Quote:
Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Sure. As one example, consider the Who vs Led Zep. Both are power trios with a lead singer, both featured ear splitting volume and crashing power chords, yet the Who tend to be considered Pop while Zep is Metal. The basic difference seems to be starting point, as Zep is grounded in the blues and the Who isn't.
|
The Who was schizophrenic, is what they were. Guess the name was prophetic.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The stuff I dove into wasn't even faintly metal. I liked the British art rock bands like King Crimson, Hatfield and the North, Henry Cow, and National Health, as well as the "Kraut rock" electronic stuff characterized by Kraftwerk, Can, and Faust.
|
Sooo, would you have some early Ministry, KMFDM or Front-242? Skinny Puppy, perhaps.
As far as British art-rock, I never got into Crimson (I know, heresy) or the Moody Blues for that matter. I know every note of Genesis' "A Trick of the Tail", however. I was more into the "stadium" art-rock of Yes, ELP, Rush, and I was a big Alan Parsons fan when I was little; at the risk of sounding like an old man, "Now
there was a visionary!"
Quote:
Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Oh, yes. I don't dislike Led Zep. There are simply other things I like better. I certainly recognize their contributions to rock (if only through the vast number of bands formed by people who heard Led Zep as kids and said "I wanna do that that when I grow up!". Fortunately, a least a few were able to take Zep as a starting point and go beyond those origins. The rest probably became copy bands.)
|
Actually, while early Zeppelin (among others) molded my psyche, it was Cheap Trick At Budokan complete with the thousands of screaming Japanese girls, which made me want to "do that when I grow up". I knew I was going to be a musician but the live aspect of it never hit me until that album.