[Songcraft]

"I’ll bet to a lot of people, playing the Pusher was off limits."

You're right - I actually remember some people like that.   (Some others who did listen to that song, thought it was actually a righteous request they were expressing in the song.)

For any who are unfamiliar with that song (and who are open to hearing it), here it is:

       "The Pusher" - Steppenwolf

[Drumbo]

Steppenwolf hell! It was mother Maybelle’s boy Hoyt Axton that wrote and sang the song. John Kay just covered it.