mhardy6647
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... and this little bon mot.
No shit. Exactly my point - although Iron Butterfly did blur the lines a bit during the transition period. At the time (mid 70's through early 80's) the 50 year olds giving the lectures were quite eager to lump anything that wasn't choir music into the "Acid Rock" category. Presumably because it made you a drug addict as well as a Satanist, and "Heavy Metal" or just "Metal" didn't carry the same stigma? I'm pretty sure most of them considered the fare on the Laurence Welk Show to be "a bit untoward but still acceptable" - after all, some of the dancers weren't even married.Acid Rock and Heavy Metal are NOT the same thing.
It's funny. I remember satanism being tied far more to metal than to acid rock. Acid rock, to me, was trippy, no negative devil vibes, man. Metal was bikes and boobs.No shit. Exactly my point - although Iron Butterfly did blur the lines a bit during the transition period. At the time (mid 70's through early 80's) the 50 year olds giving the lectures were quite eager to lump anything that wasn't choir music into the "Acid Rock" category. Presumably because it made you a drug addict as well as a Satanist, and "Heavy Metal" or just "Metal" didn't carry the same stigma? I'm pretty sure most of them considered the fare on the Laurence Welk Show to be "a bit untoward but still acceptable" - after all, some of the dancers weren't even married.
Meanwhile I bet half of them (or more) were molesting children in their spare time.
I remember my friend in middle school giving the old family room couch a "custom cheetah print" treatment. He started picking at the fake leather and couldn't stop until the middle cushion was nearly bare.
Same (even at the time). This was at the very beginning of the "secret backward messages" phase of fundamentalists doing horrible things to vinyl on a daily basis - so you needed to be able to include The Beatles and Jefferson Airplane along with Led Zeppelin and AC/DC somehow. By the early 80's the dangers of acid rock had been forgotten because Satan had gotten in all the corn flakes. Although, by then they were doing a similar thing with punk & techno.It's funny. I remember satanism being tied far more to metal than to acid rock. Acid rock, to me, was trippy, no negative devil vibes, man. Metal was bikes and boobs.