Steppenwolf goldy mcjohn biography
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BARROW John Goadsby, or Goldy McJohn, as he became known with the rock group Steppenwolf in the late 1960s, is the original keyboard player for the hard-driving group. He played the Hammond B3 organ on big hits such as Born to Be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride, and remained with the group from its start in 1967 until 1974 when he was fired by the groups vocalist and leader John Kay.
There are many veteran rockers from the 1960s still around, but folks in Barrow and across the North Slope now know Goldy a little more intimately from a number of morning interviews on KBRW, and from his donations of CDs and art prints to the stations membership drives.
Goldy is much more than just another classic rock keyboard player who wore a large Afro during his time with Steppenwolf He is Canadian, and was originally trained in classical music, which some of his peers say gives him a rather unique rock sound.
For example, Chicago blues band member Jim Christopulos said Goldy deserves
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BAND BIOGRAPHY
At gods count, the band's worldwide record sales exceed 25 million units. Its songs remain fixtures on classic-rock radio, and have been licensed for use in approximately 50 motion pictures and an even greater number of television programs. And, in addition to being the first grupp to use the begrepp "heavy metal" in a song (in "Born to Be Wild"), Steppenwolf's punchy style helped to establish the fundamentals of the hard-rock sound that would flourish in the 1970s.
Steppenwolf's remarkable resilience is largely a reflection of the fierce determination and never-say-die tenacity that's driven Kay for much of his life. He was born Joachim Fritz Krauledat in 1944 in the section of Germany then known as East Prussia. He never knew his father, who was killed fighting in Russia a month before John's birth. When John was less than a year old, he and his mother fled to what would soon become Communist-controlled East Germany. When he was kvartet, they undertook a perilous midnigh
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Goldy McJohn
Canadian musician
Goldy McJohn | |
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McJohn with Steppenwolf in 1971 | |
| Birth name | John Raymond Goadsby |
| Born | (1945-05-02)May 2, 1945 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | August 1, 2017(2017-08-01) (aged 72) Burien, Washington, U.S. |
| Genres | Acid rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock, proto-metal |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Keyboards |
| Years active | 1964–2017 |
Musical artist
John Raymond Goadsby (May 2, 1945 – August 1, 2017), known as Goldy McJohn, was a Canadiankeyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the early use of the electronic organ (Hammond B3) in heavy metal.
Career
[edit]McJohn was born John Raymond Goadsby to middle class parents in Toronto, Ontario. They enrolled him in piano lessons at a young age which eventually enabled him to become a pioneer in the use of the electronic organ in rock and roll. "I was up at 4 a.m