Did the Beatles help influence Heavy Metal?

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   Little known fact: The Beatles actually influenced themselves. Paul has a time machine, I read it in the National Enquirer.

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Henry Plainview Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2008 Location: Declined Status: Offline Points: 16715	Posted: September 11 2009 at 00:15
	Little known fact: The Beatles actually influenced themselves. Paul has a time machine, I read it in the National Enquirer.
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Kashmir75 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 25 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1029	Posted: September 10 2009 at 23:36
	I think arguably they did influence Heavy Metal. Listen to Helter Skelter or Yer Blues on the White Album. Very heavy stuff for the time period.
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CPicard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841	Posted: September 01 2009 at 15:48
	Another round for the Beatles. Thanks, the Heavy-Metal doesn't have anything to do with the Blues.

Toaster Mantis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 12 2008 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 5898	Posted: September 01 2009 at 13:38
	Yeah. The Beatles were pretty much a paradigm shift for rock music of any kind... before them it was pretty much the exception rather than the rule that rock musicians wrote all their own songs for example.
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The Runaway Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 28 2009 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 3144	Posted: September 01 2009 at 13:00
	I guess you can say they influenced it in certain parts, but The Beatles had such complexity in the last days of their Beatle lives, they had not thought of influencing a musical genre, more than influencing a musical generation.
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	We all know the Beatles were the biggest influence on people like Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons but the Beatles did have a influence on Heavy Metal. Of course they did not invent Heavy Metal and there were others more influential but they played a part from popularizing feedback on "I Feel Fine" to lead bass fuzz distortion on "Think For Yourself". Both huge elements in Heavy Metal Even some of the Beatles earlier songs like "It's All Too Much" recorded during the Sgt Pepper sessions now listen the feeback at the start and the guitar sound. The Beatles. The popular Hendrix chord with it's distortion sound was done on "Taxman" before Hendrix and it was rumoured to have influenced Hendrix "Purple Haze". "Helter Skelter" uses drop tuning with power chording. The distortion sounds on "Revolution" was very dirty sounding and the Mother Superior part on "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" screams Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath was influenced by the dark and gloomy fade-out section of the Beatles "I Want You" which can be called proto-metal.