The History of Heavy Podcast

The Ramones invented a genre by combining their love of the Beach Boys, the Ronettes and the Stooges, adopting a fake surname, sharing a leather jacket, jeans & t-shirt uniform, adding a large dose of adolescent humor, mixed with a trash culture sensibility and then amping up the tempo in 2 minute sonic outbursts. They were groundbreaking, hilarious and massively influential; but we still have to ask: were they heavy?       HHP Spotify Playlist  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62     HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1     HHP Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy     @historyofheavy 

No two words are more synonymous with heavy metal than Judas Priest. Yes, Sabbath had invented the genre several years prior to Priest's formation and later Iron Maiden and Metallica would both take the genre into stadiums but it's Priest's leather and studs image, the twin lead guitar attack of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing and the iconic wail of Rob Halford that would come to define what the layperson would understand to be stereotypically metal. That all begins in 1976 on their second LP The Sad Wings of Destiny and is no better sonically represented than on that albums centerpiece, "Victim of Changes."         HHP Spotify Playlist  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62     HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1     HHP Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy     @historyofheavy 

You would be hard pressed to find a more controversial or polarizing figure in the world of music or anywhere else than Ted Nugent. His views on politics, the environment, women, or any other subject are extreme to say the least and we could not disagree with every one of them more. However, his impact on hard rock is undeniable. From an incredible run that began with The Amboy Dukes in the late sixties and continued into a solo career that ran the entire decade of the 1970's, no chronology of heavy music would be complete without the Motor City Madman. We've chosen the title track of his sophomore LP from 1976 as the centerpiece of our conversation about his music but spend a good majority of this episode trying to answer the question: is it possible to separate the art from the artist?      HHP Spotify Playlist  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62     HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1     HHP Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy     @historyofheavy 

Fela Kuti recorded more than 60 albums, is regarded as the principal innovator of the Afrobeat genre, was an outspoken political voice for the oppressed people of Nigeria and one of the most important figures in the history of world music. But how does he fit into our chronology of heavy? Mike & Dave break it down.      Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading   Miriam Makeba https://open.spotify.com/artist/18RkLKfeoUgZflWv9os25W?si=3UX0R-PDSGSrhXbhO3Xtlw     Bobi Wine https://open.spotify.com/artist/6d7TH1WmN4YI15WAygkuMR?si=hrEGxnDxS_qj4JUM-leazA     HHP Spotify Playlist  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62     HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1     HHP Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy     @historyofheavy 

The proto-punk/garage rock band Death (not the Florida Death metallers) formed in 1971, released one independent single in 1976, broke up in 1977 and then were essentially completely forgotten about. That is until record collectors, seeking rare artifacts began to unearth the 500 copies of that record in the early 2000s. It eventually made its way to Drag City Records who released Death's first full length LP …For All the World To See in 2009. In 2014 the feature length documentary A Band Called Death was released and finally, some forty years after the fact, Death were recognized as the ground breaking, genre bending talent that they were. With the benefit hindsight, we discuss where they fit in our chronology of heavy.    RIP Clive Davis   Recommended Listening, Watching & Reading   A Band Called Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmfsnfMHMc     HHP Spotify Playlist  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qkURdYib8hLz8s20D9yTC?si=1526168526854a62     HHP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the.history.of.hea?_t=ZP-8z7me40bcbu&_r=1     HHP Instagram https://instagram.com/the_history_of_heavy     @historyofheavy