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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 Foghat, Norman Greenbaum, The Knack, Mountain and Stealers Wheel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Spiderbait, Tom Jones, The Damned Things and The Yardbirds, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Ram Jam, reaching back through Billy Joel and forward to Spiderbait. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ram Jam connections
Ram Jam grew out of Billy Joel, shares an orbit with Foghat, Norman Greenbaum, The Knack and Mountain, went on to shape Spiderbait, Tom Jones, The Damned Things and The Yardbirds. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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