----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:15 PM Subject: Re: Continuing Education
> > My head is going to explode. > > Glam rock started at least in 1968 and was nailed by David Bowie with > Ziggy. I will admit ignorance here, if Whitesnake's early stuff was > glam-like then so be it but I doubt it. If you meant instead a direct line > to heavy metal, then that's wrong also, IMHO. If you meant Glam metal, I > still think it's a stretch. Whitesnake of the 80's was not glam. Again this > is all IMHO, but glam has to first be pretty boys and stage presence before > music. Whitesnake had neither, except David Coverdale. The later version of Whitesnake was a "Hair" or "Bighair" Band and most people consider that to be a subgroup of Glam. Opinions vary, eh? > > "Slide It In" did not have three Deep Purple band members on the album. > Paice was back with Deep Purple. In fact to call Coverdale Deep Purple > would be like saying Blaze Bayley is Iron Maiden, and I at least recognize > the different IM songs. (On the third hand, I didn't know IM had a > different first singer). David Coverdale - exDeep Purple Cozy Powell - exDeep Purple Jon Lord - exDeep Purple Mel Galley - exTrapeze John Sykes - exThin Lizzy Neil Murray - (I haven't a clue at the moment) But I agree that Deep Purple isn't typified by Coverdale the way it is by Ian Gillian. After all, Gillian was Jesus.<G> > > Jimmy Page was the guitar player for Zep, unless you meant something else > Reggie, about the music. Did Reggie even mention Page? I don't understand your point here. > > I do hate the tag Zep wannabees. There was a band in the eighties that was > practically a rip-off of Led Zeppelin and damn if I can think of their name > now. Great White? >But how much music is created in a vacuum? Some bands do have unique > sounds but it'd be hard to point to a first album that was much different > than what was released at the same time. Pink Floyd's early stuff was out > there, but not far off from others. The Ramones or Devo could be > exceptions. Almost all bands learn their chops on the music of others and never create anything truely original. TheRamones always sounded like dumbed-down Blue Cheer to me. And Devo (one of my favorites) were heavily influenced by Kraftwork and other Eurosynthpop. >Maybe that's related to the music industry. A band isn't going > to be signed if the label can't pigeonhole them, but after a few successful > albums they can afford to be different. Sometimes bands get pigeonholed as "something completely new". Even if it isn't true. > > Sorry. I love this type of music. > No need to apologize, but no need to feel offended either.<G> xponent Crack The Sky Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
