OFF: Re: Dio, Maiden, etc.

[mike coleman]

at the realisation of the risk of pushing the mc nausea factor and fully
aware I am likely contributing nothing, bill I enjoyed that read, since you
got one or two on me......
in reality, they took jimi (those monkees knew what was up didn't they), so
we took priest. they really belong to us in a way...or did, er, yaknow.....
as you stated below, by the time screaming for vengeance was out, I ended up
at the show by default, and sure enough every single last person was up on
their feet for the entire show, and resultantly, I SAW nothing........
BTW, i now see "am I going insane" as a highlight and a strong point for
sabotage, even a cool drum echo-ee thing going on, and demonic wail is
priceless......
you see, sabbath ripped "master of the universe" title so I was THRILLED to
get a HW track titled "Hole In The Sky", my absolute favorite.......
On 9/24/08, Stewartbas at aol.com <Stewartbas at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/22/2008 4:53:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK writes:
>
> Halford's singing's silly but competent--but there's also some live
> bonus material, on which he sounds *awful*. Was he always like this or
> did they just have a very thin selection of material to use as bonuses,
> do you suppose?
> At one time Halford was THE voice of Heavy Metal  whom all others were
> judged
> against. The only others who came close were;  Gillian, Freddy Mercury and
> Robert Plant (although by this time Plant was in  serious decline). Halford
> began loosing the hi notes in concert somewhere after  Screaming for
> Vengeance,
> which by that time they were the hottest act in town,  due to a series of
> 'Hit'
> singles and continuous radio play.
> One of the greatest rock shows I've ever saw was JP at the old Academy of
> Music on 14th St in NYC around 1977. The billing was(from top to bottom)
> REO
> Speedwagon, Starz, and JP at the bottom of the bill.
> It was a July evening and it was billed as a BARGAIN Night as the tix sold
> for only $3.50. The temperature  outside had to be close to 100 degrees
> F  and
> inside was at least 10 degrees hotter..and for $3.50 a head management
> saw  NO
> reason to put on the AC. Priest played most of Sad Wings and the place went
> completely mental. I remember Halford had long flowing red hair and he was
> dressed in chiffon and he acted, aaaa, how can I say this...gay. That's why
> my
> friends and I were always surprised that everyone else was surprised when
> RH
> came 'out'. The next tour, JP headlined and had switched the whole persona
> to
> the campy, leather, S&M thing, which was immediately copied by 100's of up
> and coming heavy metal acts.
> I remember seeing Iron Maiden open for the Priest with the EXACT same stage
> setup, runways at each side of the stage coming up behind the drummer,
> strobes,  everything was the same except smaller for Iron Maiden.
> I saw the Priest last month in NY and they were GREAT...Halford got his
> voice back or was it just trickery.
> Anyway it was a fantastic show.
> Since the Hawks were on a long hiatus from the states that wouldn't
> end  till
> around '89 --the Priest filled that void, for a few years anyway,
> very,  very
> nicely.
>
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> <ObCD: Space Ritual - _Otherworld_, which I only just got and  which is
> <confusing me by being not bad enough that I'm not entirely  certain it
> <might not be good. A terrible string of negatives, but I  was truly
> <expecting it to suck, and it fails to do so. More on this I  expect...
>
> I thought this was Nik's best work since Sphinx (both). Finally I think he
> may be over the whole, 'I'm the spirit of Hawkwind' crap that's been
> hindering
> his artistic progress for years. This is a good one.
>
> bill s
> ny
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