Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: heavy metal? Message-ID: <337@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 12:20:21 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.337 Posted: Mon Dec 17 12:20:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 02:21:33 EST References: <10700001@hpfcnml.UUCP> <583@pyuxc.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 13 > 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.) -- "Those without forms must appear, however briefly, at the Bureau's Astral Offices on Nooker Street..." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr