Who invented Heavy Rock?

[milesy]

Good call, seconded here even if everyone else has ignored it.

Do I smell of wee now?

hooray!! another friend!!

yes you smell of wee now, i hope you feel honoured

didn't link wray stick his mic stand through a speaker and create a distortion effect?

 

[nathansears]

didn't link wray stick his mic stand through a speaker and create a distortion effect?

I think he did yes, he also poked holes in his amp grill to get similar results.

"The rumble" which was the track that started things for him was banned when it was released in 1957 for being too menacing, despite being an instrumental!

 

[pogofish]

link wray

Hooray! I was wondering how he could be ignored fo his contribution to this!

 

[rutabowa]

Elvis.

 

[Juice Terry]

What 'Heavy Metal Thunder' ?

This was a reference to the noise of bikes though, it was Sandy Pearlman, at the time manager of Blue Oyster Cult, who first used the term Heavy Metal to describe music.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I think he did yes, he also poked holes in his amp grill to get similar results.

"The rumble" which was the track that started things for him was banned when it was released in 1957 for being too menacing, despite being an instrumental!

'Rumble' was brilliant but it wasn't heavy rock, it was heavy surfcore.

 

[lockjaw]

But I dunno how much truth there is in the rumour that it was Jimmy Page who played guitar on the Kinks heavy rock numbers.

Jimmy Page played some guitar on a couple of tracks on the first Kinks album. But he did not play on You Really Got Me or All Day and All of the Night -
the first heavy riff guitar songs recorded.

 

[DialT0ne]

i invented heavy rock

 

[loud 1]

chas and dave

 

[kained&able]

heavy rock covers far to many genres for there to be a decent answer to that one.

mc5 or the stooges invented punk

black sabbaeth invented heavy metal

but seeing as heavy rock just means that they palyed a bit harder then thier peers at the time i don't think there can be a single band credited with it.

Although whoever it was who decided to destoy there amp to make distortion(chet atkins????) might be able to lay claim but not really.


dave

 

[Badger Kitten]

'Heavy Metal Thunder' was from Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf from the film Easy Rider. I am sure of it. And the term 'heavy metal' taken from there. I bet you a fiver.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Sorry, from ther 1968 release 'Steppenwolf & used in Easy Rider soundtrack.
Words and music by Mars Bonfire

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild

© MCA Music (BMI)
All rights for the USA controlled and administered by
MCA Corporation of America, INC

 

[Badger Kitten]

*rocks out*

Please, I entreat you. Go and buy the soundtrack to Easy Rider. My first vinyl, from a charity shop, and still one of my all-time faves.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Godammit I am thread killer again.

 

[marksims68]

The pioneers of overdriven guitar tone, I don't think heavy rock would exist as it we know it now without Mesa Boogie.

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH the original mesa boogie............

*drool*.........

Gorgeous tone, you get distortion from cranking the volume and twatting the fuck out of your guitar.

BTw I have a Behringer V-amp2 so I can emulate it, hours of fun!


Oh yeh, The Kinks invented heavy rock!

 

[pilchardman]

The Small Faces have a claim, but I would put the roots firmly in Bo Diddley's capable hands.