24-12-2013, 15:46
(This post was last modified: 24-12-2013, 15:49 by Lord Larehip.)
SteveO Wrote:I do not consider Cheap Trick, Kiss or Status Quo as metal! IMHO !...Rock and at times hard rock but not metal in my mind!
In the 70s, there was nothing called "metal." The term was "heavy metal" and it wasn't a genre, it was loud, hard rock with distortion and even Southern rock was often included in it. Cheap Trick was definitely called heavy metal then because I read a review of their "Dream Police" album by Robert Christgau in Creem and he specifically referred to them as heavy metal. It was a loose term then and a lot of bands fell under it and sometimes just certain songs by a band fell under it rather than the band itself. Zeppelin was considered heavy metal. So was Sweet. Even T. Rex despite being the kings of glitter.
Quote:Metal is ...Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Queensryche...bands like that! They are considered "Old School" metal before the more extreme metal bands emerged! Now there are several metal genres to the point of absurdness!.lol
Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Queensryche and Megadeth did not exist in the 70s. I'm surprised you didn't mention Blue Oyster Cult or AC/DC.