BRITISH Heavy Metal vs Heavy Metal USA (Guitar Riffs Battle)

smitty_p said:
Yes. Very interesting.

My first exposure to music was church, as well. When I was very young, we went to a church that had a massive pipe organ and I was so fascinated with that. I still love organ music (hence, part of my appreciation for Deep Purple - Jon Lord’s organ work). I used to want to sit in a pew close to the organist so I could watch what she was doing.

My mother used to take me to see concerts performed by the local symphony orchestra when I was just a kid. I was so amazed by it all - how all these instruments could combine to create what I was hearing. I used to pepper her with questions after a concert! To this day, that’s what I listen for in music - the layering of instruments and the nuances and subtleties. Beethoven is great for that!

She also played a lot of classical records and took us to see musical movies, like Camelot and Fiddler on the Roof. I never pushed back on any of this or felt restricted by this sort of upbringing. I embraced it and it just became part of who I am. I am actually grateful.

Oddly, the instrument I really wanted to play as a young boy was the violin. But, I never told anyone because, even as a little kid growing up in a single-parent household, I knew there would be no money for that.
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I became fascinated with the trumpet after hearing Herb Alpert's 'Whipped Cream & Other Delights.' I tried so hard to learn it - when I was around 7 or 8 - but I had motor function impairment and learning disabilities that would take years of therapy to overcome.





Note the use of right and left panning for the instruments...This was my first exposure to production and I wanted to know exactly how it was done, so Mom took me to her friend's studio one day (that friend was Buck Owens) and they let me sit in the control room and ask all the questions I wanted.
 
smitty_p said:
Well…my heritage is English, Welsh, maybe a little Irish…and a healthy dose of Dutch, just to make things a little crazy. So, there is that!

But, curiously, I do see that you chose the American side. ‘Sup with that?
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Americans dose it for me better , faster, meaner and its more modern:)

I do like British metal too but its not heavy enough for me. :)
 
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Sapient said:
What's about Canada?


Even Gretzky approves! (y)
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chilipeppermaniac said:
What about Swedish Metal, Norwegian or German Metal?

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Sweden produced a slew of great metal bands with different approaches such as Bathory, Entombed, Hammerfall, Candlemass, At The Gates, Meshuggah, Dark Tranquility, Marduk and Tiamat. The next groups to quickly follow were even as great with Opeth, The Haunted, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Amon Amarth and my favorite: In Flames.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
And before I watch the clip, Leslie West anyone?
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From Post 27 ^^^^^^^^^

From Mr Herndon, and of course my first exposure to Leslie West, Mountain's Mississippi Queen!!! JUST think, HOW many budding rockers who followed at the same time Leslie was kickin Ace, plus how many even younger kids such as Gball, Me, Robert, Adrian, Bdon, Sysco, etc all got our roots from Mr West?
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Robert Herndon said:
The very first 'hard rock' song I ever heard was "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain probably around 1971 when I was 6. I mean, I saw Hendrix on Dick Cavett when I was 5, but Leslie West's playing slapped me in the face!!!

After that, it was 'War Pigs," and then "Ol Black Betty," then "Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo" about 1973 (a live performance with Johnny Winter wearing a spacesuit) then "Its A Long Way Down From The Top" by Back Street Crawler in 1975 and the "Hair of The Dog" around 1976.

(Keep in mind I was not allowed to listen to rock n roll/metal in our home, so I had to go to friend's homes or go into the hay loft and listen on a battery powered cassette player. )

Then, in the summer of 1976, a school chum had a relative visiting from Australia. She had an AC/DC album. It was not yet available in the U.S. That album just blew my mind. All the previously mentioned songs were like my musical "Gateway Drugs," so to speak, but after "High Voltage," there was no stopping the addiction...

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Like Robert above, I have said it many times, Music got in my blood early, Elem school. But in my case, I had no forbidden types or acts I could partake in. As mentioned. My exposures ran from everything before our births that our parents might have listened to, on up to kid music and as the aging process happened, I began to hear music of the 60's and 70's from teachers and classmates as we kids bought 45's n such. I can remember more recess time and playing chess time, and listening to music time in class between 4th and 6th grade than I can any book learning such as grammar and science/ social studies etc. My roots were Beatles, Three Dog Night, Elton John, Queen etc, and at 8 years old I got my Rock cherry popped by Deep Purple, Mountain, Grand Funk, BTO and Frampton by 7th grade but the likes of VH1 and Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo came to my ears by a few friends by 8th grade. These brought the gasoline and fire that lit up my world. It was my dumb luck that day that led me to pick 2112 in the record store's available Rush Catalogue of albums by 1979-80. I guess I got curious when I heard that some friends had seen this band called Rush in concert recently. Imagine the many minds that got blown as soon as the needle hit side one if any young fella was like me and picked 2112 as their first time ever hearing Rush.

To quote Gene Simmons.

 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
From Post 27 ^^^^^^^^^

From Mr Herndon, and of course my first exposure to Leslie West, Mountain's Mississippi Queen!!! JUST think, HOW many budding rockers who followed at the same time Leslie was kickin Ace, plus how many even younger kids such as Gball, Me, Robert, Adrian, Bdon, Sysco, etc all got our roots from Mr West?
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV





Like Robert above, I have said it many times, Music got in my blood early, Elem school. But in my case, I had no forbidden types or acts I could partake in. As mentioned. My exposures ran from everything before our births that our parents might have listened to, on up to kid music and as the aging process happened, I began to hear music of the 60's and 70's from teachers and classmates as we kids bought 45's n such. I can remember more recess time and playing chess time, and listening to music time in class between 4th and 6th grade than I can any book learning such as grammar and science/ social studies etc. My roots were Beatles, Three Dog Night, Elton John, Queen etc, and at 8 years old I got my Rock cherry popped by Deep Purple, Mountain, Grand Funk, BTO and Frampton by 7th grade but the likes of VH1 and Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo came to my ears by a few friends by 8th grade. These brought the gasoline and fire that lit up my world. It was my dumb luck that day that led me to pick 2112 in the record store's available Rush Catalogue of albums by 1979-80. I guess I got curious when I heard that some friends had seen this band called Rush in concert recently. Imagine the many minds that got blown as soon as the needle hit side one if any young fella was like me and picked 2112 as their first time ever hearing Rush.

To quote Gene Simmons.

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TBH Chili, I never have been much of a Leslie West or Mountain fan. I'd hear them on 98 Rock, but it was just another rock band for me. The earliest stuff that really caught my attention and started the musical obsession was from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Yes. The diversity of those bands led me to a lot of different things over the years, but really the core of my taste remains Hard Rock/Metal/Progressive or some combination of those styles.
 
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