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Kay Gets Star Treatment

(05/26/04) -- You all probably thought Steppenwolf singer John Kay was definitely an American, considering that he sang probably one of the biggest American anthems of all time in "Born To Be Wild." But no, Kay is one of those Canadian hippies disguising himself as an American (think Grand Funk Railroad, The Guess Who, Neil Young, etc.). Well, us Americans know Kay all too well, but it took Canada long enough to recognize his efforts. That's why John Kay will be among several celebrities welcomed into Canada's Walk of Fame on June 23rd in Toronto. The singer will be inducted by his old friend Peter Fonda, who starred in the iconic film Easy Rider, which of course featured the famous scene when "Born To Be Wild" played over Hopper and Fonda riding on their Harleys. Meanwhile, you can catch the John Kay & Friends concert DVD and reissue of Kay's 2001 Heretics & Privateers album on June 1st.

Наш человек,уроженец города Советск Калининградской области.

А как Советск назывался тогда?

Тильзит,тот самый где Наполеон встречался с Александром.

Steppenwolf Singer Gets Wild On Canada’s Walk Of Fame
Thursday May 27, 2004 @ 03:00 PM

John Kay, founder and lead singer of Steppenwolf, the folks behind unofficial biker theme song, "Born To Be Wild," will be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

At a nationally televised ceremony at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall on June 23, 60-year-old, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Kay’s salutation will join existing stars for musicians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson and Shania Twain as well as actors Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Dan Aykroyd. Hockey player Wayne Gretzky also has a star on the sidewalk located in Toronto's Theatre District, as does Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of Saturday Night Live, among many others.

John Kay will be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame by none other than Easy Rider star Peter Fonda. Fonda and Kay have been friends since 1969, when Fonda and director Dennis Hopper included two Steppenwolf songs on the Easy Rider soundtrack.

But that’s not all Kay has up his sleeve. On June 1, Kay will be releasing his own solo CD, Heretics And Privateers, as well a double CD set by Steppenwolf dubbed Live At 25. He’s also unleashing a DVD called John Kay & Friends, which was recorded live in November 2002 at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, Tennessee and features 19 of Kay's solo songs and some of Steppenwolf's greatest hits, including "Born To Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride."

Kay's album, Heretics And Privateers, was initially released in 2001, but this re-release features four bonus songs that were not included on the original recording. "Endless Commercial," " I Will Not Be Denied," "She's Got The Goods" and "For The Women In My Life" are the four bonus tracks, which will be included in acoustic versions as well as with full band arrangements on this re-released album.

Отличная банда, очень люблю ее. Помню, как прифигел от гитарного вступления в "Born To Be Wild". Считаю его одним из лучших в роке. Прям-таки передает рев заводящегося мотора.

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2 Theodor.
Ага! А еще борн ту би уайлд - это easy rider! ассоциация железобетонная :)

эта команда заслуживает внимания как наиболее интересная група конца 60-годов.
Мне лично очень симпатизирует вокал Джона Кая в таких песнях как:Born to be wild ,Rock me ,Hey lawdy mama ,Sookie sookie and etc.И клавишник у них тогда был классный такие финты закручивал да и борода у него приличная была.

Steppenwolf's John Kay and Peter Fonda rekindle friendship
TORONTO (CP) -- "There's a rock-and-roller in here! I can smell him!"

With that a grinning Peter Fonda strides into the lobby bar of the Windsor Arms Hotel to join his old compadre John Kay for a series of media interviews.

Fonda agreed to fly in from his Montana ranch to officially present Kay with his Canada Walk of Fame award this week. The two aging rebels still oozed cool as they re-ignited a friendship that goes back to their collaboration on 1969's Easy Rider.

Kay, who has been legally blind since childhood, and his heavy rocker band Steppenwolf contributed two numbers to the seminal film's innovative soundtrack, including the rock classic Born to the Wild. The tune and the movie have been intertwined in the pop culture sub-conscious ever since.

The receding hairline aside, the 64-year-old Fonda, from his wraparound shades to his kicking cowboy boots, still cuts as lean and lanky a figure as he did as biker Wyatt/Captain America 35 years ago.

And Kay, 60, remains a curious blend of heavy rocker and folk philosopher as he proves on his solo CD, Heretics and Privateers, with its eloquent, socially conscious lyrics and raw, bourbon-soaked vocal delivery.

Fonda recounts his oft-told tale about how he actually wrote the outline for the Easy Rider screenplay while ensconced in a seedy Toronto lakeshore hotel back in the 1960s. He was on a promotional tour for Roger Corman's The Wild Angels and had just been urged by Hollywood studio spokesman Jack Valenti not to make any more biker sex-and-drugs films.

So, as he puts it, he lit a couple of doobs, downed a Heineken and -- surrounded by tacky red-flocked wallpaper -- went to work on a story about two guys on choppers riding, not west, but east along Route 66. That was the opposite direction of his father, Henry Fonda as a Depression-era Okie in search of the California promised land in The Grapes of Wrath.

"Opposite to the whole American attitude, all of John Ford's country we're going to ride through," he explains, along with plans for an homage to German-Swiss writer Herman Hesse's Journey to the East (as well as Steppenwolf, of course).

He and director Dennis Hopper came up with the then-original idea of laying, not an original score, but existing chart-toppers, into the soundtrack, which made not only the film, but its eclectic album, phenomenal hits.

"We were just glad to have our two songs in the film," says Kay.

"It was a thousand bucks for everybody, John, Bobby Dylan," recalls Fonda, adding that Robbie Robertson loved a rough cut of the film so much he wanted to do the whole score himself.

The rest, as they say, is history. These two guys were not only witnesses to the '60s revolution, they helped write the theme music.

And speaking of The Band, Kay is asked how it came to be that both Robertson's group and Steppenwolf evolved as a fusion of musicians from such unlikely compass points as Ontario and the deep U.S. South.

He recalled arriving in Toronto as a teenager from post-war Germany and hearing the likes of Ronnie Hawkins playing the soul and blues music of black artists like Ray Charles and Howlin' Wolf in a west-end club in 1960-'61.

Then there was the atmospheric oddity known as the Heavyside layer ... listening to distant southern radio stations whose AM signals would skip along the sky and bounce down into Canada late at night.

"I mean I heard rock and roll on the armed forces radio network in Germany and I knew I loved that, but when I was twiddling the dial I said 'What is this other stuff?'"

But something else came across the border on the airwaves in the 1960s.

Kay recalls sitting with his elderly Ukrainian landlord in Toronto and weeping as they watched a Buffalo, N.Y., TV station and the civil rights clashes played out on the evening news from places like Birmingham, Ala.

"It flew in the face of what I had learned at the American House which was built with the Marshall Plan money in Hanover, Germany where I lived," he says. "Which was that the founding fathers of this great nation had given a promise of some day realizing something called liberty and justice for all."

So he picked up his guitar and headed for Newport and the Delta and Nashville, where he learned it was possible to blend folk with the primal rhythms he was hearing.

"We all said we can play rock and it can still have lyrics worth listening to beyond just dancing to it."

Like Dylan, Springsteen and Neil Young, Kay still sings about the working man, selling out, consumerism and corporate exploitation. And yet somehow he remains optimistic that today's generation of youth is not as complacent as it looks, that it will rise up when it becomes necessary.

"There are people out there who basically disavow the Dilbert existence," he says. "There is a dormant reservoir of discontent. Maybe it has to get worse before people finally. . .say 'This is bad enough. It's time to make a change, it's time to be engaged.'"

ИЗИ РАЙДЕРЫ!

Musician John Kay, left, of the band Steppenwolf, and actor Peter Fonda pose with Kay's star after it was unveiled on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on Wednesday June 23, 2004.

У них еще одна неприличная композиция есть: "Sookie Sookie" (слышится "суки, суки!" - кобелиный зов такой...). А вообще тексты умные, хорошие: что "Ostrich", что "Renegade", что "Everybody's Next One". Умеют, чертяки!

Kay Says No To Hilton

(07/07/04) -- Popular socialite and reality TV star Paris Hilton might have won the hearts of audiences across the globe, but Steppenwolf singer John Kay isn't taking the bait. Kay recently told a Canadian newspaper that Hilton asked him to let her use the band's Sixties anthem "Born To Be Wild" on her show, The Simple Life. Kay said he refused outright. "There are certain things even a rock and roller will not stoop to, and this is one of them," Kay told the Toronto Star. Right on!

There was no one band the symbolized the changing-of-the-times in the 1960's more than Steppenwolf. Their anthem: Born To Be Wild helped kick-start a revolution of free-thinking rock n' rollers. Relive the past and relive the revolution as Steppenwolf returns to the stage for one of the most amazing comebacks in rock n' roll history. Songs:
Sookie Sookie:
Rock & Roll Rebels:
Rock Me:
Moving On:
Endless Commercial:
Hey Lawdy Momma:
Hoochie Coochie:
Magic Carpet Ride:
Born to Be Wild:

Born to be wild исполняли Slade, классно надо заметить.

Steppenwolf have reissued six vintage albums as a trio of double-CD sets. The three repackaged collections –- which pair Early Steppenwolf with For Ladies Only, Steppenwolf with Steppenwolf the Second and At Your Birthday Party with Steppenwolf 7 -- now are available for purchase online here. Three of the individual albums -- Early Steppenwolf, For Ladies Only and Steppenwolf 7 -- had long been out of print.
http://www.steppenwolf.com/s/w/merchpage.html

Хучи-кучи мэн рубят прикольно!

John Kay And Friends
Due for release on 08/05/2006

Review
This two hour DVD was recorded in 2004 for a PBS special and sees the celebrated rocker Kay lend his voice and songwriting skills to a more private realm of folk, blues and rock tunes.

Track Listing:
1. Many A Mile
2. Corina Corina
3. Somebody
4. My Sportin' Life
5. Don't Waste My Time
6. Dodging Bullets
7. The Ice Age
8. Down In The Bottom
9. Heretics And Privateers
10. To Be Alive
11. For The Women In My Life
12. Feed The Fire
13. She's Got The Goods
14. I Will Not Be Denied
15. Endless Commercial
16. Hoochie Cootchie Man
17. Magic Carpet Ride
18. Born To Be Wild
19. The Back Page

John Kay And Steppenwolf: Live In Louisville
Due for release on 08/05/2006

Special Features
Interviews
Sampler: The Last Wolf Fest/John Kay & Friends

Review
John Kay may have mellowed with time, but as a band Steppenwolf are still every bit as Rock 'n' Roll as they ever were. While pyrotechnics light up the night, the legendary group creates fireworks of its own with a trademark sound that resonates through a crowd of loyal stalwarts and new young faces. This particular project is a Steppenwolf milestone because it features the band members with the longest tenure in the band's 35 year history.

Track Listing:
1. Tracklist: Sookie Sookie
2. Rock & Roll Rebels
3. Rock Me
4. I'm Movin' On
5. Endless Commercial
6. Hey Lawdy Mama
7. Hold On (Never Give Up, Never Give In)
8. Ride With Me
9. She's Got The Goods
10. Hoochie Cootchie Man
11. Snowblind Friend
12. Monster
13. Magic Carpet Ride
14. Born To Be Wild
15. The Pusher

Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild - Live!
14/05/2007

1. Introduction
2. Sookie Sookie
3. Rock And Roll Rebels
4. Rock Me
5. I'm Movin' On
6. Endless Commercial
7. Hey Lawdy Mama
8. Hold On (Never Give Up, Never Give In)
9. Monster
10. Magic Carpet Ride
11. Born To Be Wild
12. The Pusher
13. Medley (Bonus track from the 60s)*: Born To Be Wild / Magic Carpet Ride; Touching Heaven (Instrumental)

John Kay & Sparrow
(Square Headed People)