any old Metalheads?

[pilchardthecat]

Inspired by the any old ravers thread, i thought I'd go back a few years before the acid house/techno era and into the 1980s, which for me were the years of long hair, black trenchcoats and t-shirts with skulls and st all over them.

I was a massive Iron Maiden fan, Queensryche, WASP, Sabbath, Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, etc. Monsters of Rock at Donnington was an annual affair (shame about the bottles of piss, but heh)

I confess that I haven't listened to much of that stuff since the late 80s and I haven't kept up with the scene, but since am in the midst of a mid-life crisis i have been (rather inconcruously) driving about this last week in my poofy hairdressers car listening to Live After Death..... and i can report as fact that it is still fking awesome (and i still remember all the words).

Amazingly they are still going.

I am going to dig out all my old live-gig t-shirts.....

(There is no actual point to this thread)

[james_gt3rs]

I love it!

Shame I was born too late so I missed it all

[derestrictor]

Of course.

With that senility, however, arises superstition and an unfortunate aversion to Molly Hatchet's Boogie No More which is bloody inconvenient because I really want to listen to it but daren't.

It's a form of 'Tufnellic Axe Syndrome' where many works are simply too pure to spin up.

[HUW JONES]

Aye....it were all NWOBHM around here when I were a lad.

[Ewan S]

I still listen to all the Iron Maiden stuff. I'm now into lots of prog metal bands like Dream Theater, Threshold, and some neo classical bands like Nightwish and Symphony X. That sort of music didn't die out, it just went underground.

Sadly lots of people don't have the necessary intelligence nor patience to listen to 8 minute long metal songs, so I can't see the situation changing anytime soon. Some are trying, such as Soil, who were called the new metallica at some point - one of their albums has 11 songs on it and comes in at less than 40 minutes long.

Just bought a load of cd's off amazon and one of the best I've heard in a long time is Allen/Jorn - Showdown. Think proper metal thump with some surprisingly catchy lyrics, I'd recommend it.

I also have all my music in lossless flac format controlled on a Sonos system plugged into a big separates hifi system. Who says us metallers don't move with the times!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Was listening to Judas Priest in the car only today - had to smile when some guy in a 3 series had his RnB blasting out at the lights and I was picturing Rob Halford holding up a bank with an electric guitar!

[Motown Junk]

Tygers of Pan Tang played a small clube near me (Agincourt - Camberley - as featured in Saxondale) last year.

[convert]

I remember going to Monsters of Rock @ Donnington one year (88) in my old 2.0 Capri, the boot loaded with 100's of cans of lager.

Didn't bother with a tent, so we slept in the car.


I remember one guy an an 1100cc Kawasaki, riding between camp fires; having a can at each one. Found him about 50m away the next moring, kwack on it's side with him huddled up next to it, still pissed.

Good line up that year

Iron Maiden
KISS
David Lee Roth
Megadeth
Guns N' Roses
Helloween

Mind you the Capri was ste in cross winds on the M1.


I guess I'll always be a metalhead, after all pistons are usually made out of metal

[Stig]

You are not alone!

Over recent years have bought the entire back catalogues of many old-skool metal bands that I loved in the 80's. Was a regular at Monsters of Rock at Donny and even Reading was good back in those days (I had a house that overlooked the festival site in Caversham which was rather convenient .

The music still has no modern equal IMHO and Maiden are as awesome now as they ever were (albeit mainly playing their old material!).

[Sir Snaz]

I remember my first donnington .....1987 .....getting soaked (both rain and the p*ss bottles) whilst watching Anthrax, Metallica and Dio ........they dont do festivals like that anymore

[gbbird]

I'm a metalhead through and through, especially 80s to late 90s stuff

[hornet]

Not sure how we're defining old - does 37 count? Huge fan of Maiden since about 1985, plus the likes of Metallica, Motorhead, Slayer and Anthrax. Still listen to all the old thrash stuff from the late 80s and early 90s. Was a good time - none of the "grrr, look how angry and shouty I am!" nonsense that pervades metal today, just a bunch of blokes up on stage getting on with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpyZHXzChfU&fea...

[silvagod]

Love some of the what is now considered 'old school metal' (I'm 52 btw, so sort of remember the birth of it!)

I used to go drinking, in a fashion, with Lemmy when he had just left Hawkwind (not exactly metal then) and in the village pub where I lived up to a couple of years ago, I used to drink with a founder member of Lawnmower Deth

Some of the classic festivals I attended got a little too 'pop' for me though, some fancy bands called 'Echo and the Bunnymen' and 'Gang of Four' started playing

Never could get to like Iron Maiden though....no idea why.

[GWC]

convert said:

I remember going to Monsters of Rock @ Donnington one year (88)

I was there. Shame what happened that day.

[derestrictor]

convert said:

I remember going to Monsters of Rock @ Donnington one year (88) in my old 2.0 Capri, the boot loaded with 100's of cans of lager.

Praise be! Brother Fuego is amongst us...

Decent show, accpetable mud/flying uriah quotient and TV au US football helmet as compare, despite the aforementioned tragedy of the day.

You really couldn't beat Donny in those days; the sight of all that (sporadically studded) denim and leather marching to unified worship, it was an organic movement bereft of artificial, marketed stimuli and the high priests of Metal reflected that faith in their delivery and although the peak of 1983 was past, this mid-late 80s hangover epoch still allowed some excuberant indulgence, despite the horrors of encroaching modernity with its foul subservience to the Scratch n Sniff sounds of New York via a media driven, transatlantically determined zeitgeist.

[convert]

GWC said:

convert said:

I remember going to Monsters of Rock @ Donnington one year (88)

I was there. Shame what happened that day.

I agree, it was tragic.

[Ten Ninety]

I was a late-80s metal kid. Yes, I had a denim jacket. Yes, I had the leather studded armbands. Yes, of course I had a mullet. But I guess I missed out on the real glory days of NWOBHM, and only caught the tail end, post-Cliff Burton era of thrash. So I'm not sure that I qualify as a real old metalhead because despite the best efforts of Manowar to fight the rising tide of false metal, everything had become more cosmopolitan by the time I was getting into it all. So I guess a fair bit of what I loved back might be considered 'impure' by the true denim-and-leather rock brigade; stuff like Guns'n'Roses, Bon Jovi or Faith No More. And if I said that my all-time favourite Maiden album was 'Somewhere in Time' I would expect splutterings of outrage from veterans of the Ruskin Arms...

[gbbird]

Listening to some Judan Priest earlier, what brilliant stuff!! Need to stock up on a few more of their albums methinks

[motorizer]

Another one here...

Seen motorhead AC/DC saxon and Iron maiden several times each..

never did get to donnington though, well not until download last year..when there were quite a few of the old guard still rockin' on stage

Find a lot of popular modern metal a bit bland and soulless to be honest and I hate the trend of trying to outdo each other for the growliest vocals, but there still plenty of good new bands out there if you look....

[derestrictor]

gbbird said:

Listening to some Judan Priest earlier, what brilliant stuff!! Need to stock up on a few more of their albums methinks

Sad Wings; if you see what I see and feel what I feel you will be transported to a time that really couldn't exist any more.

Indeed, grab the greyhound through Sin After Sin, Stained Class and Killing Machine before alighting upon that which is ubiquitously cited as 'the breakthrough' (British Steel) and although worthy, I find overrated.

Point of Entry is universally denied by many in the light of Roberto's outage {what cretin ever thunk him the stalker of muskovian velvet, anyway?) whilst over here, immortality was forged in the fires of Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of The Faith, a brace of the finest pure Metal, period and as if nodding to The Holy Roman Dio, flanking the launch of His eponymously named band's debut meisterwerk in 1983.

I tell you what is worth revisiting on CD, if by some misfortune you missed it originally and that would be Metallica's 'Garage Inc' piece; an astonishing reprisal of some of the very finest NWOBHM and classic Motörhead/Sabbath, an absolute must have for on board hyper-schnelling with a virtuoso medley of a Mercyful Fate, including an irresistable reworking of the momentus 'Satan's Fall.'

I always lament the removal of Mustaine from the 'tallica ensemble; whilst he's done remarkably well in solo form, his bitterness is well founded and the sight of him and Hetters on stage would have been a mesmerising duality to watch develop. Or kill each other.