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Posted: September 10 2013 at 17:24
verslibre wrote:
I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
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Posted: September 10 2013 at 23:34
dr wu23 wrote:
verslibre wrote:
I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
Blue Oyster Cult used to do a cover of "Born to be Wild" though my fave Steppenwolf song was "Magic Carpet Ride"...they had a great hard rock organ sound but I never considered them metal of any kind.
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Posted: September 10 2013 at 23:54
The.Crimson.King wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
verslibre wrote:
I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
Blue Oyster Cult used to do a cover of "Born to be Wild" though my fave Steppenwolf song was "Magic Carpet Ride"...they had a great hard rock organ sound but I never considered them metal of any kind.
I think I have a version of that by BOC on one of their remastered cd's....Magic Carpet was my favorite too by Steppenwolf. I saw BOC recently near Valparaiso University in Indiana ...sadly they did not do Born To Be Wild.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
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Posted: September 11 2013 at 03:27
dr wu23 wrote:
verslibre wrote:
I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
Steppenwolf was included in VH1's origins of metal show (years ago) just because of that lyric.
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Posted: September 11 2013 at 09:59
verslibre wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
verslibre wrote:
I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
Steppenwolf was included in VH1's origins of metal show (years ago) just because of that lyric.
Shows you how much VH1 knows about music.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
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Posted: September 11 2013 at 23:18
dr wu23 wrote:
The.Crimson.King wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
verslibre wrote:
I thought Steppenwolf first gave us "heavy metal thunder"?
Well...it was a line in the song Born To Be Wild referring to the sound of hogs/motorcycles.....personally I don't think Steppenwolf was a metal band or even a father of metal.....a great band at one time nevertheless.
Blue Oyster Cult used to do a cover of "Born to be Wild" though my fave Steppenwolf song was "Magic Carpet Ride"...they had a great hard rock organ sound but I never considered them metal of any kind.
I think I have a version of that by BOC on one of their remastered cd's....Magic Carpet was my favorite too by Steppenwolf. I saw BOC recently near Valparaiso University in Indiana ...sadly they did not do Born To Be Wild.
I think "Born to be Wild" was on their 70's live album "On Your Feet or On Your Knees"
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Posted: September 12 2013 at 01:00
^ True, though there's a school of thought that says Metal itself was progressive rock; that is to say, at the time, those pioneering metal - Zep, Sabbath, Priest, maybe Rush, etc. - were also creating a progressive form that was evolving parallel to Prog and rock-fusion.
^ me too. Prog Metal is a subgenre of Metal, they are the same genre of music.
You have a point here and it's a valid one at that, but to my ears I feel that Prog metal and metal sound so vastly different whereby I personally feel those to types of music don't really sound very similar to me at all, so i would list them as separate from one another. But, I do see your point and can understand how a lot of people would agree with you, but I don't here....for once.
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