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HEAVY METAL
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HARD ROCKS-
A REITERATION
by VLAADMIR BLUTONOIR
These are the years of the
fast buck, forget about the
cause, high technology non-
decorum style of musician
of
you so-called hard core
heavy
Most
metal fans associate
yourselves with corporations like,
Styx Del-Leppard, Journey, Rush,
the new AC/DC and the rest of
the groups lumped in the slums
of commercial success But
what you fail to recognize is the
fact that these so-00
so-called
bands
Bon
in your
(with the slight exception of
AC/DC in the years with
Scott) are not interested in t
they're interested in your
money. They're not musicians
they are businessmen Sure
they
can play an instrument but that
does'nt make them musicians
Anybody can play the stuff they
put out given the time and pro-
per backing But what really
counts is the heart and soul, the
maximum energy. f the 'This is mo
playing what I want and if you
don't like it
if you can mode of
thinking, and a high percent of
the groups
lack in this
department
There is nothing like the sound
of a thousand grinding scream-
ing guitars waling
same
at the
away me
ple
time with the volume furn
ed up to a pleasing ten. That
luxury can not be found in
anything that has been record-
ed in the last six or seven years
To get that grooved feeling you
must look to the past when golc
was cheaper, rock was rock
and heavy metal was glistening
steel. Some of you probably
never even heard of some of
these bands but that just goes,
to show you where your head is
at and that you have boen
listening to the wrong stuff.
Here is what you've missed
and what you need to carry the
title of a true metal fan. If you
think that I'm trying to dictate to
tand what is
is right
you what is
wrong in music, you're right. So-
meone has
has to take the respon
sibility and set your poor little
fleabrains on the right track and
so I am taking it upon myself to
restate the standards that were
set long ago but you so feebily
lost sight of. OBSERVE
JIMI HENDRIX-Some say he's the
Godfather of heavy metal gut
wrenching guitar and there are
very few to dispute the fact. If
you are unfamiliar with any of
his works then you can stop
reading any further and go
back to reading your teen idol
mags and listening to your Don-
Marie because you ain't
even hip. Try this scuse me
while I kiss the sky"
BLUE CHEER- One of the best
things to come i
me out of San Fran
cisco since Rice-a-roni. Their ren-
dition of Eddie Cochrans' 'SUM
MERTIME BLUES has rattled
many
making their blood curdle with
ecstasy and sending them into
intense nirvana The sound for a
good youth that will never grow
old
a rockarolers eardrums
CREAM- These were the days
when Eric Clapton was hot,
before he wigged dut and
started playing psuedo country-
western White Room' and 'Sun-
shine of Your Love mirrored the
drug culture moods of the times
and Toad was out there in the
notable early classic drum solos
YARDBIRDS- Comprised of
rockers who today still practice
their craft. Jimmy Page, Jeff
Beck, and later Eric Clapton (he
sure got around in those days).
Over under sideways down.
Shapes of things. I'm a man',
and Heart full of sou were
some of their more noted works
involving Beck's early usage of
guitar wizardry and gimmickrey
RON BUTTERFLY-INAGAD
DADAVIDA
DEEP PURPLE-Ritchie Blackmore.
lan Paice, Roger Glover, lan
Gillan and Jon Lord were pretty
the reigning gods of the
much the
heavy metal scene in
in the trans
lion period from the 60's to the
70's Classic, epic songs such as
Child in
Rot
Bat Blu
Blue Sweeet
Time.
"Hush Space Truckin, Mon-
drake Roof Lazy. Highway
Star and so many more I could
go on for hours. Blackmores
style sot the standards for most
of the aspiring hard rock musi
cians for the next half decade. It
you don't have a single Deep
Purple album in your collection
you were probably bor yoster-
day
Smoke on the Water
BLACK SABBATH- Demonic 1
music that takes you from
heaven to hell and then back
again. Paranoid one of the
heaviest albums over pressed
"War Pigs Tron Man, songs
that
set your breath on fire and
make you crave for more
THIN LIZZY- Good band for
agressive people with not very
much a concern for their
mech
social
The Boys Cowboy Song
Boys are Back in Town
Jailbreak and Warrior are por-
ticularly good songs in their own
right. This band is one of the
very few bands who continue
along the same lines as when
they started out, not divulging
themselves in trend movements
that lower their state of stature
as a good rock band Respec-
tibility in one's self is more im-
portant than following the
waves
ARTHUR BROWN- The god of hell
fire brought you fire but unfor
tunately it was too intense for
the mellowing out hippies who
wanted to be rocked to sleep
by the likes of the Grateful
Dead Preceder to the PUNK
generation he was very fough
and therefore
was s not too well
accepted in the industry Fire is
a starting song and should be
listened to over and over again
EDGAR WINTER-FRANKENSTEIN
RAM JAM-BLACK BETTY
GOLDE
GOLDEN EARRING RADAR
LOVE
BOWIE-SUFFRAGETTE CITY
AEROSMITH- Although
somewhat of a prefly boy type
of band, they did have their
lustrious moments 'Last Child
their version of Train Kept a
Rolin, and Walk This Way were
just a meager few of their
coolest tunes.
Now that was just for starters.
Thero e
ere are hundreds of other
super groups that need to be
mentioned but you see I only
have so much space and I
floured this will be sufficient
figured th
enough for your next trip to the
record store. And after you
have bought all of these, send
in proof and I in return will send
you a list of the correct clothes
you u
you need to wear when you are
a heavy metal fan. But you must
have proof of posession of all
of these fine discs. Be the first on
your block to be able to have
the honor of saying I am a real
Heavy Metal fan and I rock'n'roll
correctly."
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