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British Blues-Based Bands and the Roots of Heavy Metal
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 21, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Blackmore, flower, center, dirty, Page, Pigs, Berry, psychedelia, gothic, crystallize, Yardbirds, scream, Plant, Chess, dismissal, Invasion, 1969, roots, Yes, 60s, Kinks, Lord, separable, vernacular, authenticity, litigation
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blues rock
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as with most modern rock music, Blues rock was grounded in the       
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easy to see its roots
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Rolling Stones and                   
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revived the Chicago Electric Blues tradition as part of the British                 
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British Invasion
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The Beatles, The           , The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Dave Clark Five
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you have to ask what counts as blues rock
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ZZ Top?
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Santana?
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British Blues Rock
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the unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-Seventies
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Deep Purple
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Led Zeppelin
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Black Sabbath
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based on a 60s interest in American blues
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           records coming out of Chicago in the 50s
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Howling Wolf (Back Door Man)
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Little Walter
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Chuck           
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had a gritty feel to them and a sense of                         
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they first imitated these artists
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then developed a different approach
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came up with something that was very easily separable from American Blues of the 50s
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1. Led Zeppelin
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if we start with Blue Rock in the 70s, we have to start, of course, with Led Zeppelin
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Jimmy          was the last man standing from the Yardbirds
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was one of the last ones into the group
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everyone else had quit
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brought in friend John Paul Jones
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Robert            and John Bonham joined, who were relatively unknown
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changed name to Led Zeppelin
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first two albums released in         
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you can still see late 1960s                        in the music of Led Zeppelin
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clearly their roots are in the blues
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in the first four albums, there is hardly a song that is not based on some other song
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there has been                      suits for this
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Jimmy Page was "grabbing tunes from the Blues tradition"
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he would argue that these songs belonged to a common                      that many people rerecorded
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also influenced by blues, folk and psychedelia
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representative track: Whole Lotta Love
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from 1969
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listen to the              portion of the tune, the outer portion are clearly based on a blues
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the center part is more psychedelic, you can hear early stereo with panning sounds from left to right as they go through your head, oh wow, groovy, its an atmospheric sort of section there that is very much a late artifact of late psychedelia
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2. Deep Purple
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Jon         , keyboardist
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had classical training like
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Keith Emerson
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English keyboardist Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Rick Wakeman
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best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band       
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known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple
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Ritchie                   , guitarist
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first important virtuoso guitarists after Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
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known on the music scene when Deep Purple came together at the end of the 1960s
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1968: "Hush"
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originally done by Joe South
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Deep Purple was the bridge between Psychedelia of the late 60s and what's going to develop into Heavy Metal at the end of the 1970s
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at the beginning of the 70s Deep Purple and Black Sabbath aren't really thought of as Heavy Metal as if Heavy Metal was something                    from the rest of what was going on in Rock and Roll
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they were still thought of as Blues Rock acts
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Heavy Metal per se didn't really                        until the middle of the 70s
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Machine Head (1972)
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representative album
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"Smoke on the Water"
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"Stairway to Heaven"
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"Lazy"
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blue influences
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"Highway Star"
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classical influences
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Deep Purple has
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Blues based group like Led Zeppelin
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but more quotations of earlier music
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Ian Gillan
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perfected the idea of the high rock-n-roll             
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Highway Star
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Space Truckin
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Black Sabbath
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when you talk about the            of heavy metal, Black Sabbath is the group that is most often cited
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started out as a blues based group
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later specialized in a sort of scary,              horror kind of thing
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name came from a movie called "Black Sabbath" (1963)
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in the late 60s while it was              power and sunshine in Southern California, in Birmingham, England it was dark and            where the gloomy side of psychedalia was born
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1979: Ozzy Osbourne's regular abuse of drugs and alcohol led to his                    from the band
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1970: Paranoid: archetypal album
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second album
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War         
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Iron Man

Spelling Corrections:

christalize ⇒ crystallize

Ideas and Concepts:

Via tonight's History of Rock class, group #5 in the British Invasion, The Dave Clark Band, "Because", smooth:
Via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class, Freddie Mercury's vocal range:
Via tonight's History of Rock class, Deep Purple in 1968 playing their classic "Hush" like you've never seen: "aside a pool, in their skibbies, playing in a sandbox, singing from a lawn chair:"
On the beginnings of Heavy Metal via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "Deep Purple was the bridge between Psychedelia of the late 60s and what's going to develop into Heavy Metal at the end of the 1970s. At the beginning of the 70s, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath aren't really thought of yet as Heavy Metal as if Heavy Metal were something separable from the rest of what was going on in Rock and Roll. They were still thought of as Blues Rock acts. Heavy Metal per se didn't really crystallize until the middle of the 1970s."
Via tonight's History Rock and Roll: "It was Ian Gillan who in 1972 introduced and perfected the idea of what, by the end of the decade, would become the high, Heavy Metal scream, as evidenced in Highway Star and Space Truckin"
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British Blues-Based Bands and the Roots of Heavy Metal
American Blues Rock and Southern Rock
The Era of Progressive Rock
Jazz Rock in the 70s
Theatrical Rock: KISS, Bowie, and Alice Cooper
American Singer-Songwriters of the 70s
British and Canadian Singer-Songwriters
Country Rock's Influence on 1970s Music
Black Pop in the 1970s
Sly Stone and His Influence on Black Pop, Funk, and Psychedelic Soul
Motown in the 1970s
Philadelphia Sound and Soul Train
Blaxploitation Soundtracks
The Uniqueness of James Brown
Bob Marley and the Rise of Reggae
The Backlash Against Disco
1975-1980: The Rise of the Mega-Αlbum
Continuity Bands in the 1970s
Rock and Roll in the Second Half of the 1970s
U.S. Punk 1967-1975
1974-77: Punk in the UK
American New Wave 1977-80
British New Wave 1977-80
The Hippie Aesthetic: 1966-1980
The Rise of MTV
Michael Jackson: MTV's Unexpected Boon
Madonna as Disruptive Shock Artist
Prince and Janet Jackson
Other Groups Who Benefited from MTV
1980s New Traditionalists and New Wave
1980s New Acts, Old Styles and Blue-Eyed Soul
1970s Progressive Rock Adapts to the 80s
1980's Heavy Metal
1980s Heavy Metal and L.A. Hair Bands
1980s Ambitious Heavy Metal
The Beginning of Rap
1980s: Rap Crosses Over to Mainstream
Late 1980s Hard Core Rap
Punk Goes Hardcore
Late 80s Indie Rock Underground
1990s: The Rise of Alternative Rock
1990s Indie Rock and the Question of Selling Out
1990s Metal and Alternative Extensions
Hip-Hop in the 1990s
Classic Rock of the 1990s
1990s Jam Bands and Britpop
Female Singer-Songwriters of the 1990s
The Rise of Teen Idols in the 1990s
1990s Dance Music