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Artist: Steppenwolf
Author: Hoyt Axton
Label: Dunhill
Year: 1968
Later also in film Easy Rider. In days before Steppenwolf, singer John Kay was a dishwasher in the L.A. Troubadour club, where Hoyt Axton frequently performed. An early May 1967 live performance, when the band was still known as The Sparrow, appeared on Early Steppenwolf in '69.
Covers:
Hoyt Axton [author on lp Joy To The World; copyrighted in '64]
Neneh Cherry & Michael Stipe [same guitar riff in Trout]
Blind Melon [posthumous; the pusher visited their leadsinger Shannon Hoon a little too often]
Slash [with Chris Robinson]
Just like Hoyt's Snowblind Friend (see there), The Pusher warned against drug abuse. Still, both songs faced radio bans.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)