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"From Johnny B. Goode to Black Sabbath in 12 years." -- Truly an amazing fact. I never stopped to think about the fact that all of that musical change happened in such a short time.. From the sound of it, you would think there had been 30 years or more between the rock of the late 50s and rock of the early 70s; crazy!
I've had a couple of beers so now I'd like to add some drunken perspective on Roger. He spat on himself really. So some peanut was disrupting a show.. Shit does happen when you expose yourself to it. Roger had a mindset that was celebrated in Have a Cigar. Unfortunately he manifested it
Daniel Reyes actually the rock n roll sound started in 49’ 50’ by black amateur musicians. Before little Richard there was guitar slim (th-cam.com/video/fj33EGMbazY/w-d-xo.html) A small flamboyant black man that wore a cape and drove a bright red Cadillac and dated white women. Also Howlin wolf who was more blues but the rock beat was there (back door man)
Everyone mentions "Helter Skelter", and rightfully so, but what often goes unmentioned is "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". I'm sure that was a huge influence on many metal musicians.
Honestly, I felt like he missed out on mentioning the Monkees "(I'm not your) steppin' stone" Imo, it's also very important to the heavy sound coming out at the time.
The best part of this whole thing is the concept of interpretation. The British bands were trying to recreate American blues. Jimi Hendrix brought them his perception of jazz. Everything inspires and informs everything else. It's sort of a beautiful mess. Watching this video is such pleasure.
@@Vandalio_Saez , indeed. Buddy Guy is a good example. He did not get a single mention in this video, but I'd like to think his contribution to guitar solos fars outweighs anything that came from Chuck Berry.
I always admired that about McCartney. Yes, he wrote BOTH the sappiest romantic ballad AND the heaviest, most sinister rock riff of the 1960s. Musicians in the '60s truly had balls and showed NO fear in turning it up past 11.
Imagine Beyonce or Taylor Swift trying to sing a metal song, rapping, or even pop punk type stuff like Hayley Williams. They can't, they produce essentially the same music over and over again for decades. Not saying its bad music, but its stagnant now.
24:30 "So he hired some replacements: John Paul Jones on bass, Robert Plant to sing and John Bonham on drum" WTF, i'd love to hire those "replacements"
An important distinction to make with Black Sabbath is that, as dark as their melodies are, the lyrics do not invoke or embrace the darkness but, rather, are adversarial to it. War pigs are not idolized, they are decried. Mr. Crowley is not admired, but questioned. All in all, the lyrics convey rather uniformly wholesome messages. This is why it was quite silly for parents to denounce their music as "satanic" and why, I believe, Ozzy cries out "You gotta listen to my words!" in "Crazy Train." usually this tensive opposition is the other way around; peppy songs with twisted lyrics, like "Hey Ya" by Outkast or "Every Move You Make" by The Police" or "2000 Miles" by The Pretenders. Then you've got Black Sabbath who sang hopeful, uplifting lyrics to profoundly dread-filling melodies.
My mom heard the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, and asked if it was about drug use. I said yes, and she voiced her disapproval. I said, "Does it sound like it encourages you to shoot up, mom"? She, of course, said no. You gotta put up with a lot if you like the stuff that isn't Top 40....
What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me Turn around quick, and start to run Find out I'm the chosen one Oh nooo! Big black shape with eyes of fire Telling people their desire Satan's sitting there, he's smiling Watches those flames get higher and higher Oh no, no, please God help me! Is it the end, my friend? Satan's coming 'round the bend People running 'cause they're scared The people better go and beware! No, no, please, no! Yes, that's hopeful and uplifting. Ozzy was a bit of a jesus freak. But he didn't write all the lyrics. Add to that Mr Crowley wasn't a Sabbath song. Neither was crazy train. NIB is iterally a song about falling in love with the devil. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath You've seen right through distorted eyes You know you had to learn The execution of your mind You really had to turn The race is run, the book is read The end begins to show The truth is out, the lies are old But you don't want to know Nobody will ever let you know When you ask the reasons why They just tell you that you're on your own Fill your head all full of lies The people who have crippled you You want to see them burn The gates of life have closed on you And there's just no return You're wishing that the hands of doom Could take your mind away And you don't care if you don't see again The light of day Nobody will ever let you know When you ask the reasons why They just tell you that you're on your own Fill your head all full of lies You bastards Where can you run to? What more can you do? No more tomorrow Life is killing you Dreams turn to nightmares Heaven turns to hell Burned out confusion Nothing more to tell, yeah Cheerful stuff.... Sigh....
While you do in certain respects make a valid point, OZ songs are not indicative of Black Sabbath's music, as in some ways Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, does point out why people are "dark" in the first place, with lyrics like "Nobody will every let you know, when you ask the reasons why, they will just tell you, that you're on your own, fill your head all full of lies!" And even in the song Die Young this is true, which was sang on Heaven And Hell, with Ronnie James Dio as lead singer! Also that same band did the song Country Girl, claiming "She was up from another world, just to take another soul" again Ronnie James Dio's vocals on the Mob Rules album!! So there are "DARK undertones" in some of their songs!! As well as the later song Trashed (singer Ian Gillian), by Black Sabbath! And besides Ozzy as a solo artist IS NOT tied to Black Sabbath after he left the band!!! Even the darkness of the song Sweet Leaf talks about being alone and in a "dark place" when he (Ozzy) found "sweet leaf"!! So not all Black Sabbath songs are completely "hopeful" either!!! And I have been listening to Black Sabbath since 1976!!!
natfoote: yes, as in After Forever: Have you ever thought about your soul Can it be saved? Or perhaps you think That when you are dead You just stay in your grave Is God just a thought within your head Or is he a part of you? Is Christ just a name That you read in the book When you were in school? When you think about death Do you lose your breath Or do you keep your cool? Would you like to see the pope On the end of a rope? Do you think he's a fool? Well I have seen the truth Yes, I've seen the light And I've changed my ways And I'll be prepared When you're lonely and scared At the end of our days Could it be you're afraid Of what your friends might say If they knew you believe in God above? They should realise before they criticise That God is the only way to love Is your mind so small that you have to fall In with the pack wherever they run Will you still sneer when death is near And say that you may as well worship the sun? I think it was true it was people like you That crucified Christ I think it is sad the opinion you had Was the only one voiced Will you be so sure When your day is near Say you don't believe You had the chance But you turned it down Now you can't retrieve Perhaps you'll think before you say God is dead and gone Open your eyes, just realise That He is the one The only one who can save you now From all this sin and hate Or will you jeer at all you hear? Yes, I think it's too late Songwriters: Tony Iommi, Terence Michael Butler, John Osbourne, W T Ward. For non-commercial use only.
I still remember learning Black Sabbath’s ending riff section as a 13 year old guitarist. I still play it today, as it’s a wonderful warm up exercise, and hold up as an amazing riff....
@Ronald Williams i learned it around 1980- i picked up the guitar at ten, but it wasn’t til i was 13 i got serious….i remember when i actually figured the riff out; i still use it from time to time as a warm up exercise!
The effects on "Are you experienced?" (The song, I mean the album is also phenomenal) but that song and all the effects in it are like taking a music note and melting it.. I think THAT is where metal comes from.
You forgot to start with the man that started it all; Johnny Guitar Watson. He released “Space Guitar” in 1952 and it was, in my own opinion, the most advanced playing at that time. I believe Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix took huge inspiration from that man. He died on stage circa 1990. R.I.P to all the great musicians.
As Ozzy was supposed to have said '' In San Francisco, It was Peace and Love, Timothy Leary ,Sunshine and Beautiful Chic's with flowers in their hair. We where dropping Acid in the Black Country Concrete Jungle of Birmingham . No wonder we conjured up the Devil '' !
Always about the devil ? i assume you have read sabbaths lyrics ? and if you have you will notice that there are lots of god references in there also .. not a christian , but birmingham yes and places like that had the perfect atmosphere for that kind of talent lol.
Reminds me of a story my music theory professor told the class about Beethoven if I recall correctly. But it was in his early years and a church wanted his teacher to be in charge of their music. His teacher already took the job from another church and he sent them Beethoven instead. The church sent them a letter of complaint about how they wanted his teacher, how upset and angry they were for not giving them his teacher. They ended the letter with "We had to settle for Beethoven." LOL imagine saying you settled with the legendary Beethoven! 😂
"Jimmy Page of course had introduced Jeff Beck to the Yardbirds. He himself had passed on the Yardbird’s offer of the lead guitar role. And then proceeded to point them to Jeff. This was when Eric Clapton decided it was time to move on in early 1965. Page was content at that time to continue on as a session guitarist. If you go back to “Heart Full of Soul”, which was recorded right after Beck joined the Yardbirds in April 1965. It was he who made that song work. Before he arrived in the studio that day, the band had been trying to incorporate an actual sitar into the intro of the song. The sitar player they had brought in, however, was just not up to the 4/ 4 time. It was not his thing. Jeff observed this and disappeared again. Apparently, he went and borrowed his buddy’s, Jimmy Page’s, new fuzz box. Page was in an adjacent studio working on another project. With a little work Jeff came back with something of a sitar sound that worked nicely. It is a sound we still appreciate today. It turns that he and Page had previously listened to Ravi Shankar albums together, pondering how to get that sound with a guitar. That listening session, whenever that was, apparently had made an impression on Jeff Beck. With it, along with Page’s new fuzz box, the challenge of that recording session complete with sitar player trying to figure out a 4 / 4 time signature basically resulted in the “Heart Full of Soul” we know today, complete with Beck’s take on the Sitar at the start of the tune. Becks’s Bolero was ultimately released as a B side to Jeff Beck’s first solo single, “Hi Ho Silver Lining”. That was released in 1968, after the Yardbirds. It was in fact recorded, however, in early 1966 when Beck was still a member of the Yardbirds. Management of the Yardbirds, concerned about the longevity of the band, encouraged Beck and others to explore solo projects. Beck’s Bolero was the result of one such session. Ideally it would be a side project, a way to diffuse and to distract. That was the intent of management. It was seen as a distraction for Beck who despite the success of the band and his career, was not happy with constant touring and the focus on pop music. The musicians on Beck's Bolero were Jeff Beck on guitar; Jimmy Page on guitar; John Paul Jones on bass (who was another session musician at the time); Nicky Hopkins, a Royal Academy of Music graduate, and who would go on to play and tour with the Jeff Beck Group in 1968, on piano; and, lastly, there was Keith Moon on drums. Jimmy Page composed much of Beck's Bolero. Keith Moon’s comment at the end of that session has become legend. Prophetic. His response to the suggestion that this crew go out and play shows, he surmised would go over like a lead zeppelin."
Yeah. Where was musical history when I was I kid? All we studied was boring war stuff. I was having none of it. Only learned it just enough to pass. Gladly forgetting it after the test.
Wow. Every heavy 60s band and song that is mentioned or listed in this video, was my main choice of music growing up. My dad introduced me to all these bands. He was 20 in 1970, so heavy rock from that time is his favorite music. I have memories of hearing "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple in kindergarten, along with "Dark Side", "The Wall", all of Hendrix's albums, Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Grand Funk red album, and so so many more. Once I heard Cream play Crossroads and Spoonful live on the Wheels of Fire album my life changed. It was my equivalent to watching the Beatles on Sullivan for the first time and realizing you wanna make and play music for the rest of your life. I was 14 then, I'm 31 now and I still play bass, just getting back home from a rehearsal actually lol. I guess what I'm trying to say is great video and thank you for making it, I am very grateful that this is the music that was accessible to me in high school and it changed my life, oh, and thank you for reading this far. I bet your kinda guy that reads every liner note on an album sleeve.... it's ok, I am too lmao
I feel an inherent need to speak up about the beginning remark on Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Bill Haley and the Comments, Bo Diddley being the start of guitar-based rock and roll. I think that credit goes to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was the first to really put distorted guitar into recordings. Perhaps she was closer to jazz, big bands, and gospel, but I don't think those guys would've come to be without her, and that was between the 30s and 40s.
This is true, but whether or not Chuck Berry was the first to do that style, he was the first to do his songs, and there is no denying that Chuck's major hits are still interesting songs TODAY. Back then, they were groundbreaking. Just about every rock band of the 60s credits Berry as being the man because he was. Plus he lived long enough to do lots of performances with the famous musicians of that era.
@@foto21 True but... Chuck Berry explicitly said he ripped off "his" guitar style from Tharpe and Goree Carter! The 1st r'n'r songs (with very rare exceptions) date back to 1948-49 (originating from jump blues / rhythm'n'jazz, a style of jazz, NOT from country at all), but Rosetta Tharpe did the same starting from gospel and early r&b... and she recorded it in 1938-39, 10 years earlier!
I find it interesting how music can define an era, not only in the sense that metal and rock became popular during waring times, but it also defines the technology like how in the early 2000s auto tune made pop easier and somewhat more popular than before.
This is one of the best rock documentaries I have ever seen in my life, and by the looks of it one single person made it, presumably at home in a tiny office or bedroom. That is just unbelievably bad-ass when you think about! On a sidenote, I've never heard of Jake Holmes before, but judging by that soundbyte, Led Zeppelin's song isn't "inspired" by it: it's the exact same song.
Jimmy...likes to borrow... This is the tip of the iceberg with Trash Theory. The careful thought and depth of musical knowledge that goes into all of these videos is astounding. I cared nothing and knew nothing about Goth Rock and yet watched the entire video just on the quality of the presentation. Trash Theory taught me things about my favorite genres I could never have learned on my own, and got into tracks and bands I never thought of.
6:59, my heart skipped a beat when I heard that little opening riff from "You're gonna miss me." Roky Erickson and the 13th floor elevators often get overlooked when discussing this subject. You'll be surprised of how many people haven't heard of them; thank you for including them!👍🏾
People say Black Sabbath's Tony Iomi's guitar playing is outshined technically by others. Still when I listen to his playing I am at a Black Sabbath. And I get chills in the spine.
At this point surely those adverts are more off-putting than enticing, if they ever were even enticing to begin with. Internet Historian's ones are pretty funny at least.
I bought the very first Black Sabbath album "Black Sabbath" in early 1970. I opened it, put the needle on and the very first song called "Black Sabbath" began playing. The sound of rain falling. The sound of a church bell ringing. And then ear-splitting tritone chords and notes vibrated my mind and soul and I found myself still sitting on the edge of my bed, but now dressed in black with long, black, dirty hair, and a lit joint hanging from my lips. Looking down at my basketball, I realized I would never touch it again. My life was forever changed. Then I head Free Bird a few years later and my life forever changed. Finally a soaring guitar solo that was able to force radio stations to play LONG SONGS - especially ones where the guitar was finally set free to truly fly - ESPECIALLY on the radio airwaves. Then came Green Grass and High Tides, and Highway Song.
Personally, I feel like Hendrix was enormously influential in the creation of "the drop" in music like metal and EDM. For instance, look at "Foxey Lady" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" where it starts out slow, quiet, and trippy....then goes full-bore all of a sudden. Mitch Mitchell deserves lots of credit for that, too! The Who did similar things, but for me it was always Hendrix who made my head snap forward when the main riff came in....a proto-headbang if you will ;-)
With all respect to PT, the Who really did not have the lead guitarist chops to pull it off. The PT led Oo took its music in another, no less astonishing, direction.
Good intro. It should be remembered that at the time there was no distinction between what came to be called metal and what came to be called punk. The Stooges, The MC5 and in England the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind were all there making music louder and heavier.
Hendrix and Dazed and Confused of Led Zeppelin is really the first song that toppled old rock sound into a new era . Guitar, drums would never be the same after ... Birth of Savagery, mysticism, sex drive, excitement trance in rock. They creates a new style in 6.30 minutes ...
Link Wray "Rumble" 1959. I think he intended for this song to sound different, and the distortion and volume were crucial to the song. It seemed to work on Jimmy Page, he was impressed by the use of distortion and volume. Then Dick Dale's "Miserlou" kinda has that mystical sex exciting thing...and he played loud af. 100 watt amps made by Leo Fender for Dick Dale's specific needs. He wasna rockstar because they didn't exist yet. Surf rock may seem pretty lame to some (and very un-Hendrix like lol) but there was innovation. Also...Vamp Camp by the Ventures sounds like instrumental Nirvana lol. Drop D tuning. 🤙🤘
Jamston Julian If it’s at a tournament, there’s a good chance it will be challenged, especially if that tournament’s ruleset prohibits the use of slang/obscenities.
I think psychedelia is THE epitome of music... it meshes all forms of music together into multi-million layers that put you into a haze of intoxication.... so beautiful
I was a little young (but just old enough to remember it - and already collecting music) in the mid to late 60s. What an era of music! Friends and neighbors everywhere were playing live music and the creativity was off the charts. FM and "free form" radio were taking off. Peace/love/drugs had a head on collision with war/riots/civil upheaval and created the perfect breeding ground for the psychedelic scene.
@@Gobberfisch Fever Tree was a California band that I don't believe was mentioned in this video. Captain Beefhart, too. Some of the local/garage bands in the mid-60s were awesome. I have a compilation LP of garage bands in the Houston, Texas area called "Houston Hallucinations". I'm not sure how rare that one is.
I'm addicted to your videos. So much to learn. You go deep and you don't provide thoughtless rhetoric. So much of what you stated is often what I already suspected, but includes so much more. I was a teenager growing up and listening to MUSIC during the rise of Metal and all of its tributaries. This is all high praise from me.
@@2011littlejohn1 But it's crazy how every time women contribute to history it's ignored yet they get constant shit for supposedly not contributing to history. Thankfully there's so much video of sister Rosetta, it can't be ignored
Hi there, the way Janis Joplin used to sing sounds really heavy. She had definitely a heavy metal rock blues high pitched voice. Never under estimate the women!
What about Dear Mr Fantasy by Traffic? Is no one else impressed by how heavy and complex the guitar solos are for 1967?? That song absolutely rocks. Also heavy : The Nile Song, Pink Floyd.
"Rumble" is probably my favourite 1950s rock song, it's just the sound of some Neanderthal biker looking to pick a fight. A close second would be Johnny Burnette's "Train Kept a Rollin'", which is generally considered the first time distortion was deliberately used in rock and roll (plus it was co-opted by the Yardbirds, so. Also, if you haven't heard "Love Me" by The Phantom... holy hell. People who heard that in 1958 must've shat themselves. That Electric Flag review was interesting. I always thought Humble Pie were the first band to have the heavy metal tag applied to them by a critic, but evidently not. I like the description of LZ's "Dazed and Confused" as inspired by the Jake Holmes song. Very diplomatic :)
Well done, been fan and geek scholar of rock since I was a teenager and knew a video like this would be made someday once I saw TH-cam and im so glad this is it. Once people can see the historic context and the connective musical tissue that connects the dots of influence and history it emboldens the life and power that art and music will have on those who give themselves the pleasure to experience it in all its treasured majesty-that’s not hyperbolic either, music can save your life.
Metal would've been established (eventually) without Black Sabbath. Rock & Roll was definitely going to keep getting faster, louder, heavier, etc. However, they were the first ones to truly harness what it was, and they stood alone for quite a few years. You could tell that other bands at the time were trying to figure it out, but fell short. They knew that they had to be loud, fast, and heavy, but they were missing that edge. Black Sabbath was the complete package, and their first 4 albums were progressively heavier as they refined their sound. Nobody could touch them. I listen to "Into The Void", and can't believe it was released the same year as "Brown Sugar".
Absolutely not true, Deep Purple was the FIRST band to capture the essence of Heavy Metal, they did it in 1970, with their "In Rock" album, it was the heaviest thing the world had ever heard, Sabbath's debut album was mere child's play in comparison. It wasn't until 1971, when Sabbath released "Master of Reality," when the monstrous power of the "In Rock" album was overtaken, and not even by much. Gillan's voice was just demonic in how powerful and dirty it was, screams that would make the devil himself wet his pants.
Black Sabbath named themselves after a horror movie and made music that would be at home in one. People were still singing about sunshine and rainbows when those first doom-laden chords were unleashed. It was a hurricane of fresh air.
That is not true it's utter garbage, like everything in the late sixties sounded like Donovan Actually there was a lot of dark stuff around in the late sixties even top 40 stuff The Stones, The Doors, The Valvet Undergound. hell even the Beatles were writing some pretty dark stuff in the late sixties.The Stones had already done the Satanic thing before Sabbath were even called Black Sabbath.
I think the horror movie was called 'Black Sunday' It's a good movie of that genre, very creepy. I have a French copy on DVD, 'Le Masque du Demon'. I think it was by Mario Bava. You would have to ask the former members of Black Sabbath If I am correct.
@@stevehead365 that old black and white movie was creepy AF! Especially for the time. I haven't seen that flick since I was a kid in the 60s/early 70s. I recall that scene where the horse-and-buggy was found going down that creepy road in the dark.......weren't there dead bodies in the trees?!?! Man, I'm gonna have nightmares!
I love the early Sabbath, but I have to chime in every time I see a comment like this. Sir Lord Baltimore came out with their first LP "Kingdom Come" at the same time as Sabbath. SLB had the ominous dark heavy songs like Sabbath, but SLB also had some very fast paced songs which were almost unheard of at the time. Sabbath didn't really breach that territory on their earliest LPs. It's all good though.
It's so funny to learn what kind of music was consisered heavy way back in the day. Makes you wonder how those people would react to hearing modern death metal or djent. Meshuggah or Vildhjarta would probably give the people of the sixties a fucking stroke
Neither of those bands are really heavy, and if you mean the late sixties, I think there was enough popular musical experimentation going on at the time for them to sound relatively normal.
@@nangwaya4186 I'll agree that she was great. I especially love her Decca 78 of "Nobody's Fault But Mine". I had found several 78s by Rosetta before I was told that she was playing the guitar. I couldn't believe it.
@@alanstrom2221 dark dark themes as sources to draw upon. Heavy music has existed long before rock. Doc Boggs would have been seen as heavy in the 20s and 30s Appalachia. Goin Down to River - Fred McDowell Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Skip James Country Blues #1 - Muddy Waters St. James Infirmary Blues - Clifton Hicks has the best version All of these could be seen as Dark Country, Southern Gothic, or the sorts. It was a dark time to be alive. I read of an account where a black man and his wife were being ready to be lynched and the mob drove a corkscrew into the flesh of the man and pulled it out to make him suffer. Sounds horrible but pretty metal
Very comprehensive and enjoyable! My only critique is the neglect to mention Michigan bands like The Stooges, MC5, Grand Funk Railroad, and Alice Cooper. That whole scene had a large impact on heavy metal undeniably.
I have an MC5 CD (the title is elusive to me now....maybe "Breakout '66") of unreleased demos and such from the early years. Most tunes were rough recordings of high school parties, etc., but there were some definite roots of hard rock there. One track (again with my bad memory today - maybe "Looking at You"?) was hard as hell for the time. I don't think Wayne Kramer gets enough credit as a hard rock pioneer. Great showman, too! What a band! Shame their management was a little "off" for lack of a better term.
The term heavy metal to describe music only started in the late 70s. Tony Iommi said in an interview that this label of "metal" didn't exist until way later. He said what they played was just rock n roll.
Baghuul you are both correct and incorrect. CREEM was using the term as early as 1971 (after Steppenwolf of course), but it encompassed a larger swath of musical styles. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal groups were the first bands to take the term as their own.
By the time Heavy Metal magazine premiered in 1977, the Heavy Metal genre was already well established as the hardcore faction of Rock music, at least until it was blindsided by Punk.
A very interesting Metal reference was made in 1971 by (of all people!) KRAFTWERK. Check out the song "Heavy Metal kids". It is kinda tongue and cheek but the obvious Iron Man riffs they lifted for it make it metal as fuck! I mean GODFLESH sounding metal as fuck! It's fascinating that Sab wasn't aware of the term until 1977 and then demured from it when Kraftwerk was almost plagiarising their music in that song six years before! Anyway, I advise every true fellow metal fan to listen to it if for no other reason but to hear that obscure reference (and it's metal as fuck!)
Very well done. Those were my growing up years. 11 in 67, moving to the eastbay that year and although I lived in the change from psychedelic to metal, I would fight with friends defining what Heavy Metal was. This was a great breakdown of the whole genre. TY
@@NoBody-xg1wg That would defeat the point. The whole point was to not play any more boring 12 bar blues the world was full of at that point and was done best by the originators in the first place. Do something different. And that they did. First true heaviest, still the heaviest
Wow. That was an amazing overview and history of the development of Heavy Metal. I was 14 years old again. This stuff is what we listened to as we went to see new bands like Led Zeppelin at the Laurel Pop Festival and Jimi Hendrix at Merriweather Post and the Who at Georgetown U. Ticket prices: Around $4. This is a fantastically organized succinct and thorough overview of metal. I remember getting blown away by Blue Cheer who never seemed to get their due as the first originator of heavy metal. They were heavy!! album title: Vincebus Eruptum. We were studying Latin so we knew it meant "We Conquer Chaos". How metal is that? and the nod to Mike Bloomfield. Perfect. His KILLING FLOOR solo on that album is Classic metal. It fit so perfectly into that version complete with horns and insane drums. Can't believe you got it! Thank you for a great documentary. I mean it. Best doc on metal ever!
I had the same Blue Cheer experience (the band, not the acid ha ha). They released a 2nd LP before some knew what hit them. MC5 needs to be mentioned too. I know they weren't "heavy", but they were about as hard as rock could get at the time. The MC5 1st live LP was recorded in 68 or 69. Wayne Kramer needs to get more credit as a hard rock guitar pioneer. I have a CD of their early jams from 66 and you could hear it coming.
@@marksavage1744I know funkadelic used to tour with the MC5 a lot doing those days and the stooges fun house down on the street free your mind and your ass will follow kick out the jams!
I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan and to me, Paint it Black and Helter Skelter are the only two songs that have a metal component to them. Even Black Sabbath wasn't all Heavy Metal. They are the first Metal band ever. But they played psychedelic hard Rock like the stones, the who, Zeppelin. Deep purple, and others.
Love how you showed the connections to all the innovators. Especially as you superimposed 1 line of lyrics with the next from the inspired band. Time to binge your content.
It’s weird how today that “heavy metal” morphed into a genre that means “anything that sounds like Black Sabbath.” Yet that wasn’t the case from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Thank you! Hendrix is acid rock not metal. Did it help? Absolutely. But two completely different things. Then we should call "I wanna be your dog" metal, but it's punk. Same thing with Helter Skelter. That's how dumb people think Beatles invented metal. Today anything heavier than usual is called metal, even if there are no guitars like in viking music.
Got it when it came out, junior .... fuzzy psychedelia... nothing like heavy metal in lyrical content or style ... their most iconic song was a rockabilly cover ...Educate yourself
@@Deucealive75 Because it was a term takin out of context form the Rock song Born to be Wild. And a lot of hard rock fans saw the trajectory of the genre, and craved the harder sound they felt comming. Sabbath delivered. Zeitgeist "There’s your homework assignment."
A note about Dick Dale's Misirlou. Wrongfully stated at 05:33 as an _"old Middle Eastern folk song"._ Although its name derives from an Arabic word, the song was first played by a "Rebetika" band (Rebetika it's a Greek genre) by Michael Patrinos, in Athens, Greece, in 1927.
@@zombiemachinery4868 no, only that the full truth be told about how the Black Rock was never allowed to profit the way white' Rock was , money or socially
Incredible job! Nearly perfect. A quick shout out to Sister Rosetta Tharpe influencing Chuck Berry and the rest of the early pioneers would have been the last missing piece. And thanks for including a mention of Sir Lord Baltimore.
Very cool heavy stuff. I always thought The Beatles most metal sounding song was Helter Skelter, but the gloomy ,dark chord work on She's So Heavy (I Want You), from Abbey Road has as much raw slow grind metal feel ,it almost reaches Black Sabbath's title track in it's forbidden "devil notes". I also think The band Mountain, and Frigid Pink were pretty heavy too. Love your channel, keep on Rockin'. Bob. G
Frijid Pink, that's pretty deep man, thank you for mentioning them. I had no idea they were a thing until my boss played their cover of House Of The Rising Sun for me a few years back.
It’s hard for us now to understand now how all this musical change was so new to people’s ears at the time. Every year was a new sound. Just a perfect time where the stars aligned with culture, music development, and recording technology.
Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive from their debut album features its own somewhat dark guitar riff with shredding sections brought to you by Syd Barrett.
True, especially if you listen to live version. As a fact, in their early years (66-67), their live performance were considered so twisted, dark and violent that before finding shelter a the UFO club they had multiple issues with organizers... They even lose when they sued one of them who refused to pay them. Late 60's live recording of some of their song (Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Saucerful of Secrets, Careful with that axe Eugene...) pushed very far on the scale of heavyness, darkness and violence and definitely had a strong influence on metal at several point in time. But their studio versions were usually lighter and their singles did not often hit high on the billboards, and with the notable exception of the Nile Song none of them could be considered as protometal. So they are quite often forgotten in the metal history, despite their influence, and I was actually surprised that Careful with that Axe Eugene was featured in this video
Absolutely fabulous music map!!! Thank you for really articulating hard rock evolution to metal!!! So appreciate the time it must have taken to put together!!! I passed this video on to half a dozen friends!!!
Black Sabbath best Guitarist was Randy Rhode , better than Riche Blackmore , but Heavy Metal true Creator is Hendrix , The Original Tap Master, he did not get credit for, The Jerk who Film the Concert at Miami, Edit it out of the Concert Movie, They Deliberately Removed It, Can't stand two see a Black Man Shine...
@@mattwhite9823 Nope, not better than Blackmore at all, definitely great, but Blackmore was something else. Blackmore also found the best /rockmetal vocalists of the time, Ian Gillan, Dio, Glen Hughes.
I think this is how history should be taught in school... Not just about music but also everything else. I feel like I can understand more, so much more than just mere dates or records of what happened. Thank you for putting this together into one coherent and enjoyable video 😆
That’s what history is too, it’s the context of the present based upon the happenings of the past, in context. Music history is just extra fun bc you can dance to it lol ;D
ONLY ONE PROBLEM HE IS TOTALLY WRONG. HE NEVER MENTIONED ONCE THE REAL MUSIC. THIS IS ALL ABOUT MAINSTREAM. MOST THE BANDS MENTIONED STOLE A LOT. HENDRIX TOOK FROM T BONE WALKER. DAZED AND CONFUSED WAS STOLEN FROM JAKE HOLMES.
Wow great video. Glad you mentioned Eddie Cochran as an early influence. As a life long hard rocker who has been around long enough to have actually bought Led 1, Sabath 1, and "are you experienced" first runs in the day I think you nailed it. Good job. I don't know why it doesn't fit in to the naritive but I can't help but remember Leslie West's lead on Mississippi Queen as a really strong influence for me in that era. Why doesn't it make the cut? That guitar tone floored me, and still does. Good job, subscribed.
You forgot to mention where the term "heavy metal" came from. A reporter (cant remember who now) who saw hendrix play in london and described it as heavy metal falling from the sky. Great video tho
That is an unverified rumour - the first reference to heavy metal as a style of music is from "Metal" Mike Saunders - and it meant something different in the late 1960s. Heavy Metal music was interchangeable with "sh1t rock," - noisy, cacophanous, amateurish chaos, more akin to punk than what we call heavy metal since Sabbath. If a journalist used the phrase "heavy metal" in reference to music, chances are it was because it just sounded like noise. Lemmy is on record (TH-cam interviews) as answering the question "What is heavy metal" by saying "Noise". Metal Mike also used the phrase to describe Black Sabbath, but, by then, he was more of a fan, and the music had changed so dramatically that the original sense of amateurish had gone from his point of view, and there was growing respect for the controlled cacophony and robotic, mechanical, more technically oriented playing. I think there's an earlier documented use by a music journalist, but that too just meant "dreadful noise". In terms of the origins of the music, The Nice shouldn't be overlooked. Some of their material was so intense and cacophanous, yet classically inspired and heavy. Talking of heavy, Pink Floyd were masters of heavy music, in between the whimsy. Astronomy Domine and Saucerful of Secrets especially were massively influential on underground heavy bands, including the "Krautrock" scene, Jason Crest and White Noise (Black Mass, in both cases). There are plenty of other heavy Floyd examples, such as Careful with that Axe, Eugene and The Nile Song. Before Sabbath, there was heavy, but it was rock. Spooky Tooth should be noted. The Pretty Things are more than SF Sorrow, as they were the heaviest band in the Ladbroke Grove scene in 1966, which Hendrix became a part of, hanging with people like Lemmy. Check out also Ace Kefford. The single "Gravy Booby Jamm" (yes, really) features Cozy Powell, and there's the beginning of the heavy metal drum sound right there. Maybe I should make my own video, and some know all could correct me :0)
She basically kickstarted rock and roll!! Influenced every early guitarist out there. We should make it our mission that she's known and acknowledged as the legend she really is!!!
@Playlist guy you do realize that those exceptions are decades apart, which illuminates the point. You should Google "race radio" l.e. the pratice of not playing Black music on white radio stations, and just like today 99% of the broadcast media is white owned. In 1950 there was only 1 Black station in USA
In your videos there is always a little gem that I've never heard of and sometimes turns out to be be a crucial song to change it all. Love your content! It's so well done.
@@softbatch1 I knew about the early Pretty Things, but I had no idea they went through such a metamorphosis in the late 60s. The early material was grungy and garage-y, like a harder, dirtier Rolling Stones, and I love it. Years later (early 80s?) I found a beautiful 2-album compilation, or so I thought, by the Pretty Things. I expected the greatest hits of the early Things, but discovered that this was a special re-release of the LPs S.F. Sorrow and Parachute. I had no idea of the direction they took. Both are wonderful albums. Glad you discovered these guys. I'd recommend two othe bands that might interest you. Sometimes these groups fly under the radar. Crack the Sky - in their prime in the mid late 70s from the Ohio-Pa border west of Pittsburgh. My favorite album is Safety in Numbers and my favorite track is "Nuclear Apathy". Wishbone Ash - UK from the early 70s to perhaps the present. Many changes over the years. I'd recommend their 1st "Wishbone Ash", "Live Dates", "Just Testing", and "New England". And "Pilgrimage".
The Velvet Underground's Heroin and Sister Ray, also Can's discography were basically early post-rock. Pink Floyd's Echoes if released in the 90's, it would classify under the post-rock genre.
Alexandru Mircea Post-Punk arguably started Pere Ubu, The Fall, Joy Division etc Post-Rock whilst definitely descended from Post Punk particularly PiL, it is very distinct a genre
Honorable mention - Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Their single “Fire” reached No. 2 on the Top 100 billboard charts in 1968, only being beaten by Beatles for that no. 1 spot. Also Arther Brown’s make up influences Black Metal bands and his lyrics about burning and being god of Hell Fire created a lyrical revolution for metal.
As a literal child of the 60s, I can remember each new Beatles single hit that came out on the radio. Then Revolution came out, and it was the heaviest most distorted sound I'd ever heard to that point. Shortly after the White album came out, with Helter Skelter among many other hard rockers. Once again the Beatles showed they could do whatever was going on as well as anybody.
Helter Skelter is still one of the heaviest songs of all time. But the Beatles contributed to the metal genre with other sounds, or songs, such as the feedback on I Feel Fine, the sonic revolution of Tomorrow Never Knows, the wicked guitar on Happiness Is A Warm Gun, the nearly satanic feel of Revolution 9, the sheer distortion of the speedier version of Revolution, and the craziest hybrid of blues and metal ever in I Want You (She's So Heavy).
I do agree with your list! But I think you should also add "Twist and SHout" (for the screaming vocals) and "Day Tripper" (for the double-guitar intro-riff).
@Chris E., if you consider the final segment of the song, with all that distortion and how it inspired the Manson family's killing spree, then I'd say it's pretty heavy. Sure, modern metal sounds a bit heavier, but it's not scary anymore. 😉
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In 1969, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - 'The Green Manalishi' pretty much laid out a big chunk of the heavy metal riff landscape we still have today, only with less distortion. Not to mention that it strongly influenced bands like Judas Priest and Pantera. My vote for single most important proto metal song. Coming from a guitar player.
Did Quentin Tarantino watch this 25 years in the future before he made Pulp Fiction??...just about every song in that movie is mentioned on here...lol.
@@ericarmstrong6540 thanks man, I know it so well, what an album! It was the description I was going nuts about in this instance. Eric, may the prog godz shine synth gifts upon you!
The Small Faces have a track called I Feel Much Better which I always thought had a killer proto-metal punch near the end. Steve Marriott searing and soaring, a driving base and drums and simple organ parts. Magic! Good docs and just a shame sound clips couldn't be longer.
I always enjoy these things. There are so many "Path to metal"/"path to punk" little mini documentaries and they're always fun. And it's also always fun to point out the little things that inevitably get overlooked. As a huge fan of the Who, take a quick listen to Live at Leeds. Everyone knows about My Generation and I Can See For Miles but check out that record. Just listen to the first track. They were way heavier live at the time. Eventually they started doing a lot of operatic, thematic big concept type albums and electronic stuff so their live act evolved. But back then, despite how heavy they were in the studio, live they were just HUGE. Yeah, they always get mentioned for their contribution but I think a lot of people overlook just how ahead of their time they were with their live performances. It's no wonder that a lot of the punk bands who came a few years later worshipped these guys.And that makes sense. Having that HUGE sound wouldn't really get you very far on 1960's AM radio. There's another one of these that discuses the history of the death growl. And I think Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days" should be mentioned there. That's a deathier death growl than the death growl. Lol. Not to mention what he actually says. "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces." It's technically not a metal song but damn that's brutal and dark. Also, does anyone know how the Elevators did the electric jug thing?
Tommy Hall in the 13th Floor Elevators took a jug & put a microphone to it, making vocal noises into the jug to add effects to the music they played. It was a pretty unique thing.
Glad to hear someone else hears Jimi's influence on somebody like Eddie Van Halen. Although Eddie will say Cream-era Eric Clapton was his influence, you can't help but hear more of Jimi's influence. Use of hammer-ons and the vibrato bar says enough. I believe that Eddie does this simply to distance himself from Jimi, to secure his own legendary status as a player. Not wanting to be associated amongst the many who owe much of their fundamental development as a guitar player to Jimi. Which is a shame because I don't think anybody would, but one can get that feeling from Eddie upon listening to interviews when such topics come up.
Eric was inspired heavily by Jimi, so ether way, Hendrix was the greatest influential guitarist of all time because he was the original innovator. Eddie was just a technique mad, passionless "stunt" guitarist as Zappa said of him.
@@edwardlagrossa1246 i say it the other way around.Hendrix was inspired by Clapton and pete townsend.Eric was the first one to plug a les paul into a marshall amp on Beano which introduced the hard rock sound and Townsend with his wall of amps,inspired Jimi
Iron Butterfly was playing “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” in early ‘67, more than a year before the 17 minute long, entire Second side, Album was released in 1968. The main riff will always be my first memory of Psychedelic Hard Rock, with it being as Trippy as Hendrix and Heavy as Black Sabbath (and as memory-tattooing as Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water”). While not as successful as the aforementioned, Iron Butterfly deserves the progenitor credit given here for IAGDV. Another American Act not referenced but deserving of an Honorable Mention - Amboy Dukes 1968 “Journey to the Center of Your Mind”. Not quite as Heavy, but every bit as Psychedelic as any of the more famous Acts of the ‘60’s.
Yess! Iron Butterfly did do metal , however you want to call it “proto” or metal itself but they did. That 1967 live album has some specially in “iron Butterfly theme”
So who do think is keeping metal alive in 2020? Comment down below:
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YOB!
Space Slug!!
As for who is keeping metal alive today, I honestly do not know - but then I am old, fat and jaded. Sorry.
Gojira, YOB, Tool, and the new wave bands like Code Orange Knocked Lose Vein etc
it`s Code Orange for me
"From Johnny B. Goode to Black Sabbath in 12 years." -- Truly an amazing fact.
I never stopped to think about the fact that all of that musical change happened in such a short time.. From the sound of it, you would think there had been 30 years or more between the rock of the late 50s and rock of the early 70s; crazy!
Talking about quantum leaps: it took The Beatles only four years from "Love Me Do" to "Tomorrow Never Knows." This always blows my mind...
Blew me away when I learned The Beatles only lasted 8 years. What a progression across the globe in a decade
I've had a couple of beers so now I'd like to add some drunken perspective on Roger. He spat on himself really. So some peanut was disrupting a show.. Shit does happen when you expose yourself to it. Roger had a mindset that was celebrated in Have a Cigar. Unfortunately he manifested it
Daniel Reyes actually the rock n roll sound started in 49’ 50’ by black amateur musicians. Before little Richard there was guitar slim (th-cam.com/video/fj33EGMbazY/w-d-xo.html)
A small flamboyant black man that wore a cape and drove a bright red Cadillac and dated white women.
Also Howlin wolf who was more blues but the rock beat was there (back door man)
@@rossconroy1674 what
Just realized you posted this on the 50th anniversary of black sabbath's self titled.
I think that was the point
@@wesleyzimmerman94 I'm aware that's probably the point. I just wanted to get youtube points for pointing it out.
finally changed my profile pic your honesty is appreciated and you deserve all the youtube points!
finally changed my profile pic literally the birthday of metal
@@cyclone927 You'd have got more points if you'd used the word eponymous.
Everyone mentions "Helter Skelter", and rightfully so, but what often goes unmentioned is "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". I'm sure that was a huge influence on many metal musicians.
Bro, I Want You should've got their own segment on the video, it was heavy as rocks in 69, and it still is heavy today.
I agree. 👍👍
Honestly, I felt like he missed out on mentioning the Monkees "(I'm not your) steppin' stone"
Imo, it's also very important to the heavy sound coming out at the time.
Considering Coroner did a cover version you'd have to say yes...
Maybe just as much early prog as early metal imo.
The best part of this whole thing is the concept of interpretation. The British bands were trying to recreate American blues. Jimi Hendrix brought them his perception of jazz. Everything inspires and informs everything else. It's sort of a beautiful mess. Watching this video is such pleasure.
Well said.
Well said hendrix inspired many but those who inspired him are truly the greatest
@@Vandalio_Saez , indeed. Buddy Guy is a good example. He did not get a single mention in this video, but I'd like to think his contribution to guitar solos fars outweighs anything that came from Chuck Berry.
I always admired that about McCartney. Yes, he wrote BOTH the sappiest romantic ballad AND the heaviest, most sinister rock riff of the 1960s. Musicians in the '60s truly had balls and showed NO fear in turning it up past 11.
Imagine Beyonce or Taylor Swift trying to sing a metal song, rapping, or even pop punk type stuff like Hayley Williams.
They can't, they produce essentially the same music over and over again for decades. Not saying its bad music, but its stagnant now.
In the form of Helter Skelter, that is.
@@haroldfridkis3536 I got blisters on me fingers!!! 🤘😈🤘
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD THE REAL GROUPS?
THIS IS FROM 1967.
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"So he hired some replacements: John Paul Jones on bass, Robert Plant to sing and John Bonham on drum"
WTF, i'd love to hire those "replacements"
The documentation should better replace the Yardbirds
"Four Your Love" Sequence with "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago", "Psycho Daisies" or "Stroll On".
@@greystoke2229 Stroll on is such a great song
An important distinction to make with Black Sabbath is that, as dark as their melodies are, the lyrics do not invoke or embrace the darkness but, rather, are adversarial to it. War pigs are not idolized, they are decried. Mr. Crowley is not admired, but questioned. All in all, the lyrics convey rather uniformly wholesome messages. This is why it was quite silly for parents to denounce their music as "satanic" and why, I believe, Ozzy cries out "You gotta listen to my words!" in "Crazy Train." usually this tensive opposition is the other way around; peppy songs with twisted lyrics, like "Hey Ya" by Outkast or "Every Move You Make" by The Police" or "2000 Miles" by The Pretenders. Then you've got Black Sabbath who sang hopeful, uplifting lyrics to profoundly dread-filling melodies.
My mom heard the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, and asked if it was about drug use. I said yes, and she voiced her disapproval.
I said, "Does it sound like it encourages you to shoot up, mom"?
She, of course, said no.
You gotta put up with a lot if you like the stuff that isn't Top 40....
@@painkillerjones6232 comforatbly numb isnt about drugs lmao
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh nooo!
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan's sitting there, he's smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please God help me!
Is it the end, my friend?
Satan's coming 'round the bend
People running 'cause they're scared
The people better go and beware!
No, no, please, no!
Yes, that's hopeful and uplifting.
Ozzy was a bit of a jesus freak. But he didn't write all the lyrics. Add to that Mr Crowley wasn't a Sabbath song. Neither was crazy train.
NIB is iterally a song about falling in love with the devil.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
You've seen right through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run, the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
You bastards
Where can you run to?
What more can you do?
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell, yeah
Cheerful stuff.... Sigh....
While you do in certain respects make a valid point, OZ songs are not indicative of Black Sabbath's music, as in some ways Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, does point out why people are "dark" in the first place, with lyrics like "Nobody will every let you know, when you ask the reasons why, they will just tell you, that you're on your own, fill your head all full of lies!" And even in the song Die Young this is true, which was sang on Heaven And Hell, with Ronnie James Dio as lead singer! Also that same band did the song Country Girl, claiming "She was up from another world, just to take another soul" again Ronnie James Dio's vocals on the Mob Rules album!! So there are "DARK undertones" in some of their songs!! As well as the later song Trashed (singer Ian Gillian), by Black Sabbath! And besides Ozzy as a solo artist IS NOT tied to Black Sabbath after he left the band!!! Even the darkness of the song Sweet Leaf talks about being alone and in a "dark place" when he (Ozzy) found "sweet leaf"!! So not all Black Sabbath songs are completely "hopeful" either!!! And I have been listening to Black Sabbath since 1976!!!
natfoote: yes, as in After Forever:
Have you ever thought about your soul
Can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think
That when you are dead
You just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head
Or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name
That you read in the book
When you were in school?
When you think about death
Do you lose your breath
Or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the pope
On the end of a rope?
Do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth
Yes, I've seen the light
And I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared
When you're lonely and scared
At the end of our days
Could it be you're afraid
Of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realise before they criticise
That God is the only way to love
Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say that you may as well worship the sun?
I think it was true it was people like you
That crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had
Was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure
When your day is near
Say you don't believe
You had the chance
But you turned it down
Now you can't retrieve
Perhaps you'll think before you say
God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realise
That He is the one
The only one who can save you now
From all this sin and hate
Or will you jeer at all you hear?
Yes, I think it's too late
Songwriters: Tony Iommi, Terence Michael Butler, John Osbourne, W T Ward. For non-commercial use only.
Its crazy how little you hear about the yardbirds given how blessed with guitarist talent they were.
The first super group perhaps.
If there's one thing I know about music, it's that you can't talk about the origins of Metal without mentioning Hendrix.
True that
Particularly in regards to the metal approach to solos.
Tt6 totally
i'm surprised that he didn't mentioned "Voodoo Child" in 68
Ironic cuz you only hear from metalheads that Hendrix is overrated...
I still remember learning Black Sabbath’s ending riff section as a 13 year old guitarist. I still play it today, as it’s a wonderful warm up exercise, and hold up as an amazing riff....
@Ronald Williams the end riff- “satan’s coming round the bend…”
@Ronald Williams i learned it around 1980- i picked up the guitar at ten, but it wasn’t til i was 13 i got serious….i remember when i actually figured the riff out; i still use it from time to time as a warm up exercise!
@@allendean9807 still have trouble with that one!
I warmup with Megadeth's Take no prisoners intro on repeat, jumping right into it!
Being a metalhead most of my life, I always loved Hendrix.
Me too . . . Gotta love a bit of Jimi
I just came back todayyyy I just cane back from the stormmmm
The effects on "Are you experienced?" (The song, I mean the album is also phenomenal) but that song and all the effects in it are like taking a music note and melting it.. I think THAT is where metal comes from.
Jimi WAS Metal imo.
@@DJNurseAnnabella I politely disagree. The guitarwork is there, but the vocals aren’t quite “metal”.
You forgot to start with the man that started it all; Johnny Guitar Watson. He released “Space Guitar” in 1952 and it was, in my own opinion, the most advanced playing at that time. I believe Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix took huge inspiration from that man.
He died on stage circa 1990. R.I.P to all the great musicians.
The song is sick bro 👌
He died in 1996
and he used the guitar voice box long before Peter Framton did. 1954 to be exact.
Now, things like this are why I come to the comments.
I got a song to listen to on repeat for awhile, thanks!
Space guitar by Johnny guitar Watson definitely should be in this video.
As Ozzy was supposed to have said '' In San Francisco, It was Peace and Love, Timothy Leary ,Sunshine and Beautiful Chic's with flowers in their hair.
We where dropping Acid in the Black Country Concrete Jungle of Birmingham . No wonder we conjured up the Devil '' !
Always about the devil ? i assume you have read sabbaths lyrics ? and if you have you will notice that there are lots of god references in there also .. not a christian , but birmingham yes and places like that had the perfect atmosphere for that kind of talent lol.
@@kolloduke3341 N.I.B?
Ozzy never said anything that eloquent.
Windwalker88 Well you should have read the meaning behind the lyrics.
Birmingham is not the Black Country.
"Some guy.. called Jimmy Page"
That really cracked me up hahahhaha
Reminds me of a story my music theory professor told the class about Beethoven if I recall correctly. But it was in his early years and a church wanted his teacher to be in charge of their music. His teacher already took the job from another church and he sent them Beethoven instead. The church sent them a letter of complaint about how they wanted his teacher, how upset and angry they were for not giving them his teacher. They ended the letter with "We had to settle for Beethoven." LOL imagine saying you settled with the legendary Beethoven! 😂
@@brainrich1358 plot twist: it was the dog from that movie
"Jimmy Page of course had introduced Jeff Beck to the Yardbirds. He himself had passed on the Yardbird’s offer of the lead guitar role. And then proceeded to point them to Jeff. This was when Eric Clapton decided it was time to move on in early 1965. Page was content at that time to continue on as a session guitarist.
If you go back to “Heart Full of Soul”, which was recorded right after Beck joined the Yardbirds in April 1965. It was he who made that song work. Before he arrived in the studio that day, the band had been trying to incorporate an actual sitar into the intro of the song. The sitar player they had brought in, however, was just not up to the 4/ 4 time. It was not his thing. Jeff observed this and disappeared again.
Apparently, he went and borrowed his buddy’s, Jimmy Page’s, new fuzz box. Page was in an adjacent studio working on another project. With a little work Jeff came back with something of a sitar sound that worked nicely. It is a sound we still appreciate today.
It turns that he and Page had previously listened to Ravi Shankar albums together, pondering how to get that sound with a guitar. That listening session, whenever that was, apparently had made an impression on Jeff Beck. With it, along with Page’s new fuzz box, the challenge of that recording session complete with sitar player trying to figure out a 4 / 4 time signature basically resulted in the “Heart Full of Soul” we know today, complete with Beck’s take on the Sitar at the start of the tune.
Becks’s Bolero was ultimately released as a B side to Jeff Beck’s first solo single, “Hi Ho Silver Lining”. That was released in 1968, after the Yardbirds. It was in fact recorded, however, in early 1966 when Beck was still a member of the Yardbirds. Management of the Yardbirds, concerned about the longevity of the band, encouraged Beck and others to explore solo projects. Beck’s Bolero was the result of one such session.
Ideally it would be a side project, a way to diffuse and to distract. That was the intent of management. It was seen as a distraction for Beck who despite the success of the band and his career, was not happy with constant touring and the focus on pop music. The musicians on Beck's Bolero were Jeff Beck on guitar; Jimmy Page on guitar; John Paul Jones on bass (who was another session musician at the time); Nicky Hopkins, a Royal Academy of Music graduate, and who would go on to play and tour with the Jeff Beck Group in 1968, on piano; and, lastly, there was Keith Moon on drums. Jimmy Page composed much of Beck's Bolero.
Keith Moon’s comment at the end of that session has become legend. Prophetic. His response to the suggestion that this crew go out and play shows, he surmised would go over like a lead zeppelin."
These are the kind of chapters we need in school History books
Yeah. Where was musical history when I was I kid? All we studied was boring war stuff. I was having none of it. Only learned it just enough to pass. Gladly forgetting it after the test.
Amen to that😓
Hosa behh!!
No sounds like useless knowledge to me
Use this to negate the system not normalize it
Wow. Every heavy 60s band and song that is mentioned or listed in this video, was my main choice of music growing up. My dad introduced me to all these bands. He was 20 in 1970, so heavy rock from that time is his favorite music. I have memories of hearing "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple in kindergarten, along with "Dark Side", "The Wall", all of Hendrix's albums, Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Grand Funk red album, and so so many more. Once I heard Cream play Crossroads and Spoonful live on the Wheels of Fire album my life changed. It was my equivalent to watching the Beatles on Sullivan for the first time and realizing you wanna make and play music for the rest of your life. I was 14 then, I'm 31 now and I still play bass, just getting back home from a rehearsal actually lol.
I guess what I'm trying to say is great video and thank you for making it, I am very grateful that this is the music that was accessible to me in high school and it changed my life, oh, and thank you for reading this far. I bet your kinda guy that reads every liner note on an album sleeve.... it's ok, I am too lmao
"And to think, without johnny b good, we might not have gotten here"
Damn straight. All hail king of metal Chuck Berry!!!
Oh yeah 100%
Earl Palmer invented the backbeat.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe belongs on that list too
Hail hail rock and roll!
@SierraPhantom Absolutely! They changed rock music as well as the way guitar was approached.
I feel an inherent need to speak up about the beginning remark on Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Bill Haley and the Comments, Bo Diddley being the start of guitar-based rock and roll. I think that credit goes to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was the first to really put distorted guitar into recordings. Perhaps she was closer to jazz, big bands, and gospel, but I don't think those guys would've come to be without her, and that was between the 30s and 40s.
Agreed
Bro I can’t believe she’s in the Elvis movie
This is true, but whether or not Chuck Berry was the first to do that style, he was the first to do his songs, and there is no denying that Chuck's major hits are still interesting songs TODAY. Back then, they were groundbreaking. Just about every rock band of the 60s credits Berry as being the man because he was. Plus he lived long enough to do lots of performances with the famous musicians of that era.
I was going to say exactly that. Also Big Mama Thornton and a couple of other guitar playing ladies.
@@foto21 True but... Chuck Berry explicitly said he ripped off "his" guitar style from Tharpe and Goree Carter!
The 1st r'n'r songs (with very rare exceptions) date back to 1948-49 (originating from jump blues / rhythm'n'jazz, a style of jazz, NOT from country at all), but Rosetta Tharpe did the same starting from gospel and early r&b... and she recorded it in 1938-39, 10 years earlier!
29:15 Really says it all
BLACK SABBATH
1970: "Black Sabbath"
Song: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Wow you really missed the point of the video then
@@rocknroll_jezus9233 I did, and on purpose too
Released 50 years ago today.
Black Sabbath is in a special league and I would say they are the ultimate metal band..and don't give me this Chuck Berry bullshit.
@@hotlanta35 CHUCK INVENTED METAL DEAL WITH IT
Happy Black History Month :^)
I find it interesting how music can define an era, not only in the sense that metal and rock became popular during waring times, but it also defines the technology like how in the early 2000s auto tune made pop easier and somewhat more popular than before.
This is one of the best rock documentaries I have ever seen in my life, and by the looks of it one single person made it, presumably at home in a tiny office or bedroom. That is just unbelievably bad-ass when you think about!
On a sidenote, I've never heard of Jake Holmes before, but judging by that soundbyte, Led Zeppelin's song isn't "inspired" by it: it's the exact same song.
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I think you will find that a LOT in Led Zepplin.
Yeah but Page didn´t credit him
Jimmy...likes to borrow...
This is the tip of the iceberg with Trash Theory. The careful thought and depth of musical knowledge that goes into all of these videos is astounding. I cared nothing and knew nothing about Goth Rock and yet watched the entire video just on the quality of the presentation. Trash Theory taught me things about my favorite genres I could never have learned on my own, and got into tracks and bands I never thought of.
yes, Led Zepellin STOLE from a lot of people
6:59, my heart skipped a beat when I heard that little opening riff from "You're gonna miss me." Roky Erickson and the 13th floor elevators often get overlooked when discussing this subject. You'll be surprised of how many people haven't heard of them; thank you for including them!👍🏾
I was pleased that this documentary spent so much time on The Elevators , but , it's Roky , not Rory Erickson.
@@Gentlem1 I know! Roky! I hoped that Slip Inside This House would be mentioned at least, but oh well...
I see Hendrix, I see metal and I see psychedelic , that’s what I want to see.
Hendrix was rock.
I see Hendrix, I see Raid: Shadow Legends.
@@bedro_0 Underated comment
cravinbob NO.
hendrix also represents acid rock...which also is a part of metal
People say Black Sabbath's Tony Iomi's guitar playing is outshined technically by others. Still when I listen to his playing I am at a Black Sabbath. And I get chills in the spine.
The feelings I get listening to sabbath is matched by None technicality doesn't mean better and that's coming from a thrash metal fan
I'm proud of you, you got the raid sponser, you've ascended
It's not real yt video without Raid Shadow Legends ad
At this point surely those adverts are more off-putting than enticing, if they ever were even enticing to begin with. Internet Historian's ones are pretty funny at least.
I bought the very first Black Sabbath album "Black Sabbath" in early 1970. I opened it, put the needle on and the very first song called "Black Sabbath" began playing. The sound of rain falling. The sound of a church bell ringing. And then ear-splitting tritone chords and notes vibrated my mind and soul and I found myself still sitting on the edge of my bed, but now dressed in black with long, black, dirty hair, and a lit joint hanging from my lips. Looking down at my basketball, I realized I would never touch it again. My life was forever changed.
Then I head Free Bird a few years later and my life forever changed. Finally a soaring guitar solo that was able to force radio stations to play LONG SONGS - especially ones where the guitar was finally set free to truly fly - ESPECIALLY on the radio airwaves. Then came Green Grass and High Tides, and Highway Song.
Personally, I feel like Hendrix was enormously influential in the creation of "the drop" in music like metal and EDM.
For instance, look at "Foxey Lady" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" where it starts out slow, quiet, and trippy....then goes full-bore all of a sudden. Mitch Mitchell deserves lots of credit for that, too!
The Who did similar things, but for me it was always Hendrix who made my head snap forward when the main riff came in....a proto-headbang if you will ;-)
preach
With all respect to PT, the Who really did not have the lead guitarist chops to pull it off. The PT led Oo took its music in another, no less astonishing, direction.
The space between the notes matter as much as the notes you play.
It’s honestly criminal how underrated Mitch Mitchell was in helping Jimi Hendrix’s sound
Some of these were steps, some were a leap. Hendrix was definitely one of the latter.
Good intro. It should be remembered that at the time there was no distinction between what came to be called metal and what came to be called punk. The Stooges, The MC5 and in England the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind were all there making music louder and heavier.
You're talking about glam, which basically branched into metal and punk.
Hendrix and Dazed and Confused of Led Zeppelin is really the first song that toppled old rock sound into a new era . Guitar, drums would never be the same after ... Birth of Savagery, mysticism, sex drive, excitement trance in rock. They creates a new style in 6.30 minutes ...
search MC5 live 1970 and Zeppelin seem tame.
Link Wray "Rumble" 1959. I think he intended for this song to sound different, and the distortion and volume were crucial to the song. It seemed to work on Jimmy Page, he was impressed by the use of distortion and volume. Then Dick Dale's "Miserlou" kinda has that mystical sex exciting thing...and he played loud af. 100 watt amps made by Leo Fender for Dick Dale's specific needs. He wasna rockstar because they didn't exist yet. Surf rock may seem pretty lame to some (and very un-Hendrix like lol) but there was innovation.
Also...Vamp Camp by the Ventures sounds like instrumental Nirvana lol. Drop D tuning. 🤙🤘
BUT THEY ARE NOT NEAR THE HEAVY AS PARDONS SOUND OR ASH RA TEMPLE.
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"Time-Fuckery"
I wonder if I can use that in a Scrabble game.
Jamston Julian If it’s at a tournament, there’s a good chance it will be challenged, especially if that tournament’s ruleset prohibits the use of slang/obscenities.
Well, there are no hyphens in Scrabble, so...
@@marlonmontelhiggins8570 TIMEFUCKERY it is
@@jamstonjulian6947 - That's the spirit!
I suppose one could be a Timefucker, once we can make a hole in it.
Someone’s gonna try. 🕳
I think psychedelia is THE epitome of music... it meshes all forms of music together into multi-million layers that put you into a haze of intoxication.... so beautiful
For real!! That’s why there’s no defining “psychedelic” sound, it’s everything!
@@cars.796 I wanna hear psychedelic classic
I was a little young (but just old enough to remember it - and already collecting music) in the mid to late 60s. What an era of music! Friends and neighbors everywhere were playing live music and the creativity was off the charts. FM and "free form" radio were taking off. Peace/love/drugs had a head on collision with war/riots/civil upheaval and created the perfect breeding ground for the psychedelic scene.
@@Gobberfisch Fever Tree was a California band that I don't believe was mentioned in this video. Captain Beefhart, too. Some of the local/garage bands in the mid-60s were awesome. I have a compilation LP of garage bands in the Houston, Texas area called "Houston Hallucinations". I'm not sure how rare that one is.
@@cars.796 progressive rock is arguably what psychedelic rock evolved into.
I'm addicted to your videos. So much to learn. You go deep and you don't provide thoughtless rhetoric. So much of what you stated is often what I already suspected, but includes so much more. I was a teenager growing up and listening to MUSIC during the rise of Metal and all of its tributaries.
This is all high praise from me.
Can’t believe how Chuck and Jimi were really ahead of their times. Crazy skills🎸🎸🎸
No. They owe it all to a woman. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was playing like Chuck Berry before he was.
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BEFORE THEM BOTH.
@@2011littlejohn1 T BONE WALKER.
@@2011littlejohn1 She was just more ahead than they were
@@2011littlejohn1 But it's crazy how every time women contribute to history it's ignored yet they get constant shit for supposedly not contributing to history. Thankfully there's so much video of sister Rosetta, it can't be ignored
Hi there, the way Janis Joplin used to sing sounds really heavy. She had definitely a heavy metal rock blues high pitched voice.
Never under estimate the women!
Absolutely!
Jinjer
Ginger Baker: "people say Cream gave birth to heavy metal, if that is so..
*gets an ad for baby diapers*
..we should have had an abortion"
ahahahah 😂
Why was Ginger so against heavy metal???🤔
@@florencioontiveros idk! i wish i knew because im a metalhead
@@silverdragon710 he’s jus a mean old man who hates everything
@@florencioontiveros He came from Jazz, so probably it didn't swing.
That happened to you too? That was the worst commercial interruption ever.
What about Dear Mr Fantasy by Traffic? Is no one else impressed by how heavy and complex the guitar solos are for 1967?? That song absolutely rocks. Also heavy : The Nile Song, Pink Floyd.
This is one of the finest, most well-written and best- researched music videos I've seen on TH-cam. Excellent work!
Why were The Doors not mentioned at all? They were ahead of their time in 1967.
Probably cause doors is almost straight up blues
@@meneses297 yes but it was "heavy blues" if that makes sense. Black Sabbath's music comes from that type of blues.
they were the banner of psychodelic .
mazi mazari I mean there were plenty of other bands doing psychedelic rock, I don’t really see what makes the doors the “banner”
Because the documentarian has good taste, lol.
"Rumble" is probably my favourite 1950s rock song, it's just the sound of some Neanderthal biker looking to pick a fight. A close second would be Johnny Burnette's "Train Kept a Rollin'", which is generally considered the first time distortion was deliberately used in rock and roll (plus it was co-opted by the Yardbirds, so. Also, if you haven't heard "Love Me" by The Phantom... holy hell. People who heard that in 1958 must've shat themselves.
That Electric Flag review was interesting. I always thought Humble Pie were the first band to have the heavy metal tag applied to them by a critic, but evidently not.
I like the description of LZ's "Dazed and Confused" as inspired by the Jake Holmes song. Very diplomatic :)
Well done, been fan and geek scholar of rock since I was a teenager and knew a video like this would be made someday once I saw TH-cam and im so glad this is it.
Once people can see the historic context and the connective musical tissue that connects the dots of influence and history it emboldens the life and power that art and music will have on those who give themselves the pleasure to experience it in all its treasured majesty-that’s not hyperbolic either, music can save your life.
Metal would've been established (eventually) without Black Sabbath. Rock & Roll was definitely going to keep getting faster, louder, heavier, etc. However, they were the first ones to truly harness what it was, and they stood alone for quite a few years. You could tell that other bands at the time were trying to figure it out, but fell short. They knew that they had to be loud, fast, and heavy, but they were missing that edge. Black Sabbath was the complete package, and their first 4 albums were progressively heavier as they refined their sound. Nobody could touch them. I listen to "Into The Void", and can't believe it was released the same year as "Brown Sugar".
He didn't mention MOTORHEAD
@@edwallace3704 Except Motorhead is not Metal. They are a Rock and Roll band
Might have been a little different without the drop d
S K Motörhead are not metal
Absolutely not true, Deep Purple was the FIRST band to capture the essence of Heavy Metal, they did it in 1970, with their "In Rock" album, it was the heaviest thing the world had ever heard, Sabbath's debut album was mere child's play in comparison. It wasn't until 1971, when Sabbath released "Master of Reality," when the monstrous power of the "In Rock" album was overtaken, and not even by much. Gillan's voice was just demonic in how powerful and dirty it was, screams that would make the devil himself wet his pants.
Black Sabbath named themselves after a horror movie and made music that would be at home in one. People were still singing about sunshine and rainbows when those first doom-laden chords were unleashed. It was a hurricane of fresh air.
That is not true it's utter garbage, like everything in the late sixties sounded like Donovan Actually there was a lot of dark stuff around in the late sixties even top 40 stuff The Stones, The Doors, The Valvet Undergound. hell even the Beatles were writing some pretty dark stuff in the late sixties.The Stones had already done the Satanic thing before Sabbath were even called Black Sabbath.
Ozzie once said "We were a hippie band. War Pigs was an anti-war anthem!"
I think the horror movie was called 'Black Sunday' It's a good movie of that genre, very creepy. I have a French copy on DVD, 'Le Masque du Demon'. I think it was by Mario Bava. You would have to ask the former members of Black Sabbath If I am correct.
@@stevehead365 that old black and white movie was creepy AF! Especially for the time. I haven't seen that flick since I was a kid in the 60s/early 70s. I recall that scene where the horse-and-buggy was found going down that creepy road in the dark.......weren't there dead bodies in the trees?!?! Man, I'm gonna have nightmares!
I love the early Sabbath, but I have to chime in every time I see a comment like this. Sir Lord Baltimore came out with their first LP "Kingdom Come" at the same time as Sabbath. SLB had the ominous dark heavy songs like Sabbath, but SLB also had some very fast paced songs which were almost unheard of at the time. Sabbath didn't really breach that territory on their earliest LPs. It's all good though.
It's so funny to learn what kind of music was consisered heavy way back in the day. Makes you wonder how those people would react to hearing modern death metal or djent. Meshuggah or Vildhjarta would probably give the people of the sixties a fucking stroke
It would make them laugh and dismiss it as shit. Like I do
LMAO
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Ok boomer
@@topo161 nah he ain't a boomer just a man with great musical taste
Neither of those bands are really heavy, and if you mean the late sixties, I think there was enough popular musical experimentation going on at the time for them to sound relatively normal.
Great piece. Loved hearing the roots of each bands psychadellic work and how it inspired sort of a dark version of itself.
No mention of piper at the gates of dawn? Interstellar Overdrive sounds heavy as hell
I concur.
Also "Who are the brain police?" by Zappa
*Laughs in The Nile Song*
(I do agree with you, although I personally see it more as proto-punk)
I agree: Astronomy Dominé/Lucifer Sam/ Interstellar Overdrive/Caporal Clegg and The Nile song could have been cited.
Or Nile Song
The most metal sounding band from the late 60's was Mountain imo.
idk about that, their first album was out at about the same time as Black Sabbath's, and Sabbath was worlds heavier
To this day nobody is or was heavier than HENDRIX!!! Maybe someday, but not yet.
yea mississippi queen was actually mad heavy for the time
@@drivinsouth651 100% agree
@@awesome-xg4hl Never In My Life is even heavier
You forgot Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The Godmother of Rock and Roll. She was the first. Foundational
It's a good thing the sister isn't around to read this comment. Her music spawned Black Sabbath?
@@Birdlives247 Her art inspired almost everything in art after her. She would feel honored I'm sure
@@nangwaya4186 I'll agree that she was great. I especially love her Decca 78 of "Nobody's Fault But Mine". I had found several 78s by Rosetta before I was told that she was playing the guitar. I couldn't believe it.
Berry himself admitted he was cribbing Sister Rosetta.
Thank you! I'm glad at least the commenters remembered her.
Old folksongs like "In the Pines" and "House of the Rising Sun", in my opinion, may have been stepping stones to metal
How?
@@alanstrom2221 dark dark themes as sources to draw upon. Heavy music has existed long before rock. Doc Boggs would have been seen as heavy in the 20s and 30s Appalachia.
Goin Down to River - Fred McDowell
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Skip James
Country Blues #1 - Muddy Waters
St. James Infirmary Blues - Clifton Hicks has the best version
All of these could be seen as Dark Country, Southern Gothic, or the sorts. It was a dark time to be alive. I read of an account where a black man and his wife were being ready to be lynched and the mob drove a corkscrew into the flesh of the man and pulled it out to make him suffer. Sounds horrible but pretty metal
In the pines? Black Girl? ❤
@@malaquiasalfaro81 i forgot about this comment, but a year after I made it you gave the perfect follow up
Very comprehensive and enjoyable! My only critique is the neglect to mention Michigan bands like The Stooges, MC5, Grand Funk Railroad, and Alice Cooper. That whole scene had a large impact on heavy metal undeniably.
Right on! MC5 and The Stooges were blasting feedback drenched power chords thru Marshalls set on 11, before Black Sabbath was even formed!
I have an MC5 CD (the title is elusive to me now....maybe "Breakout '66") of unreleased demos and such from the early years. Most tunes were rough recordings of high school parties, etc., but there were some definite roots of hard rock there. One track (again with my bad memory today - maybe "Looking at You"?) was hard as hell for the time. I don't think Wayne Kramer gets enough credit as a hard rock pioneer. Great showman, too! What a band! Shame their management was a little "off" for lack of a better term.
The term heavy metal to describe music only started in the late 70s. Tony Iommi said in an interview that this label of "metal" didn't exist until way later. He said what they played was just rock n roll.
Baghuul you are both correct and incorrect. CREEM was using the term as early as 1971 (after Steppenwolf of course), but it encompassed a larger swath of musical styles. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal groups were the first bands to take the term as their own.
Yeah Iommi would refer to their music as 'Heavy rock' in pretty sure. At least sometimes
By the time Heavy Metal magazine premiered in 1977, the Heavy Metal genre was already well established as the hardcore faction of Rock music, at least until it was blindsided by Punk.
A very interesting Metal reference was made in 1971 by (of all people!) KRAFTWERK. Check out the song "Heavy Metal kids". It is kinda tongue and cheek but the obvious Iron Man riffs they lifted for it make it metal as fuck! I mean GODFLESH sounding metal as fuck! It's fascinating that Sab wasn't aware of the term until 1977 and then demured from it when Kraftwerk was almost plagiarising their music in that song six years before! Anyway, I advise every true fellow metal fan to listen to it if for no other reason but to hear that obscure reference (and it's metal as fuck!)
We all gotta thank that CalvinKlein dude for Jhonny B. Goode
I heard there was someone who looks just like him
Very well done.
Those were my growing up years.
11 in 67, moving to the eastbay that year and although I lived in the change from psychedelic to metal, I would fight with friends defining what Heavy Metal was.
This was a great breakdown of the whole genre.
TY
The guitar tone in Blue Cheer's 'Summertime Blues' is phenomenal
That LP really shook things up, didn't it! There are some great heavy originals on their second LP "Inside/Outside, too.
For me the song "Doctor doctor " of Blue Cheers , I think in the same LP of 1968, was THE heavy metal song of the year.
Unfortunately, as an adult, I realize that Blue Cheer could barely manage a competent 12-bar blues.
@@NoBody-xg1wg That would defeat the point. The whole point was to not play any more boring 12 bar blues the world was full of at that point and was done best by the originators in the first place. Do something different. And that they did. First true heaviest, still the heaviest
Wow. That was an amazing overview and history of the development of Heavy Metal. I was 14 years old again. This stuff is what we listened to as we went to see new bands like Led Zeppelin at the Laurel Pop Festival and Jimi Hendrix at Merriweather Post and the Who at Georgetown U. Ticket prices: Around $4. This is a fantastically organized succinct and thorough overview of metal. I remember getting blown away by Blue Cheer who never seemed to get their due as the first originator of heavy metal. They were heavy!! album title: Vincebus Eruptum. We were studying Latin so we knew it meant "We Conquer Chaos". How metal is that? and the nod to Mike Bloomfield. Perfect. His KILLING FLOOR solo on that album is Classic metal. It fit so perfectly into that version complete with horns and insane drums. Can't believe you got it! Thank you for a great documentary. I mean it. Best doc on metal ever!
I had the same Blue Cheer experience (the band, not the acid ha ha). They released a 2nd LP before some knew what hit them. MC5 needs to be mentioned too. I know they weren't "heavy", but they were about as hard as rock could get at the time. The MC5 1st live LP was recorded in 68 or 69. Wayne Kramer needs to get more credit as a hard rock guitar pioneer. I have a CD of their early jams from 66 and you could hear it coming.
@@marksavage1744 What about Grand Funk Live Album, and "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Staus Quo?
Pentagram and Bloodrock are two more early bands that were heavy.
@@marksavage1744I know funkadelic used to tour with the MC5 a lot doing those days and the stooges fun house down on the street free your mind and your ass will follow kick out the jams!
@@boomer3150Grand funk heartbreaker we're an American band
Paint it Black has to probably be the darkest song of the 60s.
I have to say The Doors were quite heavy especially The End which is really metal
@@aidenspencer6415 the end is more metal than most metal I know
They inspired from a Turkish music god the Erkin Koray
That’s a yikes from me dawg
I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan and to me, Paint it Black and Helter Skelter are the only two songs that have a metal component to them. Even Black Sabbath wasn't all Heavy Metal. They are the first Metal band ever. But they played psychedelic hard Rock like the stones, the who, Zeppelin. Deep purple, and others.
Love how you showed the connections to all the innovators. Especially as you superimposed 1 line of lyrics with the next from the inspired band. Time to binge your content.
I’ve been needing this video
I thought I was the only one that felt that Psych Rock was the true Progenitor of Metal
It’s weird how today that “heavy metal” morphed into a genre that means “anything that sounds like Black Sabbath.” Yet that wasn’t the case from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Thank you! Hendrix is acid rock not metal. Did it help? Absolutely. But two completely different things. Then we should call "I wanna be your dog" metal, but it's punk. Same thing with Helter Skelter. That's how dumb people think Beatles invented metal. Today anything heavier than usual is called metal, even if there are no guitars like in viking music.
Yes it was...Sabbath started heavy metal ...it did not exist before
Jay Edwards Blue Cheer, Vincebus Eruptum. There’s your homework assignment.
Got it when it came out, junior .... fuzzy psychedelia... nothing like heavy metal in lyrical content or style ... their most iconic song was a rockabilly cover ...Educate yourself
@@Deucealive75 Because it was a term takin out of context form the Rock song Born to be Wild.
And a lot of hard rock fans saw the trajectory of the genre, and craved the harder sound they felt comming.
Sabbath delivered.
Zeitgeist "There’s your homework assignment."
Raid shadow legends? My boy made it!!!
Metal sucks
@@EclecticoIconoclasta ok
HE GOT RAIDS
@@theknightsofawesomeness2701 Damn bro you just changed the whole fuckin game. Where the hell do you get off buddy?
Ecléctico Iconoclasta so does your mom. Pretty good I have to admit.
A note about Dick Dale's Misirlou. Wrongfully stated at 05:33 as an _"old Middle Eastern folk song"._ Although its name derives from an Arabic word, the song was first played by a "Rebetika" band (Rebetika it's a Greek genre) by Michael Patrinos, in Athens, Greece, in 1927.
The end was beautiful when he reminded us of Chuck Berry.
Definitely. 🖤
No, it was bs , without social historical content
@@tesmith47, did you wanted a 30 day video or something?
@@zombiemachinery4868 no, only that the full truth be told about how the Black Rock was never allowed to profit the way white' Rock was , money or socially
@@tesmith47, are you black or just a white guilt merchant?
Incredible job! Nearly perfect. A quick shout out to Sister Rosetta Tharpe influencing Chuck Berry and the rest of the early pioneers would have been the last missing piece. And thanks for including a mention of Sir Lord Baltimore.
Very cool heavy stuff. I always thought The Beatles most metal sounding song was Helter Skelter, but the gloomy ,dark chord work on She's So Heavy (I Want You), from Abbey Road has as much raw slow grind metal feel ,it almost reaches Black Sabbath's title track in it's forbidden "devil notes". I also think The band Mountain, and Frigid Pink were pretty heavy too. Love your channel, keep on Rockin'. Bob. G
Frijid Pink, that's pretty deep man, thank you for mentioning them. I had no idea they were a thing until my boss played their cover of House Of The Rising Sun for me a few years back.
I thought I want you (she's so heavy) was more doom if anything
Often overlooked is Bowie’s 1970 doom-laden “Man Who Sold the World” album. “She Shook Me Cold” with Mick Ronson on guitar is metal.
Iommie is the original metal guitarist
Mick Ronson is generally overlooked - not only as a guitarist, but as one of the key components of Bowie's success (along with Tony Visconti).
It’s hard for us now to understand now how all this musical change was so new to people’s ears at the time. Every year was a new sound. Just a perfect time where the stars aligned with culture, music development, and recording technology.
Someone should make a spotify playlist about this
Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive from their debut album features its own somewhat dark guitar riff with shredding sections brought to you by Syd Barrett.
True, especially if you listen to live version.
As a fact, in their early years (66-67), their live performance were considered so twisted, dark and violent that before finding shelter a the UFO club they had multiple issues with organizers... They even lose when they sued one of them who refused to pay them.
Late 60's live recording of some of their song (Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Saucerful of Secrets, Careful with that axe Eugene...) pushed very far on the scale of heavyness, darkness and violence and definitely had a strong influence on metal at several point in time.
But their studio versions were usually lighter and their singles did not often hit high on the billboards, and with the notable exception of the Nile Song none of them could be considered as protometal.
So they are quite often forgotten in the metal history, despite their influence, and I was actually surprised that Careful with that Axe Eugene was featured in this video
Absolutely fabulous music map!!! Thank you for really articulating hard rock evolution to metal!!! So appreciate the time it must have taken to put together!!! I passed this video on to half a dozen friends!!!
This was a great way to spend 31 minutes.
You left out Arthur Brown's Fire out of the list? The guy literally had corpse paint and a burning crown on his head in the video in -68 :D
Had a hard driving beat... with horns even!
imagine going from the beach boys to that.
Loved this one, the experimental music of the late 60s and early 70s that eventually developed into metal and punk might be my favourite to listen to.
Black Sabbath best Guitarist was Randy Rhode , better than Riche Blackmore , but Heavy Metal true Creator is Hendrix , The Original Tap Master, he did not get credit for, The Jerk who Film the Concert at Miami, Edit it out of the Concert Movie, They Deliberately Removed It, Can't stand two see a Black Man Shine...
@@mattwhite9823 Nope, not better than Blackmore at all, definitely great, but Blackmore was something else. Blackmore also found the best /rockmetal vocalists of the time, Ian Gillan, Dio, Glen Hughes.
As a 40 year old metalhead and musician I must say the true metal sound started with sabbath.👹
Nah , Beatles and Hendrix
Neanderthals tbh
@@sathira_anuk5179early Floyd and Hendrix
I think this is how history should be taught in school... Not just about music but also everything else. I feel like I can understand more, so much more than just mere dates or records of what happened.
Thank you for putting this together into one coherent and enjoyable video 😆
I would have remembered so much more in history class!
That’s what history is too, it’s the context of the present based upon the happenings of the past, in context. Music history is just extra fun bc you can dance to it lol ;D
I was lucky enough to have a teacher do this. He fired a love of history in me that's lasted my whole life.
BUT HE IS SO WRONG
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ONLY ONE PROBLEM HE IS TOTALLY WRONG.
HE NEVER MENTIONED ONCE THE REAL MUSIC.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT MAINSTREAM.
MOST THE BANDS MENTIONED STOLE A LOT. HENDRIX TOOK FROM T BONE WALKER.
DAZED AND CONFUSED WAS STOLEN FROM JAKE HOLMES.
Its actually comical to me how much “helter skelter” blows “I can see for miles” out of the water
Helter Skelter is the 1st metal song for me.
I love both tunes but Helter Skelter has always been viscerally exciting. 1st metal
I can see for miles is a fucking terrible song
Nah
@@chilldude30 bad take.
Wow great video. Glad you mentioned Eddie Cochran as an early influence. As a life long hard rocker who has been around long enough to have actually bought Led 1, Sabath 1, and "are you experienced" first runs in the day I think you nailed it. Good job. I don't know why it doesn't fit in to the naritive but I can't help but remember Leslie West's lead on Mississippi Queen as a really strong influence for me in that era. Why doesn't it make the cut? That guitar tone floored me, and still does. Good job, subscribed.
This video, was just an amazing experience, such an incredible amount of information and effort, and yet, entertainment!
You forgot to mention where the term "heavy metal" came from. A reporter (cant remember who now) who saw hendrix play in london and described it as heavy metal falling from the sky. Great video tho
That is an unverified rumour - the first reference to heavy metal as a style of music is from "Metal" Mike Saunders - and it meant something different in the late 1960s.
Heavy Metal music was interchangeable with "sh1t rock," - noisy, cacophanous, amateurish chaos, more akin to punk than what we call heavy metal since Sabbath.
If a journalist used the phrase "heavy metal" in reference to music, chances are it was because it just sounded like noise.
Lemmy is on record (TH-cam interviews) as answering the question "What is heavy metal" by saying "Noise".
Metal Mike also used the phrase to describe Black Sabbath, but, by then, he was more of a fan, and the music had changed so dramatically that the original sense of amateurish had gone from his point of view, and there was growing respect for the controlled cacophony and robotic, mechanical, more technically oriented playing.
I think there's an earlier documented use by a music journalist, but that too just meant "dreadful noise".
In terms of the origins of the music, The Nice shouldn't be overlooked. Some of their material was so intense and cacophanous, yet classically inspired and heavy.
Talking of heavy, Pink Floyd were masters of heavy music, in between the whimsy. Astronomy Domine and Saucerful of Secrets especially were massively influential on underground heavy bands, including the "Krautrock" scene, Jason Crest and White Noise (Black Mass, in both cases). There are plenty of other heavy Floyd examples, such as Careful with that Axe, Eugene and The Nile Song.
Before Sabbath, there was heavy, but it was rock. Spooky Tooth should be noted.
The Pretty Things are more than SF Sorrow, as they were the heaviest band in the Ladbroke Grove scene in 1966, which Hendrix became a part of, hanging with people like Lemmy.
Check out also Ace Kefford. The single "Gravy Booby Jamm" (yes, really) features Cozy Powell, and there's the beginning of the heavy metal drum sound right there.
Maybe I should make my own video, and some know all could correct me :0)
@@Certif1ed Git ur motor runnin!
@@Certif1ed It's called metal because metal is *harder* than rock
A writer for AUM magazine described Hendrix music as heavy metal.
sure, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry but you're really going to ignore Sister Rosetta Tharpe and what she brought to Rock & Roll guitar...? C'MON!!!
She basically kickstarted rock and roll!! Influenced every early guitarist out there. We should make it our mission that she's known and acknowledged as the legend she really is!!!
Absolutely 👍
The reason for white Rock is racism, white stations would not play Black music so white guys got all the credit
@@tesmith47 yes - true!
@Playlist guy you do realize that those exceptions are decades apart, which illuminates the point. You should Google "race radio" l.e. the pratice of not playing Black music on white radio stations, and just like today 99% of the broadcast media is white owned. In 1950 there was only 1 Black station in USA
Woah! Goosebumps all the way to the end! You've put all the music I love in a single video.
In your videos there is always a little gem that I've never heard of and sometimes turns out to be be a crucial song to change it all. Love your content! It's so well done.
Was there a specific "little gem" for you in this video?
@@marksavage1744 "The Pretty Things" definitely were the gem of this video for me. I had never heard of them before watching this.
@@softbatch1 I knew about the early Pretty Things, but I had no idea they went through such a metamorphosis in the late 60s. The early material was grungy and garage-y, like a harder, dirtier Rolling Stones, and I love it.
Years later (early 80s?) I found a beautiful 2-album compilation, or so I thought, by the Pretty Things. I expected the greatest hits of the early Things, but discovered that this was a special re-release of the LPs S.F. Sorrow and Parachute. I had no idea of the direction they took. Both are wonderful albums. Glad you discovered these guys.
I'd recommend two othe bands that might interest you. Sometimes these groups fly under the radar.
Crack the Sky - in their prime in the mid late 70s from the Ohio-Pa border west of Pittsburgh. My favorite album is Safety in Numbers and my favorite track is "Nuclear Apathy".
Wishbone Ash - UK from the early 70s to perhaps the present. Many changes over the years. I'd recommend their 1st "Wishbone Ash", "Live Dates", "Just Testing", and "New England". And "Pilgrimage".
‘Before Talk Talk: how Post-Rock became Post-Rock’
Please let that be the next video!!!!!
(Good work btw haha)
Basically reinterpretation of kraut-rock, the first real post-rock band were Slint as far as I know, with the album Spiderland.
You mean post-punk, surely
The Velvet Underground's Heroin and Sister Ray, also Can's discography were basically early post-rock. Pink Floyd's Echoes if released in the 90's, it would classify under the post-rock genre.
Alexandru Mircea no that’s a completely different genre
Alexandru Mircea Post-Punk arguably started Pere Ubu, The Fall, Joy Division etc
Post-Rock whilst definitely descended from Post Punk particularly PiL, it is very distinct a genre
Honorable mention - Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Their single “Fire” reached No. 2 on the Top 100 billboard charts in 1968, only being beaten by Beatles for that no. 1 spot. Also Arther Brown’s make up influences Black Metal bands and his lyrics about burning and being god of Hell Fire created a lyrical revolution for metal.
Great work again, going deep. This is THE best explanation of Heavy metal I have ever heard or seen.
As a literal child of the 60s, I can remember each new Beatles single
hit that came out on the radio. Then Revolution came out, and it was
the heaviest most distorted sound I'd ever heard to that point. Shortly
after the White album came out, with Helter Skelter among many other
hard rockers. Once again the Beatles showed they could do whatever
was going on as well as anybody.
I always thought "I Want You'' was heavy.
Helter Skelter is still one of the heaviest songs of all time. But the Beatles contributed to the metal genre with other sounds, or songs, such as the feedback on I Feel Fine, the sonic revolution of Tomorrow Never Knows, the wicked guitar on Happiness Is A Warm Gun, the nearly satanic feel of Revolution 9, the sheer distortion of the speedier version of Revolution, and the craziest hybrid of blues and metal ever in I Want You (She's So Heavy).
I do agree with your list! But I think you should also add "Twist and SHout" (for the screaming vocals) and "Day Tripper" (for the double-guitar intro-riff).
@Chris E., if you consider the final segment of the song, with all that distortion and how it inspired the Manson family's killing spree, then I'd say it's pretty heavy. Sure, modern metal sounds a bit heavier, but it's not scary anymore. 😉
@@TheUnknownProject66, You've got a point there. Thanks for reminding me of those elements too. 😊
Chris E. Modern Metal sucks, Chuck Schuldiner took it to it’s best.
I Want You is doom metal af
I love that all current Raid sponsor content verges on piss taking and Raid apparently encourage it. Haha
Just wanted to tell you that your content has become some that I look forward to the most. And that I give your videos a like before I even watch them because I always know that I'm about to watch some quality content. Even going to become a patron. I have enjoyed watching your channel continue to grow.
I’m surprised with Pink Floyd you didn’t mention the Nile Song. I think it’s way more heavy metal than Carful with the Axe Eugene.
Yeah they always seem to miss someone!
In 1969, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - 'The Green Manalishi' pretty much laid out a big chunk of the heavy metal riff landscape we still have today, only with less distortion. Not to mention that it strongly influenced bands like Judas Priest and Pantera. My vote for single most important proto metal song. Coming from a guitar player.
Did Quentin Tarantino watch this 25 years in the future before he made Pulp Fiction??...just about every song in that movie is mentioned on here...lol.
Two of the songs and three of the artists from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack are mentioned. There is still a lot in the movie not mentioned here.
@@awesome6323 JUNGLE BOOGIE
Tarantino is a hack. He just appropriates stuff and stuffs it into his live action Road Runner cartoons.
@@OroborusFMA Wtf is wrong with Road Runner? 😉
Was loving this vid till the phase “Jazz-Style Time-Fuckery” made me head-over-heels in love with this vid! 27:28
That's King Crimson and their proto jazz-metal classic "21st Century Schizoid Man".
@@ericarmstrong6540 thanks man, I know it so well, what an album! It was the description I was going nuts about in this instance. Eric, may the prog godz shine synth gifts upon you!
The Small Faces have a track called I Feel Much Better which I always thought had a killer proto-metal punch near the end. Steve Marriott searing and soaring, a driving base and drums and simple organ parts. Magic! Good docs and just a shame sound clips couldn't be longer.
I always enjoy these things. There are so many "Path to metal"/"path to punk" little mini documentaries and they're always fun. And it's also always fun to point out the little things that inevitably get overlooked. As a huge fan of the Who, take a quick listen to Live at Leeds. Everyone knows about My Generation and I Can See For Miles but check out that record. Just listen to the first track. They were way heavier live at the time. Eventually they started doing a lot of operatic, thematic big concept type albums and electronic stuff so their live act evolved. But back then, despite how heavy they were in the studio, live they were just HUGE. Yeah, they always get mentioned for their contribution but I think a lot of people overlook just how ahead of their time they were with their live performances. It's no wonder that a lot of the punk bands who came a few years later worshipped these guys.And that makes sense. Having that HUGE sound wouldn't really get you very far on 1960's AM radio.
There's another one of these that discuses the history of the death growl. And I think Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days" should be mentioned there. That's a deathier death growl than the death growl. Lol. Not to mention what he actually says. "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces." It's technically not a metal song but damn that's brutal and dark.
Also, does anyone know how the Elevators did the electric jug thing?
Tommy Hall in the 13th Floor Elevators took a jug & put a microphone to it, making vocal noises into the jug to add effects to the music they played. It was a pretty unique thing.
Cool that you mentioned Sir Lord Baltimore. That album is hard.! Love it!
29:05 that transition gave me chills goddamn!
Praise this channel for the wholesome archive of knowledge and memories, well done!
Glad to hear someone else hears Jimi's influence on somebody like Eddie Van Halen. Although Eddie will say Cream-era Eric Clapton was his influence, you can't help but hear more of Jimi's influence. Use of hammer-ons and the vibrato bar says enough. I believe that Eddie does this simply to distance himself from Jimi, to secure his own legendary status as a player. Not wanting to be associated amongst the many who owe much of their fundamental development as a guitar player to Jimi. Which is a shame because I don't think anybody would, but one can get that feeling from Eddie upon listening to interviews when such topics come up.
Every guitar player after hendrix was influenced by hendrix
Eric was inspired heavily by Jimi, so ether way, Hendrix was the greatest influential guitarist of all time because he was the original innovator. Eddie was just a technique mad, passionless "stunt" guitarist as Zappa said of him.
@@lukas6610 very true
@@edwardlagrossa1246 what a dumb statement
@@edwardlagrossa1246 i say it the other way around.Hendrix was inspired by Clapton and pete townsend.Eric was the first one to plug a les paul into a marshall amp on Beano which introduced the hard rock sound and Townsend with his wall of amps,inspired Jimi
Great work. Just one name from the frontrunners: "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins.
Lighnin' Hopkins and Howlin' Wolf too!
Iron Butterfly was playing “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” in early ‘67, more than a year before the
17 minute long, entire Second side, Album was released in 1968. The main riff will always
be my first memory of Psychedelic Hard Rock, with it being as Trippy as Hendrix and
Heavy as Black Sabbath (and as memory-tattooing as Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water”).
While not as successful as the aforementioned, Iron Butterfly deserves the progenitor credit
given here for IAGDV. Another American Act not referenced but deserving of an Honorable
Mention - Amboy Dukes 1968 “Journey to the Center of Your Mind”. Not quite as Heavy, but
every bit as Psychedelic as any of the more famous Acts of the ‘60’s.
Yess! Iron Butterfly did do metal , however you want to call it “proto” or metal itself but they did. That 1967 live album has some specially in “iron Butterfly theme”