Slow Flux

Slow Flux
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 30, 1974
Recorded1974
StudioJohn Kay's Studio
Genre
Length45:33
LabelMums (US)/Epic (International)
ProducerSteppenwolf
Steppenwolf chronology
16 Greatest Hits
(1973)
Slow Flux
(1974)
Hour of the Wolf
(1975)
Singles from Slow Flux
  1. "Straight Shootin' Woman"
    Released: August 9, 1974
  2. "Get Into the Wind"
    Released: November 1974
  3. "Smokey Factory Blues"
    Released: January 1975

Slow Flux is the seventh studio album by Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf. The album was released in August 1974, by Epic Records. In the US it was released on the Mums Records label, a short-lived CBS Records subsidiary. It was the first of three albums the band created after reforming in 1974 before they disbanded again in 1976. "Straight Shootin' Woman" was the last Steppenwolf song to chart on the Billboard magazine Top 40.[1] The song "Children of the Night" notably posits that the hippie movement at this time had died, and president Richard Nixon is referred to as "the fool who believed that wrong is right".

Guitarist and composer Bobby Cochran replaced Kent Henry on lead guitar in this reformed lineup, until the 1976 breakup. Cochran is the late Eddie Cochran's nephew.

This was the last Steppenwolf album that Goldy McJohn would play on. He was sacked from the band by bandleader John Kay in 1975.[2] A horn section also played on the album.[3]

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Džuboksmixed[4]
  1. ^ Steppenwolf USA chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  2. ^ uDiscoverMusic.com, August 4, 2017 - Death Of Goldy McJohn, Founding Member Of Steppenwolf by Tim Peacock
  3. ^ Discogs - Steppenwolf – Slow Flux
  4. ^ Konjović, S. "Steppenwolf - Slow Flux". Džuboks (in Serbian) (6 (second series)). Gornji Milanovac: Dečje novine: 22.