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Post by impulse on Mar 6, 2024 22:20:41 GMT -5
Ahh, I got it now. The Popeye image makes more sense now. Well, welcome back!
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Apr 30, 2024 11:37:17 GMT -5
Going to see Judas Priest tomorrow. Taking my daughter, who was surprisingly, the one who pushed to go. She's still not a metalhead, but I think she just wants to be able to say that she saw JP. She does understand their standing as metal gods. I'm a little worried about being disappointed in Halford's voice. He sounds great on the new record, but who knows how the rigors of touring is going to wear down his voice. Regardless, it's gonna magic just to be in his presence.
I'm debating if I should get some earplugs. I can never get them to stay in. I should just plan for a couple weeks of extra tinnitus.
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Post by impulse on Apr 30, 2024 14:49:27 GMT -5
Nice! While not my favorite group out there, they have very much earned their status as metal gods, and if I had the option I'd definitely go to see the legends in person. Cool you get to do that with your daughter, too. Always nice to find a common interest to bond with the kiddos on.
Definitely at least try the earplugs. I've recently read that pulling on your earlobe while you put them in and letting go helps them stay.
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on May 2, 2024 12:39:32 GMT -5
Random musings about the Judas Priest show:
We both had a lot of fun. I was not expecting my daughter to get into it as much as she did. Probably a combination of latent metalhead-itis, contagious enthusiasm from her dad, and a fair amount of crowd participation segments.
The deepest cut we got was Saints In Hell. That was the only song from Stained Class, and I prefer it over the expected Exciter or Beyond The Realms Of Death.
No Metal Gods, but we got Rapid Fire.
There wasn't an encore of the type where the whole band leaves the stage and everybody's supposed to clamor for their return. When the drummer said "We have time for a couple more songs", he wasn't kidding. The last song of the set was Living After Midnight, then they said good-bye and left the stage, and that was it.
She's been asking who we should see so that we can experience a mosh pit. I have no idea. There wasn't one last night, but I wasn't expecting one, and it's not like we could get near the stage anyway.
The "new" guitarist is a fine replacement for K.K.
We got more of the Halford Scream than I expected. Damn impressive.
Sabaton opened. I don't know anything about them, but they were pretty good.
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Post by impulse on May 2, 2024 14:41:58 GMT -5
Nice! Sounds like an awesome time, and so cool the kiddo was into it! I think Sabaton headlined when I got to see Marty Friedman, so that's funny. I also don't know anything about them except they enabled me to see Marty. Speaking of Marty and your daughter wanting to see a pit...
Megadeth just announced a North American tour. Maybe check for close dates?
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on May 2, 2024 15:28:18 GMT -5
Nice! Sounds like an awesome time, and so cool the kiddo was into it! I think Sabaton headlined when I got to see Marty Friedman, so that's funny. I also don't know anything about them except they enabled me to see Marty. Speaking of Marty and your daughter wanting to see a pit... Megadeth just announced a North American tour. Maybe check for close dates? The Megadeth show I went to.. um five to ten years ago, was one of my favorites, and I wasn't even in to them yet. They're here September 3rd, outdoor venue. I wonder of anybody starts mosh pits out on the lawn. Are you seeing them this time? |
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Post by impulse on May 2, 2024 15:35:29 GMT -5
Nice! Sounds like an awesome time, and so cool the kiddo was into it! I think Sabaton headlined when I got to see Marty Friedman, so that's funny. I also don't know anything about them except they enabled me to see Marty. Speaking of Marty and your daughter wanting to see a pit... Megadeth just announced a North American tour. Maybe check for close dates? The Megadeth show I went to.. um five to ten years ago, was one of my favorites, and I wasn't even in to them yet. They're here September 3rd, outdoor venue. I wonder of anybody starts mosh pits out on the lawn. Are you seeing them this time? Unless they announce more dates closer to me, I doubt it, but I'm not too upset. I've seen them multiple times, including both a packed smallish venue (2,000 ish capacity) all the way to the Big 4 of Thrash show in California with 50,000+ and others somewhere in between. Each had its pros and cons. The smaller packed one was one of the most fun concerts of my life. There were no "casual" Megadeth fans seeing them live circa late 00s/early 10s, so it was a very enthusiastic crowd. The pit was a blast. I got knocked flat on my ass 3 times, and I'm not a small man. I was too scared to go near a pit at Big Four. There were some BIG BOYS there, and I saw norse gods carried out unconscious before the sun event went down there, so yeah. |
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on May 3, 2024 10:31:54 GMT -5
My ears are back to normal already. All those years of toughening them up really pays off!
(I did not use earplugs)
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Jun 27, 2024 6:24:22 GMT -5
Metal rambling time.
Out of all of the acts still touring that I want to see, they're all coming through town this fall. The second I saw K.K.'s Priest was coming through, my very next thought was "If Accept is also coming through sometime soon, this is gonna be a very metal year", and then I looked closer at K.K's schedule, I see that Accept is opening for them. So I'm going to that one for sure.
K.K. Downing left Priest sometime in the 2010s, and given the name of his band, and that some of his new songs reference Priest songs, and that Ripper Owens is his singer, one might get the impression that he's riding on Priest's coattails. But IMO, as a founding member of JP, he can be as Priest-like as he wants. As long as he's not Priest-lite, which his new music says he is not.
Accept's vocalist since 2010 is Mark Tornillo, who nobody probably remembers from the '80s metal act Y&T. Y&T never made an impression on me, but Tornillo is a great fit for Accept. His voice is as unique as Udo's, but of a different quality. He's got an almost Lemmy-like roughness that I appreciate.
Speaking of Udo, he's also coming my way this year. I wasn't sure he would have enough of an American audience for a tour of the U.S.
And on the non-senior-citizen side, Halestorm, the only band from this century that I'm a full fan of, is also going to be here this year.
And then maybe Cindy Lauper with my wife in the winter. I've always thought she seemed like an authentic person and artist (despite her association with Lou Albano).
While we were driving to the Judas Priest show, one of the songs I played was Jawbreaker. My daughter commented on how the song was about gay sex, which got a laugh from me on how quickly she got it. She is right, as Halford explained sometime after he came out in the '90s, but prior to that, all of us metalheads (or most of us, assuredly), took at as a macho posturing (that is, "I'll break your jaw in this fight I'm describing"). That's still how I choose to interpret it, authorial intent be damned. "Devil's Child", on the other, there's no excuse for not glomming onto some of those lyrics.
Rob Halford is under-rated as a lyricist. He can alternate between cheesy and awesome, but that is fine in metal, in my eyes. He excels at visceral poetry. "Claws stuck in the dirt, every ounce of fiber on alert." "A gut-wrenching frenzy that deranges every joint." "We don't accept defeat, we never will retreat, We blaze with scorching heat, obliterations everywhere". Crom, I'm pumped just typing these examples.
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Jul 22, 2024 9:09:14 GMT -5
My daughter and I saw Halestorm last night. There was a lot of showcasing of Lizzy's vocal ability, which I appreciated. I'm not familiar with their entire catalog, and some of the songs I didn't know were a bit boring, but it was worth the $40 lawn seats.
Also there were Fit For A King, Hollywood Undead, and I Prevail. I didn't like any of them, with I Prevail being the worst of the bunch. The other groups were just barely okay for sitting and chilling to, but IP was just 45 minutes of noise, none of which sounded like a song to me. I Prevail also played these pre-recorded videos between some of the songs that were a cross between a Jigsaw video (from the Saw franchise) and the video from The Ring. They were unintentionally funny.
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Jul 26, 2024 23:00:35 GMT -5
Speakers blasting out
Notes of triumph and glory
Rapid and heavy
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Post by commond on Aug 11, 2024 16:35:14 GMT -5
Does anyone have any thrash recommendations for the year 2000 and beyond? I've been listening to Vektor, and they're all right but it gets a bit prog-ish at times. I guess something less technical is what I'm looking for.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2024 15:07:46 GMT -5
Does anyone have any thrash recommendations for the year 2000 and beyond? I've been listening to Vektor, and they're all right but it gets a bit prog-ish at times. I guess something less technical is what I'm looking for. My apologies, I started to post something back when you put this up, but then wanted to add clips and got sidelined. If you are still looking for some recommendations, I definitely have some: |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2024 15:23:30 GMT -5
I love this green alternate cover art for Metallica's ...And Justice for All album. I decided to use it for "Breadfan" and "The Prince" in my iTunes since they were B-sides for Justice's "Harvester of Sorrow" single.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2024 6:50:04 GMT -5
Testament still gets the job done for me.
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