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Ram Jam

Heavy metal
Heavy metal

Ram Jam is a Heavy metal act. Their sound grew out of Billy Joel. Those roots explain a lot about how Ram Jam arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Norman Greenbaum, The Knack, Mountain, Stealers Wheel and Ted Nugent, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Tom Jones, The Yardbirds, The Damned Things and Spiderbait, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Ram Jam, reaching back through Billy Joel and forward to Tom Jones. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Ram JamBilly JoelTom JonesThe YardbirdsThe Damned ThingsSpiderbaitNorman GreenbaumThe KnackMountainStealers WheelTed NugentLynyrd SkynyrdGeorge Thorogood & T…ZZ Top

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Ram Jam connections

Ram Jam grew out of Billy Joel, shares an orbit with Norman Greenbaum, The Knack, Mountain and Stealers Wheel, went on to shape Tom Jones, The Yardbirds, The Damned Things and Spiderbait. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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