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The Heavy Metal Thread

#1 Post by Bandit72 » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:38 am

Found this which some of you may be interested in.












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#2 Post by MYXYLPLYX » Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:21 am

Cool stuff!

Also, this:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... e-20150324

Iconic 'Decline of Western Civilization' Films Finally Get Official Release

Hold on to your pool chairs: All three of Penelope Spheeris' entertaining, heartbreaking and iconic Decline of Western Civilization documentaries are officially coming to Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in a deluxe box set on June 30th. Shout! Factory will release the four-disc anthology chronicling L.A.'s hardcore punk, hair-metal and gutter-punk phenomena with a 40-page book, extended interviews and a new commentary track by Dave Grohl. Each film has also been given a 2K high-definition restoration, which Spheeris supervised.

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#3 Post by nausearockpig » Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:37 pm

I thought this was very interesting...

http://www.vh1.com/shows/metal_evolution/series.jhtml

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#4 Post by Pandemonium » Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:26 pm

Thanks for posting this. The BBC doc was a fun(ny) watch. Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is (or maybe was, he seems much more sour these days) a pretty funny guy.

I am really looking forward to the Decline and Fall of Western Civilization documentaries coming out on Blu-ray in a few months. I've never seen the 3rd one but the first two have long been at the top of my list and I still have the laserdisc of the 1st one. Those two are both LA-centric and accurately reflect the mostly silly facets of the local punk and later metal club scenes in Hollywood. Especially regarding metal bands, I can't count how many shitty, go nowhere bands I saw at the Troubadour and The Whiskey in the mid 80's.

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#5 Post by Jasper » Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:12 pm

So, do you think that guy with the big half-black half-bleached hairdo made it beg yet? He was pretty sure of his imminent success.

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#6 Post by Bandit72 » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:29 am

Bruce is recovering from throat cancer at he moment. And I think Nicko gets tireda lot quicker these days. Not surprising being in his 60's with a huge kit to accommodate.

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#7 Post by Artemis » Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:33 am

I wasn't sure where to post this vid, so I decided that this thread would be good. It could also go in random and funny too.

Sadly, Larry's Hideway closed some time near the end of the 80s. There was also a fire there and the venue had the building had to be torn down.

Killing Joke's live album Ha was recorded there.


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#8 Post by Pandemonium » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:22 pm

Iron Maiden touring again this year with Ghost opening. It sounds like UK/Europe shows will be announced soon as well:

Jun. 03 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube
Jun. 04 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
Jun. 07 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
Jun. 09 - Charlotte, NC - Pnc Music Pavilion
Jun. 11 - Tampa, FL - Amalie Arena
Jun. 13 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
Jun. 15 - Chicago, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
Jun. 16 - Minneapolis, MN - Xcel Energy Center
Jun. 19 - Oklahoma City, OK - Chesapeake Arena
Jun. 21 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
Jun. 23 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
Jun. 24 - San Antonio, TX - ATT&T Center
Jun. 27 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater
Jun. 28 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Arena
Jul. 01 - San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheater
Jul. 03 - Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Center
Jul. 05 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
Jul. 07 - Salt Lake City, UT - Usana Amphitheater
Jul. 09 - Lincoln, NE - Pinnacle Bank Arena
Jul. 11 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
Jul. 12 - St Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
Jul. 15 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
Jul. 16 - Quebec City, QC - Videotron Centre
Jul. 19 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center
Jul. 21 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Arena

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#9 Post by Bandit72 » Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:47 pm

Yep, already got my ticket to see them in Nottingham on 4th May.

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#10 Post by Bandit72 » Thu Feb 02, 2017 3:18 pm

Panda, did you ever see Ozzy with Randy Rhoads? I'm just watching a documentary called a God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and I wish I was old enough to have seen them.

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#11 Post by Bandit72 » Thu Feb 02, 2017 3:26 pm

I've just seen you saw Ozzy in '81 so you must have done. Who was playing in June '82?

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#12 Post by Pandemonium » Thu Feb 02, 2017 7:29 pm

Bandit72 wrote:I've just seen you saw Ozzy in '81 so you must have done. Who was playing in June '82?
Yeah, I did see Ozzy twice on the Diary Of A Madman tour. The first time was on New Year's Eve 12/31/81 with Randy Rhoads at the LA Sports Arena. Very hard to get tickets and I wound up picking up a pair of nosebleeds from a Ticket Agency just a few days before the show.

The second show was later during the Summer of '82 at the fairly new, local out door shed, Irvine Meadows a few months after Randy had died and Ozzy had Brad Gillis on guitar at that point. Two things I remember about Gillis - he looked like Sammy Hagar's twin brother and he had the worst guitar tone of just about anyone I've ever heard. This show was filmed for cable broadcast (and later released on home video). It was exactly the same setlist and production as the earlier show. Maybe the weirdest thing was they were still selling programs and shirts with Rhoads and Ozzy never acknowledged Rhoad's passing during the show.

I also saw one of Rhoads final shows with Quiet Riot at The Roxy during the Summer of '79. Good friend at the time dragged me to the show saying, "the band sucks and they are fruits (gay) but the guitarist is unbelievable." That pretty much summed it up.

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#13 Post by Artemis » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:43 pm

Last week at The Slayer farewell tour in Toronto a guy was kicked out because he was too wasted. He really wanted to see Slayer and Anthrax and tried to swim back, but no luck. Even members from the bands tried to get him back in, but to no avail. Anyway, here's his account of what happened. It's pretty funny.. :lol:
For those who don't know, Lake Ontario is REALLY cold this time of year.


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We Talked to the Guy Who Tried to Swim Back into Slayer's Toronto Show, and Here's What He Had to Say
"I was just trying to be incognito — I had my camouflage hat on, so I thought that might help" ( :lolol: )

For most Ontario metalheads, the Toronto show on Slayer's final North American tour was a night to remember, but for Chris LaRocque the next couple days were something he'll likely never forget.

The 46-year-old went viral, receiving plenty of news coverage when Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian made an Instagram post showing LaRocque's effort to swim back into the Budweiser Stage after getting kicked out of the show. We called the Oshawa man on his girlfriend's phone — his was still drying out after joining him in Lake Ontario — to talk about what happened.

"I was a little inebriated, not like fall-down drunk or nothing, but I was feeling pretty good," LaRocque admits, though comments on social media posts from attendees suggest he was a fairly sauced. "I was just like headbanging and moshing around a little bit."

But that seemingly Slayer show-standard behaviour was enough to attract security, who gave him the boot during opening act Testament. "I was pretty bummed," LaRocque says.

After some failed negotiations to stay, he went outside and was texting concert mate Sean D'Nyke, who introduced our hero to Slayer and Anthrax back in the day and insisted he find a way back in. After responding that he could probably swim back in, LaRocque sat along the water down from the ticket gates and pondered.

The joke became reality and he lowered himself into the water, holding onto the cement wall. His final thought before committing was quite sober: "It's going to be cold. I was worried about getting my junk in the water and freezing."

Luckily for him it wasn't too bad, as LaRocque estimates he spent about 15 minutes swimming across, not due to lack of ability or drunkenness but a conscious decision.

"I wasn't going fast. I was just trying to be incognito — I had my camouflage hat on, so I thought that might help."

Unfortunately, it didn't, and there were medical personnel and security waiting for him by the Anthrax bus where he came ashore. Despite some pleading while he was warming up wrapped in a blanket — and a behind-the-scenes pardon attempt courtesy of Slayer (and Exodus) guitarist Gary Holt — LaRocque had to return home without having ever seen two of his favourite bands.

It wasn't the first sad moment of the day for the swimmer, as D'Nyke accidentally left one of the tickets he had bought his friend for his birthday in the Uber they took to the venue. There was a solution, however, when LaRocque exchanged $150 and the remaining 300-level ticket for a pair for the floor. It seems less likely he'd have gotten kicked out if he'd been stationary, though he opines there's a reason his friend didn't get the same treatment.

"He was headbanging one day to Slayer and just listening along on his radio and heard something go pop in his neck, and the doctor told him, 'Don't headbang anymore,' so he's got to really take care; he can't give 'er when he goes to the shows. That's probably why he didn't get kicked out and I did."

Though his friend saw the bands, LaRocque will go down in history for his actions. He says metalheads have been responding to his antics by calling them "so metal," which he'd never considered. For the headbanger, this was simply his one shot to get back in. Still, it makes sense that his reaction would be the metal one, as he's been a lifelong fan of the genre.

"I grew up in the '80s. I was one of the guys with the ghetto blaster on their shoulder walking down the street cranking Twisted Sister, you know, Maiden and stuff like that. I was a hair farmer for years, from maybe 15 years old. I didn't chop it off until 2009. I went back, finished high school and then I went to college, and before I went to college I chopped all my hair off. I've been a metalhead for most of my life."

And a metalhead he'll continue to be. Despite the tragedy of missing the bands, this story has a happy ending.

A stranger messaged LaRocque and said he was his hero, offering him a pair of tickets to the London date of the second leg of the tour. He'll have to be on his best behaviour there, though, as there isn't a watery way in at Budweiser Gardens, but our hero has some parting words of wisdom for those who find themselves at the site of the Toronto gig: "Maybe if you're going to a show at the Budweiser Stage, bring swim trunks."

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#14 Post by clickie » Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:31 am

Bandit72 wrote:Panda, did you ever see Ozzy with Randy Rhoads? I'm just watching a documentary called a God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and I wish I was old enough to have seen them.
On that TV show where Ozzy and his son Jack travel around the USA, Randy's name comes up from time to time and Ozzy still gets super emotional talking about him.

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