My brother plays drums for a party band called The Lava Walkers.
At the 2024 Chattahoochee Hills Fall Festival the second number on their lineup was Steppenwolf’s hit “Born to be Wild”.
FLASHBACK: my very first rock concert was headlined by the band Steppenwolf in 1971 at the Georgia Tech Coliseum and of course they performed “Born to be Wild”.
FAST FORWARD to 2024… more than half a century later… and I find myself rocking out to my brother’s band playing the same song.
What a marvelous time machine trip this life turned out to be!
For a while in the hazy old daze at the Big Shanty, the father of the biker chick married to the drummer who wrote Born to be Wild lived out back in the cottage. She came to stay for a couple months with new biker boyfriend but she collected royalty checks for that song every week!! When she moved on, her dad got the checks. Famous song.