Agreed. Geezer was the glue that held the music together, even if Iommi was the main man.
Band was a tight, cohesive unit anyways.
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Every great band needs a solid foundation.
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Agreed. Quite a few haven't had one though.
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I can't think of any great bands with an average rhythm section off the top of my head.
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R.E.M. ?
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R.E.M. had a great rhythm section (for their first few albums at least)
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The album from which all m/ was spawned
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Actually, there were bands labeled heavy metal before Black Sabbath even formed...
The first song ever labeled "heavy metal" was 1967's "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf.
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That was more proto-metal
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Any bands labelled heavy metal before Sabbath weren't really heavy metal.
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But the term "heavy metal" came from the lyrics of "Born to be Wild" soo... wouldn't the first band ever labeled a sub-
genre be a definite member of that sub-genre?
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They dont sound metal though
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@Ars: Not really, Steppenwolf didn't sound any more 'metal' than a lot of other hard rock bands around at the time. It's just that it had the words "heavy metal" in the song's lyrics so people labelled it as such.
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Okay, so you're saying the originators of a genre can no longer be considered part of a genre due to time?
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Asides from the t/t and N.I.B. I don't think this is that much "metal" tbh, they went to real metal on MoR
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look at Green River
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But I'd consider Green River to be the the definition of grunge due to the fact that they created it.
How is Steppenwolf any different for heavy metal?
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Steppenwolf can be considered metal, yeah, but if we like to count proto-metal, we could also count Helter Skelter
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Okay, so you're saying the originators of a genre can no longer be considered part of a genre due to time?
No, I'm not saying that at all, where the hell did you get that from?
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oh wow Ars you actually like this? surprised
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