What do you think HARD rock is?

[TheNeedleDrops]

...a lot of the songs the faculty considered as hard rock or metal, many of the campers would actually consider classic rock and roll.

And to the faculty they would have pry considered Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis classic rock and roll...to which the campers would reply, "WHO?"

I always thought of it as hard rock being a little more melodic than heavy metal. I tend to look at it on a spectrum (of course, this is my own personal preference of how to do it):

HEAVY LIGHT
metal (Slayer)----hard rock (Metallica)----alternative rock (AWOLNATION)----rock (henley/hornsby)/pop rock (spears/bieber)----indie rock (life of dillon)----country----folk rock (indigo girls)

I don't think anyone gets totally amped over Indigo Girls (folk) but at the same time I don't think the majority of people would turn on Slayer (metal) to take a (non-medicated) nap. Again, just how I do it.