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To: Peter V who wrote (168509)	12/2/2008 10:26:52 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>I have yet to meet him, but have been told he is about the least "wild" guy around. Just kind of ironic.<< People "grow", what can ya say?<G> Nice royalties on that one, I'd wager. Mouth-watering.....<G>

To: Peter V who wrote (168509)	12/2/2008 11:03:17 PM
From: ChanceIs	Respond to of 306849

>>>Funny you should mention the songwriter, for Born to be Wild it was Mars Bonfire. <<< OK. Can't resist. Don't want to talk too much out of school, but where I vacation deep in the backwoods of eastern Maine there is a property owned by some "far out" cats from California. One sometimes visitor - who I got to know slightly - is/was Nick St. Nicholas. Nick played bass for Steppenwolf for several years. He would tell me how he used to jam with Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Quite the example of what drugs can do for your mind. (Sorry Nick - you know its true though.) Per Wiki: Steppenwolf In 1967, The Sparrow folded and St. Nicholas joined a Los Angeles-based group called The Hardtimes, who soon renamed themselves T.I.M.E., which supposedly stood for Trust In Men Everywhere. After only one album, St. Nicholas left T.I.M.E. and rejoined his former Sparrow bandmates (vocalist/guitarist John Kay, drummer Jerry Edmonton and organist Goldy McJohn), by replacing original bassist Rushton Moreve in Steppenwolf at the height of the band's popularity. St. Nicholas has several Gold and Platinum records to his credit playing and contributing on four Steppenwolf albums: At Your Birthday Party, Early Steppenwolf, Monster, and Live. He appears in many of the band's early videos including an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. St. Nicholas left Steppenwolf in 1970 and was replaced by new bassist George Biondo. Although John Kay's autobiography, Magic Carpet Ride largely attributes St. Nicholas' firing to sneaking on stage in nothing but bunny ears and a jockstrap at a 1970 show at the Fillmore East, according to Steppenwolf keyboardist Goldy McJohn, St. Nicholas was dismissed for a number of reasons: The fuehrer (Kay) fired him [for] wearing dresses in Steppenwolf with that bleached blonde hair, being out of tune at gigs ... lots of reasons. I liked the bunny ears, but John made such a stink about it at the Fillmore East, you'd think he was in charge. Everyone else was on acid in the audience and this great big guy got up and told Kay to let Nick tune up and everybody cheered. Stealing John Kay's limelight has and always will be his modus operandi, in other words.[1] After Kay and Edmonton's version of Steppenwolf disbanded in 1976, St. Nicholas reformed the group with McJohn and guitarist Kent Henry, who had recorded the guitar tracks on the For Ladies Only album in 1971. There were several versions of this band touring at the same time for which St. Nicholas was not responsible. During this turn, St. Nicholas' Steppenwolf included drummers such as Steve Riley and Frankie Banali. St. Nicholas stopped touring with Steppenwolf when his lease on the band's name expired in 1980. en.wikipedia.org