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OO... shodnail was there ! bahahahaha
seriously, I dont recall Kiss being called metal because I dont recall the term that early on. Possibly not in the early days of AC/DC either but around that time. Still thats around here, I have no idea what they were calling things in England or the urban areas at that time.
My feelings on this subject is just because music changed, metal in this example does not make bands that were metal bands no longer metal bands. Metal was more than just about the music, it was an attitude and perhaps a lifestyle of the youth in the early days. In essence hardrock became metal and you didnt even hear the term "hardrock" for quite a while. Today we have alot of youngsters that knowitall because it comes natural... trying to say the old metal bands were not really metal. I have even heard this regarding bands such as Maiden and Queensryche. Granted Queensryche moved away from full blown metal as they matured but they still started as a metal band and maintained elements of metal in their music. Point being people need to stop trying to rewrite history and deal with THE FACTS... and that is at one time metal bands still knew how to rock. Hardrock evolved into metal and many bands applied elements from "blues" and elements of "metal" and they.... rocked, but somewhere in there it became called metal because it fit the whole atmosphere of the thing. Abrasive distorted guitars, smashing crashing cymbols, pounding drums and raw vocals.... wow... sounds like hardrock
AC/DC, VanHalen, Scorpions, Kiss(yikes and fading) were all instrumental of the changing sound in the late 70's. They were the new guard as bands like Zep, Purple, Heep were comming to an end, falling apart, in limbo, or having identity crisis. These new bands were the sound of the times, the sound of the youth at that time and they started using the term "metal" regularly.
Its all rock anyhow, 3-5 people with guitars, basses, drums, maybe a keyboard and a screamer and they rock, either you love it or you dont
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