Often regarded as one of Deep Purple's proteges, this heavy, but melodic early 70s power trio had a credible reputation of a hard-nosed, no-compromise, heavy-rocking act in the Purple vein, throughout their short-lived career. Paul Hammond had previously played with Atomic Rooster, as did John Du Cann; John Gustafson came from Quatermass.
Hard Stuff's Bulletproof is considerably heavier with thick mounds of aggressive guitar chords and lightning fast leads. The music itself is very rooted in the 70s. "Hard Stuff" is to Blairwitch Project as Led Zeppelin is to Nightmare on Elm Street, with the former being more raw, gritty, and not filtered through big production values and commercialism.
Songs on the album like the hard hitting blues fest 'Sinister Minister' or the heavy metal self-document 'Time Gambler', convey a sense of soul, strength and edginess.-avaxhome.ws
Deep Purple is the hard I can go. I love Deep Purple but I could never went into Heavy Metal. I remember some kind of demonstration sessions I had with a cousin of mine: one Doors song (me) vs Iron Maiden song (him). We were not convinced on the other's arguments. But today he listens occasionally to The Doors and I still can´t listen to Iron Maiden. Maybe I'm just obstinate but I prefer to assume that I was right from the beggining!
Silver Forest wrote:Deep Purple is the hard I can go. I love Deep Purple but I could never went into Heavy Metal. I remember some kind of demonstration sessions I had with a cousin of mine: one Doors song (me) vs Iron Maiden song (him). We were not convinced on the other's arguments. But today he listens occasionally to The Doors and I still can´t listen to Iron Maiden. Maybe I'm just obstinate but I prefer to assume that I was right from the beggining!
Of course you are right, SF!!!
Does Iron Butterfly qualify as Hard Rock?...love some of their stuff.
The Amazing World Of Arthur Brown presaged the HEAVY stuff with his iconic masterpiece!
