Nice cut-and-paste, Mrs. Bad Guy, but you failed to dig deeper. Wikipedia is good, but you have to understand ANYBODY can type that information in.
If you must really know, Hendrix was doing that to the guitar BEFORE Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple.
Here's some more wikipedia facts about Jimi:
[QUOTE]He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects for rock recording.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Hendrix often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Hendrix was one of the musicians who popularized the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock which he often used to deliver an exaggerated pitch in his solos[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Hendrix affected popular music with similar profundity; along with earlier bands such as The Who and Cream, he established a sonically heavy yet technically proficient bent to rock music as a whole, significantly furthering the development of hard rock and paving the way for heavy metal. [/QUOTE]
its_a_hard_life 26994 · Member since
*headbangs*
Oh. Looks like the mosh-pits have already started here.....
Haha.
Micrówave · Member since
I'm just saying that Black Sabbath didn't do something groundbreaking, as they're acredited to by some. Good band, but certainly no pioneers.
ParisNair · Member since
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Ah ok! All the best!
brENsKi · Member since
i'd have said that the Beatles "helter skelter" it the first true metal/hard rock tune
Holly2003 · Member since
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i'd have said that the Beatles "helter skelter" it the first true metal/hard rock tune
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that's 1969....by which time Zeppelin had released a couple of albums....and Helter Skelter - much more metalish - was released in 68
and yes Mr Microwave, i live...just about.....despite the ravages of Irish Whiskey ;-)
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The linked performance was '69, but the album 'Coming Home' was on was released in May '68, a couple of months before Helter Skelter was recorded. Whether it's the first metal song or not I can't judge, but it's sure a fine example of how metal was born of the blues. A fantastic lineage that has largely evolved out of modern metal as far as I can hear.
Major Tom · Member since
The term "heavy metal" is in my opinion a little blurry.
What defines heavy metal? How much gain the guitarist use? How heavy sticks the drummer use? How high the singer goes? Or is it just a matter of opinion?
Even though I´d love to say Sabbath gave birth to HM, Led Zeppelin was I think the first ones to play it. The Beatles "Helter Skelter" I saw earlier in this thread, is in my opinion hard-rock. Hendrix aswell. Nowadays when I think of heavy metal, I think of Black Sabbath. So I guess in my house, it´s a tie between Led Zep and Sabbath.
Anyway, to quote an earlier post: I´m glad to have you around, Heavy Metal!
You´ve gotten me more drunk than expected at times. You´ve made my ears ring and my neck hurt. But without you, life would be a little more gray.
Micrówave · Member since
1955 - Marvin Berry & The Starlighters
During a gig, Marvin's guitarist messed up his hand. Luckily, a local high schooler filled in. During a guitar solo, while covering his brother Chuck's song, Marvin, along with the entire high school dance saw the birth of Heavy Metal.
His name was McFly. Marty McFly.
Holly2003 · Member since
Excelsior!
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queenside · Member since
imo sabbath was the first metal band. zeppelin and purple both had some metalesque songs but sabbath lyrics and very heavy guitar was truly metal (some might say doom metal).
i'll copy/paste some stuff from other forums where similar thing is being discussed, this represent my opinion on this matter:
Black Sabbath
was the first Heavy Metal band. The art
of 'Metal' had been indulged for a few
years before Sabbath by the likes of
Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, a little of the Doors and Beatles.
But then Sabbath came along combined all
the elements, threw in some distortion for 'Tone Definition'(which is
undoubtedly important) and good measure, thus giving birth to Heavy Metal.
I think if you are going to draw a line in the sand, so to speak, and
say "Metal starts here", it starts with Black Sabbath.
The fact that they didn't embrace the the term (at least early on,
anyway) is meaningless. When the Ramones started, they thought they
were a bubblegum pop band. It doens't make them any less of a punk
band.
70's heavy metal is sort of tough thing
to define becuase so many of the bands that are called "heavy metal" from that era more or less ride the
fence. There's arguments for and against considering bands like Deep
Purple, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC, or Blue Oyster
Cult (to name a few) "metal". To me, Black Sabbath
gathered all the ingredients that make metal
(the darkness, the heaviness, the outsider status, the ugliness) and
brought them together. Its more than loud guitars and lots of
distortion. There are bands that pre-date Sabbath
that had some of those qualities, but they were still rooted in the
blues and psychedelia of the '60s.
