But from SATD through at least GGG. I would bet Nikki was replaced at times by numerous LA session players that we all know or are familiar with. Mötley may not exactly have been top notch musicians in the 80s but they all had a distinctive style and sond so they'd be hard to replace. We all know V...

They’ve always been a B-C level act in the UK, popular only with metalheads and never transcended the genre to the mainstream like Maiden. The biggest venue they’ve played in London is Brixton Academy. Their appeal stateside has always been the source of much puzzlement. The surprise here is that B...

Icon - Right Between the Eyes 1990 tour shirt. Bought at a show and signed by Dan Wexler. It still fits.

Also have an original Cooper "Trashes the World" shirt from around the same time.

In other news Julian Gill from Kissfaq has started working on a book about Ace. The still tentative title is.... wait for it....Acebook.

Ziggy Sawdust wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:55 am I’ll definitely buy it if it comes down in price.

Maybe they will release standalone remastered CDs at regular price also - Leppard and Motörhead did that for their box sets. New master and packaging but no extras.

That might also be an answer to your question to me above about Wembley v Hammersmith in the 80s. My first proper gig was Maiden at Hammersmith on the 7th Son tour but they initially only advertised 1 night then added a 2nd later, which is the one I saw. They probably always had it in reserve depen...

Tony said in an interview that Eddie Van Halen came in to write a song that ended up being Evil Eye from Cross Purposes. Tony says he has the recordings from the session. https://www.vhnd.com/2022/07/22/tony-martin-on-eddies-93-recorded-writing-sessions-rehearsals-with-black-sabbath-ive-got-all-of-...

That might also be an answer to your question to me above about Wembley v Hammersmith in the 80s. My first proper gig was Maiden at Hammersmith on the 7th Son tour but they initially only advertised 1 night then added a 2nd later, which is the one I saw. They probably always had it in reserve depen...

I understand that Ken lives a short distance from Glenn in the midlands in England, it’s pretty sad how things have turned out and they don’t see each other or even speak. That whole band is ridiculous in how they interact with each other. Rob leaves the band 'by accident' and quickly wants back in...

There's a Wembley Stadium too right? Where the concert for life was held? Yes. And that’s probably why Kiss always played Wembley Arena in the 80s. It sounded cooler to have played Wembley where Live Aid was and Queen and Pink Floyd played on their tours than Hammersmith with the likes of UFO, Saxo...

Wembley Arena is 12,500 capacity. It’s not Wembley Stadium. I know, but they aint playing 12,500 seat arenas in america. They did play 16k capacity Nassau Coliseum on the Firepower tour but yes looking at setlist.fm they seem to play some seriously small places in the US. Not ony venues but towns. ...

Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:54 am
Jeff Young tried out for Danger Danger before their first album came out & didn’t get the gig.

Was this before or after he had a band with Jon Valen, the guy who believes he was the drummer in Judas Priest and Legs Diamond?

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.

Hardcore Superstar. Folks go crazy over them, I find them to be very average. Just showing my age, I guess Agreed here. HCSS don't have any songs that stand out. Crashdiet are better live and have a few good songs, but their bass player is a nationalist politician (SD) For good Swedish glam/sleaze,...

I had no idea that Hetfield was a huge fan of their 1st release - can't imagine him listening to "Smooth Up in Ya" without laughing. I'm fairly sure most of these thrash bands at some point or another have finally admitted to liking the hair metal acts of their day to a certain extent. Th...

Also liked Name Your Poison by Little Caesar better than the big major label debut that came afterwards. [/size] Agree, but their best song was neither on the EP nor the album. "Down to the Wire" on some obscure compilation. They should make a deluxe remaster that has the s/t album, Name ...

They had to pay a symphony big bucks to do an album with Metallica. Why would they do an album with a C band? C bands on here typically have a couple of gold albums in the US. This is a D band. I thought one of their albums reached Gold. We'll have to do a further audit. I did check a while ago and...

The peak of hair metal gloss. It was their Crazy Nights. (And Crazy World was their Hot in the Shade. A whole lot of meh with a big hit power ballad to save it.) Crazy World was even worse than SA. I got off the train there. I just couldn't see eye to eye with the band anymore. Wiki states the foll...

When I saw a band on stage that I remember as full of energy 30 year olds in the 80s and now they were approaching 70, visibly aging and barely moving.

Not sure which was first so pick one from say Kiss, Judas Priest or Deep Purple

If it wasn't for the fact that Paris is Burning was clearly being played from Xciter as far back as 1977, I might think there was some truth to this, but given this and Greg's weird accusations about Nikki Sixx not playing bass on Crue records, I can only conclude that Greg is beyond all concept of...

for a song that's almost 50 years old, it's held up quite well. revered is more like it. almost EVERYONE loves the track - from up and coming rappers to otherwise clueless millennials. don't believe me, do a YouTube search for "Led Zeppelin Kashmir Reactions." they ESPECIALLY love the &qu...

Who wouldn't wanna be tunnel buddies with the one and only EVH? Even if Wolfie came out of said tunnel?

FreddyFender wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:49 am Is there anyone here who hasn't seen Quiet Riot play to 20 people?

I haven't. They have only played 2 shows ever in Sweden and both were festivals (2007 and 2016) so I hope more than 20 people saw them.

Dio, Accept and Saxon. Skipped Priest and Maiden who played the same kind of shitholes because they had new vocalists and crappy new albums (Demolition and Death Row) out.

Glenn wasn’t interested in having Rob back, he wanted to keep Ripper. Had no idea Glenn enjoyed playing clubs, bars and other shitholes that much. From what I heard, KK wasn't a happy man during that era. He probably didn't enjoy playing the smaller places, but, he enjoyed the band as a unit that g...

HueyRamone wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:07 am Glenn wasn’t interested in having Rob back, he wanted to keep Ripper.

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Had no idea Glenn enjoyed playing clubs, bars and other shitholes that much.
From what I heard, KK wasn't a happy man during that era.

Didn't know that Twisted Sister EP existed, it prolly sounds like shit. Well, it's not a Mutt Lange production and it has the first studio version of their godawful cover of Leader of the Pack. But it also has three songs that ended up on their best album Under the Blade, and I prefer at least 2 of...

I heard a bootleg of a show on the British Steel tour back in 1992...a friend had a CD of it... I was still younger and didn't quite understand the recording of live vocals on official live releases...wow...Rob was bad... Hate to admit it, but Rob was very inconsistent around that time. He was grea...

Queensryche.

Pretty Maids and Mercyful Fate also debuted with EPs that were good. Not as good as their first albums but neither was Queensryche or Ratt's.

Top 3 Scorps album, easily. Not as good as Lovedrive or Blackout but there's plenty of good stuff here. Don't Stop at the Top and Rhythm of Love are great, but the only song I really don't like on SA is "We Let It Rock... You Let It Roll". That's right, I never liked Animal Magnetism, exce...