The Yard Birds

Eric Clapton-OG Lead Guitar

Jeff Beck replaced Clapton

Jimmy page replace Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck Group

What do they sing on listening list?

What group did Jeff Beck leave to start the "Jeff Beck Group?"

Members?

*Rock My Plimsoul*

The Yardbirds

members:

Jeff Beck- guitar

Ron Wood- Bass (later played for Rolling Stones)
Rod Stewart- vocals

HUMBLE PIE

*30 days in the hole*

steve marriott-guitar/vocals

peter frampton- guitar

THE FACES

what do they sing?

how did they originate?

final members?

*stay with me*

started as "small faces"

Steve Mariott-g/v quit small faces started "humble pie"

ron wood and rod stewart quit the jeff beck group to start "the faces"

ron wood-g

rod stewart-v

Black Crowes

*jealous again*

chris robinson

married kate hudson!

LED ZEPPELIN

members:

robert plant- vocals

jimmy page-guitar

john bonham-drums

john paul jones-bass

yardbirds left jimmy page stranded.

he added new members...finished the YB commitments

changed their name to LED ZEPPELIN

ripped off old blues songs, hated by critics

rolling stone denounced them forever

broke up due to John Bonhams death by partying

BLACK SABBATH

*black sabbath, paranoid, sabbath bloody sabbath*

members

Ozzy Osbourne- vocals

origination: saw people standing in line for horror film called black sabbath, wrote a song by that name, and named the band after it.

wanted to add 'evil' vibe and put on a horror show for the audience

MOUNTAIN

*mississippi queen*

members

Leslie West-g/v

Felix Pappalardi-b/v known for producing cream record

and produced leslie west's solo album

Mountain bc he's a GIANT GUY!

DEEP PURPLE

*smoke on the water*

about how a fan at a frank zappa and the mothers show shot off a flare gun, and burned the casino down

one cow bell survived.

ALICE COOPER

*i'm eighteen, school's out*

original anti hero, sinister, wore snakes and gave shocking performances

VINCENT FURNIER is his real name!

salvador dali was a fan of cooper

KISS

*Deuce, RnR all night*

members

paul stanley v/rg

gene simmons v/b

ace frehley v/lg

peter criss v/d

from New York makeup scene, scary rather than sexual

wore complete makeup

similar to beatles, whether you knew music, you knew the group and what they looked like

kiss played great live shows, and made a very successful live album that made them big.

ACDC

*dirty deeds done dirt cheap, back in black*

one of the first australian groups to be successful in USA

Bon Scott- Vocals- partied to death

Brian Johnson- Replaced Bon Scott

Back in Black to mourn his death

AEROSMITH

*dream on, walk this way*

power ballad: big guitar and tenderness

kept the same linup from whey formed in 1970 until 2010

R&B boogie approach to hard rock

after they got successfull they let the sex drugs and rock n roll lifestyle get to them, played poorly getting worse and worse until rehab saved them...made big comeback in the 1980s with run dmc

RUSH

*2112: Overature/ The temples of Syrinx*

blues based power trio

first album not very successful

new drummer for second album changed the music to more artsy and virtuosic, less bluesy

chose to record art-rock scifi album and found niche

Very successful album

Neil Pert-Drums

Geddy Lee- Vocals

highest pitched vocals anyone had ever heard at that time

JUDAS PRIEST

THE RUNAWAYS

*cherry bomb*

Girl Group 16 & 17 years old

Joan Jett-16-guitar

Lita Ford-17-Lead Guitar

HEART

*barracuda*

european operatic inflection

sisters

Ann and Nancy Wilson

VAN HALEN

*eruption, running with the devil*

Reinvented guitar playing in rock music

less blues, more classical faster virtuosic

Eddie Van Halen- GUITAR

hammer on- pull off technique

MOTORHEAD

*motorhead*

lead singer was invited on stage for the Ramone's last show ever.

LEMMY

DIAMOND HEAD

*am i evil*

Metallica LOVED diamond head and covered this song

IRON MAIDEN

DEF LEPPARD

*photograph*

most successful of the

N.W.O.B.H.M

new wave of british heavy metal