SozoZoso Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Forgive me if this has been asked before, but didn't John bonham once appeared in a horror film? A vampire film to be precise? If so, has anyone got a clip of it...many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Son of Dracula (featuring John Bonham) (1974) Album Cover (front): Album Cover (back): Film Stills: Film Poster: Want to watch this film right now? Click the link below and enjoy your Monster Movie Night: http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2006...movie-1974.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgeholder Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Bonzo at 1:17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SozoZoso Posted November 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 10, 2012 Thanks ever so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magerogue Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 As we're on it, is the film any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledded1 Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 As we're on it, is the film any good? It's awful IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Historian Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 ^ I'm a fan of "B" horror flicks..sometimes the worse, the better-just for the cheese factor. But, I'll take your word for it on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_fly_16 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 i heard that bonzo made his drums louder by putting aluminum foil inside. is this where they got the name heavy metal from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 i heard that bonzo made his drums louder by putting aluminum foil inside. is this where they got the name heavy metal from? The origin of the term "heavy metal" in a musical context is uncertain. The phrase has been used for centuries in chemistry and metallurgy, where the periodic table organizes elements of both light and heavy metals (e.g. uranium). An early use of the term in modern popular culture was by countercultural writer William S. Burroughs. His 1962 novel The Soft Machine includes a character known as "Uranian Willy, the Heavy Metal Kid." Burroughs's next novel, Nova Express (1964), develops the theme, using heavy metal as a metaphor for addictive drugs: "With their diseases and orgasm drugs and their sexless parasite life forms—Heavy Metal People of Uranus wrapped in cool blue mist of vaporized bank notes—And The Insect People of Minraud with metal music."[55] Metal historian Ian Christe describes what the components of the term mean in "hippiespeak": "heavy" is roughly synonymous with "potent" or "profound," and "metal" designates a certain type of mood, grinding and weighted as with metal.[56] The word "heavy" in this sense was a basic element of beatnik and later countercultural slang, and references to "heavy music"—typically slower, more amplified variations of standard pop fare—were already common by the mid-1960s. Iron Butterfly's debut album, released in early 1968, was titled Heavy. The first recorded use of "heavy metal" is a reference to a motorcycle in the Steppenwolf song "Born to Be Wild", also released that year:[57] "I like smoke and lightning/Heavy metal thunder/Racin' with the wind/And the feelin' that I'm under." A late, and disputed, claim about the source of the term was made by "Chas" Chandler, former manager of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In a 1995 interview on the PBS program Rock and Roll, he asserted that heavy metal "was a term originated in a New York Times article reviewing a Jimi Hendrix performance," in which the author likened the event to "listening to heavy metal falling from the sky." A source for Chandler's claim has never been found. The first documented use of the phrase to describe a type of rock music identified to date appears in a review by Barry Gifford. In the May 11, 1968, issue of Rolling Stone, he wrote about the album A Long Time Comin' by U.S. band Electric Flag: "Nobody who's been listening to Mike Bloomfield—either talking or playing—in the last few years could have expected this. This is the new soul music, the synthesis of white blues and heavy metal rock."[58] In January 1970 Lucian K. Truscott IV reviewing Led Zeppelin II for the Village Voice described the sound as "heavy" and made comparisons with Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge.[59] Other early documented uses of the phrase are from reviews by critic Mike Saunders. In the November 12, 1970, issue of Rolling Stone, he commented on an album put out the previous year by the British band Humble Pie: "Safe as Yesterday Is, their first American release, proved that Humble Pie could be boring in lots of different ways. Here they were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt. There were a couple of nice songs...and one monumental pile of refuse." He described the band's latest, self-titled release as "more of the same 27th-rate heavy metal crap."[60] In a review of Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come in the May 1971 Creem, Saunders wrote, "Sir Lord Baltimore seems to have down pat most all the best heavy metal tricks in the book."[61] Creem critic Lester Bangs is credited with popularizing the term via his early 1970s essays on bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.[62] Through the decade, heavy metal was used by certain critics as a virtually automatic putdown. In 1979, lead New York Times popular music critic John Rockwell described what he called "heavy-metal rock" as "brutally aggressive music played mostly for minds clouded by drugs,"[63] and, in a different article, as "a crude exaggeration of rock basics that appeals to white teenagers."[64] Coined by Black Sabbath drummer, Bill Ward, "downer rock" was one of the earliest terms used to describe this style of music and was applied to acts such as Sabbath and Bloodrock. Classic Rock magazine described the downer rock culture revolving around the use of Quaaludes and the drinking of wine.[65] Later the term would be replaced by "heavy metal."[66] The terms "heavy metal" and "hard rock" have often been used interchangeably, particularly in discussing bands of the 1970s, a period when the terms were largely synonymous.[67] For example, the 1983 Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll includes this passage: "known for its aggressive blues-based hard-rock style, Aerosmith was the top American heavy-metal band of the mid-Seventies."[68] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallas Knebs Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 several drummers have done this when playing in small, tight venues- it has the effect of amplifying the frequencies above 2200Hz more for the benefit of the drummer rather than the audience, the term heavy metal was placed on bands from outside the music industry usually by disapproving reporters etc, nearly always with an undertow of disapproval toward the lifestyle and choices associated with the folks who find these bands appealing. It was not a term of endearment from the mainstream. i heard that bonzo made his drums louder by putting aluminum foil inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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