Legendary Rock Songs: BORN TO BE WILD: STEPPENWOLF.
Very good my people I hope you are super well today, gentlemen I have reached the end of this digital magazine that I have brought you little by little for the enjoyment of all of you and those who are lovers of this music and culture, so this post will be the last one about the legendary songs that I have been publishing, I know there are many more songs, but those are the ones that come out in this magazine. So I hope you like this last editorial.
Disc:STEPPENWOLF.
Year:1968.
Few of our hymns have the transcendence of this “born to be wild” of the Americans Steppenwolf. John Kay's band unwittingly billed the song that would give its name to the musical style evolved from the hard rock that at the same time Black Sabbath and Judas Priest were beginning to make their own from Birmingham (England).
Heavy metal was baptized with the phrase “i like smokin lighting”, heavy metal thunder” of the second verse of the song, and since then the denomination of ‘heavy metal’ has been used to define any set of dense and powerful rhythmic bases and riffs of damaging hardness; the evolution of that crunchy guitar with which this immortal song was born.
The history of “born to be wild” is curious, the song was composed under the pseudonym of Mars Bonfire by Dennis Edmonton, brother of the drummer of Steppenwolf, Jerry Edmonton and member of Sparrow (germ group of these), who conceived it as a slow ballad. With electric identity it entered to be part of the first album of the band, that released it as third single of the same one (after “the girl i knew” and “sookie sookie”) without even being the protagonist of the side A in a first moment, honor that shared with “everybody next one” in the vinyl slice.
However, it was gradually climbing up the charts until it reached the second position in the charts. However, it would reach its greatest impact a year later, when it would become the main theme of the film directed and performed by DENNIS HOPPER, “Easy Rider (1969)”. An ode to nonconformism, the rebellious character and the adventurous feeling that would also become an emblematic theme of the biker community by identifying with those scenes in which Hopper and Peter Fonda crossed the American roads on the back of their Harley Davidson while John Kay recited the legendary text and made his guitar roar almost as much as the engine of the noisy motorcycles.
Since then “Born to be wild” is the perfect amplification of the road song and the “wild” spirit of rock n' roll, the perfect soundtrack to raise smoke burning tires on some lost and dusty highway in deep America. Step on it...!!!!
well my people, until here this digital magazine, I will be working to bring you another of the great classic rock magazines that I have, bring them to the platform digitally as an editorial, to continue promoting the rock culture without anything else to tell you long live rock music forever. A thousand blessings.
