Deep Purple influence on Heavy Metal?

[58kites]

Ian Gillan did a great album with the real Heavy Metal band & his screaming was perfection:



I'm not overly worried about DP's influence, you can hear it on Metallic's "Kill'em All", Lars' drums sound like Highway Star for the whole album.
A documentary that comes out with DP & LZ right off as if they were the first Heavy Metal, now that's where I have an issue. Jimmy Page never even considered LZ to be Heavy Metal.
Yes, I met him, but TBH I didn't have that question on my mind at the time.

I thought Ian Gillan did a good job but I didn't care that much for the songs.
Jimmy Page never considered his band to be heavy metal.
Tony Iommi didn't think of his band as heavy metal either, said so in an interview I saw.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

How so? The arrogance?

Blackmore did like to dress up like a wizard:

 

[HaphAsSard]

But he was the heaviest keyboard player I have ever heard.

This seems as good a moment as any to introduce the paragon of metalness in organness:


Sing us a song, you're the organ man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you got us feeling...alright?

 

[EchoEcho]

When I was a rocker in the early 80s, I didn't see Deep Purple as being Heavy Metal, or even close. Heavy Metal was more 'thrash' type stuff - aggressive, incomprehensible shouting vocals, generally making a noise about whatever.

I rarely if ever listen to rock anymore, but I believe that what was Heavy Metal then is not Heavy Metal now, and is considered to be much softer than it used to be thought of as.

 

[bolophonic]

This seems as good a moment as any to introduce the paragon of metalness in organness:


Sing us a song, you're the organ man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you got us feeling...alright?

I remember buying the Attila album out of the cassette dollar bin at the record store in the mid-80’s. I played it in the car a few times. Definitely a novelty! I don’t think I knew who was in the band until much later.

 

[HaphAsSard]

I remember buying the Attila album out of the cassette dollar bin at the record store in the mid-80’s. I played it in the car a few times. Definitely a novelty! I don’t think I knew who was in the band until much later.

I kinda dig it. Certainly undeserving of the label of worst album in rock history, so often applied to it. I mean, come on! There is a staggering amount of unlistenable noise out there that is several magnitudes worse.

The fact that it was Billy Joel is still funny, though. As is (apologies for the human beings involved, but...) the circumstances surrounding the breakup of the duo.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

undeserving of the label of worst album in rock history, so often applied to it

Maybe you're underestimating how many folks can't stand organ music in their Heavy Rock. (especially Death Metal)

 

[lfmn16]

I don't know how old you are, but they were definitely one of the heavier bands, as was Zeppelin when they came out. It's all about context; what else was going on at the time.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

01-Aug-51
Tommy Bolin is born: