Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxc!chris From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: heavy metal? Message-ID: <583@pyuxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:25:48 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxc.583 Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:25:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:39:19 EST References: <10700001@hpfcnml.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 10 Will you accept a guess? The term is probably derived "somehow" from Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild," specifically: I like smoke and lightning (or is it smokin' lightning?) Heavy metal thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin' that I'm under Just a guess, as I said, and it presumes that I've deciphered the lyrics correctly.