... and one of the southern-rock groups like Alabama or Skynard or something was giving them a hard time about being "queens" in make-up who don't know how to play real music so they wrote this in retaliation to show just how simple such music is and threw in the dig about "fat bottomed girls" just for revenge.
I've never seen that stated anywhere, but it really makes sense if you think about it. You only need a handful of chords and a steady drum beat to create a southern rock song. Not that I don't like the style, but that's the reality. It's sort of the way that you can throw together a 12-bar blues tune in any key just by following the chord change pattern.
Some R&B only uses one or two chords with a rhythmic strumming ("Boom Boom Boom Boom" comes to mind). It doesn't make them any less enjoyable, but that's the way it works. Art rock took a while to catch on and now we call it "progressive rock". It's a lot more complicated than traditional rock and most of the practitioners had classical training.
In contrast, "Smoke On The Water" is a good description of how most bands get started. I like pretty much everything from the late 60's up through the 70's except for disco (something I wish had never come into existance), especially the stuff that didn't get much air time. Radio isn't the best way to find good music.
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