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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
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    In the sixties there was a fad for band names that described impossible things or made absurd combinations - Pink Floyd started it, followed by Moby Grape, Chocolate Watchband, Iron Butterfly, The Lemon Pipers, Tangerine Dream, Legendary Pink Dots, Exploding Plastic Inevitable (was that a band?), et cetera.
    Not 60s. 80s avant wave, based in Holland.

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    Exploding Plastic Inevitable (was that a band?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    I was struggling in my OP and I'm still struggling to think of a heavy band of the 60s or 70s with Green in its name? Peter Green does not count as that is a person's real name.
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    There was Greenslade.
    Rats, beaten to it

    Maybe not heavy, but late 60's

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    But Peter Green's real name is Greenbaum.

    Green is not a heavy colour. Black and red are heavy colours. Metal bands must have names that denote extreme testosterone overload, like Slayer and Megadeath and Metallica. You couldn't have a death metal band and name it "Green Pillow" or "Yellow Fuzz."
    Green Day?

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    Green Bulldozer with Richie Greenmore

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    Azurite s/t, 1979 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...urite/azurite/





    Azurite stone has been known about since ancient times, and its name comes from an old Persian word that means 'blue color'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    Green Bulldozer with Richie Greenmore
    Green Slime would have made a better name...


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    ^^ I have that album. There are some great tracks on it.
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    Plenty of colours in bands these days:

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    Quote Originally Posted by mogrooves View Post
    Red Krayola
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    Yeeaa...righto then...you missed the hard rock bit right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Yeeaa...righto then...you missed the hard rock bit right?
    I think the hard rock was missed in the beginning.
    For instance I wouldn't consider King Crimson, or Pink Floyd hardrock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    For instance I wouldn't consider King Crimson, or Pink Floyd hardrock.
    Maybe not, but we did in the 70s in the UK. Again, retrospective definitions have clouded what was hard rock in the UK in the 70s. The best description would be to say that hard rock was the family head and some of the family members were heavy blues, heavy metal, space rock, acid rock, heavy R n B, and progressive ROCK, the emphasis being on rock i.e. the prog rock bands that were actually playing a heavy form of rock e.g. Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, not necessarily on every album though.

    Heavy rock in the 70s was what we called the form of hard rock that later became commonly known as heavy metal. Heavy metal is really a retrospective term that only came into common usage in the late 70s with NWOBHM i.e. despite the term NWOBHM, there was no OWOBHM, we simply called it heavy rock in the UK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Maybe not, but we did in the 70s in the UK (...) the prog rock bands that were actually playing a heavy form of rock e.g. Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, (...)
    Please specify a Pink Floyd song that was considered as a hard rock song back in the day in the UK. As a fan of Pink Floyd, I'm very curious and, also, I want to laugh a little on that "hard rock song by Pink Floyd" .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Svetonio View Post
    Please specify a Pink Floyd song that was considered as a hard rock song back in the day in the UK. As a fan of Pink Floyd, I'm very curious and, also, I want to laugh a little on that "hard rock song by Pink Floyd" .
    First you need to read up on what hard rock means because you obviously don't know what it meant in the UK in the 60s and 70s. Read some UK books mags from the period.


    Cream, Hendrix and Vanilla Fudge were all considered hard rock back in the day. And are you telling me that Pink Floyd made NO songs in the 60s or 70s that were heavier than Cream?

    If you think so, then you clearly haven't listened to Piper, Saucer, AHM or Meddle.

    Also, I've noticed you seem to have an inability to respect and accept what anyone from the UK, USA or anywhere else says about the musical history of their country.

    You ARE NOT the final authority on terminology. So get over yourself!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Svetonio View Post
    Please specify a Pink Floyd song that was considered as a hard rock song back in the day in the UK. As a fan of Pink Floyd, I'm very curious and, also, I want to laugh a little on that "hard rock song by Pink Floyd" .
    The Nile Song
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    Quote Originally Posted by Halmyre View Post
    The Nile Song
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    Careful With That Axe Eugene is heavy too, but it's [heavy] psychedelic rock not hard rock.

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    Orange Wedge No One But Me (1974)




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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    I think the hard rock was missed in the beginning.
    For instance I wouldn't consider King Crimson, or Pink Floyd hardrock.
    The case of "hard rock band King Crimson" is similar to above mentioned Pink Floyd. Mr Fripp certainly wanted heavier sound at Red, but he was caught another "zeigeist" and, although he touched different styles, he remained Prog throughout his career, so King Crimson never were a hard rock band, such as this:





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    Silverhead were a brilliant band indeed.









    That's the 70s genre called *hard rock*. A perfect example of it.
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    That's the 70s genre called *hard rock*. A perfect example of it.

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