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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: heavy metal?
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 12:20:21 EST
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> 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

Which is, of course, derived from William S. Burroughs book "Naked Lunch".
(I think it was "Naked Lunch", but I'm sure it was Burroughs.)
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