The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

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.

Blackfoot opening band.

I grew up playing drums to heavy metal/acid rock or whatever you wanted to call it. We played deep purple, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and others hard rock material.

Today, I mostly listen to jazz/blues/hard rock and progressive rock.

The group I listen to 99% of the time if I’m paying heavier stuff, is Dream Theater. If you want to listen to them, look at their Images and Words album from the 80’s and then listen to their latest song Night Terror. Awesome! Lots of YouTube videos on them too. The best songs from them are when Mike Portnoy was the drummer(voted best drummer many times) 80’s thru 2011 and he just came back this year and they released Night Terror

Moterhead is another group I play a lot of these days.