2/13/1970: The Birthday of Heavy Metal!!!!

It reminds me of working out at a gym in the late 80's. A normal looking aerobics instructor cues up Black Sabbatb the song during her class. People were terrified. I was terrified. And I'm a Sabbath fan. It was so wrong.

If you are going to play Sabbath for an aerobics class, at least go with Supernaut.

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Flamencology said:
I don’t know whether metal was born with Sabbath, but it certainly peaked with Sabbath.
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Yeah, Sabbath has aged among the best. For example, when I was a kid, 80's hair metal was dominating radio, mtv, & album sales. And yet, if I could go back back in time, I'd tell myself to forget about it- it will not age well at all, & will be totally obsolete in less than a decade! " Eventually you will even regret wasting your time at all on it!!" . Of course I would have been incredulous. I was 14 & a big Motley Crue fan:facepalm: . I had yet to hear Beethovens Symphony #3, which might has well have been music from another dimension to me at the time, & completely changed my life forever.

I can still listen to Sabbath though. not so much 99% of the metal that came later, for various reasons. Something to do with how when big money gets involved, it's just a purely destructive force- That early spark of naïve inspiration is lost. Now, if it were one person with supreme creative vision in control of the entire industry from there on in, the art may be better, but once persons get involved in the power structure who do not have a creative bone in their body, or whom are just suits whom ONLY enjoy the superficial fruits (money, drugs, groupies, & "hangers on" ), the plot begins to be lost. The expression of that particular aspect of the creative language is severely compromised. And that is when you get the dated crap that came after Sabbath ( even though Sab doesn't sound as dated as those whom came afterwards! ).
 
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I never hated certain Sabbath songs, but overall they were just to dark for my tastes.My teenage heavier music taste tilted toward Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, Zepplin, and Uriah Heep. By the time Kiss came along I was a Jr or Sr in high school and as far as I was concerned Kiss was for Jr High kids.
As far as 80s Hair goes, I was out of college and into more rootsy music and really paid the phenom no attention.
 
VoidTerraFirma said:
Dropping into the 50th anniversary Sabbath thread to let everyone know how you feel about 80s hair Metal is MAXIMUM BOOMER
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I will go Big Boomer and list a hair metal song I love. I fucking hate that term!

One of the best opening songs for a concert

 
Are we just gonna pretend Blue Cheer didn't happen?


Anyhow I was too young in 1970 to be drawn in by metal. I remember my older brother had "Paranoid" and the album scared the bejesus out of me. Also, the band had clearly never read a single issue of Iron Man and was just making shit up.
 
Andrew Sak said:
I will go Big Boomer and list a hair metal song I love. I fucking hate that term!

One of the best opening songs for a concert

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Record from same era...full "80s sound" for sure (with all of the reverb on the snare and toms) but the guitar solo - one of the best. It's got a little of many different techniques tastefully put together. Mr Schenker is amazing.

 
DinoMikeSr said:
Black Sabbath released the first album on this day in 1970. I was there, I was 7 years old and remember my brother putting this on his turntable for the first time.

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They certainly didn’t call Sabbath metal in the early seventies. Hard rock was the term. The term heavy metal was lifted from Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf (yes, and some other sources including science blah, blah, blah). The term was thrown around a lot but wasn’t used to define a genre until the last half of the 70s. Before that the term was thrown at all kinds of bands that no one would consider metal today and was mostly used as a put down by journalists like Lester Bangs.

Same with punk rock. I remember reading Creem magazine with articles calling Alice Cooper and Aerosmith punk rock. It was also a put down meaning some young “punks” making sloppy rock music.


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