Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site cmcl2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!sethian From: sethian@cmcl2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Heavy Metal (Daze) Message-ID: <6300006@cmcl2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 10:28:00 EST Article-I.D.: cmcl2.6300006 Posted: Fri Dec 21 10:28:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:38:19 EST References: <562@aluxe.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:aluxe:-56200:cmcl2:6300006:000:816 Nf-From: cmcl2!sethian Dec 21 10:28:00 1984 Much as I consider myself one of the all-time Who fans (at age ~14 in 1968 I made my mother of all people go with me to a Who concert because I couldn't drive and it was 150 miles away)...I agree that the Who are not a Heavy Metal Band; as any Who fan knows, the Who has no lead guitarist; Townsend plays rhythm, Entwhistle plays lead on his bass, Moon (sob!) plays attack bass lines on the drums, and Daltrey is everything else. Above all, the Who brood far too much to be heavy metal...this is a band that thinks too much (it's why I love 'em). However, if you want early Heavy Metal, let us never forget Deep Purple. What that band did to "Kentucky Woman" probably hurt Neil Diamond more than any of the millions of other attacks he rightfully deserved. sethian@nyu sethian@lbl-csam