Not that it really matters anymore, but I worked for Eugene McCarthy for president in 1976 when he ran as an independent, and one of his principal positions was that he would abolish the CIA. He felt it was unneeded and counterproductive to America's best interests.
There are wise leaders out there. We get them if we deserve them.
best quality rock should be played after the national anthem..........kay should get a medal for this one.....yes really really were heading for genius level its just as he says still.oright from england fellas
I don't understand why this song is not considered as a rock classic - I think it is far better and more affecting than "Free Bird" or "Stairway to Heaven." If rock music produced a truly epic work, this would be it.
The MONSTER lives. Now they call it The Patriot Act. Someone once said: "When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in the American flag." In 1776, every able bodied man and boy over the age of twelve was considered to be the militia. The founding fathers were well aware of the threat from within as well as the threat from the outside. It's coming to that again, people. Buckle up.
This tune is about the state of our Country now,as it was back then,in 1970..BTW,the reason why it did not become famous was Nixon and his Paranoia about anything Anti-War and his force to stop it..Steppenwolf became a victim of the Nixon Dictatorship,more or less,forbidding Radio to play this cut,or Else..It died because of him! Damn Nixon!
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Our only hope is to rise up peacefully ? Bullshit, our only hope is to start killing the bastards that are destroying or Constitution and Bill of Rights.Grab your guns folks before they take them too. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
@HVYMETL The monster has grown and gotten stronger in the more than 40 years since this song came out! They (the monster) have been planning how to control us. Our only chance is to rise up peacefully by the millions. America - where are you NOW?
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I see the protests on wallstreet. But not much protest going on about the ROOT causes. Doctors-$8000. per hour! So called "hospitals" x that cost... Insurance costs! electric-fuel...Way over priced! Robotic made products, over 300% profit! [Also they take jobs that people can & should do=un-employment] Imports! Split govt.!!! Interest rates, lenders who break contract, & not penalized! etc,etc...THEY INSULT OUR INTELLEGENCE!!!! piece by piece, we stop this shit TOGETHER! Has to be done! by ALL.
Memorial Day was created by the evil ILLUMINATI. It's their way of mocking all the military people that murdered and died for the ILLUMINATI causes! Memorial Day is disgustingly evil. The U.S. soldiers are not "defending" our freedoms here in America. The mind controlled U.S. soldiers are defending the evil interests of their true masters that rule from Rome (the synagogue of Satan)! I have evidence of this sad fact.
Oh and for the record, the last time our nation actually declared war (per the Constitution) was December 8, 1941. I think if I were elected president, the very first thing I would do is to publicly pledge no more illegal wars. I would pledge that if I thought we "needed" to go to war, we would actually follow the Constitution and make that case to the Congress. The only exception would be to prevent an imminent attack on us. Ron Paul has a point.
We lost our beloved president and later his brother to keep feeding this insane idea that we can (and should) control the world. This has caused America to jump the tracks from a great nation that promoted freedom to an oppressor. My dad's brother died at Guadalcanal to stop tyranny and my dad fought in France to destroy the NAZIS. Was all that in vain? Why complain of NAZI tyranny? We seem to do a good job of it without their help.
Of course, the damage to others may even be worse. I hate to imagine how many Vietnamese died for nothing. When I say they died for nothing I refer to the fact that Vietnam was never really our enemy and their people did not want to fight us. Even Ho Chi Minh turned to President Wilson first for help (1919 at the Paris Peace Conference), but was rebuffed. If the Vietnamese are/were such an enemy, how come the Reebok zig running shoes I have were made there?
@Boelcke1919 Who the fuck cares about the Vietnamese ? What about the 58,000 Americans that died over there for absolutely nothing ? Geez, i wonder what their families are thinking ? Think they like your little history lesson ?
I was watching a commercial for Wounded Warriors tonight and I thought about the guys I personally know who have suffered because of having to fight these undeclared wars. I know guys who limp now because of roadside bombs and I know guys whose souls are so wounded deep inside that they claim they welcome death. Some of them hate living, and this was caused in large part by the horrible act of killing our peace president. Most of our 58,000 deaths in Vietnam would not have happened.
I would hope that we the people could still save the system, but we have to get the national security monster under controil because their illegal actions threaten our freedom, are creating enemies for us abroad for the wrong reasons, and are slowly suffocating the American Dream. If anyone working for the CIA asked me what he should do, I'd say resign. Get that evil off your karma and join the fight to save freedom in America, and it starts by making them admit killing our president.
@Boelcke1919 Yes, CIA - resign, admit to killing presidents (not only ours), overthrowing regimes, terrorizing people in many countries, be a real hero - a whistle blower.
@Boelcke1919 yeah but money bought them,it would never happen, money is the evil thing that makes peoples own families turn against them that isnt culture that isnt religion thats just plain evil and thats money
On 11-22-2013, it will be fifty long, painful years since the CIA murdered Jack Kennedy in downtown Dallas. I say we get 100,000 people to sit in at Dealey Plaza for two hours in 2 years to remind them that we know what they did and have not forgotten or forgiven. They must be held accountable.
@SRangelDE I was still in high school when JFK was murdered and even back then it seemed to be a CIA cover up . I played this song on my 8track player in my 67 mustang
I left a comment 5 or 6 months ago But this song gets better every day. I'll be 62 in a few months. Yes I saw Steppenwolf do this song on the Ed Sullivan show in 69 and it is great. I do have the original LP record. Vote them all out and let's start over, we don't have anything to lose.
Nice video to a great song. Perfect back in 69, perfect for today and no doubt years to come. Keep the comments flowin. Be careful tho, I'm sure the police will be watching the people.
You did a really good job of putting that together and it takes a lot to impress me. You showed both sides of the coin. Too bad the people running Washington right now couldn't see your vid. Yes, "America where are you now"??
Yeah , with all this 9-11 stuff going on, I kept thinking about this song and the slide show you did with it!!! I just think this song is so fitting for the tenth anniversarry of 9-11!!! Don't ask me to explain why, I guess it's like the old saying people used to use when describing a Harley, "If I have to explain, then you probably won't understand"!!! Thanks again for such a fitting slide show, video, or whatever it's considered!!! Very appropriate for the song!!!
Not timeless...prophetic! What they sang then has sadly become reality and there's no reason it has2be like this, but I think the keywords are "the people grew fat and got lazy. It's so fucking sad! But who knew before it came true?Now what can we do? It ain't the America that I used2know
When this song turned up on my iTune shuffle I wanted to add it to my FB. God Bless us all. This song is not anything new. Please be here and not nowhere. Thank you to making this video. Bless especially our sons and daughters. They are the future
1969 and it could have written last week it is so relevant to today’s bull shit Gov. When the Supremes made corparatins people you are no longer a democracy no matter what the hell you think. We are a PLUTOCRACY! Just as in the lyrics to Monster “ Now your vote is a meaning less joke! Until all lobbyists are outlawed from greasing the hands of elected officials
Brilliant track! Karl Marx saw good in America but they sold him out. The real person who they betrayed though is Thomas Paine; along with Marx he is one of my all time political heroes. Lauded as a hero when he helped fight on the American side in the civil war, he was just as quickly betrayed when he came back again.
I'm only 41 now, but I've seen John Kay and Steppenwolf twice now. Both times at fairs, but that was good enough -- they were great, and timeless. This has to be my favorite song of theirs.
The spirit was freedom and justice And it's keepers seem generous and kind It's leaders were supposed to serve the country But now they won't pay it no mind 'Cause the people grew fat and got lazy And now their vote is a meaningless joke They babble about law and order But it's all just an echo of what they've been told Yeah, there's a monster on the loose It's got our heads into a noose And it just sits there watchin'
Amazing lyrics. The only part of the lyrics that suck are about the Civil War. If J. Kay could change those the song would be perfect. "The blue and gray they stomped her they kicked her just like a dog..." doesn't work for me. What was the blue supposed to do? The southerners wouldn't give up their ridiculous and inhumane cotton culture.
A great song with a sincere message. As we fire up the grill, and jump in the pool, time is short. Take the time to lead not follow, be the change you want to see in the world if not for us then for our children and their children. Happy Birthday to us!
Happy Birthday to...US. As we reflect, will... you...we have much work to do...there are many things that need repair, much that needs to be changed. The 60's was an era of abrupt changes and the voices that wanted change have changed. The more some things change the more they stay the same? Will that be the end? Or now that you ARE 60 will we actually make the change we wanted to see before it's too late?
The message is ever so much as relevant today as it was then. I thought at the end of the Viet Nam conflict (naively) that we had "won" with our hippie dreams, protests, and petitions. Boy, was I wrong.
I thought I was alone with this song it is time for us to take back our country! I am sick of a two party country the right don't give a crap about the real working man and the the left are to afraid of losing there jobs. It's time to step up. I have started my own new party, the FDU the fedup party. I am tired of highly educated people pushing me around,just because i did not go to a fancy school does not mean i do not know what i am talking about.We Know more then you think.We are fedup.
Excellent work, artful. true. what a shame that even in the 60s, it wasn't given as much airplay as rockband cohorts that only alluded to that industrial-military complex but didn't give names or specifics, like Steppenwolf did. I only got it from another vietnam era vet in a CD copy of anti-war songs he made for me. Fully support your effort here to give fuller context, i'm subscribing and tell my buds about it. we're just waking up, 2nd inning ... great post!
@BeyondNeptune The below comment says a lot about the lack of intelligence or compassion of certain white boys. "Treated a hell of a lot better?" I guess you never heard of “The Trail of Tears” or "The Wounded Knee Massacre”. Custer died for your sins. You can go back to your comic books now.
"The native americans were not genocided, dumbass. They were treated a hell of a lot better than any other people were who were invaded"
history books only teach what "they" want you to know! Like how the small pox was "accidentally" given to native americans in blankets that were given them as gifts. Figure that one out. I believe it was biological warfare in it's earliest form. Sure native people fought amongst themselves, but it wasn't genocide. They didn't slaughter all the buffallo because two tribes were fighting over hunting grounds. At least they realized how precious earth is.Why are we disputing this.Just listen,learn
Every "politician(???) elected of the people, by the people, for the people, ha,ha, should be made to listed, to this every morning, in the District of Confusion. Thanking Obama, for "killing" Bin-laden, is like thanking Ronald McDonald for your burger, instead of the person at the grill.
Great job with the updated montage to this timeless macro-political masterpiece. Who did this? please advise. I am preparing a film reflects this message, the soul and feel, vision and importance of this work.
@1stFollowTheMoney You mean: who did the video? It's really very simple. I just chose pictures that I thought appropriate and put them together with a few simple effects.
@GeorgeErdel Sorry, but I don't know what you mean with the added lengths of music. This is the original version from the album.
Lucky you - I wish I would have seen that back then. I saw John Kay live about 1981 in San Jose in a small bar. He did some Steppenwolf music, but not Monster. It was great though.
@SRangelDE I love it, a shame America doesn't listen to it everyday, especially those Pukes in the District of Confusion. Heard it in the Nam, and have loved it since. So, true, but no one hears the message. They'll all bitch when the Bilderberg Group and the Chinese call in their Trillions of Dollars (once a world curency) debt.
@1stFollowTheMoney Love what you did here. I used to start every morning in the 60's with their song "it's never too late to start over again." I mean, every day for like a year until I got myself going again. I went to see them in Tampa and they played the whole Monster album like I was listening to it at home. It was really great. Thanks for putting this together. I really am enjoying it! Lamar (65)
I dont like how Steppenwolf seems to make a song about the "evil" history of America. Look at where he came from - Communist East Germany. The communists only existed for 72 years and they murdered more innocent people than America, the Nazis, the Inquisition, the Catholics, the Muslims, Attila the Hun, and Ghenges Kahn did, combined in 2000 years of history. FUCK that asshole. ANd the biggest slap in the face is..he escaped East Berlin only to come here and piss on his fans.
@BeyondNeptune I get it: it's wrong for people to come to USA from a country where they can't speak out - and speak out.
East Germany murdered more than America? Well, I assume you're one of the few native Americans that weren't killed in the genocide, so you can say that. But don't forget to count all the hundreds of thousands that were murdered by the dictators that USA supports.
I'm not anti-USA. Neither is this text. But as Americans we should stand up against fascists that have taken over.
@SRangelDE The native americans were not genocided, dumbass. They were treated a hell of a lot better than any other people were who were invaded. If you want to talk about genocide, look at what the indians did to eachother over the centuries and millenia. The "native americans are themselves immigrants and slaughtered anyone and everyone they didn't like. They had no laws against rape, theft, murder, or even cannibalism.
@BeyondNeptune actually you fucking hick moron. They sure as hell were. By nice (mostly) lawy abiding thieving raping christians...you are an uneducated unintellitgent unamerican nazi piece of christitan shit. Now fuck of you mudering by proxy pos, this vetran doesn't want a loser like you on the continent much less in the MY country. You damn christians are a pox on the planet and your muslim brothers no better. rot in hell murderer.
@BeyondNeptune actually kid..it's fucks like you that are the problem. Col. Colt provided the cure...seems to me the disease that is people like you needs to be 'cured'. Now piss off little boy and go play outside, that pasty white flabby obese ass of yours needs to get out into the real world or get it shot off.
this song reminds me of how this world is today with the poor economy and the rising fuel prices
Doobie1975 1 day ago
LOVE THIS Saw this live, along time ago. Wake up!!!!!
Gina0071000 2 days ago
Not that it really matters anymore, but I worked for Eugene McCarthy for president in 1976 when he ran as an independent, and one of his principal positions was that he would abolish the CIA. He felt it was unneeded and counterproductive to America's best interests.
There are wise leaders out there. We get them if we deserve them.
allrightguy89 4 days ago
Ron Paul 2012
imagoatman1 5 days ago
Tragically prophetic ---
wttwmusic 6 days ago
The incomparable Steppenwolf. I love Steppenwolf's writing --- lyrically and musically.
wttwmusic 6 days ago
Gosh, all these years later where could he change the lyrics for an updated version. That is the genius and sadness of it.
tilon2000 1 week ago 2
best quality rock should be played after the national anthem..........kay should get a medal for this one.....yes really really were heading for genius level its just as he says still.oright from england fellas
psyclonought22 1 week ago 2
Freakin LOVE this Song!!!
petimester 1 week ago
I don't understand why this song is not considered as a rock classic - I think it is far better and more affecting than "Free Bird" or "Stairway to Heaven." If rock music produced a truly epic work, this would be it.
kfreckman 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
An epic song, applies even more today than 42 years ago .... which is why we need .... RON PAUL 2012!!!!!
Patriot1862 1 week ago
The MONSTER lives. Now they call it The Patriot Act. Someone once said: "When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in the American flag." In 1776, every able bodied man and boy over the age of twelve was considered to be the militia. The founding fathers were well aware of the threat from within as well as the threat from the outside. It's coming to that again, people. Buckle up.
djspliff26 2 weeks ago 2
Ron Paul = Dagwood Bunstead
twinoak170 2 weeks ago
Wundermas video...nicely done.
PeterCrisslovechild 2 weeks ago
Song is just as accurate today in 2012 as it was in 1970. That's a sad fact.
bebillious 3 weeks ago
beautiful guitar work ~ i love this entire song ~
heapbigtalk 1 month ago
This tune is about the state of our Country now,as it was back then,in 1970..BTW,the reason why it did not become famous was Nixon and his Paranoia about anything Anti-War and his force to stop it..Steppenwolf became a victim of the Nixon Dictatorship,more or less,forbidding Radio to play this cut,or Else..It died because of him! Damn Nixon!
mrmjb1960 1 month ago
The revolution will not be televised. More relevant now than it ever was. Rise up, freedom fighters. We're out of time.
goldfische 1 month ago
Ron Paul 2012!
TheMinaLoi 1 month ago
Good job on this. This was an anthem for me, and still very appropriate for these occupy times.
mb52Alan 1 month ago
Whoever it is that's so worried about Steppenwolf's lack of Facebook fans, I'm sure they could care less.
paulybxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1 month ago
Bem que eles avisaram.....!
terrandrade 1 month ago
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rockization22 2 months ago
great song! And as meaningful now as it was back then
prober45 2 months ago 2
@prober45 I totally agree with you-some songs are just timeless...
ozzyFTW1369 1 month ago
Our only hope is to rise up peacefully ? Bullshit, our only hope is to start killing the bastards that are destroying or Constitution and Bill of Rights.Grab your guns folks before they take them too. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
jtmcklveen 2 months ago 2
we dont neeed a leader that is extremely violent, andwe dont need a leader who isnt violent at all, we need a leader who is violent enough
Pedr6500 2 months ago
This poem gets more real every decade.
Pass this plastic record on to your kids, then onto their kids.
When the monster gets stronger
there will a stronger fight waiting for it
HVYMETL 2 months ago 6
@HVYMETL The monster has grown and gotten stronger in the more than 40 years since this song came out! They (the monster) have been planning how to control us. Our only chance is to rise up peacefully by the millions. America - where are you NOW?
SRangelDE 2 months ago 19
@SRangelDE occupy
DgurlSunshine 3 weeks ago
@HVYMETL Should be played at ever session of Congress. And at the B-fast table at the Grey House.
Babbarum3 1 month ago
@HVYMETL you aint lying
snowcrab11 3 weeks ago
@HVYMETL
it does and it's scary
TheMike26130 3 days ago
Great stuff! We get older but this doesn't!! Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack"
cjoey39 2 months ago
Could have easily been written today.
Bozohotep 2 months ago
05:50 WAKE UP AMERICA !! vote RON PAUL in 2012 !!
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rockization22 2 months ago
the political leaders should all be hung for passing the 1867 bill to put america in a military state and arrest and detain people without fair trial
outlawcountryman 2 months ago
4 people are scared of Monster!
RepubesRstupid 2 months ago
This song, should be adopted by today's generation, because damn it sure fits today's times
hammersaw100 2 months ago 2
Wonderful song that i often heard as a teenager.
thnx for uploading.
Is America really that bad?
EduardHeinrichAlfons 2 months ago
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heycolslaw 2 months ago
this song should be revillie at every OWS encampment,, make ppl remember what they're there for
william3231954 3 months ago
The Monster and his 3 kids disliked this song.
diracologia 3 months ago
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diracologia 3 months ago
Do you have the complete version (about 21 min.)?
I love it!!
nneryjr 3 months ago
I see the protests on wallstreet. But not much protest going on about the ROOT causes. Doctors-$8000. per hour! So called "hospitals" x that cost... Insurance costs! electric-fuel...Way over priced! Robotic made products, over 300% profit! [Also they take jobs that people can & should do=un-employment] Imports! Split govt.!!! Interest rates, lenders who break contract, & not penalized! etc,etc...THEY INSULT OUR INTELLEGENCE!!!! piece by piece, we stop this shit TOGETHER! Has to be done! by ALL.
broodyart 3 months ago
Where can I find this extended version? I only know the awful version.
ACDC392333 3 months ago
Outstanding !!! Written over 40 years ago and EVEN MORE TRUE than it was back then!!!
bearfleenor01 3 months ago
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REASON, EMOTION & TRUTH:
Memorial Day was created by the evil ILLUMINATI. It's their way of mocking all the military people that murdered and died for the ILLUMINATI causes! Memorial Day is disgustingly evil. The U.S. soldiers are not "defending" our freedoms here in America. The mind controlled U.S. soldiers are defending the evil interests of their true masters that rule from Rome (the synagogue of Satan)! I have evidence of this sad fact.
Private Investigator Sinne
U.S.A. Washington
TruthTeller878 3 months ago
The Wall Street 1% is the Monster with our heads in a noose.
blazehok 3 months ago
Anytime I listen to this song I wait for the final chorus...I'm not american but it gives me shivers...very emotional
nazzare79 3 months ago
Damn this song could have been written now. More relevant then ever.
dsfddsgh 3 months ago
I REMEMBER THIS WHEN IT CAME OUT, I WAS 13-14 yrs. OLD AT THE TIME.
LISTENING TO IT NOW MAKES ME REALIZE NOT ONLY HOW GREAT OF A PIECE OF MUSIC IT IS ; BUT ALSO HOW PROLIFIC IT IS AS WELL.
ON A MUSICAL NOTE; BEING A "WHO"
FANATIC MAKES ME ALSO AWARE THAT THIS IS QUITE THE ROCK OPERA!!
( starts off a bit like "ACID QUEEN" from
TOMMY).
'M NOT COMPAREING THEM AT ALL.
THIS STANDS AS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF GREAT ,GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC....
FOR ALL THE"MONSTERS".......
drumbs 3 months ago
Always a great message, that too many ignore. Got that, Obozo, and Congress.
Babbarum3 3 months ago
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@Babbarum3 Sadly they will never learn their lesson if they haven`t buy now.
TheMpalco 3 months ago
Great job putting this together. This has always been my favorite Steppenwolf song.
And yes, very relevant today. This is certainly not the same country our Fathers and Grandfathers fought for and gave their lives to protect.
tonyvh12 4 months ago
Yes, and so very true, still today. It is presently on the way down the shit tube. And Congress tells us to Flush Twice.
Babbarum3 4 months ago
Oh and for the record, the last time our nation actually declared war (per the Constitution) was December 8, 1941. I think if I were elected president, the very first thing I would do is to publicly pledge no more illegal wars. I would pledge that if I thought we "needed" to go to war, we would actually follow the Constitution and make that case to the Congress. The only exception would be to prevent an imminent attack on us. Ron Paul has a point.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago 9
@Boelcke1919 The congress should declare world peace!
SRangelDE 4 months ago 4
We lost our beloved president and later his brother to keep feeding this insane idea that we can (and should) control the world. This has caused America to jump the tracks from a great nation that promoted freedom to an oppressor. My dad's brother died at Guadalcanal to stop tyranny and my dad fought in France to destroy the NAZIS. Was all that in vain? Why complain of NAZI tyranny? We seem to do a good job of it without their help.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago
Of course, the damage to others may even be worse. I hate to imagine how many Vietnamese died for nothing. When I say they died for nothing I refer to the fact that Vietnam was never really our enemy and their people did not want to fight us. Even Ho Chi Minh turned to President Wilson first for help (1919 at the Paris Peace Conference), but was rebuffed. If the Vietnamese are/were such an enemy, how come the Reebok zig running shoes I have were made there?
Boelcke1919 4 months ago
@Boelcke1919 Who the fuck cares about the Vietnamese ? What about the 58,000 Americans that died over there for absolutely nothing ? Geez, i wonder what their families are thinking ? Think they like your little history lesson ?
TheMpalco 3 months ago
I was watching a commercial for Wounded Warriors tonight and I thought about the guys I personally know who have suffered because of having to fight these undeclared wars. I know guys who limp now because of roadside bombs and I know guys whose souls are so wounded deep inside that they claim they welcome death. Some of them hate living, and this was caused in large part by the horrible act of killing our peace president. Most of our 58,000 deaths in Vietnam would not have happened.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago
The world system has to be changed before it is too late. No wonder much of the world hates us.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago
I would hope that we the people could still save the system, but we have to get the national security monster under controil because their illegal actions threaten our freedom, are creating enemies for us abroad for the wrong reasons, and are slowly suffocating the American Dream. If anyone working for the CIA asked me what he should do, I'd say resign. Get that evil off your karma and join the fight to save freedom in America, and it starts by making them admit killing our president.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago 3
@Boelcke1919 Yes, CIA - resign, admit to killing presidents (not only ours), overthrowing regimes, terrorizing people in many countries, be a real hero - a whistle blower.
SRangelDE 4 months ago
@Boelcke1919 yeah but money bought them,it would never happen, money is the evil thing that makes peoples own families turn against them that isnt culture that isnt religion thats just plain evil and thats money
demshion23 2 months ago
On 11-22-2013, it will be fifty long, painful years since the CIA murdered Jack Kennedy in downtown Dallas. I say we get 100,000 people to sit in at Dealey Plaza for two hours in 2 years to remind them that we know what they did and have not forgotten or forgiven. They must be held accountable.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago 4
@Boelcke1919 I hope we can crush the CIA before that
SRangelDE 4 months ago
@SRangelDE I was still in high school when JFK was murdered and even back then it seemed to be a CIA cover up . I played this song on my 8track player in my 67 mustang
DrWhoCHG 3 months ago
@Boelcke1919 how about 11-22-2011 all the way until we all die to prove that we will stand together
MrBeast758 4 months ago
Ron Paul for president.
louie2able 4 months ago
I left a comment 5 or 6 months ago But this song gets better every day. I'll be 62 in a few months. Yes I saw Steppenwolf do this song on the Ed Sullivan show in 69 and it is great. I do have the original LP record. Vote them all out and let's start over, we don't have anything to lose.
danubeblue0 4 months ago
@danubeblue0 I'm afraid voting won't help. The revolution has begun. I hope everyone's aware of that: check out: livestream com/globalrevolution
SRangelDE 4 months ago
How long?
4IAMATITOK 4 months ago
Great presentation for this great song---well done!
pompste 4 months ago
A Masterpiece of Rock Music!, Nicely done!
johntellmewhy 4 months ago
Yes, but currently many in American should listen, analyse, and think about this song. Somewhere, something has been lost.
Babbarum3 4 months ago
Yo, Reps, and Demos, listen to this song, everyday. You have forgotten your mission.
Babbarum3 4 months ago
Nice job great song thanks!
jibe22686 4 months ago
I reminds me of how the CIA killed JFK to get a full-blown war in Vietnam.
Boelcke1919 4 months ago
This is a very valid message today -- in fact, I think it would do as the theme song of the Occupied Wall Street movement.
theresabowes 4 months ago
I would like to see the song "What would you do if I did that to you" on here.
G61100 4 months ago
@G61100 Go for it!
SRangelDE 4 months ago
thanx for this. yes it is certainly pertinent today. more so I fear than back "in the day".
zencat999 4 months ago
Nice video to a great song. Perfect back in 69, perfect for today and no doubt years to come. Keep the comments flowin. Be careful tho, I'm sure the police will be watching the people.
pmarlo666 5 months ago
@pmarlo666 when are they not watching the people?
Otanashi1 4 months ago
You did a really good job of putting that together and it takes a lot to impress me. You showed both sides of the coin. Too bad the people running Washington right now couldn't see your vid. Yes, "America where are you now"??
skcharger440 5 months ago in playlist Steppenwolf
this is one of the most timeless songs, ever, it is just as relevant today then it was in 69
outlawcountryman 5 months ago
C'op.ted!
dezfortytwo 5 months ago
GREAT JOB!!! Thank you. I'll be sharing this anyway I can as often as I can
MrWolfwind 5 months ago
Yeah , with all this 9-11 stuff going on, I kept thinking about this song and the slide show you did with it!!! I just think this song is so fitting for the tenth anniversarry of 9-11!!! Don't ask me to explain why, I guess it's like the old saying people used to use when describing a Harley, "If I have to explain, then you probably won't understand"!!! Thanks again for such a fitting slide show, video, or whatever it's considered!!! Very appropriate for the song!!!
levyelegino1 5 months ago
Yes!!!! You got it!
pappyturk 5 months ago
Not timeless...prophetic! What they sang then has sadly become reality and there's no reason it has2be like this, but I think the keywords are "the people grew fat and got lazy. It's so fucking sad! But who knew before it came true?Now what can we do? It ain't the America that I used2know
ccmac54 5 months ago
There was NO WAY this would have EVER gotten any airplay at the time, and I'm SURE the US government wishes that were still so.
YouBastard95060 6 months ago
I can't see nine minutes being to long of a song to catch on.
Killz0mbies 6 months ago
@Killz0mbies
right, right you are. 9 minutes back then wasn't even closest to the album rock some of them were doing. 10 15 minute songs were out there. Lamar
emeraldfrog1 5 months ago
Soooooooo love what you did with this song, excellent production!!!
ChiquitaRocker 6 months ago
incredible,,,way ahead of itz time !!!!!!!!
daysofwildgonewild 6 months ago
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Yae-yus! Steppenwolf's Monster is the LEFT!!!!!
CaptBeauregards 6 months ago
great job! love this one! absolutely love it!
hall399 6 months ago
When this song turned up on my iTune shuffle I wanted to add it to my FB. God Bless us all. This song is not anything new. Please be here and not nowhere. Thank you to making this video. Bless especially our sons and daughters. They are the future
dogparkdawn 6 months ago
1969 and it could have written last week it is so relevant to today’s bull shit Gov. When the Supremes made corparatins people you are no longer a democracy no matter what the hell you think. We are a PLUTOCRACY! Just as in the lyrics to Monster “ Now your vote is a meaning less joke! Until all lobbyists are outlawed from greasing the hands of elected officials
..Good luck
JLVDRUM 6 months ago
The Monster is still in action.
puhschig 6 months ago
Brilliant track! Karl Marx saw good in America but they sold him out. The real person who they betrayed though is Thomas Paine; along with Marx he is one of my all time political heroes. Lauded as a hero when he helped fight on the American side in the civil war, he was just as quickly betrayed when he came back again.
71brett 6 months ago
I'm only 41 now, but I've seen John Kay and Steppenwolf twice now. Both times at fairs, but that was good enough -- they were great, and timeless. This has to be my favorite song of theirs.
jaygade 6 months ago
WANNA SEE-MEET THE MONSTER? search mr podat on youtube
MrPODAT 6 months ago
THIS IS AMERICA'S NEW THEME SONG, GOVERNMENT BEING THE MONSTER
dago2732 7 months ago
nicenonya3 7 months ago
Amazing lyrics. The only part of the lyrics that suck are about the Civil War. If J. Kay could change those the song would be perfect. "The blue and gray they stomped her they kicked her just like a dog..." doesn't work for me. What was the blue supposed to do? The southerners wouldn't give up their ridiculous and inhumane cotton culture.
p300rex 7 months ago
@p300rex States Rights?
ray2355 6 months ago
My favorite Steppenwolf song. Great video, very well done. Nothin' changes but the dates on the calendar!
TheGonzo1953 7 months ago
great job....
HIKIXS1 7 months ago
John Kay ! I listen to you then and I listen to you now ! I have always Loved you and always will.......Excellent song ! Thank you 1
beverlyfarmer7 7 months ago
It's no longer "our" country. It belongs to EVERYONE!
wwwJohnKayecom 7 months ago
great job
MrDeconblue 7 months ago
Ahhh this takes me alll the way back to the good days :)
Thanks for posting
steeleyes101 7 months ago 2
In '81 I was protesting Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant in SLO county...missed Oakland. What happened?
GoatBeach 7 months ago
Monster is one of the top ten greatest albums of all time, period... for me anyway
TheSonsOfTheLawOfOne 7 months ago
Excellent visual selections for one of my all time favorite songs! Broadside Balladeer on YouTube
vasyvic 7 months ago
How fitting for this song, right now.
Let's bring back America and the Dream we once had.
See ya in 2012.
roccotool 8 months ago
A great song with a sincere message. As we fire up the grill, and jump in the pool, time is short. Take the time to lead not follow, be the change you want to see in the world if not for us then for our children and their children. Happy Birthday to us!
ronrizzi 8 months ago
Happy Birthday to...US. As we reflect, will... you...we have much work to do...there are many things that need repair, much that needs to be changed. The 60's was an era of abrupt changes and the voices that wanted change have changed. The more some things change the more they stay the same? Will that be the end? Or now that you ARE 60 will we actually make the change we wanted to see before it's too late?
ronrizzi 8 months ago
awesome.
mmusicmann 8 months ago
The message is ever so much as relevant today as it was then. I thought at the end of the Viet Nam conflict (naively) that we had "won" with our hippie dreams, protests, and petitions. Boy, was I wrong.
GoatBeach 8 months ago 2
@GoatBeach Should have learned that in Oakland. 81
domcplnc 7 months ago
I thought I was alone with this song it is time for us to take back our country! I am sick of a two party country the right don't give a crap about the real working man and the the left are to afraid of losing there jobs. It's time to step up. I have started my own new party, the FDU the fedup party. I am tired of highly educated people pushing me around,just because i did not go to a fancy school does not mean i do not know what i am talking about.We Know more then you think.We are fedup.
navyrm3 8 months ago
Excellent video.. And the truth!!
Bonneville462 8 months ago
Excellent work, artful. true. what a shame that even in the 60s, it wasn't given as much airplay as rockband cohorts that only alluded to that industrial-military complex but didn't give names or specifics, like Steppenwolf did. I only got it from another vietnam era vet in a CD copy of anti-war songs he made for me. Fully support your effort here to give fuller context, i'm subscribing and tell my buds about it. we're just waking up, 2nd inning ... great post!
alexwritestube 8 months ago in playlist A Few Colors of the Rainbow 2
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alexwritestube 8 months ago
good job putting this out there!
ParrotCam 8 months ago
The monster is a military industrial complex funded by an elite shadow aristocracy disguised as a democracy.
thedavielama 8 months ago 2
A timeless message!
thedavielama 8 months ago
I'd share this but the cunts who run youtube can't run a page that isn't broken or full of crap lately.
GrigoriZhukov 8 months ago
I love this old song. Thanks for sharing.
baytownbert2 8 months ago
@BeyondNeptune The below comment says a lot about the lack of intelligence or compassion of certain white boys. "Treated a hell of a lot better?" I guess you never heard of “The Trail of Tears” or "The Wounded Knee Massacre”. Custer died for your sins. You can go back to your comic books now.
"The native americans were not genocided, dumbass. They were treated a hell of a lot better than any other people were who were invaded"
TheWoodstockWarrior 8 months ago
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TheWoodstockWarrior 8 months ago
it's the Creature from jekyll island!
survive81 8 months ago
I thought this song was Steppenwolf's crowning achievement such great lyrical content!!
PrecisionTieDye 8 months ago
history books only teach what "they" want you to know! Like how the small pox was "accidentally" given to native americans in blankets that were given them as gifts. Figure that one out. I believe it was biological warfare in it's earliest form. Sure native people fought amongst themselves, but it wasn't genocide. They didn't slaughter all the buffallo because two tribes were fighting over hunting grounds. At least they realized how precious earth is.Why are we disputing this.Just listen,learn
levyelegino1 8 months ago
Good stuff.
M1tch1LL 8 months ago
Good stuff. Yes, like the montage.
M1tch1LL 8 months ago
Every "politician(???) elected of the people, by the people, for the people, ha,ha, should be made to listed, to this every morning, in the District of Confusion. Thanking Obama, for "killing" Bin-laden, is like thanking Ronald McDonald for your burger, instead of the person at the grill.
Babbarum3 9 months ago
This song is just as pointient today as it was in 1970.
Obama is the head of this monster today.
GeorgeErdel 9 months ago
Great job with the updated montage to this timeless macro-political masterpiece. Who did this? please advise. I am preparing a film reflects this message, the soul and feel, vision and importance of this work.
1stFollowTheMoney 9 months ago 7
@1stFollowTheMoney You mean: who did the video? It's really very simple. I just chose pictures that I thought appropriate and put them together with a few simple effects.
Thanks!
SRangelDE 9 months ago 3
@SRangelDE You did an OUTSTANDING Job. How did you get the added lengths of music to go in so seemlessly?
I love that recording. I saw them do it back in 70.
GeorgeErdel 9 months ago 3
@GeorgeErdel Sorry, but I don't know what you mean with the added lengths of music. This is the original version from the album.
Lucky you - I wish I would have seen that back then. I saw John Kay live about 1981 in San Jose in a small bar. He did some Steppenwolf music, but not Monster. It was great though.
SRangelDE 9 months ago
@SRangelDE I love it, a shame America doesn't listen to it everyday, especially those Pukes in the District of Confusion. Heard it in the Nam, and have loved it since. So, true, but no one hears the message. They'll all bitch when the Bilderberg Group and the Chinese call in their Trillions of Dollars (once a world curency) debt.
Babbarum3 7 months ago
@1stFollowTheMoney This is a song, all those pukes, in Washington, District of Confusion, should be forced to listen to five times a day.
Babbarum3 7 months ago
@1stFollowTheMoney Love what you did here. I used to start every morning in the 60's with their song "it's never too late to start over again." I mean, every day for like a year until I got myself going again. I went to see them in Tampa and they played the whole Monster album like I was listening to it at home. It was really great. Thanks for putting this together. I really am enjoying it! Lamar (65)
emeraldfrog1 6 months ago
I dont like how Steppenwolf seems to make a song about the "evil" history of America. Look at where he came from - Communist East Germany. The communists only existed for 72 years and they murdered more innocent people than America, the Nazis, the Inquisition, the Catholics, the Muslims, Attila the Hun, and Ghenges Kahn did, combined in 2000 years of history. FUCK that asshole. ANd the biggest slap in the face is..he escaped East Berlin only to come here and piss on his fans.
BeyondNeptune 9 months ago
@BeyondNeptune I get it: it's wrong for people to come to USA from a country where they can't speak out - and speak out.
East Germany murdered more than America? Well, I assume you're one of the few native Americans that weren't killed in the genocide, so you can say that. But don't forget to count all the hundreds of thousands that were murdered by the dictators that USA supports.
I'm not anti-USA. Neither is this text. But as Americans we should stand up against fascists that have taken over.
SRangelDE 9 months ago 3
@SRangelDE The native americans were not genocided, dumbass. They were treated a hell of a lot better than any other people were who were invaded. If you want to talk about genocide, look at what the indians did to eachother over the centuries and millenia. The "native americans are themselves immigrants and slaughtered anyone and everyone they didn't like. They had no laws against rape, theft, murder, or even cannibalism.
BeyondNeptune 9 months ago
@BeyondNeptune OK - go on believing what they want you to believe. Good night. Sweet dreams!
SRangelDE 9 months ago
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TheWoodstockWarrior 8 months ago
@BeyondNeptune actually you fucking hick moron. They sure as hell were. By nice (mostly) lawy abiding thieving raping christians...you are an uneducated unintellitgent unamerican nazi piece of christitan shit. Now fuck of you mudering by proxy pos, this vetran doesn't want a loser like you on the continent much less in the MY country. You damn christians are a pox on the planet and your muslim brothers no better. rot in hell murderer.
GrigoriZhukov 8 months ago
@GrigoriZhukov the real "hicks" are niggers, mexicans, native americans and other Turd World shithole pissheads.
Fuck you asshole. I'm not a christian, and certainly not a fucking piece of shit muslim or jew.
BeyondNeptune 8 months ago
@BeyondNeptune actually kid..it's fucks like you that are the problem. Col. Colt provided the cure...seems to me the disease that is people like you needs to be 'cured'. Now piss off little boy and go play outside, that pasty white flabby obese ass of yours needs to get out into the real world or get it shot off.
GrigoriZhukov 8 months ago
@BeyondNeptune STFU. havent u ever heard of two wrongs dont make a right.
cwilbaby 9 months ago
@BeyondNeptune John Kay was Born is East Germany in 1944. So yes your statement is true.
However in 1948 his family fled with him to West Germany.
And they made it to Canada in 1958.
So my question to you is, do you think he even remembers what it was like to live in East Germany?
pythicmanager 9 months ago
Dam...well done video & kudos for developing...Great song /great band & lucky to see them on a tour in the 90's....
winchestersprings 9 months ago
As true now, as when I heard it on, good morning Vietnam, in 1969. People listen to the song, but, don't listen to the message in the words.
Babbarum3 9 months ago
best band ever
kywildcat72563 9 months ago
Great video
cfhoz 9 months ago
As a Vietnam vet, I think this one of those songs that spans generations to learn the GREAT LESSON....
catfishbates1 9 months ago
Nice job on the video. One of my early political influences here.
gbyrnes51 9 months ago