Was heavy rock born 50 years ago? The Kinks' You Really Got Me was released on August 4, 1964.

Telegraph UK ^ | 11:35AM BST 04 Aug 2014 | By Neil McCormick, Rock Critic

[newfreep]

Peter & Gordon’s cover of “I Go To Pieces”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaIcgUY-uQ

Peter Asher went on to become a “star” producer for so many albums by Linda Rondstadt, James Taylor and that LA scene.

[yellowdoghunter]

I knew I should not have said EVER... I have not heard of that one, I will check it out.

[Freestate316]

I agree.

[Minsc]

I’m not so sure. I thought the Rolling Stones “Satisfaction” was the first song that used a fuzz box. Strangely enough Richards only used one on one other song and otherwise plays straight.

Of course the first REAL heavy metal was Black Sabbath.

[Texan5]

It rocks-I like Guns N Roses, too, but this thread got me digging out another heavy fav-Cream’s “White Room”...

[Einherjar]

So, what exactly is a Vestal Virgin ? and why were 16 of them headed for the coast

[yellowdoghunter]

Train Kept a Rollin is also another like I like.

[AFret.]

Sorry guys. Heavy Metal began with Da Da Da-Da-Da Da Da Da Da. Who know what other noises were made before then, but Iron Butterfly invented Heavy Metal.
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I’m hip to that jive, baby. Iron Butterfly..In a gadda da vida...12 minute drum solo...exquisite.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Best opening guitar riff Can't You Hear Me Knocking or The Ocean.

EVER! ;o)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I thought it was Bill Haley and the Comets with ‘Rock Around the Clock’?

No, that's Rock'n Roll.

[yellowdoghunter]

GNR just released their latest concert on DVD, recorded at Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. It is also being played on AXS TV. It Rocks!! Of course, it is not original members but it will do. I saw them back in the ‘90’s.

The Cream does rock and is legendary.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Deep Purple

I think they can take credit for being one of, if not the first metal band.

[McGruff]

Ah yes, my Jap AM radio cracked up.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

but for me life changed when Jon Lord hooked up his Hammond organ to a Marshall amp and Deep Purple covered “Hush.”

Ha! One of my all-time favorites. Where have the Hammond organs gone? What a great sound.

Hard to believe that this song was released in '67. It was a revolutionary sound --as revolutionary as Hendrix.

[Texan5]

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is a great one!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

“House of the Rising Son” in June 1964

Blues.

[Drew68]

It was Freddy Fender working with Dick Dale that gave us amps that could handle the overdrive.

I think you mean Leo Fender --who's amps were known to handle clean tones at loud volumes, and then it would be an English drummer and electronics hobbyist, James Marshall, who would reverse-engineer a Fender Bassman, swapping out American 6L6 tubes for British-made EL34s to create the easily distorted, thunderously loud, refrigerator-sized guitar amplifier that would bear his name and dominate the stages of hard rock acts from the mid-1960s through today.

[Texan5]

I think Aerosmith’s version of Train Kept a Rollin is the best one.

[yellowdoghunter]

Okay, okay....I should NOT have said EVER. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking does ROCK. I like The Ocean but not as much.

[pallmallman]

I’m convinced that the Kinks were the best of the early British groups...and even more so that Ray Davies is by far the best wordsmith/lyricist songwriter this side of Dylan....intelligent, sardonic songs like Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Well Respected Man,..and up to today with There’s No England Anymore....and everything in between..he’s GREAT!