...starts tonight with this and then continues from 9pm tomorrow on BBC 4.
Heavy Metal Britannia... (Merged)
Just noticed this gem in the schedules , featuring Zep , Sabs , Cream , Jimi , Purple etc . http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r600m . Followed by some Metal BBC sessions , Iron Maiden In Concert , and Black Sabbath's 'Family Tree' . Well worth the license fee ! . Time to get the Bud's in ! 
Originally Posted by FERAL SHARKEY:
“celebrating uk music with american beer seems wrong somehow .”
“celebrating uk music with american beer seems wrong somehow .”
hehe. Gets some Newcastle Brown in.
Originally Posted by Toby Latimer:
“Just noticed this gem in the schedules , featuring Zep , Sabs , Cream , Jimi , Purple etc . http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r600m . Followed by some Metal BBC sessions , Iron Maiden In Concert , and Black Sabbath's 'Family Tree' . Well worth the license fee ! . Time to get the Bud's in !”
“Just noticed this gem in the schedules , featuring Zep , Sabs , Cream , Jimi , Purple etc . http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r600m . Followed by some Metal BBC sessions , Iron Maiden In Concert , and Black Sabbath's 'Family Tree' . Well worth the license fee ! . Time to get the Bud's in !
”
Looks great does'nt it. My sky plus will be working overtime tonight
Originally Posted by FERAL SHARKEY:
“celebrating uk music with american beer seems wrong somehow .”
“celebrating uk music with american beer seems wrong somehow .”
You're right , I've got a few bottles of Samuel Smiths Pale Ale somewhere .....
This is one of the major downs of having to work night shift. Hopefully, BBC4 will repeat these at some point.
Dont know if your in the uk its on the bbi player mate http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...tal_Britannia/
Originally Posted by Sorry:
“This is one of the major downs of having to work night shift. Hopefully, BBC4 will repeat these at some point.”
“This is one of the major downs of having to work night shift. Hopefully, BBC4 will repeat these at some point.”
Watch it on line honey... it was a great night of TV... Love the bbc.
Originally Posted by Sorry:
“This is one of the major downs of having to work night shift. Hopefully, BBC4 will repeat these at some point.”
“This is one of the major downs of having to work night shift. Hopefully, BBC4 will repeat these at some point.”
Sunday 7th, 9pm onwards .....
Originally Posted by Glawster2002:
“takes me back to my youth! LOL”
“takes me back to my youth! LOL”
Takes me back to mine as well.
I've recorded all the programmes, as well as the Schubert documentary preceding, but not watched anything yet.
Originally Posted by revolver44:
“This was interesting enough but an absolute disgrace that Nazareth & Bad Company were overlooked.”
“This was interesting enough but an absolute disgrace that Nazareth & Bad Company were overlooked.”
I dont think Bad Company could be classed as heavy metal, whatever the definition of that is.
Originally Posted by Deep Purple:
“I dont think Bad Company could be classed as heavy metal, whatever the definition of that is.”
“I dont think Bad Company could be classed as heavy metal, whatever the definition of that is.”
They deserved a mention in the opening 10 minutes when they were showing the transition of british "hard rock" into heavy metal surely? A lot of the bands featured were more rock than metal imo. I'm not sure there's that much of a massive difference anyway. Deep Purple (your namesakes) are surely more "hard rock" than metal and they were all over the programme like a rash.
Originally Posted by revolver44:
“They deserved a mention in the opening 10 minutes when they were showing the transition of british "hard rock" into heavy metal surely? A lot of the bands featured were more rock than metal imo. I'm not sure there's that much of a massive difference anyway. Deep Purple (your namesakes) are surely more "hard rock" than metal and they were all over the programme like a rash.”
“They deserved a mention in the opening 10 minutes when they were showing the transition of british "hard rock" into heavy metal surely? A lot of the bands featured were more rock than metal imo. I'm not sure there's that much of a massive difference anyway. Deep Purple (your namesakes) are surely more "hard rock" than metal and they were all over the programme like a rash.”
This is the problem with the name.
When Sabbath and Purple started out, the term was heavy rock, or hard rock, rather than heavy metal.
Bad Company came later, and I wouldn't put them in any category of heavy.
Deep Purple are not what would be described as heavy metal, but they were one of the early bands that made popular the loud, hard, rocking style that developed into metal. It really was Sabbath, Purple, and Zeppelin that were tagged together, and really only Sabbath were genuinely heavy.
