Re: Fwd: Black Zeppelin Tapes

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Oner Ozaylak wrote:

> as for the term heavy metal; i can't say who invented it though a vast
> majority of music people agree that jimmy page is responsible for
> (though i can never accept heavy metal classification for led
> zeppelin) but i always think/see black sabbath is the first metal
> band.

Hi Oner and everyone.....

This is an interesting topic.....I definately do agree with you that 
Sabbath were definately the first true "heavy metal" band. When I was a 
kid, first getting into ZSeppelin, I thought Zeppelin was.....and then I 
heard their variety and realized then, there were a lot of slow "crappy" 
songs that were lame to me and I realized they weren't really even a rock 
band. Of course since then I have grown to appreciate (for a long time 
now) the music they put out and some of the songs I disiked are now 
favorites. But, I listened to songs like "Communication", WLL, Wearing and 
Tearing (especially the end part...despite the fact that the song was 
recorded in 1978.....actually on this DAY in 1978, 11-21) and saw how 
these songs really laid the foundation for Heavy Metal.

However, there are other songs before teh days of Zeppelin that I think 
also helped build the foundations for metal. For example, "Love me Tender"

Seriously though, how about Cream's "Crossroads" and even "White Room" and 
"Tales" (both the same song really)...or Jefferson Airplane's "House at 
Pooneil Corners" (primitive psychadellic death metal in my opinion). 
Andeven some of the Jimmy-era YB stuff has the makings of metal (after 
all.....that's what evolved into early Zeppelin technically). And you 
can't forget "In-a-gadda-da-vida" which I beleive is from 68?

While Jimmy and Zep were instrumental in heping the sound develop, I don't 
really cfonsider them the ones who really started music in that direction. 
Sabbath figured out how to make a living with it. I love that muddy tone 
Iommi has......and you won't find any engineer even allowing a tone like 
that in this modern digital age......

Jeremy R. Mixer / mixer@xxxxxxxx / mixer893@xxxxxxxxx
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