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#241 |
Here We Go Again
Join Date: May 2002
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#242 | |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
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I'm digging THRA Not even trying to rub it in but this is a double show with Obituary, Immolation, and Blood Incantation playing upstairs in the same venue the same night I'm rolling to it solo at 47 in a new town. At least I know the dudes in Obituary will be older than me haha |
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#243 |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
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**** it I know I've shared this before on here but I feel like retelling it.
In '89 I was 13 and mowing grass and whatnot for my own money. Lived outside of KC and once every month or so my parents would drive me and my brother to Oak Park or Metcalf mall. Before one trip I was flipping through a Metal Maniacs magazine and saw a small little ad for "The Heaviest Album Ever Released!" which was Obituary's "Slowly We Rot". I couldn't ****ing wait to get to the mall and see if they had it. They did. On the way home, my dad, being like the all American Clark Griswold dad that he is was like "Whatcha got there champ? Lets hear it". I was like nah thats not a good idea. He got stern and insisted so I passed him the cassette. So its my dad driving his Volvo, my mom riding shotgun (both school teachers) and me in the backseat. My dad pops in the cassette and this happens: |
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#244 | |
Here We Go Again
Join Date: May 2002
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#245 |
Here We Go Again
Join Date: May 2002
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Ningen Isu is bad ass.
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#246 | |
Rockin' yer FACE OFF!
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
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![]() My story was when I was 11 years old living in Spain, summer of '82. Used to get 100 pesetas a week allowance (basically a dollar a week). We lived in an apartment off base in Barajas, just outside of Madrid. I was saving my money for a new album, unlike anything I ever owned before. Didn't want to tell my mom about it. I finally save up the 400 pesetas and go to the little record store close to us and pick it up. Bring it home, slap it on the turntable, and started rocking my little 11 year old ass off. The album changed me forever musically. My mother, who was a saint (not kidding there) came in my room and asked what I had bought. This is what she was hearing, and what she saw: She was a bit...taken aback, especially by the album cover...but in the end, she let it go. Mom was the best. |
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#247 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2013
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Just got back from Band-Maid. Hell of a show if you like hard rock.
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#248 |
Here We Go Again
Join Date: May 2002
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Nevermore - Beyond Within
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#249 |
On one quarter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: I play all day
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I love the stories in this thread.
I grew up listening to whatever my dad was listening to. So I heard a lot of The Righteous Brothers, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and the Oak Ridge Boys. I owned a few records... Steve Martin - AWACG, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Smurfs All Star Show. My dad got me MJs Thriller album the day it came out. My dad loved showing off his Zenith turntable/console cabinet. Thriller was the album that allowed him to do that. We would have company over 3 nights a week and host Thriller listening sessions. I listened to whatever rock was on the radio but, it was rarely hard and pretty much never heavy. I lived outside a small town so cable TV was never an option. Karate Kid came out and that was my favorite movie. I especially loved the tournament bout montage set to You're The Best Around. one night I had rented Karate Kid and a VCP. my dad came home late and brought home a VCR he had bought. I spent the night recording YRTBA repeatedly. I think I may have overdone it. I started to associate Ralph Maccio with good music. Then, in early '86 the Crossroads movie came out. I made my mom take me to see it the first time I saw the trailer. I think it was a weekday night after my mom had worked a full shift at a hospital. and I made her drive 45 minutes and back to go see it. I must've really begged and pestered her. (I made it up to her yesterday, I took her to the early service and the late one at her church) I loved that movie and it inspired my first music purchase. I bought Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues on cassette. it was $3 IIRC. I collected some more blues tapes and enjoyed those a good bit. Buddy Guy greatest hits was the best tape out of those. 4 months later I was at church hanging out with a kid named Bob. he and I were both acolytes for the service. Bob was kind of a tough kid, he was 12 when I was 10, a little intimidating even tho he didnt mean to be. His older bother very brolic and he wore his battle vest to church every Sunday. I was scared of that dude. I figured he was a biker gang BAMF if hes wearing a jean jacket to church. really he was introverted because he was so massive and got treated as an adult before he was ready for it. Bob was constantly listening to his walkman and his brothers tapes. He took his earphones off once and I could barely hear music that really piqued my interest. I asked Bob what it was and he told me it was "Devil music" "like Robert Johnson"? Bob: "Who? probably not". I told him something about hellhounds and then asked if I could listen to his walkman. he kept teasing me about it being evil, I cant handle it, yada yada. He relented and told me I could listen but he was going to press play and stop. I put the phones to my ears and I heard an amazing guitar riff once and then Ozzy sung Oh, yeah. Bob pressed stop. Then we did our duties for the service. Bob made me beg him to tell me the name of the tape. He just told me the name Black Sabbath. he wouldn't tell me the album nor the song, NIB. I went to the store that afternoon and bought the Sabbath debut album because it was $4. I wore that tape out. I bet I listened to that tape for 1500 hours or more. I actually had to buy another cassette a couple years later because the sound had degraded from so much use. I bought all but one of the sabbath albums on tape and I bought them in chronological order. I skipped the Black Abbath Seventh Star album. it was double the price of the other albums. and the cover photo was depressing. it was a photo of Tony Iommi looking forlorn and gakked out, standing in the middle of a desert. I started listening to Seventh Star last year and damned if it isnt my favorite Sabbath album now. Iommi just cant miss. I love the collaborations that Iommi did with Glenn Hughes too. |
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#250 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2013
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Always a great show. |
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#251 |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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I had a system. If my parents wanted to hear the "heavy metal" I was listening to, I'd drop in some Stryper or Deliverance.
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'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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Now that I'm almost 50 and they can see I don't drink blood or sacrifice babies, they realize that the music wasn't ever really a problem. ![]() |
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#253 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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As for Seventh Star, I love it too. It's a terribly underrated album. However, the biggest reason is because it really isn't actually a Sabbath album. Tony doesn't even consider it a Sabbath album - it was supposed to be his solo album but the record label (as often happened with Sabbath) intervened and basically forced him to put the Sabbath name on it. |
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#254 | |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
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I was blown back into my seat in pure joy. For the next 34 years I've been chasing that same moment. A sound so impactful that you remember exactly where you were when you were exposed to it. My dad is still with me so sometimes I'll joke with him that we both, and including my mom, all heard Death Metal for the very first time together. |
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#255 |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
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Phoenix, venue is the Nile Theater
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