Great in the 80s, good in the 90s, awful after 2000

GoodJudge wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 11:00 pm Bruce Dickinson

Nicko and Adrian Smith also. Though I am not sure if Dennis Straton (or even Clive Burr) were actually partners or if at that point it was just Harris/Murray

Geddy Lee of Rush and Tom Araya of Slayer come to mind. Not a Slayer fan….who wrote the lyrics? Mostly King and Hanneman on the early albums. Araya wrote a big chunk of lyrics from South of Heaven onwards, mostly in songs where the music was written by Hanneman. Araya (and Hanemann) lyrics were usu...

Joey Belladona
Corpsegrinder from Cannibal Corpse

Runaway- Bon Jovi
Fallen Angel- Poison
Live Wire- Motley Crue
Wild Child- WASP
Big Guns- Skid Row

Slayer has 11 (not counting Undisputed Attitude), so Divine Intervention at number 6
Megadeth has 16, so its either number 8 (Youthanasia) or 9 (Dystopia)
Maiden has 19. so...No Prayer for the Dying (number 10)
Motley has 9...Girls would be number 5

A lot of drugs and alcohol. Some vandalism. Not a lot a sex.
Never really made money until he got the Slayer gig in his mid 40s.
Fun read

Mercyful Fate's Egypt in 1993 was pretty solid

Iron Maiden- The Wicker Man

Seventh Son
Somewhere in Time
Killers
Piece of Mind
Number of the Beast
Judas could enter at number 6 with Defenders of the Faith

Sammy Hagar
KK Downing but not Judas Priest (not even Halford)
The Big 4 except Megadeth

Death, then Cannibal (mostly with Fisher), Morbid Angel and Obituary. I am a fan of those bands. Immolation and Incantation I like in small doses. Never got into Suffocation, Deicide and Malevolent Creation, although I own some of their albums. Atheist I liked a lot but I haven't heard an album in a...

Meh. I liked the New Jersey deluxe with the demos, extra tracks and the videos. But that was more than a decade ago, they should've done Slippery and the other albums then.

Interesting. Holt looks like a fun and reasonably smart guy so could be a worthy read. Except for Mustaine, Ellefson and Scott Ian I don't recall a lot of memoirs from thrash musicians

After finally getting around to listening to the first Wolfsbane album, it would have made more sense if Blaze joined Van Halen and Cherone joined Maiden Yeah, he has moments in Wolfsbane in which he sounds A LOT like Roth. I am a big fan of The X Factor and Virtual XI has its moments, but live eve...

I think incompetence is more the reason than self-sabotage. Maiden/Harris are good at some things, but, the lack of Birch's, Dickinson's (and maybe Smallwoods) brain involvement in this era are dramatically visible to see. As far as the vocals go - not a chance. If you took any of Maiden's big albu...

You can’t read that article and not come away with the conclusion that some or all of them wanted Blaze to not work out. Either consciously or at least in the back of their mind. They did everything they could to lessen the quality of the record/live show. No producer, no production on the vocals, ...

Great article, that site is really good. I love The X Factor, but I see how everything about it (the production, choosing Blaze, the change in the song writing with the long plodding songs, the imagery, the overall depressing vibe) conspired against whatever chance they had at commercial success. An...

Really good experience. You can find basically anything and the prices are usually decent even for rare items. Never had a problem with sellers from all over the world.

Zabooka wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:51 pm FULL SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVVLghGWY8

Pretty good. Interesting setlist, although very thin on the early stuff. 213 is a cool deep cut.

I cannot believe that 1999 was 25 years ago. Jesus.