Close your eyes Brad.. Look inside Brad.. Let the sound take you away Brad... You don't know what you could find... ******Let the music take you awayyyyy***** Just a thought :))))
The trip is lying on the carpet with your head between the stereo speakers, back in the day, and letting the music take you away. So definitely Brad, do that. You won't regret it.
@@Danimal77 Yes and no. I don't think that's really what it is, though it can come across that way on the surface. If I had given a serious reply earlier, instead of the peyote joke, then I would have expressed how it seems like the way she makes associations in her head is very adnormal to the average person. Like she takes the inherent 5 sense that people have and melds them together or just straight-up, in her head, registers something through 1 of those senses that typically would be analyzed through a different sense. It's the way her own personal head and thinking makes associations and draws comparisons between two things. I'll try and give some basic examples, although taking a hallucinogenic would probably make you understand as well lol, the way her brain works and draws comparisons that is. Some of her 5 senses are seemingly cobbled together and work in tandem with each other to draw correlations. Examples: seeing sounds/music, feeling music, and hearing visuals. It seems like everything that stimulates one of her five senses also stimulates at least one of the other 5 senses simultaneously which produces her unusual comparisons and anologies.
The music of this time period was when there were psychodelics being used so the music was trippy. You could enjoy the music without the use of drugs. It was just a good song when you were hanging out with friends. Lex is right many songs talk about little girl that is what they called young women. My husband still says it sometimes and we have been married 40 years. It is not meant to be offensive or not used to talk about an inappropriate relationship.
Yes, just like when you call your man your big, strong hulk or something, they call us their little girl. It's an exaggerated affection. It's just an emphasis on our femininity. I like feeling delicate and cherished sometimes.
I think what channels like yours, Lost in Vegas, Jamel, etc are tapping into is really cool. Me and my friend who sings in my band, hang out on free weekends to expose each other to new music, and its a wonderful shared experience, where we can see each other react to new things. Finding channels like yours is kinda like meeting a new friend to jam out with. Thanks for the experience.
Back when i was young in the 70's my friends and i would always get together just to listen to music. We would occasionally go to the movies, very rarely watched tv. Music seemed much more important.
Idk, when I found out about "the club" and selling yourself out by doing inconceivable things to little ones to become and stay relevant, I get turned off by phrases like that. My naive self didn't have a problem with it but now I wonder if, and how deep, singers/bands/celebrities etc. are in it. 😏
@@lmdashley6725 realistically though thats probably such a small group of people relative to the entire category. thats how humans are. theres, like you said, a small exclusive club and then theres the ones who know but dont care, the ones that do care and the majority dont even know. So reading too much into things isnt gonna help our own mental health in the long run. Until theres verified evidence that so and so is doing such and such, its conjecture. Thats how we end up with "witch hunts" so to speak, just looking for stuff where its not always actually found.
@Frisky Fella She immediately got that the song rhythm is not typically rock, but the organ, guitar and drum set off a kind of chunka chunka funky pace and the vocal pushes against this rhythm. The kids really dug this record when it came out.
"Little Girl" does sound odd today. It's a "pet name" like "little sweetie" or something. And the words fit the music, lol. "Why don't you come with me, young woman?" is square af.
Steppenwolf originally had the band name, The Sparrow. They changed it to Steppenwolf when they went to LA to record an album. These guys were HUGE in the late 60's and early 70's.
Their catalog is oddly deep. Amazing band. "Born to be Wild" was their biggest hit. "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam" is probably my favorite. "Magic Carpet Ride" is awesome too! Aaaah, I miss the old days...
I’m envious of you guys. So much of what you’re experiencing for the first time is stuff I grew up listening to. And I sit here thinking of a thousand other tracks I want to show you.
I am sure that plenty of folks took the magic carpet ride with a variety of different substances, but the vocalist is straight forward: "Close your eyes, girl, look inside, girl, let the sound take you away!" Then the band provides the sound and the opportunity for the listener to literally close their eyes, look inside themselves and allow the sound of that trippy instrumental to let their minds soar uninhibitedly.
Steppenwolf's mega-hit is Born To Be Wild, which is practically the life soundtrack of motorcyclists everywhere. It's a great song, too, and well worth a listen. I think both of you would like it.
I have a lot of fond memories of seeing them in concert. Their keyboardist was a beast. He played the hell outta them keys. First time I saw them I was like 12 going into a bar with the worst fake ID ever. And the bouncer looked at my ID and said "That's the worst fake ID I have ever seen ! Don't drink too much." lol...Good times..
I got to jam with Goldie McJohn (keyboards)on his 70-something birthday party. He passed away a few years later. He was living in Seattle working as a grounds keeper at a golf course. Not sure the details but I think he got screwed out of royalties. Why these guys are not in the rock and roll Hall of Fame is beyond me.
I saw them perform this at a concert in a wine factory in Germany years ago...John Kay was still rocking out and awesome!!this song is timeless!!thanks for checking it out!! BTW I even got a guitar pic and met the guys after the show...really nice and very cool people.👍🙂
i got to see steppenwolf in Toronto in 1980(i think). steppenwolf, eric burdon and the animals, peter gabriel, krokus, and i can't even remember the others. i was there for about 10 days on a molson canadian trip, and it was free tickets to anything i wanted to see. was so awesome.
Underrated band. They had a lot of great songs. Check out the b-side medley from the "Steppenwolf the Second" album, "Tighten Up Your Wig", "Rock Me", "Move Over", "Renegade", "Screaming Night Hog", 'Draft Resister", "Faster Than the Speed of Life", "Foggy Mental Breakdown", "Round and Down".
The late 60s was a helluva time for psychodelic tunes. The drugs of choice were LSD and marijuana. I was only 10 or 11 when this song came out, but I guess my recall attests to my good memory. :)
"Magic Carpet Ride "brought a smile to Brad's face. I can relate.The first time I heard it in 1968 I had the same reaction.When that beat droped it made me happy.I knew it was something special.I still love this tune.That Organ player was on fire. Love watching y'all react to it.A true musical trip.
Whooo-Hooo, Steppenwolf! What a great band from the late 60s - early 70s! We saw them in the early 70s in the old Palace Theater in Waterbury CT, we got there in the AM and secured seats in the front row, just left of center. John Kay (singer, second guitar, main songwriter) was around 6 feet from us on the right of center, the chills he sent up our spines when they started The Pusher were unforgettable. Try The Pusher, Born to be Wild and Monster. Great choice, Lex should have been there, she would have freaked! Rock On! 🎸
This was the first song I ever bought. It was on a vinyl 45 I bought as a Christmas gift for my brother in 1968. Sookie Sookie was the B-side if memory serves. Great memories and a great song. McKay, who wrote and sang the song, had just bought a new hi-fi (stereo) system and started writing some lyrics about how great it was listening to music on the new stereo (he was also smoking some...)
Am I the only one who loves the way each reaction is so abruptly cut at the end, invariably right after Lex made some great point or said/did something terribly cute? It's very creative, and not anything I've ever seen from another reactor. The music that starts right in completes the effect. Something tells me Lex is the editor. ;)
At some point in the 1980s I heard a retro oldies radio interview with John Kay, leader of Steppenwolf, who you hear singing on this song. When discussing "Magic Carpet Ride" he stated that the band was flush with cash after the success of their first big hit, "Born To Be Wild." So one of the first things he did with his first royalty check from that song was go out and buy a huge stereo system, take it home, hook it up and play his vinyl albums. This song is about the joy of listening to music and the places it can transport you to when you do.
Yes…. That is so accurate, John Kay said when they first made some money he bought a killer stereo. Did not have any furniture to sit on so they sat on the carpet…
Well . . . Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin did have a 14 year old groupie that he would hook up with whenever he was in LA in the early 70s. Well documented as she and another woman wrote a book in recent years describing their groupie experiences (and no regrets on their part). Also older bluesmen had songs like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl". Age old theme. Not saying that's what Steppenwolf is singing about, but it was a more common theme back then. Of course filmmaker Roman Polanski, after his wife Sharon Tate was brutally killed by the Manson family, did have a sexual experience (assault?) with a young 13 year old girl. He was given a light sentence and before the judge could change his mind, left the country, and hasn't returned to the US since. Same era. So Polanski is forever wanted in the US, while Jimmy Page is celebrated. Strange times back then.
Times are definitely different. I was watching some other TH-camr's react to Wingers "Seventeen" a few days ago, and I half-jokingly asked if people are still allowed to enjoy that song. But seriously, I'm not sure that song could even get air-play if it was written today. And that song only goes back to 1988.
So great to see you simply absorbing the music. Sometimes, that's all its about. And yes, just lying there listening to this is a trip in its own right. Do it, you'll love it
The late 60’s and 70’s was a major turning point in recordings. More tracks available, stereo recordings used more instead of mono, synths being used more. So a lot was experimental in of itself, let alone adding drugs to it.
"Close your eyes, girl. Look inside, girl. Let the sound take you away!" "So what do you think?" Lex: "I don't know, it's already taking me somewhere..."
Godzilla the song is just as killer as Godzilla the movie ikon. BOC Rocks! Saw them on this tour with their laser light show, amazing. Even better, UFO opened as Michael Schenker ripped into Lights Out. Man, what a show...
John Kay, singer and lead songwriter of Steppenwolf tells the story of how he came up with this song. He was in his pad in Nichols Canyon in LA, it's a few canyons over from Topanga. I remember, I'm from LA. John may have been smoking a little kaya one night, but he was surely laying on the floor listening to music coming from both speakers near his head. That's where he got the idea for this song. Thank you John!! I'm an old Wolf Packer.
You both are my new favorite reaction channel hands down! Watching people hear my favorite music for the first time is almost as good as the first time I heard the songs... you love the songs and listen to them time and time again, but you never re-experience that initial feeling of the first time you heard it. Watching you two discover songs for the first time and fall in love with them brings a second-hand joy to the listener and, for me, I almost re-discover that feeling of hearing the song for the first time! Keep going you guys are amazing! That being said, I can tell that you two both love a song with a story, and you haven't tapped into Canada yet much... so if you could please react to "The Dead Can't Testify" by Billy Talent I think you will really love it!
Lex, I absolutely love your enjoyment of rock that I grew up with. A lot of the music I thought was “head music”. We would lay back, smoke a little and drift off into the music. It was a great experience!
Saw Steppenwolf, Molly Hatchet, and Kansas October the 14th, 1995 at Oak Mountain, Hoover or Pelham Alabama. I remember it well. it was the day we buried my grandfather. Carry on my Wayward Son (Kansas) never had a more heart felt meaning to me, than that night at that time.
Sure miss you guys! Been a while since I checked for reactions done by you, somehow I missed this one. Hope you both and your child are all doing well!💗
I have never tried LSD but I have talked to a lot of people and they all experimented an spiritual journey, and that is why in the 60s and 70s started that hippie movement, were peace and love was their main message, so I don't think is a destructive drug like cocaine or heroin, definitely is something different
Ahh 1968. Epic year for music and the year I was born 😬 Sweet to see people giving these classics a listen. Nothing cordless or digital back then, analog tape and mixers was about it. Nice reaction. Lex always grooving ✌
Close your eyes Brad.. Look inside Brad.. Let the sound take you away Brad... You don't know what you could find... ******Let the music take you awayyyyy***** Just a thought :))))
He can't help it...very analytical thinker.
@@bdmention Yes, and he doesn't assume to know anything he isn't sure he knows. Metacognitively, he is one chill dude.
Funny, I posted the same thing then scrolled down and saw this!
He thinks he's trhe smart one.
I really love how Lex can get into every song like she does! I love it!!!!
Lex is beautiful
Yes she is!!!!!!
Brad seriously contemplates the song, while Lex ROCKS OUT.😁😁😁
The trip is lying on the carpet with your head between the stereo speakers, back in the day, and letting the music take you away. So definitely Brad, do that. You won't regret it.
I remember doing that. My mom thought I was nuts. Maybe I was but I loved the music.
Me too, couldn't have said it better.
For sure, but when Born to be Wild comes on you'll leap up - can't listen to that lying down!
My dad introduced me to big ass speakers, a record player, and a collection of vinyl as a kid in the 90s! Been a audiophile ever since!
I still do that. In fact, I do that with Steppenwolf on LP. It is still a magic carpet ride.
I’m beginning to think Lex is a savant. The way she describes things and how she gets music is kind of incredible.
I know exactly what you mean.
Really? I was just going to ask her where she buys her peyote. Both theories work lol.
No. She's just creative and imaginative and clearly loves music and uses imagery and symbolism to express her thoughts/feelings.
@@Danimal77 Yes and no. I don't think that's really what it is, though it can come across that way on the surface. If I had given a serious reply earlier, instead of the peyote joke, then I would have expressed how it seems like the way she makes associations in her head is very adnormal to the average person. Like she takes the inherent 5 sense that people have and melds them together or just straight-up, in her head, registers something through 1 of those senses that typically would be analyzed through a different sense. It's the way her own personal head and thinking makes associations and draws comparisons between two things. I'll try and give some basic examples, although taking a hallucinogenic would probably make you understand as well lol, the way her brain works and draws comparisons that is. Some of her 5 senses are seemingly cobbled together and work in tandem with each other to draw correlations. Examples: seeing sounds/music, feeling music, and hearing visuals. It seems like everything that stimulates one of her five senses also stimulates at least one of the other 5 senses simultaneously which produces her unusual comparisons and anologies.
Me too
"Born to be Wild" and "The Pusher" are a must from Steppenwolf!
"Monster!" Definitely!
@@thannaske5371 yes! I would also add "Jupiter's Child" and "Screaming Night Hog".
@@thannaske5371 One of the classics.
The 1969 live 21+ minute version of The Pusher was an absolute experience when I first heard it as a preteen.
@@stevensellars5587 I believe that was from 1966 when they were still "The Sparrow".
The music of this time period was when there were psychodelics being used so the music was trippy. You could enjoy the music without the use of drugs. It was just a good song when you were hanging out with friends. Lex is right many songs talk about little girl that is what they called young women. My husband still says it sometimes and we have been married 40 years. It is not meant to be offensive or not used to talk about an inappropriate relationship.
OMG very trippy song is very true ! Drugs were every where !
You definitely need the “substances” to go full 5D. :)
Yes, just like when you call your man your big, strong hulk or something, they call us their little girl. It's an exaggerated affection. It's just an emphasis on our femininity. I like feeling delicate and cherished sometimes.
When you two are old folks rocking on the front porch. Brad’s chair will have to go side to side and Lex will have a regular back and forth chair.
If they sit together on a swinging bench they will go full circle.
Hahaha
haha
🤣
What does that even mean?
Brad had a breakthrough - he wants to listen to this - with his eyes closed - while getting some alone time with his little girl. You can do it Brad!
Brad ask, is this about using substances for the magic carpet ride or is about listening to music to put you in meditative state ? Answer is yes !
I think what channels like yours, Lost in Vegas, Jamel, etc are tapping into is really cool. Me and my friend who sings in my band, hang out on free weekends to expose each other to new music, and its a wonderful shared experience, where we can see each other react to new things. Finding channels like yours is kinda like meeting a new friend to jam out with. Thanks for the experience.
Back when i was young in the 70's my friends and i would always get together just to listen to music. We would occasionally go to the movies, very rarely watched tv. Music seemed much more important.
EXACTLY! It just captures the joy of sharing music with someone.
Well this is the first time Brad said he wanted to go to the freedom of LEXLAND. Well done Brad.
"Little girl" is no weirder than calling your loved one "Baby" or "Babe"!
or shorty :D
Diminutive terms are terms of endearment.
Idk, when I found out about "the club" and selling yourself out by doing inconceivable things to little ones to become and stay relevant, I get turned off by phrases like that. My naive self didn't have a problem with it but now I wonder if, and how deep, singers/bands/celebrities etc. are in it. 😏
@@lmdashley6725 realistically though thats probably such a small group of people relative to the entire category. thats how humans are. theres, like you said, a small exclusive club and then theres the ones who know but dont care, the ones that do care and the majority dont even know. So reading too much into things isnt gonna help our own mental health in the long run. Until theres verified evidence that so and so is doing such and such, its conjecture. Thats how we end up with "witch hunts" so to speak, just looking for stuff where its not always actually found.
My first concert I saw Steppenwolf in 1969. I saw them with Three Dog Night in St. Louis. A life altering event, changed me forever.
I remember this song somehow got playing on our high school PA system in 1968. Everybody went nuts! A four minute masterpiece!
"Born to be Wild" by the same group is well worth a listen. So is the movie Easy Rider.
Great movie. Their song "the pusher" is a great one too
Hail YESSSS
"Born to be Wild" is required listening. Not listening to it eventually results in a big fat demerit.
Don’t always know what this girl is talking about…. But she’s adorable.
@Frisky Fella She immediately got that the song rhythm is not typically rock, but the organ, guitar and drum set off a kind of chunka chunka funky pace and the vocal pushes against this rhythm. The kids really dug this record when it came out.
I would have liked if Lex went into more detail of where the trippy solo part took her. Some of her "trips" in other vids. have been priceless!
One of my faves from a great Canadian band
"Little Girl" does sound odd today. It's a "pet name" like "little sweetie" or something. And the words fit the music, lol. "Why don't you come with me, young woman?" is square af.
Fits in with Brad's stiffness though...
Steppenwolf originally had the band name, The Sparrow. They changed it to Steppenwolf when they went to LA to record an album. These guys were HUGE in the late 60's and early 70's.
The Sparrow were great too!!
Their catalog is oddly deep. Amazing band. "Born to be Wild" was their biggest hit. "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam" is probably my favorite. "Magic Carpet Ride" is awesome too! Aaaah, I miss the old days...
I’m envious of you guys. So much of what you’re experiencing for the first time is stuff I grew up listening to. And I sit here thinking of a thousand other tracks I want to show you.
If you’re going to do Steppenwolf you got to do the pusher !
“You know I’ve smoked a lot of grass…”
3:10 this instrumental break helped paved the way for Deep Purple and a lot of the early proto-Speed Metal songs from the 70s.
I am sure that plenty of folks took the magic carpet ride with a variety of different substances, but the vocalist is straight forward: "Close your eyes, girl, look inside, girl, let the sound take you away!" Then the band provides the sound and the opportunity for the listener to literally close their eyes, look inside themselves and allow the sound of that trippy instrumental to let their minds soar uninhibitedly.
Brad picks apart the meaning with a microscope while Lex flows through a musical journey.
John Kay the guitarist, and lead vocalist, wrote this song about his new stereo system.
Did not know that.
This song is summertime to me - cut off shorts, sunburnt shoulders, beers and weed hanging with your friends at the lake. LOVE THIS
Steppenwolf's mega-hit is Born To Be Wild, which is practically the life soundtrack of motorcyclists everywhere. It's a great song, too, and well worth a listen. I think both of you would like it.
Recently I heard it on a diaper commercial., I was kind of sad. They do need to review it.
I have a lot of fond memories of seeing them in concert. Their keyboardist was a beast. He played the hell outta them keys. First time I saw them I was like 12 going into a bar with the worst fake ID ever. And the bouncer looked at my ID and said "That's the worst fake ID I have ever seen ! Don't drink too much." lol...Good times..
The mighty Hammond B3 Organ with a rotating Leslie speaker kicks ass!!
I got to jam with Goldie McJohn (keyboards)on his 70-something birthday party. He passed away a few years later. He was living in Seattle working as a grounds keeper at a golf course. Not sure the details but I think he got screwed out of royalties. Why these guys are not in the rock and roll Hall of Fame is beyond me.
Hodge Podge Strained Thru A Leslie off their album The Second is the cat's ass.
I looked around. A lousy candle was all I could find. Great line lol
I saw them perform this at a concert in a wine factory in Germany years ago...John Kay was still rocking out and awesome!!this song is timeless!!thanks for checking it out!! BTW I even got a guitar pic and met the guys after the show...really nice and very cool people.👍🙂
I grew up with this song and know it well. I forgot how interesting that instrumental break was. A Unique Palette of Sounds.
i got to see steppenwolf in Toronto in 1980(i think). steppenwolf, eric burdon and the animals, peter gabriel, krokus, and i can't even remember the others. i was there for about 10 days on a molson canadian trip, and it was free tickets to anything i wanted to see. was so awesome.
Lex is truly amazing, because she feels the songs, the energy and the message behind it! thumbs up!
Psychedelic Rock of the 60s.. great stuff!
About taking a trip. A great song by them is It's Never too Late. Great message.
Another timeless classic.. still one of the best songs ever came out..
That instrumental break was the glorious saucy magic carpet ride… and then the final chorus bumps you back down to Earth
One group you guys really need to listen to. They were kind of a supergroup in the 70’s. Love your commentary.
Underrated band. They had a lot of great songs. Check out the b-side medley from the "Steppenwolf the Second" album, "Tighten Up Your Wig", "Rock Me", "Move Over", "Renegade", "Screaming Night Hog", 'Draft Resister", "Faster Than the Speed of Life", "Foggy Mental Breakdown", "Round and Down".
The late 60s was a helluva time for psychodelic tunes. The drugs of choice were LSD and marijuana. I was only 10 or 11 when this song came out, but I guess my recall attests to my good memory. :)
"Magic Carpet Ride "brought a smile to Brad's face.
I can relate.The first time I heard it in 1968 I had the same reaction.When that beat droped it made me happy.I knew it was something special.I still love this tune.That Organ player was on fire.
Love watching y'all react to it.A true musical trip.
Steppenwolf always takes somewhere you weren't expecting to go then brings you back.
Great reaction! Steppenwolf was an awesome band. Born To Be Wild, The Pusher, Rock Me.
Great choice! Great band!
Born to be wild is a must!
One of Rock 'n Roll 's greatest anthems. 🤘🏽
This song was actually played by the pilot of Earth's first warp-capable spacecraft as it blasted off on it's maiden voyage!
And he almost forgot it.
I bought this song on a Cass-ingle! Remember those? A cassette tape with only one song on it.. 1985-86.. Listened to it til it broke!! Lol I was 12-13
God Damn the Pusher Man ..Steppenwolf..is awesome
Whooo-Hooo, Steppenwolf! What a great band from the late 60s - early 70s! We saw them in the early 70s in the old Palace Theater in Waterbury CT, we got there in the AM and secured seats in the front row, just left of center. John Kay (singer, second guitar, main songwriter) was around 6 feet from us on the right of center, the chills he sent up our spines when they started The Pusher were unforgettable. Try The Pusher, Born to be Wild and Monster. Great choice, Lex should have been there, she would have freaked! Rock On! 🎸
Glad you enjoyed the ride! I grew up on this music and it never gets old .
April Wine, I like to rock!
I used to dance for my Memere (grandmother) to this tune. I still love it
Whale Talk... loved it at our college beer parties in the 70s... No chemicals, just beer was enough!
Greetings from Oregon. I wonder how many mega hundred times I've heard this. You two are so adorable...lol
This was the first song I ever bought. It was on a vinyl 45 I bought as a Christmas gift for my brother in 1968. Sookie Sookie was the B-side if memory serves. Great memories and a great song.
McKay, who wrote and sang the song, had just bought a new hi-fi (stereo) system and started writing some lyrics about how great it was listening to music on the new stereo (he was also smoking some...)
Kay not McKay
Am I the only one who loves the way each reaction is so abruptly cut at the end, invariably right after Lex made some great point or said/did something terribly cute? It's very creative, and not anything I've ever seen from another reactor. The music that starts right in completes the effect. Something tells me Lex is the editor. ;)
I love how they often end their discussion with “i don’t know” and the outro song starts with “I don’t know.” Lol
@@Californyuhh Lol, I'll have to listen for that.
This was a trippy song to listen to as a kid. I'm so glad I got to grow up with music like this.
Lex is always on a Magic Carpet Ride...she vibes with the music and transports to the groove.
You two are my kind of people. I dig both your reactions.
Great sounds great music and great live show
Lex I love that the music just makes you move in time with the song. I can see the music in your face....You guys are awesome
At some point in the 1980s I heard a retro oldies radio interview with John Kay, leader of Steppenwolf, who you hear singing on this song. When discussing "Magic Carpet Ride" he stated that the band was flush with cash after the success of their first big hit, "Born To Be Wild." So one of the first things he did with his first royalty check from that song was go out and buy a huge stereo system, take it home, hook it up and play his vinyl albums. This song is about the joy of listening to music and the places it can transport you to when you do.
Pink floyd.. Echoes.
Pink floyd.. Atom heart mother.
Both 23 minute songs.
Both a journey worth a review.
Love ya work guys. ❤️🇦🇺
You two are awesome. Love watching your reactions.
dude bought a new stereo system and was lying down listening to music between the speakers. and might've been a wee bit high. then wrote the song
Yes…. That is so accurate, John Kay said when they first made some money he bought a killer stereo. Did not have any furniture to sit on so they sat on the carpet…
I'm hip to it, baby, groove on. 🫠
I was there baby!! 60s, 70s..what a time!
Well . . . Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin did have a 14 year old groupie that he would hook up with whenever he was in LA in the early 70s. Well documented as she and another woman wrote a book in recent years describing their groupie experiences (and no regrets on their part). Also older bluesmen had songs like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl". Age old theme. Not saying that's what Steppenwolf is singing about, but it was a more common theme back then. Of course filmmaker Roman Polanski, after his wife Sharon Tate was brutally killed by the Manson family, did have a sexual experience (assault?) with a young 13 year old girl. He was given a light sentence and before the judge could change his mind, left the country, and hasn't returned to the US since. Same era. So Polanski is forever wanted in the US, while Jimmy Page is celebrated. Strange times back then.
Times are definitely different. I was watching some other TH-camr's react to Wingers "Seventeen" a few days ago, and I half-jokingly asked if people are still allowed to enjoy that song. But seriously, I'm not sure that song could even get air-play if it was written today. And that song only goes back to 1988.
So great to see you simply absorbing the music. Sometimes, that's all its about. And yes, just lying there listening to this is a trip in its own right. Do it, you'll love it
The late 60’s and 70’s was a major turning point in recordings. More tracks available, stereo recordings used more instead of mono, synths being used more. So a lot was experimental in of itself, let alone adding drugs to it.
I grew up with all of this music! You two are a trip as well! Cheers!
This was BIG in the 60's. It was played constantly! Good song!
"Close your eyes, girl. Look inside, girl. Let the sound take you away!"
"So what do you think?"
Lex: "I don't know, it's already taking me somewhere..."
You guys are great! Thanks for the videos.
This made my drunk high ass cry lol
Steppenwolf. Monster.
Of course it’s about romance! The double entendre was used often back when social etiquette was much stricter! Thx! -Terry
Oooh she lit up when the vocals hit, absolutely love the reaction
He could’ve been talking bout Lex “close your eyes girl, look inside girl, let the sound take you away”
Try listening to Blue Oyster Cult song, "Godzilla"....fun song with a great guitar riff...
Godzilla the song is just as killer as Godzilla the movie ikon. BOC Rocks! Saw them on this tour with their laser light show, amazing. Even better, UFO opened as Michael Schenker ripped into Lights Out. Man, what a show...
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" and "Godzilla" are my two top faves for the BOC.
Love watching your vids most nights! The FIRST time I ever heard the words "Heavy Metal" was in Steppenwolf's tune "Born To Be Wild". Just Sayin.
John Kay, singer and lead songwriter of Steppenwolf tells the story of how he came up with this song. He was in his pad in Nichols Canyon in LA, it's a few canyons over from Topanga. I remember, I'm from LA. John may have been smoking a little kaya one night, but he was surely laying on the floor listening to music coming from both speakers near his head. That's where he got the idea for this song. Thank you John!! I'm an old Wolf Packer.
You both are my new favorite reaction channel hands down! Watching people hear my favorite music for the first time is almost as good as the first time I heard the songs... you love the songs and listen to them time and time again, but you never re-experience that initial feeling of the first time you heard it. Watching you two discover songs for the first time and fall in love with them brings a second-hand joy to the listener and, for me, I almost re-discover that feeling of hearing the song for the first time! Keep going you guys are amazing!
That being said, I can tell that you two both love a song with a story, and you haven't tapped into Canada yet much... so if you could please react to "The Dead Can't Testify" by Billy Talent I think you will really love it!
Lex, I absolutely love your enjoyment of rock that I grew up with. A lot of the music I thought was “head music”. We would lay back, smoke a little and drift off into the music. It was a great experience!
One of the most 60's sounding music ever. Probably why Mike Myer's used in Austin Powers
Saw Steppenwolf, Molly Hatchet, and Kansas October the 14th, 1995 at Oak Mountain, Hoover or Pelham Alabama. I remember it well. it was the day we buried my grandfather. Carry on my Wayward Son (Kansas) never had a more heart felt meaning to me, than that night at that time.
This sound describes how Lex experiences every song. 👍
Great choice to start with. Love Stepping wolf. Next the Pusher man.
Steppenwolf.
This is one of the all time psychedelic greats. The instrumental groove is pretty tight.
Greatest Psychedelic Song of all time
Lex just imagine being on that magic carpet during the instrumental and looking at the landscape below!
Sure miss you guys! Been a while since I checked for reactions done by you, somehow I missed this one. Hope you both and your child are all doing well!💗
LSD is one hell of a drug
But it wasnt written on lsd. He admitted smoking a joint and writing about his new stereo system
I have never tried LSD but I have talked to a lot of people and they all experimented an spiritual journey, and that is why in the 60s and 70s started that hippie movement, were peace and love was their main message, so I don't think is a destructive drug like cocaine or heroin, definitely is something different
I second that! 😉🤟
Don't know what's better, watching Lex crack Brad up or her adjectives and descriptions of the music vibe.
Ahh 1968. Epic year for music and the year I was born 😬
Sweet to see people giving these classics a listen. Nothing cordless or digital back then, analog tape and mixers was about it.
Nice reaction. Lex always grooving ✌
Thank you Brad & Lex! Music i grew up on ;)
Check out their song Monster. It is as true about our society in the 60s as it is today. As things change they remain the same.
That song is forever relevant, these guys were awesome songwriters and won't be forgotten.
They're great live.