Posted on 12/21/2019 8:04:34 PM PST by DoodleBob
In a new interview with the Toronto Sun, THE WHO guitarist Pete Townshend said that fans shouldn't be surprised that the band's first new album in 13 years, "Who", bears little resemblance to THE WHO in terms of that classic ferocious rock sound. "It doesn't sound like THE WHO from those early heavy metal years," he explained. "We sort of invented heavy metal with [our first live album] 'Live At Leeds' [1970]. We were copied by so many bands, principally by LED ZEPPELIN — you know, heavy drums, heavy bass, heavy lead guitar and some of those bands, like Jimi Hendrix for example, did it far better than we did. CREAM, with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, they came along in '67, same year as Jimi Hendrix, and they kind of stole our mantle in a sense. So people who want to hear that old heavy metal sound, there are plenty of bands that can provide it. So it's not really what we can actually do today. Even if we wanted to, it was never high on my list of wishes."
Townshend told The Pulse Of Radio that THE WHO was among the most versatile bands of its era, and that its musical talent freed him to write material that frequently covered many different genres. "...THE WHO never gave me a clear brief," he explained. "They never said to me, 'We wanna be a comedy act,' but if I gave them comedy songs, they were brilliant at them. They never said to me, 'We wanna be a girl-friendly band,' but if I gave them a love song, they would do it brilliantly. They never said, 'We want to be a heavy metal group' — if I gave them a heavy metal song, they did it brilliantly.
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Wow! 1954?? That’s unbelievable!
Johhny Guitar Watson was PURE FUNK!
I listened to Quadrophenia driving to/from the parents house several times a year in college. Once each way. Was about a 6 hour drive.
If you listen to Larry Coryell’s jam with albert you can hear every chop Stevie Ray Vaughn every learned befor he was born.
Doyle Bramhall Sr taught SRV how to sing.
https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=SLBRDF&pc=SL11&q=corryell%20the%20jam%20with%20albert
You're right, come to think of it, that does sound like Punk.
Never thought of that before. Then again, I haven't thought of The Who since high school.
The Who and Led Zeppelin have a long running feud. The Who was around first but The Yardbirds were first. Jimmy Page replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds. They all did blues-rock. Blues music was big in the UK.
We invaded Britain long before they invaded us.
Hopefully not on a Lambretta or Vespa scooter.
There is a Evolution of Metal series out sometime ago that deals with how metal began and the different types of metal.
“Yeah and ZEPPELIN’s first tour was in 1969”
Yeah, I saw them in the summer of 69 in Texas.
When it comes to the “official” Punk genre, which began in the ‘80s if I’m not mistaken, I don’t really know much about it. Loud, angry, slam dancing in the audience. That’s the extent of what I know.
But it’s about the ‘angry young man’ state of mind and The Who embodied that theme pretty much from the start right through the ‘80s IMO.
Young Man Blues, Bell Boy, Sea and Sand, In A Hand or a Face, Slip Kid, ...
There is no offer to be made; it's a simple fact that Black Sabbath invented what is now known as heavy metal. Other bands, especially bands like Metallica, have conceded this.
If you don't agree, that's on you. But your position is in the minority.
Death Metal is really angry heavy metal that has lyrics promoting rough sex, violence, etc-sort of like Nazi rap with metal, and most of it comes from Germany, que sorpresa-not!-it is too way out there for me...
Living in a remote rural area with other old hippies, rednecks and bikers for neighbors is a good thing for an old rocker-you don’t complain when they crank it up and they return the favor-just enjoy your neighbors’ music-maybe yell over toward their place to turn it up if you like the tune...
Can't agree with that
Sabbath's 1st album wasn't until 1970, After Led Zeppelin had 3.
Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, the Immigrant Song (and probably a few others) can be considered Heavy Metal and preceded Sabbath.
I saw them in ‘73 at the Houston Coliseum. Row 12, floor. And the ticket cost $6. Best concert I’ve ever attended.
We will have none of that sort of degeneracy in my music, young man!
:)
Gotta give some credit here to The Beatles.
The intro to Revolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFckPkukF7g
Helter Skelter for sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo
RUSH got noticed by a DJ that got a promo album from them, and used “Working Man” for her bathroom break. When she got back the phones were lit up. “Hey - when did Led Zeppelin put out this new song!?”
Rush at their 30th anniversary put out an album full of covers from band they grew up and learned from. Here is RUSH doing their rendition of The Who’s “The Seeker”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKoItfmA90w
Small faces was one.
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