From tyrone_topheavy@yahoo.com Fri Sep 28 07:26:21 2007
Subject:Re: Early Heavy Metal was Spooky Tooth

Well, they had no keyboards to speak of, but Black Sabbath is arguably the Godfathers of Heavy Metal.

Barry wrote: Other pre-heavy metal bands would have to include the MC5 who really did that working-class thing. And, Iron Butterfly kind of took psychedelic music in a heavy metal direction (with some great organ playing thrown in)!