You must recall that in those [post-folk music] days, 'metal' meant "not acoustic."
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Do you consider Led Zeppelin a METAL band?
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I must be the only one on earth hearing the main chorus riff to "More Than A Feeling" was ripped off directy by Nirvana in their "Smell Like Teen Spirit". Only the major-minor keyishness changed. Boston's was a major key riff, and Nirvanas a minor/pentatonic riff. F–B♭–A♭–D♭ chord progression. Different keys though, but the same strumming pattern at the same tempo. Same with blockbuster move Top Gun, the "Top Gun Theme" instrumental. Harold Faltermeyer/Steve Stevens must'v stolen that from an old Scandinavian folk tune "Byssan Lull", a lullaby, but put it in major key instead. However, ancient old folk tunes are just that "Trad arr". No one sues, no one cares, no one knows who did what originally. It's called that it has fallen into oblivion by everyone. Nuff of all these rip-off posts, and plagiarism.
LZ didn't plagiarize METAL or something else though. They didn't even come up with the term themselves.
I want to travel in time with this song to when the Beatles were starting out & convince them (& George Martin) to record it
I was in a band that did this version of STH, but nobody in the audience ever "got it"! Sad. I think it is better than LZ's version. 
Being from the old school of classic rock, I would consider them to be a British Classic Rock Band. They recorded a lot of great hits back in the day. But they were around before the evolution of Metal of the 80s. I really liked their music, until they started the 24 hour Led Zeppelin days 3 times a week on the radio station. Yea, radio and cassettes. Then I got seriously fed up with hearing the same stuff over and over again. To the point where I can't listen to any of their music again.
Classic Rock is a radio term created well after Led Zeppelin and their contemporaries created whatever. It was Classic only after it was old news.
Exactly that what they became in 1990 because there was no such thing as Metal back in the 1960s and early 1970s.
I didn't know that anybody used that term other than radio DJ's.
When Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and 30 other bands from 1968-1975 era were making records, I think it was all called rock music without all the different nitpicky labels that became so important to some fans of some genres later on.
When Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and 30 other bands from 1968-1975 era were making records, I think it was all called rock music without all the different nitpicky labels that became so important to some fans of some genres later on.
Exactly, back then that was the case. It wasn't until the late 80s and that the term and movie "Heavy Metal" came about. Which started the term Heavy Metal, which referred to the long hair groups like Ratt, Scorpion, Slayer, Motorhead, Metalica, etc...
I was referring to the term Classic Rock....that term is not a type of music, it is a radio descriptor/category for late 60's rock and rock music from the 70's...but it goes for hard rock, rocknroll, metal, some country rock, southern rock, etc, etc.
The term Heavy Metal appeared during the early 70's, and then grew into a thing, not a radio invention.
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I've had time to ponder and a couple conversations with old friends. Our names for major categories of music in the mid to late sixties were jazz, classical, folk, foreign, popular (e.g. Sinatra), pop (e.g. British and American rock and roll), and rock (a.k.a. hard rock, as distinct from R&R due to its hard driving beat and extra loudness). At that time the Beatles and Stones were pop, not rock, while Cream and Love (Arthur Brown) were rock. Except for jazz and classical, the radio stations didn't use any of these labels. They all played "The Hits" and we figured out by listening which stations played what we liked. When magazines started writing about the young 'uns music they were the ones who applied catchy names like "bubblegum" as labels to styles of music.
Just some more old guy rumination.
Just some more old guy rumination.
Definitely not.
Zep covered so much musical territory I think its very inaccurate to consider them "metal".
They were/are the definition of "heavy", but not at all metal.
Of the three archetypes (Purple, Sabbath and Zeppelin) from back in the day I see Sabbath as the one "most metal".
Zep covered so much musical territory I think its very inaccurate to consider them "metal".
They were/are the definition of "heavy", but not at all metal.
Of the three archetypes (Purple, Sabbath and Zeppelin) from back in the day I see Sabbath as the one "most metal".
There are many, many uses of the term "Heavy Metal" that predate that movie, and are references to a specific type of music--as opposed to the terms use in Science FIction, science & song lyrics...
1977 use by Lester Bangs
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