to think that Slade are not

[Mathewbellamyismyman]

... a Heavy Metal Group? Seriously. A friend said they were but they're not!

Deep Purple, Black Sabbath were heavy metal.
Zeppelin were too, in their day.
Slade were fun, but charted in the singles, and as far as I remember that made them way too uncool.

slade were cool

people are trying too hard to categorise them when the categories just didnt exist then

In my mind (no doubt incomplete and definitely overlapping):
Metal is various out of: Loud, Screaming, Negative emotions, Orcs, Wizards, Stoned, Warfare, Darkness, Demons, Leather, Howling guitars, Melodic base, lots of hair in the past, more of a British feel
Heavy rock veers towards: Loud, Shouting, shagging, party feel, girls, cars, pissed, chugging guitars, rhythmic base, denim, big hair, more of an American feel

To be fair, it was about 1983 when I saw Dave Hill buying his stamps so not at his peak of fame.

I imagine in the heady days of the early 70s he probably had someone to do such things for him.

No, Slade were never cool. Fun, but not cool

BestIsWest am now enjoying the thought of Dave's stamp flunky.

Even at the time it was called Glam Rock, although to be fair except for Jim Slade were never actually glam. A bit sparkly maybe if you count that top hat with the mirrored circles. Now Marc Bolan was a glam rocker who was actually glam.

'Orcs, Wizards, Stoned, Warfare, Darkness, Demons, Leather, Howling guitars, Melodic base, lots of hair in the past, more of a British feel'

Hawkwind's all that minus the negative shoutiness.

Any band that can get the singers extra digit stealing his stash into a song can't be that bad

Oi-don't dis the Slade. They're from my neck of the woods. Remember when they were the N Betweens.....

I was just about to post about how I fancy Francis Rossi in his very young days, but the penny's just dropped that that would be Status Quo, NOT Slade. Why the fuck have I got them mixed up??

Phew @ not revealing my lustful thoughts about young Francis Rossi though eh?

One of my friends had a cousin in the Glitter Band. They were definitely not heavy metal.

Glam rock....

Didn't one of Slade have some sort of 'relationship' with Rose West?

(I know this isn't Sleb Twaddle, but anyway...)

hahahaha @ Franicis Rossi

You'd think that might be from before she was convicted for being a sadistic torturing murderer MoistWorld, but this article puts it at 2003.

There'd have to be something severely lacking in your life to have sustained contact with such a person.

Yes! That's what I was thinking - didn't realise it wasn't one of the proper 70s Slade chaps though.

Ew.

at that zigzag. BTW DP tells me he saw Hawkwind in our village hall (small welsh village) AFTER they had a hit with Silver Machine.

Sorry. Apparently he was OUTSIDE the village hall. Oh yes, we have lived me and him.

I was deaf for a whole day (and severe hearing loss for the next) because of Hawkwind.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it BIWs DH (maybe with a bit of leb? )

that member of Slade who was upto whatever with Rose West wasnt even born when the band were in their prime... he was only 36 in 2003..

I saw Hawkwind live in my younger days
I went to a couple of their after show parties...

But did you ever see one of them buy a stamp?

Most of their famous songs came out in early 70's and are considered glam rock - I hadn't heard of any of their 80's songs and had no idea they were around in the early'90's until the wiki link was posted.
Noddy Holder is so funny !

Glam was coming in and Slade cannily moved into that market by getting the guitar player to wear metallic clothing,make-up, glitter and Noddy Holder had a mirrored top hat. They weren't Bowie or Bolan (the Kings of Glam) but they looked good and made loud, fun music

They're a Christmas jingle group :o