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It was a very large generalization. The song however, was one of the first to use chromatic and diatonic riffing in it.

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There are several songs from the 60s that are in a heavy metal like format, not really metal, but they could qualify as proto metal or songs that influenced metal in some way or another...Songs like.

You Really Got Me Now - The Kinks
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
The Nile Song - Pink Floyd
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
Easy Livin - Ulriah Heep
Stone Cold Crazy - Queen
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Kick Out The Jams - MC5

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What about:

Pushin' Too Hard by The Seeds

&

Vanilla Fudge's version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On"

Those two from, 1966 & 1967, respectively show how much the 60's were starting to head into a harder rock/heavy metal sound.

I have to admit my favorite type of Classic Rock is the psychedelic rock of the late-1960's & the later electrical type of progressive rock of the 1970's.

My favorite Classic Rock artists, in no particular order:

1. The Rolling Stones
2. The Beatles (including most of John, George, Paul & Ringo solo work)
3. Led Zeppelin
4. The Yardbirds/Eric Clapton/Cream
5. Heart from the 1970's
6. The Kinks
7. Blue Oyster Cult
8. Deep Purple
9. The Doors
10. Electric Light Orchestra
11. Bad Company
12. Queen
13. Jimi Hendrix

(Although this might change).

I also love these three ladies of Classic Rock 'n' Roll (one dead, the other two still living):

Janis Joplin
Joan Jett
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Some of my favorite tunes of Classic Rock (not covered by my favorite artists):

1. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's lp version of The Boss' "Blinded By The Light"
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd's live version of "Freebird"
3. Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"
4. Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind"
5. Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street"
6. The Eagles' "Hotel California"
7. The Byrds' "Eight Miles High"
8. Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down A Dream"
9. Asia's "Heat Of The Moment"
10. Yes' "The Owner Of A Lonely Heart"
11. The Guess Who's "Laughing", "Undun", "These Eyes" & "American Woman"
12. Foghat's "Slow Ride"
13. Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me"
14. Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Lovin' Fun"
15. Heart's "Magic Man" & "Barracuda"
16. The Pretenders' "Middle Of The Road"
17. Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer"
18. Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster"

Three from the 1990's into this decade:

19. Foo Fighter's "Learn To Fly"
20. The Hives' "Tick Tick Boom"
21. Oasis' "Champagne Supernova"


The only artist I dread listening too: Stevie Nicks, including when she was the lead singer of Fleetwood Mac (thankfully and mercifully Nicks wasn't always the lead singer on Fleetwood Mac's tunes) (Sorry to any Nicks fan, but she wasn't a great singer, I think she was a country singer in a Rock 'n' Roll band, her singing voice gives me a headache!)

I'm not a really great fan of too much heavy metal. Although, there are some artists in the subgenre's some songs that I like, including with Blue Oyster Cult, Motley Crue, Deep Purple and Ozzy Osbourne, etc.