Coinage of Musical Term "Heavy Metal"

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:38 PM -0500 3/24/03, Fritz Juengling wrote:
>I remember reading an interview with Dave Davies of the Kinks claiming that
>HE had INVENTED heavy metal back in the early/mid 60's (You Really Got Me,
>All Day and All of the Night, etc.), but I do not remember him claiming that
>he invented the term, tho.
>Fritz
>

Really?  Actually, I don't think of either the Kinks (or at least the
Kinks of the above numbers) or Led Zeppelin (at least of Stairway to
Heaven) as heavy metal, just as straight rock.   But that's just my
native listener's intuition; I'm no expert here.

larry

>  >
>>  That's interesting. I had laways heard (not from
>>  reliable sources) that the term heavy metal was
>>  related to the Le(a)d in Led Zeppelin. I remember John
>>  Entwhistle saying that Led Zeppelin took their name
>>  from a phrase describing a bad gig: "We went down like
>>  a lead zeppelin."
>>
>>  soundsl ike the two are unrelated though.
>>
>  > Ed
>>