There’s much in keeping with the debut, a good bluesy metal feeling. Worth noting that Jerry’s brother Dennis Edmonton (also a member of Sparrow) wrote Born To Be Wild, under the pseudonym of Mars Bonfire.Īlso released in 1968 was The Second, which featured Magic Carpet Ride.

And alongside vocalist / harmonica player / guitarist Kay were lead guitarist Michael Monarch, organ player Goldy McJohn, bassist Rushton Moreve and drummer Jerry Edmonton. Plenty of bonus tracks, like many of the discs here, many being mono single edits that filled the recent ABC Singles 2CD set. The album closes with the fine Ostrich, a track written when they were stilled Sparrow. A great cover of Hoyt Axton’s The Pusher, and of course Born To Be Wild. The sound is lovely, spot on, and opener Sookie Sookie is a classic. Originally released on ABC Dunhill, as the box set’s title suggests, the replica card sleeve has a white background as per later pressings, rather than the silver of the original. And opening this lavish box, after a poster and a hefty booklet, the first CD out is their eponymous debut. Originally formed in Canada as Sparrow (after Kay’s family had fled East Germany), the band relocated to America’s West Coast and changed their name. The eight albums here are from the band’s original run, before taking a break (during which vocalist John Kay released two solo albums), and reforming for a couple more albums during the 70s. Amongst their late 60s hits was Magic Carpet Ride (a song written about enjoying a new stereo system and the journey it can take you on), after which this box is titled. Hard rock pioneers, and famed for the line “Heavy Metal Thunder” in their hit Born To Be Wild, Steppenwolf formed in the late 60s, and mixed blues, rock and a harsh hard edged West Coast psyche. STEPPENWOLF Magic Carpet Ride – The Dunhill/ABC 1967-1971 (8CD box) Cherry Red I got a feeling this might be my new rabbithole, and I'm pretty OK with that.Watch the video above for the unboxing and video review – Phil When all the spray and shouting settled down, we took a pic of my next months' fish n chip supply.Ĥ6', about 45 lbs, and the new benchmark of this particular fly journey. After about 10 minutes of mostly give and a little take, I managed to peel it off the bottom and got busy winchin'. I thought I may have hooked the bottom at first, but then the 'bottom' decided it didn't like the yanky lip-stingin' situation it was in and took off for the depths. Several high-fives and a few little halibut later, something inhaled my fly as it was sinking into the zone. At 36', about 20lb, and bending my 12wt EPR to the cork, this was the fish we were after. After about 5-6 minutes of give and take, I convinced it to stick around for dinner. As if that wasn't crystal clear, the fish then decided it didn't like the situation and made a long-ass run for deeper water. The third fish ate mid-strip, and by the big head-shakes it was immediately apparent this was the size class of fish we had been looking for.

The first fish of the day was a big-ass Buffalo sculpin. With the wind moving the same way as the tide, there was no way we were gonna be able to drift it, so we set the hook and got busy casting. Yesterday we tried a different location, one with more tidal current and a sandy/shell bottom. In late May of this year, we put our plan in action with some success - we DID get halibut to eat out flies (see also: this post), but to paraphrase ol' Ben Kenobi, 'these aren't the fish we are looking for'. We knew it had been done before (not necessarily a frequent thing here in AK, but we DO have some crazies around), but a lot of the 'fly-caught' halibut we've seen were either caught fishing jigs on mono 'with a fly rod' or some such qualifier.we wanted to see if a fella could cast an actual fly on an actual flyline and catch halibut. Last winter, a friend and I started riffing on the idea of getting halibut to eat a fly.

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