Pesnell wanted to produce an album featuring new songs on Side A, by the reformed band Three Dog Night and with Side B of the album featuring songs by Steppenwolf.

The reformed John Kay and Steppenwolf line-up featured John Kay, Mike Palmer ( guitars, backing vocals ), Steve Palmer ( drums, backing vocals ), Danny Ironstone ( keyboards, backing vocals ) and Kurtis Teel on bass.

The innovative Magic Theatre Company, founded in 1967 in Berkeley and which later became resident in San Francisco, takes its name from the " Magic Theatre " of the novel, and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, founded in 1974 by actors Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise, took its name from the novel.

Steppenwolf enjoyed worldwide success from 1968 to 1974, but clashing personalities led to the end of the core lineup.

After Seven, Edmonton and McJohn formed Manbeast with Rod Prince and Roy Cox of Bubble Puppy before Steppenwolf reconvened in 1974 for three albums before breaking up again in 1976.

Slow Flux is an album by Steppenwolf, released in 1974 under the label Epic.

* Steppenwolf ( 1974 )

Plimpton became involved with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she appeared in Hedda Gabler ( 2001 ) among others.

This grouping continued on briefly in 1975 with former Steppenwolf bassist Nick St. Nicholas replacing Dickie.

James ventured into rock and funk with the release of her self-titled album in 1973 with production from famed rock producer Gabriel Mekler, who had worked with Steppenwolf and Janis Joplin, who had admired James and had covered " Tell Mama " in concert.

The following albums had several more hit singles, including " Magic Carpet Ride " ( which reached No. 3 ) from Steppenwolf The Second and " Rock Me Baby " ( with its bridge lasting 1: 06, which reached No. 10 ) from At Your Birthday Party.

Kay toured Europe as The John Kay Band in 1972 with Steppenwolf also on the bill, Kay fronting both groups.

A splinter Wolf band ( which featured no members from any Steppenwolf band fronted by John Kay ) appeared around the same time with lead vocalist Don Coenen.

Kay then took to the road in 1980 with a new line-up as John Kay and Steppenwolf.

As the band was named after the novel Der Steppenwolf by German author Hermann Hesse, who was born in the Black Forest town of Calw, the city invited them to come over and play in the International Hermann-Hesse-Festival 2002, along with other bands inspired by Hesse, such as Anyone's Daughter.

In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.

The play was staged at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater starring actress Martha Plimpton, who is credited with bringing renewed modern interest to the play.

The 1969 album Beginnings, released under the name Ambrose Slade, featured many musical influences with covers of songs by Steppenwolf, Ted Nugent, Frank Zappa, The Moody Blues, The Beatles and Marvin Gaye.

While at ISU, she met fellow theater students, among them John Malkovich, Glenne Headley, Joan Allen, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry, the latter two of whom, along with Perry's high school classmate Gary Sinise, went on to establish Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Now using the stage name Big Jimmy, he formed his first band with future Steppenwolf member Nick St. Nicholas, initially called the Sailor Boyz.

Some of the other well known rock bands to play Mothers include: Family, Fleetwood Mac, Eclection, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Roy Harper, Blodwyn Pig, Strawbs, Quintessence, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Deviants, Jethro Tull, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Skid Row ( with Gary Moore ), The Nice, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Elton John, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, The Chicago Transit Authority, Moby Grape, Canned Heat ( there is a reference to the club in the sleeve notes of their 1969 compilation Canned Heat Cookbook ) and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Partnerships with Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Playwrights Center, the Public Theatre, Seattle Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Yale Repertory Theatre ensure that the plays will reach beyond their original OSF audience.

Three more singles quickly followed, all minor hits, and White toured with Steppenwolf, Sly & the Family Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival and other major rock acts of the 1970s, playing in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and England.

Born in Park Ridge, Illinois and a graduate of Illinois State University, Cole began his professional acting career on stage with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985.

Steppenwolf performed on July 14, 1969, with Three Dog Night as their opening act.

Although he initially offered the song to other bands – The Human Expression, for one – Born to Be Wild was first recorded in 1967 by Steppenwolf in a sped-up and rearranged version, that the All Music Guide's Hal Horowitz described as " a roaring anthem of turbo-charged riff rock " and " a timeless radio classic as well as a slice of ' 60s revolt that at once defines Steppenwolf's sound and provided them with their shot at AM immortality.

In the early 1970s ABC restructured its recording division, merging the ABC label with its other pop-rock subsidiary, Dunhill Records -- whose roster included The Mamas & the Papas, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night and Steely Dan -- and Impulse!

Monster, which questioned US policy of the Nixon era, and Steppenwolf 7 were the band's most political albums, which included the song " Snowblind Friend ", another Axton-penned song, about the era and attitudes of drugs and its problems.

The Aveo was introduced for its market debut in a 60 second television advertisement that first appeared on New Year's Eve 2003, created by the firm of Campbell-Ewald, directed by Michael Bay and featuring the song Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.

Things Being What They Are premiered at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and was then seen at Steppenwolf in Chicago in 2003 where its sold-out run was extended twice.

The SSR was introduced for its market debut in a 60 second television advertisement that first appeared on New Year's Eve 2003, created by the firm of Campbell-Ewald, directed by Michael Bay and featuring the song Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.

At its publication, Narcissus and Goldmund was considered Hesse's literary triumph ; bibliographically, it follows Steppenwolf.

In 1994, the company made its Los Angeles debut with Steve Martin's first play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and in 1996, Lyle Kessler's Orphans, directed by Gary Sinise and after a successful run in Chicago and New York City, was the first Steppenwolf production to go international, debuting in London.

This play was developed through the Steppenwolf for Young Adults and the New Plays Initiative, where it received its world premiere in February 2005.

* The station hosted its first event on December 9, 2005, when Al Franken did a live broadcast of The Al Franken Show from the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

Monster has the most depth in reality and belies its namesake, Hesse's Der Steppenwolf ; the lone wolf on the plains, the common clave who are not part of the social few who are moving behind the scenes to bring about their vision of evolution.

Steppeulvene ( Danish language for Steppenwolf ) was a Danish rock band which despite its short life has become the icon for the Danish hippie music scene.

Wayne Cook, a keyboardist / session player and former member of Steppenwolf, was an additional bandmember for its live performances ; he is the curly-haired keyboardist in the band's videos from the 1970s.

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

These include John Kay, lead singer, harmonica and organ player, and occasional guitarist of the heavy metal late 60s / early 70s band Steppenwolf, members of The Tragically Hip, The Mahones, jazz singer Andy Poole, Bedouin Soundclash, Sarah Harmer, The Arrogant Worms, The Headstones, The Inbreds, and David Usher, formerly of Moist.

In the 1970s in Dayton, Ohio, Kim and Kelley Deal had an acoustic guitar duo which played at open mic nights, and opened for John Kay of Steppenwolf.

In 1967, the band Steppenwolf, headed by German-born singer John Kay, took their name from the novel.

The name-change from The Sparrows to Steppenwolf was suggested to John Kay by Gabriel Mekler, being inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel of the same name.

After hearing of these other Steppenwolf incarnations, John Kay was furious, since an original agreement among the band members in the early 1970s stated that anyone leaving forfeited any rights on the group's name, while the last original members standing when the group disbanded ( Kay and Jerry Edmonton ) would have exclusive claims on the name hereafter.

John Kay & Steppenwolf at Lillehammer Rock Weekend in Lillehammer, Norway.

In 2010, John Kay granted Glen Bui and Goldy McJohn a license under Steppenwolf Productions to perform as The Magic Carpet Ride.

* Official website of John Kay & Steppenwolf

* John Kay ( musician ) ( born 1944 ), musician and lead singer of Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf

* Paradox ( John Kay and Steppenwolf album ), 1984

Country rock and folk rock singers like Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Denny Doherty ( of The Mamas & the Papas ), David Clayton-Thomas ( of Blood, Sweat & Tears ), Andy Kim, Zal Yanovsky ( of The Lovin ' Spoonful ), John Kay ( of Steppenwolf ), and Ian & Sylvia found international audiences.

German born frontman, John Kay, would later become a Canadian citizen and was the only member of Steppenwolf to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame.

John Kay and Goldy McJohn joined this group in Toronto in 1965 and, after some more changes in personnel and relocating to California, the group was renamed Steppenwolf.

John Kay and Steppenwolf, Cheap Trick, Mitch Ryder, B. T. O., Foghat, Eddie Money, Guess Who, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Survivor, REO Speedwagon, Big Grin, Head East, Radio Flyer, Palace, Hanna Storm, Recipe X