(0905) Morning all. There are some not wonderful things at this end, healthwise and thus I had an extra snooze this morning after the JCF Bach, under whose piece, incidentally, I’ve now added a few lines of history. (1146)
6. The day the music died … next chapter
Quora came to the rescue again with a potted history of “early metal” via a chap called Adam Wiltshire:
“For the best part of a decade, I have been arguing that there is one band that does not get enough credit for, in my opinion, being the founding grandfathers of what we would now call metal.
In the early to mid 60’s, the prevalent music in England was blues and jazz. There came a band which changed that, both taking blues and jazz, and for lack of a better word, evolving it, and in turn creating the distinctive guitar sound we all still enjoy today.
In 1964, The Kinks released ‘You really got me’. Originally written to be a bluesy/jazzy number by Ray Davies, vocalist and song writer for the band. It was intended to be a sax and piano number, until Ray’s brother, Dave Davies and lead guitarist decide to play the sax line on guitar to make it heavier and more rocky. They recorded the jazzy/blues version song on sax and piano first to appease their record label Pye.
After recording the laidback bluesy version, Ray decided he preferred the song played on the guitar and asked Pye to re-record with Dave playing the riffs on guitar. The label refused, up to that point their releases had been pretty big flops. Ray refused to plug the song and was basically a pain in the arse for the label because they refused to fund their re-record.
The band funded themselves and recorded the song with the guitar and without the sax and piano.
Dave took it one step further. The story goes he created the distinctive heavy, distorted sound by taking a razor blade to his amp, and poked holes in the speaker cone with a pin. That heavy distorted sound, in my opinion, gave birth to heavy metal in 1964.”
Notes
- In light grey … a giveaway that it’s an American article
- In orange … a matter of opinion and the subject of this post item
- In light blue … funded themselves? Or some lobby funded them?
Dear reader, this is where databases play their role, mental notes set down some time ago. Anyone who’s bothered following these musical musings of mine for years (even if only one or two people) will have noted my fixation with melody, riffs, a groove, even if loud and heavy and at the same time … I’ve a deep dislike of discordant shrieking for the sake of it, like a victim having a vasectomy or being emasculated, which is very much produced by guitars and metal-freaks’ strangled shrieking (though of course, saxes can do that too … free form jazz).
That immediately sets me, for one, at odds with those whose sensibilities are more late 60s and 70s, rather than my 20s, 50s and early 60s. So yes, I do very much make a distinction between, on the one side, Link Wray’s Rumble, sax songs from the mid 50s to the mid 60s, rockabilly, rock steady and that crucial factor … “fun” … versus “clever”, “dystopic”, 12 atonal Frankfurt School agonised-soul noise.
In the latter, I dump Dizzy Gillespie, the felonious Monk, all that “clever” leftwing howling with no soul to it … and so to its logical conclusion … Lou Reed’s metal machine “music”, which had gone too far for even us clever-clever, hip, bright young things of the late 60s, through to punk and the soulless 70s … ELP, Pink Floyd et al.
And straight to why … do you recall the Laurel Canyon story many have posted on, where people like Zappa, of Manson mentality, were plants with three letter agency connections, plus ample funding (Zappa’s father plus many military, e.g. Aquino who went on to write the satanic bible) and to that, add McMartin preschool tunnels, Disney tunnels, Omaha airforce base and renditions … the whole thrust resulting in Epstein and “the elite”. The island.
Kinks “self” funded? Pull the other one.
And look at Ten Years After, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin … which we thought were the cool gang, the clever, grown up “music”, having thrown off our childish innocence … I am sure many a reader now, here, sees exactly where this is leading. The Yardbirds … from R&B with an edge to the free form Page-Beck “I’m a Man“.
Classic case of melodic riffs then captured by the possessed metal guitarist. Every so often, they drop back into a familiar groove from the sheer dystopia, always disguised of course as talented and clever … they’re always “clever”, aren’t they, self- congratulatory? They must do that before the kids latch onto the nasty side of it … just small doses of “jamming”, bereft of order and fulfilment. … then back to the groove.
Lou Reed tried it with no groove whatever … it bombed … kids neither understood nor wanted.
And my own first RL “romance” was a watershed … her National Velvet, 50s style innocence, yet with bravado (Janet tied her kirtle green) … seeing me as some sort of driven excitement, until I tried to lie her down on a sand dune. In other words, the spectre of rape which did not happen because my background, my mentality, my soul, a year older than her, was very 50s cultural Christianity, knight in white armour and I never would have. Not that summer anyway.
But what if my soul had been from the later punk era? From the discordant, metal-possessed era of the 70s? In other words, what if I’d been born seven or even ten years after?
What then? Drug-fuelled, with her on the Pill?
My parents and hers only let her go freely with me, no supervision, because there was some “old element” inside me, in her too, the very element produced by that more innocent era of cultural Christianity … in other words, I’d brushed up against all those biblical homilies in my youth without being from a religious family in any way.
It was the zeitgeist of an older era and it is precisely so many voices today from Gen Zee who are calling for a return to those times … to the values of those times, to human integrity, Restored.
To be attacked of course by the possessed crazies as far right and nazi.
Expressed as it just has been in this (until now) unredacted post item … the whole thing starts to make sense … and yet another factor … the possessed perp, afterwards, having an eternity for broken remorse … well, look at so many Epstein perps drawn in, in this century.
How many of you saw the Tucker-Huckabee confrontation? It brings in Zionism, Askenazis, Khazars … the Babylonian Captivity … just as in ancient days.
Oh, mocks the autosceptic or one with an Agenda … yeah sure, Jimbo, as if ancient days affect us today.
And my rejoinder … not unlike a crescent moon 1400 years ago, eh? Visited upon us in the west right now.
And who are the heroes defending us today? Amelia and that female honey of a policewoman currently storming X.
Where are the valiant men of yesteryear?
Oh, they’re with antifa, no, lynching Trump supporters ?
Just before this song below, a tweet from last evening:
