Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Version 1969)
Hoo boy, ain't heard this one in a while. I was a senior in high school when this came out. From Wikipedia:
Steppenwolf were a Canadian-American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1967. The group was founded by singer/rhythm guitarist John Kay, keyboardist Goldy McJohn and drummer Jerry Edmonton, all formerly of the Canadian band the Sparrows. Guitarist Michael Monarch and bassist Rushton Moreve were recruited via notices placed in Los Angeles–area record and musical instrument stores.
Steppenwolf sold over 25 million records worldwide, released seven gold albums and one platinum album, and had 13 Billboard Hot 100 singles, of which seven were Top 40 hits, including three top 10 successes: "Born to Be Wild", "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Rock Me". Steppenwolf enjoyed worldwide success from 1968 to 1972, but clashing personalities led to the end of the core lineup. From 1980 to 2018, John Kay was the only original member involved, having been the lead singer since 1967. The band was called John Kay & Steppenwolf from 1980 to 2018. In Canada, they had four top 10 songs, 12 top 40 and 14 in the top 100.
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Reminds me that a friend of mine and I went to visit another friend. We were in a room and along one wall were cabinets full of vinyl records. It was maybe half as tall as the cabinet in the picture, but is was at least as long, maybe longer. Whatever, it was big. I don't think I have ever seen such a large collection all concentrated in one place. I don't think there was any purpose to our visit. We were just stopping by to say hello. It didn't occur to me till much later, like ten years ago, that that pile of records represented a small fortune. Say there's 30 disks in each cube, times six cubes long by four cubes high by $4 per disk is like $700. And this was back when gold was $35 an ounce and used car cost $100. Scale that $700 up to today's value and it comes to $70 grand. I suspect that the reason I didn't attach any significance to this is that such a large concentration of money was an alien concept (beware! here there be monsters!). I didn't attach any significance to it at the time, but I squirreled that memory away and kept it, and 50 years later I pulled it out and realized what it was.
Update a week later. Corrected the price of an LP.
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