best rock band from the U.K. (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

LOL - now ginger spice is certainly 'heavy rock'.

Some superb rock bands mentioned here. When do they become heavy though?

Pink Floyd do some really great stuff, it really rocks but is it heavy?

Beck, Clapton, Bad Company and many others do great blues, it is heavy? Check out Pork Pie Hat by Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts on Youtube, superb, in that series he also guests with Clapton and some 'beaut singers' including Joss Stone, who isn't even the best.

But when does rock become heavy? The Stones are fantastic, are they heavy?

Undisputed Heavy Rock - Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Quo, Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Deep Purple and my favourite Led Zep - does anyone not have Led Zep 4 - etc etc ???????????

I can't match Rebs superb anecdote but did see Blondie from 3ft away in the 70's. Thought the band were superb but Debbie was not my thing. She was certainly fetching though wearing a shirt with a paper poster wrapped round her waist for a skirt, that gradually wore away until it fell off leaving her in her tights. My mate was a fan and thought that was rather good. He was a very happy man and the grin on his face lasted for weeks. Not sure it was all down to the music. I may have preferred Susie Quatro but never saw her live, she could certainly rock.

I touched Miss Quatro once!.It was a gig in Watford in the late eighties,one of those 'Chicken in a basket' concerts,pretty sad really and just a handful of peolpe there (we were given free tickets and the booze was cheap!)anyway at the end of the gig she reached out to the fans on the dance floor and shook their hands,a long way from her seventies heyday I'm afraid.

Good list too Kevin!.I would call the Stones rock, but not 'heavy' as we knew it back in the day.As you say AC/DC,Quo,Purple,Led Zep,Black sabbath all heavy...the kids today don't know what 'Heavy' is....grumble,moan,grumble etc

Rob

 

[wayne556517]

Bon Scott was a sad loss.

Yep that it was way to young a Freo icon gone but NEVER forgotten.

 

[panda1gen]

Yep that it was way to young a Freo icon gone but NEVER forgotten.

Many happy times on youtube looking at the old stuff and still have the vinyl!

Whole lotta Rosie was my intro to ACDC, we had a pub with disco upstairs and rock downstairs, where I first heard this and smoke on the water to mention two. Old gezzer I am now.......

 

[eborris]

My top three:

Stones
Who
Kinks

 

[jazzeum]

LOL - now ginger spice is certainly 'heavy rock'.

Some superb rock bands mentioned here. When do they become heavy though?

Pink Floyd do some really great stuff, it really rocks but is it heavy?

Beck, Clapton, Bad Company and many others do great blues, it is heavy? Check out Pork Pie Hat by Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts on Youtube, superb, in that series he also guests with Clapton and some 'beaut singers' including Joss Stone, who isn't even the best.

But when does rock become heavy? The Stones are fantastic, are they heavy?

Undisputed Heavy Rock - Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Quo, Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Deep Purple and my favourite Led Zep - does anyone not have Led Zep 4 - etc etc ???????????

I can't match Rebs superb anecdote but did see Blondie from 3ft away in the 70's. Thought the band were superb but Debbie was not my thing. She was certainly fetching though wearing a shirt with a paper poster wrapped round her waist for a skirt, that gradually wore away until it fell off leaving her in her tights. My mate was a fan and thought that was rather good. He was a very happy man and the grin on his face lasted for weeks. Not sure it was all down to the music. I may have preferred Susie Quatro but never saw her live, she could certainly rock.

Kevin mate,

You haven't heard heavy until you've listened to some Blackmetal or Deathmetal. If you want heavy, try the likes of Behemeth, Gorgoroth or Gorerotted on for size. Then report back.

I part company with the Stones after Exile on Main Street but before that, some of the best ever. Aftermath, in my opinion, is one of the best albums ever made and Paint it Black one of the best songs ever done, thanks to the late Brian Jones. Stones were and are a blues band.

There's no underestimating the influence the blues had on British rock: the Stones, the Yardbirds, Animals, Ten Years After (listen to the Undead; great album), Beatles (to a much lesser extent). Blues is heavy in its own way: the playing, the emotion. Yardbirds was a band: Clapton, succeeded by Jeff Beck, succeeded by Jimmy Page. That's what I call wattage.

Speaking of Jeff Beck, the man is a god. Check out the way he plays guitar, constantly adjusting the volume and playing the whammy bar. What he does can't be replicated. Ronnie Scott's is a great album and DVD. I have both. Currently listening to Beck's Guitar Shop and Beck-Ola. Can't wait for his new cd to come out in April. Am seeing him again in mid June. Cannot wait.

El Becko helped to bring about heavy metal. Ever listen to Iron Butterfly? Only one song worth listening to: Inna Gadda Da Vidda baby. That's heavy and some fantastic playing. Still love and groove to that song.

 

[lancer]

You all forgot the Bee Gees, end of story.

 

[panda1gen]

Kevin mate,

You haven't heard heavy until you've listened to some Blackmetal or Deathmetal. If you want heavy, try the likes of Behemeth, Gorgoroth or Gorerotted on for size. Then report back.

I part company with the Stones after Exile on Main Street but before that, some of the best ever. Aftermath, in my opinion, is one of the best albums ever made and Paint it Black one of the best songs ever done, thanks to the late Brian Jones. Stones were and are a blues band.

There's no underestimating the influence the blues had on British rock: the Stones, the Yardbirds, Animals, Ten Years After (listen to the Undead; great album), Beatles (to a much lesser extent). Blues is heavy in its own way: the playing, the emotion. Yardbirds was a band: Clapton, succeeded by Jeff Beck, succeeded by Jimmy Page. That's what I call wattage.

Speaking of Jeff Beck, the man is a god. Check out the way he plays guitar, constantly adjusting the volume and playing the whammy bar. What he does can't be replicated. Ronnie Scott's is a great album and DVD. I have both. Currently listening to Beck's Guitar Shop and Beck-Ola. Can't wait for his new cd to come out in April. Am seeing him again in mid June. Cannot wait.

El Becko helped to bring about heavy metal. Ever listen to Iron Butterfly? Only one song worth listening to: Inna Gadda Da Vidda baby. That's heavy and some fantastic playing. Still love and groove to that song.

Brad

Thanks for the tips, will check them out.

In the 70's I was mainly into jazz, saw Buddy Rich, Kenton, Herman and Ellington for example - now there is nothing heavier than an 18 piece orchestra playing blues!

 

[tdubel]

Ok, here is my view:

Classics:
1. Beatles
2. Clapton, et al
3. Led Zep
4. The Who
5. Stones

My era:

1. Ozzy Osbourne - his longevity is legendary from Black Sab to solo, no one is more successful or does it better. He is the Godfather.
2. Iron Maiden
3. Judas Priest - Halford's vocal range is incredible, he is a trained Opera Singer!
4. Black Sabbath with Dio (another good combination, way different from original)
5. PLant and Page offshoot bands

 

[jazzeum]

Interesting point about Rob Halford being a trained opera singer. Some of the metal musicians are classicly trained and superb musicians. Not everybody likes the music but some of these guys are incredibly skilled guitarists. I've heard some of the death metal guitarists play classical music and you can tell they're gifted musicians.

 

[panda1gen]

Interesting point about Rob Halford being a trained opera singer. Some of the metal musicians are classicly trained and superb musicians. Not everybody likes the music but some of these guys are incredibly skilled guitarists. I've heard some of the death metal guitarists play classical music and you can tell they're gifted musicians.

Agreed about Rob Halford, Judas Priest really benefit from his range and power, I also like Paul Rodgers as a lead rock singer, check out Queen and Paul Rodgers - Cosmos rockin live in kharkhov, all right now etc.

For range though, what about the guy from the Dutch band Focus - hocus pocus

 

[panda1gen]

Ok, here is my view:

Classics:
1. Beatles
2. Clapton, et al
3. Led Zep
4. The Who
5. Stones

My era:

1. Ozzy Osbourne - his longevity is legendary from Black Sab to solo, no one is more successful or does it better. He is the Godfather.
2. Iron Maiden
3. Judas Priest - Halford's vocal range is incredible, he is a trained Opera Singer!
4. Black Sabbath with Dio (another good combination, way different from original)
5. PLant and Page offshoot bands

No arguments with this lot Tom

 

[tdubel]

No arguments with this lot Tom

Thanks Kevin!

Yeah, I am a product of childhood in the 80s 90s Heavy Metal with all the right Classic Rock Influences!!!

PS< I forgot Pink Floyd, I must have been smoking....


TD

 

[UKReb]

Kevin

Brad's right you aint heard heavy until you have played Black & Death metal and I will also add Doom & Gothic metal -but it now grates on this old man's ears.

My heavy metal bands such as discussed here on this thread grew out folk, rock, jazz and blues with the musicians really doing no more than cranking up the volume and adding a catchy riff. Heavily criticised by all the talking head experts at the time due according to them that this music lacked any structural roots-Humbug! we loved it-we didn't know what to call it as even the bands themselves didn't until some wag named it heavy metal most probably borrowed from William S Burroughs beat novel The Soft Machine.

All the bands were copying each other and making it up as they went along but turning out some real classic rock with a twist. Led Zep pinched from King Crimson their distorted power chord based technical music and turned it into a whole new experience with Yes taking it completely in another direction and so and so on

Subsequently, all these Doom Death Gothic and Dark metals are no more than modern sub-genres spawned out of the real old "heavy" rock UK Brit bands.

Reb

 

[Rob]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan09/images/ClassicTracks_01.jpg

Kev,heres the mighty Quo belting out 'Caroline' at the start of a gig I was at at the Hammersmith Odeon back in 77.My god it was loud!.I was on the balcony looking down and could feel it move as thousands of headbangers jumped up and down at Francis Rossi's command .I remember halfway through the gig something kept catching my eye,I soon realised it was bits of ceiling tile falling from above,the result of that wall of speakers behind them!

Rob

 

[jazzeum]

None of you have lived until you are forced to listen to the likes of the groups that I mention. Give me Lamb of God anyday!

For this reason alone, I can't wait till the young lad heads to college this fall

 

[panda1gen]

Kevin

Brad's right you aint heard heavy until you have played Black & Death metal and I will also add Doom & Gothic metal -but it now grates on this old man's ears.

My heavy metal bands such as discussed here on this thread grew out folk, rock, jazz and blues with the musicians really doing no more than cranking up the volume and adding a catchy riff. Heavily criticised by all the talking head experts at the time due according to them that this music lacked any structural roots-Humbug! we loved it-we didn't know what to call it as even the bands themselves didn't until some wag named it heavy metal most probably borrowed from William S Burroughs beat novel The Soft Machine.

All the bands were copying each other and making it up as they went along but turning out some real classic rock with a twist. Led Zep pinched from King Crimson their distorted power chord based technical music and turned it into a whole new experience with Yes taking it completely in another direction and so and so on

Subsequently, all these Doom Death Gothic and Dark metals are no more than modern sub-genres spawned out of the real old "heavy" rock UK Brit bands.

Reb

Bob

No disagreement here. The different themes are interesting though.

Blues - Albatross Fleetwood Mac late 60's to Rumours late 70's -

Quo were a bit different - pink floyd were unique imo

- and there was this eclectic mix of deep purple, black sabbath, led zep, whitesnake, asia, judas priest, saxon, thin lizzy, budgie etc etc

The more plastic rock or whatever they called it was Yes as you mentioned, loads of my mates at school were into them, genesis, focus, hawkwind, supertramp - I'm getting tired!

I wasn't as keen on the electric experiments, could put up with Camel but the German stuff was too weird for me.

Funny how they mixed and merged, but the blues and rock and roll were underpinning everything. We should probably mention the US influence here, loved Lynryd Skynryd for example - if I ever need a lift I replay their Whistle Test version of Freebird - awesome.

 

[panda1gen]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan09/images/ClassicTracks_01.jpg

Kev,heres the mighty Quo belting out 'Caroline' at the start of a gig I was at at the Hammersmith Odeon back in 77.My god it was loud!.I was on the balcony looking down and could feel it move as thousands of headbangers jumped up and down at Francis Rossi's command .I remember halfway through the gig something kept catching my eye,I soon realised it was bits of ceiling tile falling from above,the result of that wall of speakers behind them!

Rob

Rob

I have a dvd from bbc on quo, interviews and old to new footage - same fans just older. Brill t is pretty good and reminds me of younger days with mates at school dances and Uni with hair down to my arse. Oh happy days.

 

[UKReb]

None of you have lived until you are forced to listen to the likes of the groups that I mention. Give me Lamb of God anyday!

For this reason alone, I can't wait till the young lad heads to college this fall

I can beat that Brad my daughter took me to see Mayhem which made my ears bleed and then some months later had the audacity to ask me if I would take her to see Venom

Needless to say I threw her a rain check.

Bob

 

[Rob]

Rob

I have a dvd from bbc on quo, interviews and old to new footage - same fans just older. Brill t is pretty good and reminds me of younger days with mates at school dances and Uni with hair down to my arse. Oh happy days.

I hear you brother!.Happy days indeed!

Rob

 

[UKReb]

Kevin

Lynyrd Skynyrd!!!!!-now you're talking real good old Southern Rock

Music that just goes with the figures I collect

Bob