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There is a question about early Metal and where/when it started. I posted that 'Helter Skelter' by The Beatles would be pretty early in the Metal food chain. If not right at the top. As usual you get deniers that say it's not Metal. I don't know it they are more offended by the fact that it was a Beatles song or even more offended that it was conceived by Paul McCartney? What say you the Heavy Metalheads here on the Museum?
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isn't blue cheer -vincebus eruptum usually considered to be where it started. -
It very well could be considered metal IMO. It is amazing when you look at all the Beatle firsts'. I mean, The Beatles were actually releasing music videos on TV called featurets nearly 20 years before MTV came out!
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As far as I'm concerned, Heavy Metal didn't truly begin until the first Black Sabbath album was released in 1969/1970.Comment
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It possibly could be, but I don't think the Beatles intented it to be.Comment
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Predates Helter Skelter by four years.
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Metal is a lot like punk in that there are many precedents to be considered. Blue Cheer and Jimi Hendrix are often cited, but the fuzzy Kinks' guitars and experimental Beatles probably helped. Then there are just accidents thrown into the mix, such as Iommi's guitar tuning due to his missing fingertips. It's a rich tapestry indeed.Comment
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The Beatles are actually credited with the first recorded use of deliberate guitar feedback. No other 60's or beyond rock band, Kinks, Sabbath, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Nirvana, any of them, would exist without the introduction by The Beatles of guitar feedback.LOOK
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The Kinks were really the first to experiment with the Metal staple of a loud distorted guitar sound. You can clearly hear this in You really got me.
Dick Dale's surfer rock guitar style is also an early Metal influence. From 1963.
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some people mention iron butterfly as been the first heavy band too both their in a gadda da vida and blue cheer 1st album were before helter skelter.Comment
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As a type of metalhead (there seems to be so many sub-genres), I dont consider it metal. I used to work with a good friend that treated me like a son and he would listen to oldies radio with The Beach Boys, Everly Brothers, Beatles, etc. I think it was "Come Together" played on the radio, and I said I liked the song and he called it headbanger music.Comment
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