Steppenwolf

San Diego Sports Arena
San Diego, CA
10/25/70

01 Monster
02 Who Needs Ya
03 Tuning
04 40 Days & 40 Nights
05 John Kay speaks
06 From Here to There Eventually
07 John Kay speaks
08 Snowblind Friend
09 Tighten Up Your Wig
10 The Pusher
11 Born to Be Wild (tape flip - fades out and in)
12 Encore Break
13 Magic Carpet Ride

John Kay - guitar, harmonica, lead vocals
Goldy McJohn - keyboards
Jerry Edmonton - drums (R.I.P.)
Larry Byrom - guitar, vocals
George Biondo - bass, vocals

Total time - 54:08

Quality - Poor (echoey, distorted, and even some bleed-through of a Grand Funk recording!)

Lineage - Unknown generation cassette > Soundforge > TLH

I'm kind of embarrassed to even offer this one up because the quality is so poor, but there isn't an abundance of recordings available of Steppenwolf's first incarnation (they changed guitarists and bassists so often I can't say "original line-up") and I doubt this one has been circulated very much outside of a small circle of Steppenwolf fanatics because the quality's so poor. At least it's not hard to hear what song they're playing. I DO have recordings that are worse quality, but what would be the point of comparing? This one is just bad. Enjoy. :)