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Wishbone Ash is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Don Airey, Jimmy Reed, Martin Birch, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Those roots explain a lot about how Wishbone Ash arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Camel, UFO, Jethro Tull, Focus and Manfred Mann's Earth Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Metallica, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, Dream Theater and Opeth, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Wishbone Ash, reaching back through Don Airey and forward to Metallica. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved success in the early to mid-1970s.
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Wishbone Ash connections
Wishbone Ash grew out of Don Airey, Jimmy Reed, Martin Birch and Jeff Beck, shares an orbit with Camel, UFO, Jethro Tull and Focus, went on to shape Metallica, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy and Dream Theater. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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