The Father of Metal

[TheRijir]

RITCHIE BLACKMORE IS FATHER OF METAL!

[lyon406]

This is English teddy music......not "heavy metal"

Try Link Wray

[ter50]

sorry, Ritchie is one of the best rock guitarists of all time, but the REAL father of metal is Tony Iommi

[acemanner]

Those darn kids! don't they know playing on scaffolding is dangerous?

[jazrid]

hey thats ritchie blackmore

[szikcsova]

@jazrid Wow.

[roadrape]

I say that Jethro Tull has been showing the way how play heavy metal sound

[nietzschealeatorio]

metal é o caralho

[FetaCheese222]

Guys, this is clearly a joke. You want early metal? Try The Kinks.

[natraan]

I am not suprised. both Ritchie and Ronnie had "greaser" phases, Page,Clapton, and Beck owned lots of V-neck sweaters, and Hendrix cut teeth on motown circuit with Little Richard and Isley brothers. there is no future without a past!

[TrafficMind10]

The Who were the first one in destroy the shit out of their instruments, people were like O.o WTF?

[andreszko]

Yes, he is!

[xXFuNkyMoNkeyZz]

Metal ?!

[Adultsswimer]

hendrix was in th 60's just throwing thatout there

[KirschWaser]

first growl in musicwas boris the spider by john entwistle, bassist from the who

[IshadaKatzteilov]

@KirschWaser First mainstream pop growl, yes....

[j7777777]

@KirschWaser what about , just growl by, johnny kidd and the pirates, and , grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ,from ,roy orbison

on , pretty woman .

[ArpeggioBear]

Ritchie is the father of Neo-Classical Metal, no Ritchie no Yngwie

[dicksatan]

I like it mote than Deep Purple.

[pistachioguy]

When I downloaded this and played it backwards, I could hear the solo to "Highway Star.".....

[eladoscurodeorion]

Nice move Ritchie, Heavy-Latins Hips Rocks!!

[kidnme101]

WTF it is what it is

[bassi0902]

The father of metal is retarded...

[captaindevotee]

Interesting instrumentation. A fairly standard electric six-string, a double neck pedal steel, and the ugliest twelve-string acoustic I've ever seen. I don't see the roots of metal here, but there is some fine playing.

[ElliesSuperStudio]

stupid dancing they look like they have ants in their pants

[HiwattGuitarsDDR]

NOT the "Father of Metal", as stated.

[speck444]

surf devo wow

[mlpii66]

This song has become my internal dialog theme song, I just hope I don't break out in the dance in public!

[chainsawstudios]

am' I the only one who thinks this is two joyful for super-badass-legend Blackmore? /:)

[GodlikeStricker]

You're a jerk !!!!!!

[whitewalls1222]

its funny people act like this is all badass for being in the 60s lol apparently they have never heard of modern classical composers like iannis xenakis or listened to any good jazz that have been around way before the 60s and were much, much heavier

[cgboomer]

this is the roots of heavy metal? eddie cochran was a lot heavier!

[superbeavo]

Richie is great but NOT the Father of metal!

[rjmtube]

if there were people headbanging and and growling in the 60's they'd be placed in straitjackets and admitted immediately to the mental hospital. its funny to see how crazy we have become.

[Adultsswimer]

@rjmtube hndrix was in th 60's and h was pretty brutal just saying

[mathieuafonso]

no i don't think so

[drowzy721]

I bet Ritchie looks back at this and cringes

[Miscarrya]

hahaha ...

I do not know why this song made me laugh at first. maybe it was the little dance of guitarists. Or because the song reminded me of drunken dwarves!

But hey, he deserves respect just because there was a great guitarist. Even with his dancing.

[Miscarrya]

hahaha ...

I do not know why this song made me laugh at first. maybe it was the little dance of guitarists. Or because the song reminded me of drunken dwarves!

But hey, he deserves respect just because there was a great guitarist. Even with his dancing.

[ThatKrookedVulture]

WTF? 0:00 to 1:37

[MAGALTMALDITABASURA]

IS TONY IOMMI RULEZ !!!!!!!!

[edrixie]

NICE FOOTWORK RITCHIE!

[FatKidCookie]

at least their pianist has the same stance as robert trujillo

[zeronyne]

@FatKidCookie Pianist?

[powerslaver6]

lol is very funny altougth you can see how blackmore in that time can kick the asses of many many guitarrist in this world right now

[TheYearTwentyTwenty]

Christ! thank fuck the Beatles came along and saved british rock and roll.

[guitarbob63]

Now I know where Ed Grimley got his dance moves from....the father of metal.

[norbiacci]

@randallisrandy haha, so true, they call it "back to the roots", don they?

[g10k]

LMAO!

[ch3rrysunbur5t]

Sounds like a teabag advert

[jonibologni]

Sounds like munchkin music!

[aczeppelindc2908]

UHM!!! LED ZEPPELIN AND BLACK SABBATH!!! their the fathers, zeppelin the fast and sabbath the heavy. Combined they would be the heavyest band of all time!!!

[ThePromovideo]

Great steel guitar work. Richie was awesome on the guitar. Nice song - love it!

[ranclassical]

the early speed metal symphony

[fodnis3]

Ritchie don't like dancing.

[Banner1979]

Ritchie looks a bit like Gripper Stebson there.

[eatm8]

screw that this awesome, the music, the getups, the dancing, its fucking sweet

[sounddude51]

These guys were actually great for the day. They were a Shadows copy but better musicians! Great clip!

[devilndeepbluesea]

Led Zeppelin are the creators of Heavy Metal

[Tauptu]

I guess it was all downhill from here. 

[Sigillo7]

WOW

[humbledb4jesus]

wasn't this cannibal corpse's first single?

[gillan5]

Idiots: Deep Purple was and is Hard Rock. What has Hard Rock to do with bullshit Metall.

Hard Rock bands have a singer who can sing and the songs do have a melody.

[ZeroElementZero]

@gillan5 shut it tard, blues made rock, and rock made metal. you have melody in every single genre take nothing else matters for example, and enter sandman and tout le monde.

[gillan5]

@ZeroElementZero And which idiot made you?

[Amatteny]

ricthie should be the father of hard rock or neo classical but not metal~

[bandit7498]

@Amatteny Want my opinion? Judging by this I would say he's the father of gay. lol

[ryanspeed]

You can definitely hear the Joe Meek influence here!

[louislindner]

Yes link Wray is the true father of metal. Blackmore not.

[admanphoto]

@louislindner +1

[DropaBlue]

CAWHITE84 - Yes, indeed! They played on MANY of producer Joe Meek's recordings. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

[CAWhite84]

Don't think this has been said on here but this band were called the outlaws. On drums is Mick Underwood who went on to play with Ian Gillan in Gillan (among many other bands) and this is a scene from a film. Off the top of my head can;t remember who else were in the band but I seem to think they were a studio band for a producer.

[Kispalkovich]

Deep purple plays/played Hard rock, not heavy metal. Heavy Metal is the early Metallica, iron Maiden or the Manowar,...

[ifixmixers]

@Kispalkovich

Incorrect.. if you would not mind looking into your history books - Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi together coined the term. Later on, A comic book of the same name, would hire Blue oyster Cult, Sammy Hagar and Timothy B. Schmidt (of the EAGLES) to recycle the term for their upcoming movie of the same name... When Metallica was new, Kerrang magazine coined this new generation as "too heavy to hold the heavy... lets just say it's METAL"

History sir, history!

[Antilulz1]

@ifixmixers it is from the song born to be wild

[ifixmixers]

@Antilulz1

Correct you are, but even before that, the term had circulated the underground..

It was "Biker rock" of sorts...

[lotusrey]

@Kispalkovich Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath is the really Father of Metal, that say Metallica, That say Maiden, that say Anthrax, That say all bands os heavy metal and me

[ABCvitaminD]

uh, link wray?

[bonzo1956]

This is very musical (simple but still musicall), I like it much better than the noise he made later on.

[Refrescospepito]

CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!

[ZyZs2]

If you say that Ritchie wasn't Metal you are wrong, just listen to Deep Purple in Rock and you understand what i'm saying.

[Okpolosi]

This is gwan turk some younger folks off...LOL...DP was a killer early metal band, BS came on the scene ala Alice / KISS w/ more show than substance and some direct rip offs of earlier bands.They did however mature,found their own voice & defined metal for generations to come.That said I'd love a talk show or debate between Joe Walsh & Ozzy.

[ter50]

Ritchie is an influential guitarist, but Tony Iommi is the main creator of the heavy metal riffs.

[vectragt2310]

yes, Iommi had probably more Metal style riffs, but his playing is in another league...

[Amatteny]

The title should be change to THE FATHER OF NEOCLASICCAL ...LOL...

[midnighttilldawn]

@Amatteny It certainly shouldn't be Father Of Metal..Ritchie was never metal.

[zenwinex]

I got two words for you, memorize them well folks...

Tony Iommi!!!

[ccfliege]

@zenwinex yeah thats the real deal ;) Ritchie was always more in blues an hardrock

[wailin1967]

Chas Hodges (Chas & Dave) on 12 string...

[pauloholydiver]

I am a fan of Ritchie Blackmore, but this video (very old) is trash (dinosaur Rock) ah ah ah ah!

[miketodd67]

Not too gay. I'd like to see Ritchie dance like that to Highway Star or Speed King.

[immortalx50]

"gay"? hah come on, it's 60's, what were they supposed to do? headbang and growl?

[OropherThranduil]

@immortalx50

50s.

fucking 50s.

the 60s are the greatest period on music, not this.

[1m2a3t4t5]

@OropherThranduil

Very True.

[CuddlyBadger]

@immortalx50 At least a little grimmace now and then?

[shunyo]

that was law and order,by the outlaws

[GeeZeRWoD]

Tony Iommi is father of metal lol

[screaminone]

haha! if ya ask Lemmy of Motorhead, he'd say Eddie Cochran was the father of Heavy Metal...

[SonicNoize]

sounds like the christmas song "Fröhliche Weihnacht überall"

[movement26]

I don't believe it.......Ritchie did'nt smash his guitar up.

[pekoe67]

What's the drummer's first name, does anyone know ?

0:20

[123torrent]

@pekoe67

That's Mike aka "Mick" Underwood on drums.

[tehL4N]

How the fk is this heavy metal. lol XD

[GamersBroadcast]

Heaviest Shit Ever Heard

distortion was like on max???

[1horton3]

most unfortunate dancing far left

[MrGuitguy]

Not surprising they sound like the Tornadoes. The great (and strange) Joe Meek produced the Outlaws and Tornadoes along with many other UK pop groups in that era.

[mgpolar]

This is heavy fuckin' metal¡¡¡¡¡ Yeahhhhhhhh

[notyourhomeboy]

not bad. sounds a bit like the tornadoes to me...

[Marubache]

hm....... its good song, but not metal.... no, i thing that metal sucks

[RapsagLeizar]

ajajajajj this is not metal,but the guitar player is ritvhie blackmore, one of the father of metal

[57250tr]

I love this video. especially if you watch a live version of mandrake root right after, and compare young blackmore with older blackmore

[DamascusEternity]

this is like watching a porn flick from the 60's that i've searched for a long time but never found

[148ijam]

black sabath = the father of metal

[dogrey]

Sabbath Sucks, cartoon music.

[TheMassdistortion]

@dogrey, you suck,

[ki8arwdos]

Ritchie Blackmore isn't the father of metal, he is a quality musician.

[b0blee]

I thought it was a Polish folk song.

[bugsycline]

those licks are stolen straight from the pages of Leadbelly...

don't agree?

Just listen to Green Corn, Roberta, or in particular "mr tom Hughes town"

Considering that Leadbelly is the father of all things rock and roll, I suspect that also makes him the father of Metal

[Tengent]

That repetitive swinging motion cracks me up.

[myroseaccount]

Actually there is some pretty slick playing on this! And RB looks very camp!

[Hockdogz]

o.o.... this isnt heavy metal ,

and black sabbath is the father of heavy metal duh!

[jacob7207]

no no no my friend you are wrong.

[Hockdogz]

yes its true o.O ,you can check out the history of metal if you whant....

[iconoclast911]

Way cool old footage! Thanks for posting this gem from the sixties.

[coldplayers]

oh my..

[igguasu]

i think that this is ur real name...

[jenzeppelin]

interesting old clip, have never seen footage of him so young before, thanks for taking the time to post this one for us all.

[Adnoydal]

Cmon,,,, Richie Blackmore is code for his real nickname Bitchy Crackwhore

[2wilder]

you mean the guys who made Green Grass and High Tides.

[6en6ible]

the band is the outlaws taken from the film " live it up" i think. the musicians are from left to right, ritchie blackmore, ken lundgren,chas hodges and mick underwood. the year is 63.

[Widmerpool99]

Rocking the homosexual car mechanic look there!

[anotherheadlessdemo]

too funny .... but I think you may be right.

[howardstern666]

so what's the story here? the year, the name of the band, etc. ritchie in a band with a steel guitar! go ritchie!

[robertbowen]

this is straight out of spinal tap

[monikati51]

The "hawain guitar "..... tribal-methal-wild-natural-sol­o.

They are fathers of many things.

I loved!

[Ivoryshoulder]

this must be european!

[cmarivs]

yeah, looks so much better than american crap from this era

[Adnoydal]

Thats because these lads are all gay. They have more feeling.

[turbomonkey138]

idiot

[Adnoydal]

dont be too hard on Blackie he has feelings too

[bunterx]

as far as i'm aware none of them are gay!

[mpcLZ1888]

the beginning reminds me of rick roll :/

[scarfacedan09]

Now i know the reason for Ritchie's bad attitude.

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[abrahamlincoln0900]

they look like an early version of Devo with thoseatching outfits.

[Jacditte]

who's ritchie?

[LizzyJaye]

I wonder if Richie fired everyone in this band, as well.

[greenwanx]

what's with the humiliating ass shake?

[scarfacedan09]

Jeez Ritchie thank God you moved onto better things.

[Metalhead15712]

Steppen wolf are the fathers of metal. But Black sabbath gets the credit for having heavier riffs, and monsters in their music. But Steppen Wolf are the fathers. Now thats no offense to sabbath fans I love sabbath and ozzy. How can you not like parinoid?

[JWirtel]

Steppenwolf gets overlooked big time..Thanks for writing Metalhead..They took blues and psychadelia to another level, added crunch n balls to rock. John Kay is a national treasure..

[ironbeast]

They even "invented" the word heavy metal, didn't they? But a journalist used it later to discribe a style of music. I don't remember if it was from Kerrang or what it was though ;)

[JWirtel]

Steppenwolf was the 1st band to have the term "heavy metal" in a song "Born to Be Wild"...Their 1st album was recorded in late 1967, and it has a dark, apocalyptic sound with a lot of volume, and that was new for the times. By Steppenwolf 2, Magic Carpet Ride, they had made some dough, upgraded the instruments and amps, so the album came out a lot less garagy and a lot slicker. great album but not as raw..The 1st album was recorded in 4 days, so it's basically live, and the performances show it.

[Metalhead15712]

You are one of the very few that know that.

black sabbath gets the credit for having monsters in their music. But steppen wolf are the true fathers of metal

[PiersGrabeard]

Really enjoyed this. Who are the other musicians? Drummer sounds like Tony Meehan's style.

[donletmedon]

Ritchie & The Outlaws rocks!!!

[eatm8]

sweet dick this song is awesome

[Shreeves16]

I'm inclined to believe that Tony Iommi is the father of the Heavy Metal style. I know the term was used before, but in my opinion, there really wasn't Heavy Metal before Iommi. Thats just my opinion.

[FranciscoBonito]

well I would agree that the genre took full form with sabbath,they are the first full fledged heavy metal band and did inspire themselves on songs like purple haze and voodoo chile and also,like hendrix,had a "thing" for sci-fi

[crossandskullbones]

I was under the impression that the first reference to "heavy metal" was in the song "Born to be wild" made famous by Steppenwolf, written by Mars Bonfire.

[superjules]

Sounds like the Spay Cats!

[FranciscoBonito]

well the term heavy metal was born after hendrix performed in monterey when a reporter described the sounds he made as "heavy metal falling from the sky" and he asked his dad,when he was 5,after watching the wizards apprentice by disney, if he could reproduce the thunder sounds on a guitar...and this was 1948...so,hendrix in fact is the father of all forms of rock that came about after 1966

[greaserleo]

knob head.

[greaserleo]

FranciscoBonito is a knobhead

[FranciscoBonito]

and you sir are an ignorant baboon

[PoorguyNick]

And.....this is the truth that's the end of the story. That is exactly the case. Many years ago John Sebastian mentioned this fact in his documentary, which would include even the name of the reporter. This is how the definition Heavy Metal came around.

[FranciscoBonito]

amen!

[haunter112]

He's the father of most of it.

Let's not blame him for rap-rock and nu metal.

[FranciscoBonito]

jimi tried to show people what they could do with music and nu metal and rap-rock(though I do like rage against the machine) are not exactly the best way to follow up,putting it nicely

[blindtcjohnson]

Everbody knows that Grady Martin invented heavy metal guitar.

[DuthCP]

the father is Ozzy Osbourne!!

[neoshaolin1]

BLasphemous at best this is rockabilly I don't care what popular technique he pioneered. lol

[glimmer2158]

He looks like brian setzer!

the term "heavy metal"was first used to describe THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE!!