Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V7 #153

[Lucas Bleicher <bleicher@who.net>]

Jim Topp wrote:

> I don't know anything about this "galloping bass" stuff, and I
> generally try to avoid heavy metal as much as possible. But I had
> always thought that the first heavy metal song was The Kinks' "You
> Really Got Me," due to Dave Davies' distorted guitar sound. This
> would certainly predate any Who songs.

I disagree. Yeah, "you really got me" was the first song to have guitar
distortion, but, musically, it's not very different from what was being
done at the time...