Live - STEPPENWOLF***

Sookie Sookie/Don't Step On The Grass Sam/Tighten Up Your Wig/Monster/Draft Resister/Power Play Corrina Corrina/Twisted/For Here To There Eventually/Hey Lawdy Mama-Magic Carpet Ride/The Pusher/Born To Be Wild

Live (up to a point) double LP from American heavy rockers Steppenwolf featuring many of their best known songs. After three years at the top the group's record sales would steadily decline from now on. (US:7 UK:16)

"It's a very good album overall, primarily due to so much material. A lot of the live versions included here are not particularly inspired compared to their corresponding studio versions, and a few seem downright perfunctory. But there can be little doubt, if you want to know what a live concert sounded like in 1970, this is as good a place as any to start."

"If you lived through the 1960s, this hard-driving live album by Steppenwolf will bring back lots of memories of the struggle, the demonstrations, the idealism, the raw energy we all had back then to work for noble causes. If you are younger, this album will show you one of the best rock bands of that decade at its best."

"This proved to be one of those albums that hasn't aged well, which is such a shame, because Steppenwolf were a fantastic live band with the right line-up. The problem was that the album wasn't really live (not much anyway) but rather studio tracks with overdubbed applause mixed with some live stuff that was doctored in some places."

"Steppenwolf live? Not really. A few songs recorded in concert, a few more studio tracks with applause dubbed in and some heavily doctored live tracks. Probably the best we'll ever get from the classic era. Too bad, because the potential is all there. They were a great band in concert, there's just very little evidence to prove it now."

"Record companies of that time had a lot of power over their artists and this type of 'faux-live' release was not entirely uncommon. It is still a fantastic record and a great collection of songs and I give it a definite thumbs up, but you just have to get past the fact that this was not recorded live in a concert arena. But it is representative of what Steppenwolf would have sounded like in that era."

"I have always thought this to be an excellent blues album. It is very bass and drums heavy, and the guitar work on it is fantastic. Nice fat guitar sounds, very clean but sustaining guitars."