Essentially loud
French-German TV channel Arte will be airung a new documentary called Hauptsache laut (Essentially Loud) this Saturday, January 17 at 22:00 CET, repeated on Saturday, January 24 at 1:55 CET. The documentary focuses on how the rock music became the loud music. A number of very loud luminaries have been interviewed for the film, including the lead singer for The Loudest Band in the WorldTM — one Ian Gillan, along with Dave Davies of The Kinks, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, and Suzi Quatro.
Thanks to Claus Dornhard for the info.
Suzi Quatro? Who is she? If I remember right, there was a person of the same name back in the early seventies. But she had nothing to do with loudness, not to say anything about essential loudness. I rememeber she used to chew gum. Bubble gum. 🙂
January 16th, 2015 at 08:21Deep Purple-Loud and Proud!!
January 16th, 2015 at 13:29There’s no Saturday 14th January!
January 16th, 2015 at 16:36Suzi Quatro? Get real, she’s one of the best that ever graced a stage! You must be living in a Swiss cave, she’s still good.
January 17th, 2015 at 02:16She was a cutie too!!
January 18th, 2015 at 13:22You can see the whole show through this link
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/051575-000/hauptsache-laut
January 18th, 2015 at 16:11It was in fact a nice show about the history of rock music from the begining to the early ´70 with some film scenes from and with Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Vanilla Fudge, Suzi Quatro, Jimi Hendrix, The Kings, The Who, MC5 … and of course with DEEP PURPLE and with some nice comments from Ian Gillan.
LLRnR
Kraatzy
January 19th, 2015 at 18:51So, why did it have to be, or why did rock became so loud?
Well, I heard Pete Townshend had to order louder Marshalls because he had to compete with Keith Moon’s drums….
January 21st, 2015 at 09:52That period of time was the “Big Bang” for rockmusic! The music exploded in so many different directions:
– the progressiv rock (with Pink Floyd + King Crimson)
– the art rock (Genesis + Yes)
– the melodic side of rock (with Wishbone Ash)
– the blues+bluesrock (Taste, and later Rory Gallagher solo)
– and Jethro Tull brought us the flute tunes
Really a great time to enjoy…
Have a nice Day!
January 23rd, 2015 at 10:58Wasnt Suzie a lesbian?
January 24th, 2015 at 19:17And? Lesbians can’t play loud?
January 24th, 2015 at 19:19I did NOT say that!!!! 🙂
January 25th, 2015 at 16:09LOUD SUPER AWESOMEST GROOVY CHORDS & DRUMS & KEYS & BASS ALL MAKES YER HEART BEAT GROOVY !!!!! ***** HEY SUSIES A FOX !!!!! ***** YAY!!!!! ***** I WISH I COULD MAKE THE SOUND OF MY RITCHIE TYPE STRAT PLAY THRU A ROCKET FIRE MAKING THE GROOVIEST SOUND !!!!! ***** HAVE FUN YALL!!!!! ***** TELL SUSIE SHES ULTIMATELY SUPER GODDESS !!!!! ***** HAPPY TIBET NEW YEAR YAAAAAAAAY !!!!!! ***** IN TIBETAN SHE BE = POMO ZEEBO LA = GODDESS BEAUTIFUL SUPER !!!!!***** 😉
February 21st, 2015 at 22:30