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Further, "heavy bottom" was a term I heard from rock musicians in the late 60s. Such-and-such a band "has a heavy bottom."
Not to be confused with the Spinal Tap song, "Big Bottom" (I'm sure, on a scale of one to 11).
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This is a cultural, medical, and ironic addendum to the discussion.
In my teenage years I was a good tennis player and a very good ... competitive on a national level ... sailboat racer. I spent a lot of time in the sun, without benefit substantial clothing or chemical protection.
In my twenties and thirties my lifestyle changed a tad. I spent a lot of time indoors, all night, with rock, jazz, and r&b musicians, on occasion ... not when I was working for the Times, which frowned on it ... engaged in some of the vices associated with the era, some of them chemical.
So here I am at 60 and guess which of the two lifestyles has risen up with a threat to kill me?
Not a very serious threat so far, thankfully. Just enough to set off a Code Orange irony alert.
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My understanding has been that the name Led Zeppelin came about as a reaction to someone's comment that their music would go over like a lead balloon.
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Yep, that's pretty much the story as I understand it. But, believe it or not, I can check. One of the guys I work with drinks with Jimmy Page from time to time. I'll prime him to find out and report back!
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Great, Pfranz. I hate to be carrying ULs around in my JDM®. Not that finding out will get it out; it'll just get a UL stamp on it.
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maybe it was the same guy ... the guitarist, what's his name, from Ten Years After, who told Ozzie Osborne that his band wouldn't go very far named Black Sabbath.
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You mean Alvin Lee?
Ozzie's latterday resurgence of meta-fame is rather getting on my wick. Black Sabbath was never one of my favourite groups ...
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...led a band called Love, didn't he?
Hey, Mike: have you posted "heavy metal" yet on the wordorigins board, cited by Faldage above? That's a fine collection of etymologists and usage mavens.
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Welcome aBoard, Mike. Can you show a copy of your review? If so, perhaps you might want to send it to these people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_musicClick on or scroll down to: Origins of "heavy metal".
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Alvin Lee led Love? (jeez, that array of words hurt). I forget which Lee was which. The Love Lee was the guy ... currently in jail, I think, who was a black guy singing like a white guy (Jagger) who was singing like a black guy.
The Ten Years After Lee ... I should get off my butt and look this up, or call my rock marketing wiz son who knows everything about music, was the one cited in Mojo recently as having told Ozzie that he would never amount to anything using the name Black Sabbath.
Wait ... perhaps Arthur Lee was Love and Alvin Lee was Ten Years After. In any event, the Love Lee was American and black and the other one white and British. Does that help?
I'm more confused than ever, which was considerable.
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