 2 day music festival where Steppenwolf performed .......and they rocked!

[@festidious2644]

Jack London and The Sparrows. People seem to have a hard time believing that this is, for the most part, a Canadian band.

[@CharCanuck14]

You bet! - Jerry Edmonton & Goldy McJohn were from Oshawa & Toronto. When I was much younger I remember seeing Sparrows posters all over Toronto ....... also Levon & the Hawks and so many others. Toronto was such a great place for live music.

[@festidious2644]

@@CharCanuck14 The Stones That I Throw! And then came The Band!

[@festidious2644]

@@CharCanuck14 If I Call You By Some Name, The Paupers (Skip Prokop)! And then came Lighthouse!

[@CharCanuck14]

@@festidious2644 omg you're bringing back some great memories! The Ugly Ducklings just popped into my head. You must have lived in or near Toronto?

[@helenespaulding7562]

Oh man, this was EVERYWHERE …. And then along came the movie Easy Rider and it was even bigger.

[@JessMessica]

My parents didn't play much music in the house growing up, but when they did, it was either Barbara Streisand, The Beatles, or Steppenwolf. This is a good 'driving down the highway' song.

[@ChefBarb58]

WAS IT IN THE MOVIE WITH PETER FONDA ON THE MOTORCYCLE???

[@papercup2517]

@@ChefBarb58 Yes, it was indeed! Plus lots of other great music.

[@bazkeen]

A true iconic song. This will still get played a hundred years from now

[@SaeedReacts.]

For sure!

[@jaccilowe3842]

I don't know how many hours I spent just playing the Easy Rider LP over and over. I still have it!

[@davidvsr]

Back in the 90's, upstate NY got pounded with a blizard. It closed the roads for 3 days. I was stuck at work, at a major hotel chain, with 50 co workers and 300 guests. It was quite a push to feed 350 people breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I worked 40 hours in 3 days. On the third night, we posted a sign " Kitchen closed at 8 pm." ..we ran out of food. By 8:15 pm we were ALL in the bar. Seven of us (cooks and chefs) took the stage and we Belted Born to be Wild .

[@victorjohnson7512]

I saw the live at an outdoor concert in 1980. There were thousands of bikers there on choppers.

[@trevalarose8155]

Seen these guys live so many times. The first use of " heavy metal " lyrically ( I believe, but I could be wrong )

[@EricAnderson888]

Their Monster album is not to be missed. Title song is a history lesson but speaks to events of today as well.

[@larryC1070]

Every road trip we took for the last 30 years started off with this playing in the car. Great way to get a vacation underway!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Awesome! 🔥

[@ilonaforsman]

The words "Heavy metal thunder" in this song means motorbike engine thunder, not heavy music.

[@angelado3]

🔥🔥🔥🔥 this was a great request !

[@anitawright7169]

This is a very awesome song. It brings back memories. Love your reaction!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Incredible and iconic song! Thanks for watching!

[@tjrivers]

This one spurred my desire to ride motorcycles, one of the early women to do so here in the NY, NJ, CT area. Guess I was born to be wild! 😂❤ Loved riding…wish I could still! A hippie biker! Get your motor runnin’…Yes I did! Also the movie, “Easy Rider” impacted me too!

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

Saeed . You have do The Pusher . Very dark but the lyrics . Wow man !!!!

[@charleskurtz9744]

If someone had this album in their collection, you just knew they were cool.

[@phillipfitton8364]

It wasn’t one of the earliest heavy metal songs. That happened years before, but, it was the first song that coined the phrase heavy metal. Second verse, “I love smoking lightning, heavy metal thunder”…Yes😂

[@lesschoenberger3070]

It's "I like smoke and lightning".

[@phillipfitton8364]

@ you’re right, I caught that after I posted it. Lol

[@lesschoenberger3070]

@@phillipfitton8364 Many people think it is "smokin" though lol!!

[@daleenengelbrecht4861]

O YES!!! THANKS DEBBIE. TX SAEED. Greetings from South Africa

[@daleenengelbrecht4861]

I am still in awe about your Grey matter and everything uou remember

[@SaeedReacts.]

This song is so good! Iconic! Thanks for watching. Greetings from Belgium!

[@catherinefitzgerald7291]

Raw, authentic, and LIVE !!

[@lesschoenberger3070]

This was not live...

[@mstewart109]

And on the radio, most songs had to be less than 3 mins long. Then there is steppenwolf who all lovec this song and inna gad davita( sp) 20 plus mins . Lol. 😂i was so excited hearing these 2 songs to follow. 60s 70s Saeed were the best music and i witnessed it as these artists were in this era also...i was 11yrs old

[@SaeedReacts.]

Awewome! 😄 Definitely looking forward to explore more of this era.

[@anglstampr1]

Iron Butterfly's Inna Godda Davida is amazing and the first time I heard it I was like 11 as well... so mesmerizing at that age... such a long song but you don't realize it when listening to it...

[@colincampbell4862]

Their "Snow Blind Friend" is well worth a listen

[@randytaylor1406]

A real hippie looking band bringing the receipts. A great rock anthem.

[@lotusladylotus6159]

Another amazing Canadian export!

[@fixzeichner5592]

230 / 5.000 Singer John Kay (Joachim Krauledat) was born in Germany and only came to Canada as a teenager because his mother had married a Canadian. Bassist Nik St. Nicholas (Klaus Kassbaum) was also born in Germany

[@erikahlander3489]

Many songs have been said to be the first heavy metal song. Competition is hard! Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly used to be mentioned. Other candidates are Arthur Brown with "Fire" (video is necessary!), Frank Zappa "Who are the brain police" (1966!). Maybe Mountain, 13th floor elevators, Jimi Hendrix, or Alice Cooper? Beatles' "Helter skelter"? There are probably more!

[@randallpetersen9164]

Blue Oyster Cult did an excellent live version of this song on their album On Your Feet Or On Your Knees.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Must check that one out at some point!

[@DolaPrice]

Fantastic song! Yes you have your American card now! And you even pronounce it correctly...Merican! Much love from Texas..often pronounced Tehas.😘

[@SaeedReacts.]

Such an incredible song! Thanks so much for watching! Much love from Belgium!

[@festidious2644]

Hello, Saeed and Debbie: Thank you from a proud Canadian. I am still waiting for you to do Traces by The Classics IV. Saeed, I don't want to make you jealous but, I was alive back then and you missed a lot of really good stuff!

[@KevinRCarr]

Actually, it's not the first heavy metal song, it's the first song in which heavy metal is mentioned.

[@berntborjesson2042]

The singer John Kay escaped from East Germany thru the "Iron curtain" with his mom when he was 5 years old. "Renegade" by Steppenwolf describes his memories and deep feelings from this period. The song and music matches the words perfectly as well. It's one of their best and deepest music performances ever.

[@berntborjesson2042]

..by Steppenwolf.

[@berntborjesson2042]

...by Steppenwolf.

[@fixzeichner5592]

At the age of 5, he and his mother fled to Thuringia to escape the Russians in World War II. John Kay's name is Joachim Krauledat and he comes from Tilsit in East Prussia, which is now Lithuania. The song you mentioned describes the country where he was born before the tanks came, and that it no longer exists today. By that, he means East Prussia. When he fled East Germany, he was 8 years old. The town of Arnstadt in Thuringia has erected a monument to him.

[@berntborjesson2042]

Thanks for adding full correct details. Pls find John Kay's own words to the song renegade: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIC4mYmmqJith7Mfeature=shared

[@fixzeichner5592]

@@berntborjesson2042 2022 John Kay was in Arnstadt. He still speaks very good German. I also think Renegade is very good.

[@real_lostinthefogofwar]

I saw them when they were John Kay and the Sparrows (1968), I was only 14 at the time

[@lesschoenberger3070]

It must've been around 1966 or 1967, they were Steppenwolf in 1968.

[@stephen8639]

It was my youth only 18 at the time the music was great as each generation believes, but it had it's troubles Vietnam, conscription, even worse racism, the USSR and the cold war Red China the start of understanding the pollution going on, no organ transplants any cancer no cures at least we can do better now. Every time looks better in retrospect you remember the good parts.

[@barryjurgensen9396]

3:30 album version 3:02 (7-inch) No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts

[@cyrilmauras4247]

No! The Beatles "Helter Skelter" is the first "Heavy Metal" song

[@erickvermeulen9734]

When hearing this song, I also have to think of the movie Easy Rider and Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson on the motobikes. Before 1969 bands like the Who had already some quite heavy songs, and a year earlier the Beatles released the White Album with Helter Skelter.

[@Linda-y9h]

You can not drive the speed limit to this song.

[@debbers]

Hey Saeed!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Hey Deb! Have a wonderful day!

[@debbers]

@@SaeedReacts. Have a Happy New Year Saeed! Thank you for replying!

[@debbers]

Thank you for this heart, it means alot to me!

[@bobdelp2023]

YOU FEEL AMERICAN, YOU FEEL LIKE PETER FONDA & DENNIS HOPPER!!! 👍😊AND OF COURSE THE GREAT JACKKKK! 💯

[@StephenAllison-gl2ky]

This is the song where the phrase heavy-metal came from

[@helenespaulding7562]

Phrase? 😏😁

[@LoveBandit1000]

That sounds IDENTICAL to the studio version so that means it is not live except for the drummer LOL...

[@ursgeiser6570]

Congratulations, yes the German TV BEAT CLUB is a treasure trove for studio live performances, including ELP 1970 Take A Pebble and Knife-Edge, Yes Yours I No Disgrace and I've Seen All Good Peoplem Deep Purple Highway Star and No,No,No - only in color after 1968 - Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze and Stone Free, Led Zeppelin Baby, I'm Gonna Leave/genius... . There was once a scandal because Manfred Mann apparently didn't play live at the time. P.S. The Belgian TV POP SHOP is also a treasure trove e.g. ELP Live Brussel 1971/Video on the Internet 👍👍👍✌.

[@tomroome4118]

This performance was played to the pre-recorded track.

[@ursgeiser6570]

@@tomroome4118 Oh, I guessed it from some of the movements. For the Beatles Hey Jude/BBC, prepared tracks were also mixed in, a technique that was common for TV broadcasts at the time. With ELP I know that this is not the case, there are sometimes several live versions (also on the internet); one was then broadcast. Thank you and have a happy new year!!!

[@tomroome4118]

@@ursgeiser6570 Happy New Year to you, too! Yes, probably 2/3 of TV performances were lip-synched at the time but a few were live. I seem to remember a lot of bands on Ed Sullivan were live.

[@dougca7086]

I think the first metal song had to be In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Iron Butterfly if you haven't reacted to it react to the live version In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is what you say when you've had too much to drink and trying to say in the Garden of Eden

[@JeanetteFaith]

I was thinking the same.

[@bethphillips9693]

This is one of the songs Pentatonix did for the "Sing Off" in 2011! The theme of my life!! I'm sure many of my contemporaries are, like me, glad we survived!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Right! Such a great song. I wasnt around back then, but definitely can relate to some of that. It came close a few times!

[@bethphillips9693]

@@SaeedReacts. glad we both made it and glad you are doing so well!

[@daleenengelbrecht4861]

Yes they did a great job. Greetings

[@JeanetteFaith]

LOL....I was a hippie then. I wrote "surprised I survived" above.

[@stlmopoet]

I think the Beatles’ Helter Skelter has a good claim on being the first heavy metal song. If I remember right, didn’t you live for a while in the US? You only show a hint of an accent on a few random words. Your English is far better than many native speakers’.

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

Very Jim Morrison look - leather trousers and big buckled belt !!!!

[@JeanetteFaith]

That hat on one of them made me laugh. lol...

[@StephenAllison-gl2ky]

Siri has a hard time understanding my country accent. More proofreading needed. Lol. Thanks.

[@SaeedReacts.]

😄

[@NancyMoran-r3b]

Watch the movie, Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson. Great biker movie.

[@jskit92380]

Saeed, FYI, The owner of The Beat Club channel may put a block on your channel for using their video. Love your reactions, thank you. ☮️🖤🤘

[@allie2703]

Canadian Band another Canadian band The Guess Who they sang American Woman

[@JeanetteFaith]

I love the Guess Who also. American Woman is still so great.

[@welle5086]

❤❤❤

[@bran1886]

There were a lot of songs that came a long that had the pieces of heavy metal until Sabbath put it all together.

[@MariadasGraças-b4c]

1969...incrível né!

[@tinadaveaskwith9880]

The singer is a CANADIAN.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

But German by birth.

[@parkermills3328]

Great song ...but ...Helter Skelter was before.

[@SaeedReacts.]

That song is on my list!

[@ptournas]

Actually Born to Be Wild was first. It was recorded in late 1967 for their debut album, which was released in January of 1968, then released as a single May 9, 1968. Helter Skelter was recorded in September of 1968 for the White Album, which was released November 22,1968. In my opinion the Velvet Underground were playing much heavier metal sounds a few years before Steppenwolf.

[@JeanetteFaith]

No. Born to be Wild was first. (I never liked Helter Skelter....it was scary to me.)

[@leonardkrasner4399]

It sounds exactly like the studio version. Are they lip syncing?

[@tomroome4118]

Yes, notice the fade out?

[@lesschoenberger3070]

Yes, this is not live.

[@helenespaulding7562]

No, no, no. It’s not heavy metal. It’s the song that had the TERM “heavy metal” in it. Obviously referring to motorcycles. And that’s probably from where those PLAYING that genre got the name. But heavy metal, as you know, is a genre and a style defined by common attributes. And this song definitely doesn’t fit that definition. This was a rock song, pure and simple. But I’m sure you know that, Saeed. You’ve listened to enough rock music by now to recognize it as such. Just like now you recognize grunge….and like it. 😘😁

[@KenHays-f6w]

Actually there is an article, interview where it gives light to the truth behind this song. The guy that wrote it Mars Bonfire, had spent the day working on a car, hotrod, so him and a friend could go to a concert that night. "Heavy metal's thunder" was the sound of engine in the car...

[@KenHays-f6w]

Yes, I've rode bikes since '68. So yeah, I agree with the "general interpretation " over the factual... lol

[@helenespaulding7562]

⁠ahhhh…. Always thought it was the sound of a motorcycle engine. But it was a hotrod instead. Fun.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

This was not live.

[@hudsonhollow]

Think motorcycle, not car.

[@SaeedReacts.]

In their case and in Easy Rider for sure! I need 4 wheels though 😅

[@KenHays-f6w]

​@SaeedReacts. Saeed lol, Mars Bonfire did an interview and told about writing this. Lol, it is about a car... BUT, it just fits the biker lifestyle. I've wrote bikes since '68, and agree with the "general interpretation" over the factual. Lol

[@steveullrich7737]

This is all teenager's anthem.

[@johnniekight1879]

Not live. Lip-synced.

[@lesschoenberger3070]

Exactly!!

[@Shari225]

Easy Rider - a great introduction to Jack Nicholson, and great songs. Lousy editing, IMO.

[@jeffmande4671]

That is not a heavy metal song!

[@bethphillips9693]

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