Transformation from old time rock & roll to heavy metal was unrealistic
I like the movie, but has a band ever gone from doing old style rock and roll to flower power to heavy metal?
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Maybe not quite so on the nose, but look at the following transformations:
Trent Reznor - Pop to heavy alt.
Beatles - Bubble gum brit pop to I Want You She's So Heavy/Helter Skelter
Pink Floyd - Early psychedelic rock to Heavy prog rock.
Yardbirds to Led Zeppelin looks and feels very much like the Spinal Tap arc.
The Who
Blue Cheer
Deep Purple
Etc...!
Great question, though!
It's part of the joke and veiled criticism toward the shallowness of Spinal Tap's oeuvre of rock.
shareA perfect example would be Ronnie Dio in Ronnie & The Red Caps, with Happy days type do whop music to Holy diver.
shareStatus Quo went from hippy rock (Pictures of Matchstick Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP6RzRfVlpA) to heavy rock (Down Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1gYJDQXPOk).
shareBlack Sabbath started off as a Jazz and Blues band called Earth and then invented heavy metal. Their drummer Bill Ward is heavily influenced by Swing music of the 40's and when you listen to Black Sabbath's early albums you can really hear that come through in the drum rhythms.
Michael Bolton also once auditioned to be in Black Sabbath!
People can have very diverse tastes. Deep Purple's guitarist Richie Blackmore plays a lot of folk music as well.
Many metal musicians are also classically trained. See Nightwish as an example.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
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David and Nigel just struck me as musicians who would play whatever was popular at the moment!
They seemed like very dedicated musicians but they would go with the flow. And they weren't exactly deep thinkers.
As Nigel said, "David and I are not exactly University material." But they had musical talent and they went wherever it took them.
As far as the other posts, it is true that a lot of bands and singers change over the years. The Beatles early stuff was a lot of Chuck Berry and other American rock'n roll. Their own songs were different. They sounded like a pop group and evolved into something different. I Wanna Hold Your Hand is far different from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Kenny Rogers started out as a mainstream pop singer and then switched to country. Some country singers did the opposite.
Does anyone have the DVD that includes the entire versions of 'Gimme Some Money' and 'The Flower People'? I bought a DVD a few years ago and the songs were included in the extras. In the old VHS copy that I had, only 'Hellhole' was included as a separate video.
Many singers and bands change a lot during their career, Def Leppard - new wave British heavy metal early 80s, pop/glam metal late 80s, Whitesnake started as blues rock in the late 70s, got heavier in the mid 80s, Kiss were hard rock in the 70s, heavy metal, some glam in the 80s, Genesis, prog rock in the 70s, pop rock in the 80s. Scorpions - psychedelic rock early 70s, heavy metal late 70s and beyond. Adele was more jazz and soul on her first 2 albums but more pop on her third album.