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[Gunslinger808]

Any other metal fans, or am I'm I alone here?
Right now it's rocking to Maiden (up the Irons!)
I love Ska (OI!)
80's banging, like Queensryche, and some even older Outlaws (which put Lynyrd Skynyrd to shame).
Show me your freakin attitude S&W forums!
Or rest on your EZ chairs...

 

[speedyquad]

queesnryche is one of my favs. empire is one of my top 10. operationm ind crime was good.
there is not a week that goes by without vulgar display of power being in my vehicles cd player. metallica, until they dropped load on us...i think i told a friend that i would rather listen to back street boys than re-load once.

modern day bands...shinedown gets a a lot of play from me. i could go all night, but i think it's bedtime. not as young as i used to be...lol

 

[REVL33]

yup metal head here, up the irons i live in the sf bay area and worked with alot of metal bands back in the day metallica used to play down the street from me , in fact i was a drum tec for a guy that had Cliff burton as his bass player before metallica, exodus singer son is great friends with my sons and comes over to hang out so yeah i love the metal.

as for newer stuff i am really in to a7x right now( m )shadows is a awesome vocalist and the band is just tight altogether musically .

 

[gjamison]

i'm with you!!!!

big metallica fan since the mid 80's. like megadeth as well.

 

[O2Guy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X69rIzFQDY

 

[Dashriprock]

Good call, O2Guy! For all of Hinson's schtick, he can sure play.

"I was named after my daddy. On my birth certificate where it says Father, they checked the box marked Unknown."

/hijack

Maiden was and is certainly at the top of the genre. Never really got Queensryche, but the musicianship evident there was amazing.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I guess a band named Metalica is no stranger than a band named The Grateful Dead.
Party on dudes-it's all good

 

[G-Mac]

Like all Yankees, I'm a big Bob Wills fan!

 

[woodsltc]

Like all Yankees, I'm a big Bob Wills fan!

Now there you are.....we knew we could get you trained!!

Don

 

[PA Reb]

Any other metal fans, or am I'm I alone here?
Right now it's rocking to Maiden (up the Irons!)
I love Ska (OI!)
80's banging, like Queensryche, and some even older Outlaws (which put Lynyrd Skynyrd to shame).
Show me your freakin attitude S&W forums!
Or rest on your EZ chairs...

Whoa, how old are you "Gunslinger808"? NO-ONE puts Skynard to shame, not even the Oulaws, as good as they were!

Short story ~ Back many years ago, I had a friend (a Viet Nam era special forces guy who was just plain nuts !) that worked as a lighting expert on many of the then popular daytime game shows. When he had the time, he travelled back and forth across the country with quite a few of the big name rock bands doing their lighting. He got me a job for a summer working as a roadie for some big names, one of which was Lynard (Lynard and not Leonard) Skynard. Those "good ole southern boys" rocked with the best of em and partied just as hardy. I also got to meet people from many bands that are now legends in the industry. I could probably write a book about that summer but suffice to say, I will never forget it as long as I live.

Bands like Iron Maiden, Queesnsryche and Metallica were FOLLOWING the lead of their "ancestors". Without those that came before them, they would have never made it big! Oh, and by the way, there's a big difference between "rock" and "metal head bangin' " !

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I was listening to Metal before anyone knew what it was. The original American Metal band, Iron Butterfly. I remember a girl got in trouble for dancing on the teacher's desk to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of my 6th grade classes. Kids....

 

[Gunslinger808]

NO-ONE puts Skynard to shame, not even the Oulaws

Yeah, I knew that'd get folks to light the torches and break out the pitchforks.
Really, I much prefer Green Grass and High Tides over Free Bird, the only song I think Skynyrd wins out with is Simple Man.
As to my age, let's just say my first concert was in 65 when I went and saw Grand Funk Railroad.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

As to my age, let's just say my first concert was in 65 when I went and saw Grand Funk Railroad.

It was a few years after that. In 1965 Donny Brewer, who's from the
small town I now live in, was in The Jazz Masters, a band that was just
about to hook up with DJ, Terry Knight, to form Terry Knight & the Pack.

After Terry left, the band became known as "The Pack" before Terry came
back on the scene around 1968 and approached Donny & Mark about
founding a "super group" trio, ala Cream etc.

Donny & Mark Farner went to a local studio where ? and The Mysterians were
rehearsing, heard Mel, who was with The Mysterians at the time, liked what
they heard and asked if he wanted to join "the trio."
After that, the rest was history........

Prior to Grand Fund Railroad being formed Mark had played bass in
Terry Knight & the Pack for a little while and when their regular Bass Player
came back Mark hooked up with another local band, The Bossmen.
He can be heard singing background vocals on their local hit, "Baby Boy."

The Bossmen eventually changed their name to Dick Wagner & The Frost,
then simply, The Frost, before Dick Wagner hooked up with Alice Cooper.......

After The Bossmen Mark came back to The Pack, this time on his
instrument of choice, the six-string Guitar. Mark disliked playing bass so
much that he even "forgot" to bring it to TK & The Pack's gigs on occasion.

I've collected Michigan Rock for years and since I was born & raised in
Flint, everybody, especially those of us in bands, knew at least one,
"before they were famous" Grand Funk Railroad story......

Below are Donny & The Jazz Masters around 1965.

Terry Knight (front / center) & The Pack.
Don Brewer & Mark Farner pictured at left.

"The Pack", shown below, before Terry Knight came back on the scene.

Below is another Michigan Band, The Sunliners, before they made it.
Most would probably remember them as Rare Earth.

Note:
Pete had his name on his Bass Head, which showed how
popular he was, even back then.

Here's a little bit of trivia dealing with Terry Knight & Grand Funk,
who he (TK) ripped off horribly. Maybe, took advantage of, is a better term.

I know a retired Rock & Roll DJ who knew Terry quite well back in the
1960's & early 70's. Many years later, Terry, not long before he was tragically
killed, asked my DJ friend if he could borrow $100. My friend told him to shove
it and that he shouldn't have blown all that money he had stolen from "The Boys."

 

[Gunslinger808]

Well then, old enough that Alzheimers is evidently kicking in!

 

[McBear]

I was listening to Metal before anyone knew what it was. The original American Metal band, Iron Butterfly. I remember a girl got in trouble for dancing on the teacher's desk to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of my 6th grade classes. Kids....

More girls got in trouble AFTER the concert in LA in 1970. Just sayin'.

This might explain the beginning of Tinnitus but certainly not the end.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

More girls got in trouble AFTER the concert in LA in 1970. Just sayin'.

This might explain the beginning of Tinnitus but certainly not the end.

The 70s... whew... grew up in the Bay Area. There was no louder, smokier, puke running down the walk ramps... horrible place for a concert than Winterland in San Francisco. We loved it.

 

[ladder13]

? and The Mysterians

96 tears

 

[ogilvyspecial]

96 tears

Rudy, a.k.a. ? / Q, who lives not far from here, is still "rockin'" that tune
after all these years. A close friend was Q's bass player back in the 80's
and he used to bring home tapes from their rehearsals for me to listen too.

Q has his quirks, but he is one heck of a singer / song writer.

I have 3 versions of 96 Tears, which was originally called, 69 Tears,
but the name was changed at Cameo Parkway's insistence, the
record label, to "protect the innocent." The next time you hear it listen
closely to the words and you should get a feel for the original title's
meaning, you know, "Down there lookin' up."

 

[jlrhiner]

Get away from Freebird and listen to some of the less popular Skynard songs. "Curtis Lowe", "Call me the Breeze". But I've got to tell you, I don't consider them metal. How about anything Duane Allman played on?

 

[A10]

Saw Johnny and Edgar Winter in concert at the Arena in Seattle in about '75. My ears are still ringing........2 hour concert, they played 5 tunes including Frankenstein. Rory Gallagher opened for them.