How could we forget Judas Priest, "Painkiller," following the twin shitshows of "Turbo" and "Ram it Down?" Because Turbo was a top 3 Priest album. Turbo stunk. Painkiller was terrible. Terrible is a bit harsh but it's very average. Much better than Ram It Down which I ...

Anyway, funny enough I found this podcast with him and he literally starts the podcast by telling the story about how his great-grandfather or grandfather (he's not sure which) was named Szabo and the z got dropped at Ellis Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQf2yNJJveY Makes sense. Szabo is l...

Bair Hand wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:25 am

Love_Industry wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:13 am And how is STTG not seen as a bomb?

Because it was fucking great.

Well, it didn't outsell Adrenalize, Balance or Keep the Faith, all follow-ups to huge albums that have been described as "bombs" here at one point or another.

That band epitomized ‘gay’. All that hip thrusting in stuffed day-glo spandex and knee pads. Next level queer. :oops: In a thread a year ago or so some of us argued that the videos from EEAS were done as a parody of 80s metal with all cliches turned up to 11. Roth has said and written some things t...

Anthrax442 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:12 am
Is that a typo or is Dave Sabo's real last name Szabo?

I think it is. I recall he has Hungarian ancestry. Or at least his family's real name, they may have changed it before he was born as it is not in his profile on Wikipedia.

Scott Ian described Fallon in a German Metal Hammer magazine as "Er war ein arrogantes Arschloch".

Don't think you need to be a native German speaker to get the idea.

I gained a lot of respect for Skid Row because of Slave To The Grind. Out of all the bands at that time they could have cashed in HUGE if they put out a pop-metal album with wimpy ballads. Instead they put out ... a pop punk album with THREE power ballad singles. That's 90s Aerosmith and Scorpions ...

I don't doubt Dave started pulling shit like the tape on the stage with Skyscraper. I think Sheehan's timeline is off. The Skyscraper tour still seemed like a band having fun onstage and Vai was all over the place, triple neck guitar and all. Then on the ALAE tour it was DLR doing Monkey Hour (tm) ...

As CEO stated, Skids were untouchable during this point of their lives. The band is heavy and aggressive, no similar band in that genre could even sniff this intensity. The problem is, and it became obvious on this tour, they only had songs for one album and one single. Most songs from STTG were bl...

Heard from a source close to the band that they chose to go with the guitarist who wrote the best songs for Revenge. Vinnie Vincent, currently known as Victoria Cuzzano.

Manowar with Ross the Boss and Donnie Hamzik. They went from brilliant metal albums like Fighting the World and Kings of Metal, to pretentious crap like Triumph of Steel and Gods of War after Ross left.

Sabbath with Rob Halford / Iommi / Geezer / Cozy Powell and Geoff Nicholls in the 90s. Replace three of the weakest Sabbath albums Dehumanizer, Cross Purposes and Forbidden with 2-3 albums mixing the style of Fight with HC/Tyr Sabbath.

keyofgee wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:38 am I can almost bet the farm that it isn't Biden himself posting on tik tok or Instagram. It's his handlers. He probably can't fold an umbrella.

He is in the right age group though. Tiktok is boomer central and insta and fb are not far behind.

PI$$ Without a doubt, all planned out since the late 70s. Also DLR in VH Dickinson and Halford tend to say more or less the same thing every night too. Ozzy's "let's all go fucking crazy" and "we love you all" are probably not that planned but that's all he's capable to say whil...

I also want to add my vote that Judas Priest's spangly, blingey leathery outfits do not look cool and in fact look ridiculous on elderly men. I think 1984 was the last year that they look sorta cool..... 1984 was the first time they crossed the line and looked cartoonish and not dangerous. The Turb...

Shotgun Messiah "Violent New Breed" /thread Absolutely. A completely underrated release. As I tell my friends, "Imagine NIN's Broken , but with much better guitars and less depressing lyrics". Speaking of Swedish bands, Masquerade. Surface of Pain A lot heavier but with good mel...

Europe with Kee Marcello
Priest with Les Binks
Bad Moon Rising
Mercyful Fate with Denner and Ruzz

I saw that lineup of Whitesnake live at Day On The Green 1987 and they kicked ass! I was very impressed! An album with them recorded after that tour also would have been killer! All you would get would be SOTT with two generic metal guitarists instead of Vai. Campbell was out of Trev Fleming riffs ...

Candy Electric Angels The Loveless X2 on all of those. Roth /Vai/ Sheehan/Tuggle/Bissonette Icon w/Clifford and Aquilino Coverdale/Page Whitesnake 1987 (Sykes / Murray line-up) Ozzy w/Jason Newsted And one that never happened even if all of them worked on the same album: Kiss Revenge era with Gene,...

Please welcome back the original voice of 18 and Life, Rattlesnake Shake and Youth Gone Wild, on lead vocals Mr. Matt Fallon!

1988 Monsters of Rock-Castle Donington. Still in great shape, what a day /night/ morning that was. Met Lars, Lemmy, most of Maiden after the show... I had that one too. Either wore it out, gave it away or both... after 20 years. Still have the programme though. You're lucky... I only met Nick Bowco...

Lobo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:05 am Accept did one and it's horrible.

Udo's solo band did one too, I refuse to subject my hearing to it because I know it'll suck.

Is there any hard rock or metal band that did a good album with a symphony? Metallica and Kiss don't seem that bad but not great either. And Leppard and Scorps blow.

In the 80s Rob was anything but dorky. He was the Metal God. His dorkiness started around Painkiller and got progressively worse. No I'm sorry man but he never looked cool. He looked like he rolled out of the Blue Oyster. [/quote] Maybe it's an US thing. Or I was too young but I don't recall that f...

Nah. It’s total Painkiller shit. There’s a keyboard intro to the first song, that’s a bit different yes. Rest is Painkiller. Unless there’s an acoustic song like Angel or some soft stuff like the intro of Chains in there somewhere that I’ve forgotten about? Some examples: Fight of Your Life could h...

I'll admit the part about Lonnie living in the trailer park and his dad making them bologna sandwiches moved me. That's how it was growing up for us, and I think that's the story of most American rock bands from back in the day. There was the occasional Roth, Tom Scholz, etc, but most guys in bands...

Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:34 am I used to have that, but sold it. It was mediocre, you didn't miss out on anything.

Agreed but then I am not a Jean Beauvoir / Crown of Thorns fan either.
Don't hate his songs but it is very mediocre. Those with Kiss too.

LitaStrauss wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:41 am Wildside from 1992. This is a link to what the shirt looks like. It looks to be from a vintage store in Jakarta and they're selling it for 800K. Hopefully that isn't $800,000!

800k Indonesian Rupiahs would be my guess. A cool $50, just buy it. The postage may be another 50 bucks though.

Glenn has always been a dork. I always thought of Rob as the dorky element of the band. Especially when you compare him to somebody like Bruce Dickinson. And I thought Glenn was like the cool one. No matter where you stand on that I think everyone has to admit he is a way underrated guitarist and s...

[ Their appeal stateside has always been the source of much puzzlement. For me it was the opposite, why weren't they more popular in the 80s their native country where they had played every shithole from 71 to 81, when they were packing arenas both in Europe and America? They didn't even play in th...

You're probably right. It's not only teens on there, all retired oldies seem to love tiktok and they can vote. But it's still the right thing to do with a Chinese government owned (ok, partly) spying app with a propaganda official on the company's board. The chinese government does not own Tick Toc...