robert@hpfcnml.UUCP (robert) (11/30/84)
What is the origin of the term "Heavy Metal"? -animal hplabs!hpfcla!robert
chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) (12/12/84)
Will you accept a guess? The term is probably derived "somehow" from Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild," specifically: I like smoke and lightning (or is it smokin' lightning?) Heavy metal thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin' that I'm under Just a guess, as I said, and it presumes that I've deciphered the lyrics correctly.
davids@utcs.UUCP (David Schwartz) (12/13/84)
If i'm not mistaken the term 'heavy metal' was first used by William S. Burroughs in his first book "The Naked Lunch", but I'm not sure in exactly what context it was used.
wfi@unc.UUCP (William F. Ingogly) (12/13/84)
I can't remember the context (this is going 'way back to the brain-damaged sixties) exactly, but the phrase "Heavy Metal Kids" was, I think, the origin of the term 'heavy metal' as originally applied to groups like Blue Cheer (geez, was it *that* long ago??). My admittedly vague recollection is that the phrase Heavy Metal Kids originally came from one of William Burrough's novels, possibly Nova Express (?). It's been a long time, so forgive if this is off-base.
mike@smu.UUCP (12/16/84)
Although I'm not sure when the term "heavy metal" was first applied to
music, but I know that the term was used by William S. Burroughs as
early as 1962 in "The Ticket That Exploded".
Check out his book "Naked Lunch" and find out what "Steely Dan"
means.
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===============rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (12/17/84)
> Will you accept a guess? The term is probably derived "somehow" > from Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild," specifically: > > I like smoke and lightning (or is it smokin' lightning?) > Heavy metal thunder > Racin' with the wind > And the feelin' that I'm under Which is, of course, derived from William S. Burroughs book "Naked Lunch". (I think it was "Naked Lunch", but I'm sure it was Burroughs.) -- "Those without forms must appear, however briefly, at the Bureau's Astral Offices on Nooker Street..." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
dat@hpcnoe.UUCP (dat) (12/23/84)
Uhhhh maybe it's to do with the weight of the guitars that they insist on lugging around and pretending to play? Nahhh.. how about that it came from the percentage of ferrous materials that is theorized is present in their otherwise atrophied brains? Nahh still too far fetched..... Hmmmm...looks like a toughie, animal, my man! We'd better look into it! Anyone REALLY know? Doctor Danger ..hpcnoe!dat or: ..hpcnoe!veeger!eunich!danger