“The old guys from the MAGIC CARPET RIDE days were hippies in the late 1960s. I also have a tremendous knowledge of the band’s history.” Though they didn’t return my calls or email, long-time fan, historian, and friend of the band Van Epperson filled me in.Įpperson wrote, “I am a fan of the band who has befriended most everyone still alive who has ever been in Steppenwolf. I also tried to confirm all I had learned with members of the band. I even looked up other members of the band, with no matches. In Lambda Chi Alpha’s database of 250,000 members, there are no matches for the surnames Kay/Krauledat (b. ![]() Rushton Moreve, born John Russell Morgane in 1948 in Los Angeles, California, wrote the tune. John Kay, born April 12, 1944, as Joachim Fritz Krauledat in Tilsit, East Prussia, wrote the song’s lyrics in 20 minutes. Writing credits were assigned to John Kay and Rushton Moreve. ![]() Kay then said he took the rough recording of Rushton’s song home and played it one his new hi-fi sound system - which gives reference to the line “I like to dream right between my sound machine.”Īccording to Kay, “Twenty minutes later, the whole thing was finished.” He played a three chord pattern … on his bass and sang, ‘I like my job, I like my baby.’ That was it.” In John Kay’s words, “‘Magic Carpet Ride’ evolved out of something Rushton (the bass player) had been messing around with. Chapter Eight (titled “Magic Carpet Ride”) tells the complete history of how the song was created, who wrote the lyrics, and who came up with the tune. I purchased John Kay’s autobiography entitled John Kay Magic Carpet Ride. I decided to personally research these claims by publishing an article called “ Carpet Ride Unraveled” in the July 2006 issue of the Cross & Crescent magazine. Having never researched the topic, however, my doubts remained.įinally, I feel I can put this issue to bed. Though I never researched headquarter’s disputed claims, I eventually accepted their position as my new truth. It was if I had just learned the truth about Santa Claus - I couldn’t believe it. When I first began working for Lambda Chi Alpha’s headquarters in Indianapolis, I was told that there was no direct fraternal connection to the song “Magic Carpet Ride,” and that none of the band’s members attended college or joined Lambda Chi Alpha. Likewise, when they played Steppenwolf’s song “Magic Carpet Ride” at every party and told me lead singer John Kay was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, I had little reason to doubt them. When they told me the fraternity was founded in 1909, I believed them. Everything I learned about the fraternity I learned from my big brother Lee Thomas, the High Kappa (new member educator), or other senior members in our chapter. Thank you.I was 19 years old when I joined Lambda Chi Alpha. If you know where this alternate version can be found or have some other explanation, please let me know. The fact that others have posted lyrics of "Magic Carpet Ride" with the line “ yes I do” instead of “ yes yes” suggests that it’s not just me. So, is there an alternate studio version of "Magic Carpet Ride" out there, in which John Kay sings, " yes I do"? Or, is this a case of the Mandela Effect? I've yet to find the recording (if one even exists in this dimension, LOL) however, I Google’d lyrics for "Magic Carpet Ride", and there are indeed many results that say, " yes I do"!!!!!!!!!! There had to be a studio version of "Magic Carpet Ride" in which Kay sings " yes I do" instead of " yes yes". ![]() While it could happen, I wasn't going to concede right away. I don't mean to sound self-righteous, but mis-remembering is a rarity for me. I proceeded to search for the radio edit, which apparently has Kay singing a different take for the first verse, but the abridged version I found was still " yes yes". ![]() So I queued up a different file of the same song, and sure enough, " yes yes". Having the memory of an elephant and the stubbornness of a mule, I suggested that maybe I had listened to a different version. To settle this, we queued the song up, and sure enough, what we heard was, " yes yes". I vividly remember hearing John Kay sing " yes I do" dozens of times, but my friend insisted that it was " yes yes". "I like to dream, yes yes Right between the sound machine" "I like to dream, yes I do Right between the sound machine" He pointed to the first line, which read: My friend said the lyrics were wrong, and I asked "Where?", since they seemed right to me. Like a lot of sites dedicated to chords/tabs, the content can be added by anyone, and thus prone to inaccuracies. I was on the guitar, my friend was singing, and we both were reading the chords/lyrics off of a website for guitar tablature. A friend and I got into a debate while jamming on Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride".
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