DonRants said:

Musician9 said:

Metal and all of its subgenres are completely independent from the blues, as is most hard rock and other forms. They would have developed irregardless of American blues rock and British blues. Metal stems from classical influences. Of course some rock genres emerged from the blues, but to me that's mostly sixties acts, while in the 70s you got progressive rock that had no basis in the blues or even classical roots, to me it's just good music, perhaps leaning towards avante garde, but blues is a time capsule with only a few true subgenres whereas rock is a whole other species of music.

I showed this quote to a friend of mine who is a Professor of Music..he said for this to be true..it would mean metal guitarist did not and do not listen to Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton, clearly we know they do.

Thank you all for your contributions and ideas. I will look into those links.

Well, sorry to disagree with your Prof, but the Dave Mustaine's and Yngwie Malmasteen's of the world do not list either of those players as influences, having said that, even if they like thos eplayers it doesn't mean it's present in their style. For example, I love Alan Holdsworth but nothing in his playing is present in my style, mostly because his stuff is extremely intricate in nature, but I enjoy his music. There's this weird worship of the Blues, and I'm a blues player myself, that contends that every music style known to man from the 20th century onwards owes everything to it, and I just have to disagree. Plenty of documentation to show numerous American styles developing simultaneously in the South. Remember, without Celtic folk, i.e. Scottish and Irish laborers working alongside the former slaves there would be no Blues at all, that's a great study that doesn't get its proper due, but none of my argument takes anything away from the Blues, it's wonderful, marvelous, earthy and occasionally boring, but fun to play for beginners. My 2 cents worth... I wish you well on your musical journey...