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Post by earthless on Jul 8, 2010 2:45:27 GMT -5
1. What song playing on main page and from which album?
2. Are they really first heavy metal band?
"Just a Little Bit / Gypsy Ball" was released in august 1968 while
Black Sabbath released they first album under "Polka Tulk Blues Band" at the same year and same fuckin' month!
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Post by gypsyball on Jul 8, 2010 3:06:44 GMT -5
1. What song playing on main page and from which album? 2. Are they really first heavy metal band? . That is off of Extended Versions [Live] also known as Live In JapanSome people say they were the 1st heavy metal band. |
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Post by FeedbackLourde on Jul 8, 2010 6:19:46 GMT -5
Pulka Tulk Blues Band NEVER released an album at all! Matter of fact, the band didn't use that name for more than a few weeks. The first release was the Evil Woman single and that was under the name Black Sabbath....
You also forgot to ask us whatever happened to Leigh Stephens and when BC is going to get Randy Holden back in the band!
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Post by gypsyball on Jul 9, 2010 13:20:16 GMT -5
You also forgot to ask us whatever happened to Leigh Stephens and when BC is going to get Randy Holden back in the band! Makes me wonder if Randy Holden will have the guts to do a tour as Blue Cheer with Mark II lineup with Piglips as the bass player. |
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Post by festoonedpiglips on Jul 12, 2010 4:36:25 GMT -5
You also forgot to ask us whatever happened to Leigh Stephens and when BC is going to get Randy Holden back in the band! Makes me wonder if Randy Holden will have the guts to do a tour as Blue Cheer with Mark II lineup with Piglips as the bass player. Good question! Why not ask the Guitar God Himself instead of trying to be all cutesy and vague?! |
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Post by terencebelcher on Jul 13, 2010 12:14:29 GMT -5
I think Blue Cheer will play live again. They`ll go out as Paul Whaley`s Blue Cheer, Paul the drummer being the only original member in the revived line-up. How many times in the past have there been revivals of other well-known bands with just the original drummer in the line-up, and some easilly forgetable other musicians who`s names you`ve forgotten as soon as they have been announced? It`s worked so many times for other bands` drummers, it`s bound to work again and again and again. So watch out for Paul Whaley`s Blue Cheer coming to a telephone kiosk near you, some time soon.
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Post by rowenafair on Jul 28, 2010 15:22:51 GMT -5
well i doubt it though you never know, not my take on paul at all that he would do that. something new or someone else's band maybe, but without dickie OR duck it just doesn't compute. though leigh appeared to soften on the idea of everyone getting together last year, dickie getting sick put the kabosh on that. two thirds of a three piece is most of the band no matter how great the third is. i think paul has more integrity. just my 2c, not the official version!
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Post by terencebelcher on Aug 1, 2010 13:10:16 GMT -5
2. Are they really first heavy metal band?
"Just a Little Bit / Gypsy Ball" was released in august 1968Also to note that Vincebus Eruptum was actually completed in 1967 was released in 1968,…so they pre-date everyone except Hendrix and Cream Dickie emphasized that in an interview with Bruce Dickinson on BBC several years back
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Post by rokkz on Nov 1, 2010 21:53:33 GMT -5
i never heard of the "Pulka Tulk Blues Band"
the only name i read about was"earth" that pre sabbath jammed under.
i agree, blue cheer pre-dated the genre and was the original formula that created the sound defined as heavy metal.
the guitar on summertime blues was an 'atomic bomb' for it's time !!!!
i only have the 'louder than god' album, but i have slam worn it out !!!
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Post by eio on Nov 1, 2010 22:59:24 GMT -5
the formula that created heavy metal was john lee hooker, bo diddley.. and the rolling stones, and yardbirds, and a lot of others...but definately sabbath wasn't anything like BC, sabbath was very good but too trippy to be heavy...guitars, singinging, etc. but nothing remotely like BC....oh yeah and zepplin and long john baldry....ok i'm sure i'll catch hell now
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Post by rokkz on Nov 1, 2010 23:30:00 GMT -5
you put those players and bands who did not disort or use volume to the max as precurors to heavy metal?
rolling stones, i have 63-73 nothing metal to me on it, just blues rokk and roll
sabbath get's the honors by the mainstream primarly because of image.
bo didley, john lee hooker, never turned up to the decibels that it would take to blow the roof off, and i wasnt there, but i'm pretty damn sure blue cheer DID in order to create there bomb blasting sound.
and led zeppelin/yardbirds/beck/were just blues to me......
hendrix has the closest tru metal sound, but he was still blues on distortion/big muff
and cream kinda got it riff wise, but did'nt persue it.
i don't think blue cheer started out as a blues band.......'to the experts' am i wrong there to? correct me if i am please !
i am a lot younger than most blue cheer fans,
but i am just as metal as the first to hear em live !!!
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Post by eio on Nov 2, 2010 0:26:43 GMT -5
cheers to you...but I wouldn't trivialize hooker and diddley...they did use stufff, and blew the roof off...stones in 66-70 were as hard ass?loud as you want it...beck/yardbirds/page started it all..BC are one of my favorites but they could have only wished to be the hendrix experience and Cream was the cream..unfucking beleiveable....BC was loud but unexperienced to say the least at 1st...too bad they blew it after IO...now that they could have expanded....cheers rokkz...
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Post by rokkz on Nov 2, 2010 1:54:38 GMT -5
so around 68 deep purple/blackmore kikked it out to,
do you not rate them as heavy-ier than yardbirds/cream..etc?
or am i wrong about them to.
i also recall grand funk railroad doing a gig at the atlanta motor speedway (year is to fuzzy to recall 68? 69?) being carried off the stage and hailed as metal rokk'rz?
i didnt listen to it, but my brothers loved frankie zappa, was'nt he also expermental/rock/boogie/psycho drama/pre metal ?
i did see a live concert on tv, back in the 80's (night-flight) zappa/with steve vai on guitar wearing a camo cowboy hat, very strange music, but killer guitars.
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Post by riffraff on Nov 2, 2010 12:18:27 GMT -5
Zappa was more into jazz even symphony. His music was different, plus he had a wierd sense of humor. but not metal.
Deep Purple. Deep Purple in Rock. What a change up from the previous line up with Rod Evans. Blackmore carried the torch for more than a few years. Too bad he is into that Renaissance music now.
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Post by jeanpierrelaret on Nov 10, 2010 5:06:55 GMT -5
The name of HEAVY METAL come from Steppenwolf in their song "Born to be wild"....Heavy metal thunder...It was the first time!But,Steppenwolf was not very "heavy metal".
PS:I'm a great fan of Steppenwolf since 1968!
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