{"id":859154,"date":"2025-06-30T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/i-had-turned-everything-to-10-as-there-was-no-11-back-then-the-engineers-asked-me-to-turn-it-down-because-it-was-too-distorted-how-the-then-18-year-old-steppenwolf-guitarist-recor\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:11:58","slug":"i-had-turned-everything-to-10-as-there-was-no-11-back-then-the-engineers-asked-me-to-turn-it-down-because-it-was-too-distorted-how-the-then-18-year-old-steppenwolf-guitarist-recor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/i-had-turned-everything-to-10-as-there-was-no-11-back-then-the-engineers-asked-me-to-turn-it-down-because-it-was-too-distorted-how-the-then-18-year-old-steppenwolf-guitarist-recor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI had turned everything to 10, as there was no 11 back then. The engineers asked me to turn it down because it was too distorted\u201d: How the then 18-year-old Steppenwolf guitarist recorded the solo that came to define the band&#8217;s career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Monarch recalls his start with The Sparrows \u2013 which eventually morphed into Steppenwolf \u2013 and how their signature song, Born to Be Wild, came to be&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/guitarists\/steppenwolf-guitarist-that-defined-the-bands-career\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lawanda Lanz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Monarch recalls his start with The Sparrows \u2013 which eventually morphed into Steppenwolf \u2013 and how their signature song, Born to Be Wild, came to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1272,192,1450],"tags":[7839,5110],"class_list":{"0":"post-859154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-everything","8":"category-sports","9":"category-turned","10":"tag-everything","11":"tag-turned"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}