YEAH!!! Thats what Im talking about, someone that knows the truth. He didnt mention Crazy Authur Browns "Fire" or... forgive me but Inagodadivida, or Guess Whos American Woman, or James Gangs funk #481 and other Joe Walshs totally riff laden rockers or most of the entire work of Grand Funk dating from '69, Uriah Heep, Queens debut, one of the worst to forget is Focus's Hocus Pocus '71. Golden Earings Radar Love. But he did mention some I never heard and some I never heard of. So its easy to forget all the particular songs or bands that brought balls to the wall, loud and proud, overdriven rock... in yer face to the table.
The main thing to know AND ACCEPT is that it started with rockers in the 60's and has steadily progressed, but the dum da dum da dum da dum driving rhythm did not start out as metal nor was created by metal bands. Nor did the aggressive "screaming" vocals, nor distorted wailings on guitar. I grew up on the stuff during those times and remember the impact of songs I mentioned and he mentioned when they hit AM radio and back then it was pretty much the only way to know what was going on across the world in music, unless you lived right in one of the big urban areas or colleges and were old enough to go to clubs, but we were neither. What we did know was "this aint the Beatles" "fuck the Beatles... this stuff ROCKS"
Im more than just proud... Im honored to have witnessed the entire evolution of heavy music... but must admit the generation gap finally began sometime after the 90's. Alot of it today is WAY too ugly for me and even most of the 80's thrash was too. Mainly because Im not into gore topics or bad vocals, the riffage always hits the mark.
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