The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

They have denied it, but I’ve always liked Deep Purple as i think they were one of the bands that started Heavy Metal I listen to them to this day Not one bad song on their album Machine Head

Is Deep Purple considered heavy metal? If so Lazy’ on Machine Head is my nominee. Agreeing with the poster above that Deep Purple might have given the genre a kick start.

@kingbr - I've always loved the wordless singalong part of that song; they used to get the roadies up there to sing on that part, too.... 

Is Deep Purple considered heavy metal? If so Lazy’ on Machine Head is my nominee. Agreeing with the poster above that Deep Purple might have given the genre a kick start.

@baconboy I would classify deep purple as mostly hard rock...

I think it is a combination of 70's Sabbath/Iommi style of riffs and Ian Gillan's vocal style (Example Track: Child In time)  that paved the way for a lot of modern metal. I wouldn't classify Ozzy Osbourne as too much of a metal vocalist.

In fact, here's an example of a track from Sabbath's 'Born Again" album, where Gillan was the vocalist....call it Purple Sabbath maybe.... 

Black Sabbath - Disturbing The Priest

(Don't be the soundguy that played this on the church PA and disturbed the congregation )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OXLRuu8YQY

Knebworth, in England, in 1985 included UFO, Meatloaf, Scorpions with headliner, Deep Purple. All hard rock bands, with exception of Meatloaf. Deep Purple had 2 sets of tower speakers (array) off stage - in the crowd- and during certain songs moved the music to and fro in a quadrophonic type of setup. Never heard or saw such an arrangement before or since. Perfect Strangers.