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"Well, okay... Yeah, there was a lot of folks going back and takin' lyrics and a few licks from the old blues players and then addin' their own take on it and then saying that what they were playin' was the blues??? Huh??? Not really..."

There is a reason all of these groups were descrives as "Blues Based" and it wasn't just because of taking a "few lyrics and licks". They used the vocab/coloring of the Blues

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"Dylan was more a blues player than Zephin or the Stones and Sabbath, IMHO, wasn't even close to playin' the blues..."

I disagree. IMO, there was nothing bluesy about Dylan's guitar work in the Delta based style sense..Dylan had more in common with the East Coast Blues guys like Blind Willie Mctell. Zeppelin, Stones and Sabaath were based on the Delta and Eletric Chicago/Texas style.

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"I mean, when one really listens to the blues and studies it then it is a real leap to think of any of these bands a blues bands 'cuase they weren't... Mightta riped off some lyrics and few licks but didn't even do that all that well...lol..."

Again, these bands /players (Clapton, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Sabbath etc...) were all playing blues based guitar stuff but with tons of amplification and distortion along with Jazz influenced improv.

It's pretty clear as day to hear the blues vocab/colorings/stylings when these guys play the guitar.Some examples..



Sabbath

BLACK SABBATH NIB 1970


Black Sabbath Live 1970 Paranoid)

Zeppelin,


Led Zeppelin Black Dog 1973

Led Zeppelin-I Can't Quit You Babe)

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...now, where the first "Metal" (usually attributed to Sabbath) comes in is when Sabbtah started making songs based around the "Diabolus in Musica (Devils Interveral)/TriTone/Flatted 5th combined with scary and Satanic themes, is when the first "Metal" was born. As seen below..

Sabbath @ around 2:06

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (live paris 1970)




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