THREE WORDS: STONE COLD CRAZY.
I believe that song influenced THRASH METAL bands like Metallica and Megadeth etc etc ....
I saw Metallica last weekend live at Knebworth (Sonisphere Festival) and they played Stone Cold Crazy in their setlist. They gave a brief speech about how Queen have obviously influenced them, and SCC is a pre-thrash song.
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[b]lalaalalaa wrote: [/b]
Queen was an influence to Metallica (or James Hetfield at least), one of the most successful metal bands around (although I prefer Megadeth)
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I wouldn't say "influence", they (James and Lars at least) are just fans
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If you listen to the guitar style "Orchestra" in some of kirk hammets guitar tone you'll hear an influence.
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[b]SaskQueenFan wrote: [/b]
How about [i]the Troggs[/i]- [i]Wild Thing[/i]... to me that is the definition of a heavy metal song.
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So that's why it's considered one of the first punk songs, right ?
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This song was recorded in the 60's.. conisdered more heavy metal than punk.. if you have read John Densmore's book [i]Riders on the Storm..[/i] he called it heavy metal... punk was purely a 70's creation.
