The I'm listening to today Metal edition Thread

[gbrice75]

Zep and Floyd are among my all time favorites.

As for the start of metal - yes, there were bands that were 'heavy' before there was heavy metal (and Sabbath). Blue Cheer, The Who, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Hendrix, Steppenwolf... etc

BUT - I firmly believe Sabbath are responsible for metal 'proper'. i.e. there is heavy music (certainly alot of The Who's music is heavy, but they're not heavy metal. Same for alot of Zep's stuff)... and then there is heavy METAL. Sabbath brought that dirty, scary, satanic element to it... the music is undeniably HEAVY METAL.

Imho of course!

[dec11]

Zep and Floyd are among my all time favorites.

As for the start of metal - yes, there were bands that were 'heavy' before there was heavy metal (and Sabbath). Blue Cheer, The Who, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Hendrix, Steppenwolf... etc

BUT - I firmly believe Sabbath are responsible for metal 'proper'. i.e. there is heavy music (certainly alot of The Who's music is heavy, but they're not heavy metal. Same for alot of Zep's stuff)... and then there is heavy METAL. Sabbath brought that dirty, scary, satanic element to it... the music is undeniably HEAVY METAL.

Imho of course!

too true. hard to believe that Saxon, Priest etc were once called New Wave Heavy Metal lol

[DCI]

sacrilege!!! on of my top 5 gigs was The Who, very heavy live, Daltrey's voice is still amazing. hard to categorize, bluesy rock imo

feck off you, im only 36 lol

Lol, 36 that's practically a lifetime away Yeh, I wouldn't call em metal or really heavy rock imo. But they certainly helped it along it's way like.

@ GB next week I'll have to wheel Deccy in and out of the shops he's getting that bad