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Originally Posted by fritter
xEMGx was actually talking about Led Zeppelin I think. Who wouldn't consider Motorhead a metal band?
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I took it he was talking about Motorhead but looking again it could have easily been Zeppelin. Anyways its the case of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO, Scorpions, AC/DC etc all being regarded as heavy groups in the 1970`s (which they were) it was only by the time of post NWOBHM that the labels came in of who was metal and who wasn`t. As a footnote and a general rule of thumb, if there was a blues influence which a load of those groups had then they weren`t metal but hard rock. Also the twin lead guitar which both Judas Priest and later Iron Maiden had was very much an early metal trait and the Scorpions definitely had this.