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They were more trying to sound like country music. But they were all super liberel so when country music started getting seen more and more as racist they were like "nuh uh we are le jzz band",but save for Santana and Spirit most of these bands were closer to country music. A lot of the European bands were flat our even just just just playing eurofolk lol. Look at some shocking Blue songs for instance. Black Artists from the time on the other hand were overall more playing Soul or Funk like Jimi and Funkadelic being very obvious example and The 5th Dimension and Lafayette Afro Rock Band. Arthur Lee was a black musician from the USA who played eurofolk with a bit more room for rhythmic variation and whatnot basically or more alternations and then also lots and lots of yelling,so yu could argue in some ways he was the most forward thinking haha. 7 and 7 is especially is often viewed as extremely early metal prior to Jimi Hendrix,Helter Skelter by The Bestles,the first Steppenwolf Album,before any major VU releases,etcetcetcetc. Basically one of if not the first common example of most metal tropes.
