Re: dillon/dylan

[JOELTLE515@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/8/2003 12:29:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Sroundtable@xxxxxxx writes:

> UGH!!  My bad.  I just realized it.  It was an oversight.  I did know it 
> was Dylan.  Thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> Mc
> 

s'ok.    by the way, here's my conclusions to this whole KISS/ACDC thing.  
first of all, those two bands are not "guilty pleasures" since most "cool 
people" dig em.  a guilty pleasure is like barry manilow or John denver and i'm sure 
you can agree, KISS and AC/DC don't belong in that category.   and you can't 
really choose one out of that whole batch (including the who), it's hard for 
some people including me. those bands are great in their own ways. in fact, 
they did their own thing, that's what's great about them.   even though zeppelin 
may look and/or act like a who clone, their music was a whole different story, 
capturing some kinda mysterious underworld with amazing lyrical imagery and 
some heavy guitar and drum riffs weren't too bad either (yes, the who did the 
same thing but zeppelin was, I dunno, its hard to explain).  there's one thing 
that should be pointed out though. as far as history is concerned (in my book 
anyway), the who started everything that's hard rock today. punk, metal, they 
started it.  in 1965, you couldn't get any more "punk" than "hope I die before 
I get old" from "my generation". this would lead to many punk bands getting 
together and who would often later credit the who as an influence (the ramones, 
the clash, and even the infamous sex pistols). and of course they were the 
first to do "instrument smashing" which some "punk" bands are doing to this very 
day from nirvana to green day to "and you will know us by the trail of dead" 
and to the "loveable" good charlotte. even early punkers the MC5 would take 
the instrument smashing thing to the max.    now, in my mind, the first "metal" 
song was "helter skelter" by the beatles, released on their white album in 
1968 and was written after mccartney read townshend saying that he had written 
the dirtiest, raunchiest song ever (which would be "I can see for miles") and it 
inspired paul to write something "dirtier", and thus "helter skelter" was 
born and so would later the controversey surrounding it, thanks to a lunatic mass 
murderer charles manson. so, in a way, the who started "heavy metal" as well 
and would also, in a way, start zeppelin when entwistle and keith moon were 
jamming with Jimmy page and one of them suggested that Jimmy'd call the band 
"Led zeppelin".    and so it goes, the who pretty much started the whole hard 
rock trend.  but as far as picking them out of AC/DC, KISS and zeppelin, for some 
people, it's quite difficult since they were all great originals in their own 
ways. I hope this cleared some minds. ; )