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Then tharo was John Kay, robed in rock-god
splendor. The Mick Jagger macho personified.
Beside him, Bobby Cochran with the Rapunzel
length locks, Goldie McJohn with the sequined
costume, and ail the rest are nothing.
For John Kay is Steppenwolf .
The. five-member hard-rock band performed before
an audience of about 3,500 persons Monday night in
Pershing Municipal Auditorium. They sang their old
hits, reviving nostalgia for a bygone era. The era of
"easy ridering," Kent State and bomb-the-ROTC-building
fervor.
The revolution is over. And without the revolution,
Steppenwolf s music lacks direction. No new material
matches the ferocity of "Born to Be Wild" or the
antiestablishment vehemence of "Monster."
The predominantly high school-aged crowd that
clutched. toward the stage were too young to remember
Eugene McCarthy, the draft and the 1968 Democratic
convention. They were not part of the era which
pumped the lifeblood into Steppenwolf s existence.
They could not fully appreciate the spirit of the music.
But they didn't care. For Monday night, a rock
musician stood above them, sneering mystery and
brutality into their Clearsil-splattered lives.
And to them, rock musicians are gods.
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