Steppenwolf played the Minneapolis Armory on August 8, 1969.  Rod Wallace remembers:  “I was at that concert and it was the first time I heard a headliner mess up the sound system for the opening act. I’m not sure who it was but their sound was terrible. Then before Steppenwolf came on stage they announced that the keyboard player was out sick. So I was expecting a bad set from them also; but when they started playing the sound ‘magically’ got perfect, and they sounded better than their records.”  Also on the bill were the bands Skin Trade and Danny’s Reasons.

Something must have gone wrong, because in the next Connie’s Insider, it was announced that KDWB was refusing to accept advertising for Danny’s Reasons.  From Danny’s web site:  “Following a show that the band played with Steppenwolf on August 8th, 1969, KDWB Radio pulled all advertising that had anything to do with Danny’s Reasons. This was decided after the The Reasons performed ‘… Songs which were highly suggestive of off color material…’ Club owners and operators grew increasingly nervous; if they couldn’t advertise the band that was already booked to play their nightclubs and concert halls attendance would plummet. Though KDWB took a very harsh stance, (going so far as forbidding any employee of the radio station to even attend a Danny’s Reasons show) it ultimately had the opposite effect: using the image of ‘banned in Boston’, the band’s popularity continued to sky rocket.”  Apparently the controversial material was from “Hair” and the matter was resolved when Danny agreed not to perform it before a teen audience.