80s Metal

[mike coleman]

I shall never forget seeing Megadeth on the 'Peace Sells" tour at the
"longhorn ballroom", and me sitting so happily at the bar pounding my
trademark heinekens, when some lady came up and said "hey, your friend just
got thrown out" (who I brought in my car), and me saying "so?"
nothing was going to stop my private little mega-evening
it turned out my stupid drunk friend had been slamming around in a circle
and actually wounded some girl, and he had crawled into the sunroof of my
mazda rx7, and was crouched down hiding.........
ahhh the good old days,,,,,
ps-I remember all that spandex at the maiden show....likely was the "piece
of mind" tour for me as well


On 9/10/08, Swartz, John A. <jswartz at mitre.org> wrote:
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> Ah, 80s hair metal (which I get to listen to more these days than ever
> on XM Radio's "The Boneyard" channel).  I never saw Dio in concert
> (with or without Black Sabbath), but my first Iron Maiden concert was
> on the "Piece of Mind" tour (also with Fastway, but not Saxon).  I love
> most of the stuff off the first 2 Dio albums - and at the time they
> came out thought that maybe people who said Dio was saving his best
> stuff for his solo career once he split from Sabbath had a legit point.
> Funny, looking back on it, I probably prefer the stuff on Black
> Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell" and "The Mob Rules" album to the first 2
> Dio albums.  Jimmy Bain's a great bassist (with great metal tone), but
> he really can't compare with the legendary Geezer Butler (or Steve
> Harris of Iron Maiden*).  Tony Iommi and Vivian Campbell are apples and
> oranges - both great in their own rights.
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> * Speaking of Steve Harris, when I now listen to "Die Young" on
> Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell" album, I can't help wonder if Geezer had
> started listening to what Iron Maiden was doing - that bassline sounds
> more like a Steve Harris creation...
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> Other metal bands that I got into include Ozzy, Motley Crue (saw them
> open for Ozzy in 1984 just before they got huge), Quiet Riot (oh, it
> was good fun - you know it was!), Y&T, Twisted Sister (more good fun).
> I also got to see Black Sabbath fronted by Ian Gillian on the "Born
> Again" tour - not to everyone's taste (and sacrilege to some Sabbath
> fans), but it was good stuff.
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> And I blame my 80s metal obsession on the fact that BOC was starting
> their commercial slide...
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> John
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