Posted on 08/05/2014 12:43:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
...You Really Got Me delivered something very different. It is taut but increasingly hysterical, hard driven and explosive, an out-and-out rocker. It is more riff than song. And what a riff. It consists of just two power chords, three strings of the guitar, sliding up and down over two frets, striking five times in three beats of the bar then restarting after the fourth beat. It has a feeling of being chopped off in its prime and constantly restarted, spluttering like a motorbike getting ready to race, a jerky, stop-start quality that creates an incredible sense of urgency.
It was their third single for Decca, and after two flops, everyone knew this was make or break. Ray wrote the song, influenced by the riffs of American blues, and was the driving force in the studio. In the days when recording sessions tended to last about as long as it took to play the song once, Ray rejected several early takes, insisting on re-recording it to try and capture his band’s live energy. He was unhappy with the slow, bluesy tempo and kept urging the band to play faster....
Released on August 4, 1964, You Really Got Me crept up the charts for a month before eventually giving the Kinks their first number one. Heavy rock, as we think of it now, took a few more years to get a grip, and it wasn’t really until the last years of the decade that it became almost the definitive sound of a more adult popular music. The Who blatantly imitated The Kinks on their classic Talmy produced debut, I Can’t Explain, in 1964. The Rolling Stones fuzzy riff (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction appeared in 1965....
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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.
I knew I should not have said EVER... I have not heard of that one, I will check it out.
I agree.
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.
It rocks-I like Guns N Roses, too, but this thread got me digging out another heavy fav-Cream’s “White Room”...
So, what exactly is a Vestal Virgin ? and why were 16 of them headed for the coast
Train Kept a Rollin is also another like I like.
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.
No, that's Rock'n Roll.
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.
I think they can take credit for being one of, if not the first metal band.
Ah yes, my Jap AM radio cracked up.
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.
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is a great one!
Blues.
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.
I think Aerosmith’s version of Train Kept a Rollin is the best one.
Okay, okay....I should NOT have said EVER. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking does ROCK. I like The Ocean but not as much.
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!
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