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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2023 14:42:03 GMT -5
@jaska, you're an Uli Jon Roth fan, too, right? There's an Uli bootleg where Warren de Martini plays on a few songs, and Don Dokken is on vocals for Sunshine Of Your Love. It's UCLA 5/27/2006. The quality is pretty good (very good, for a boot). I don't know if that's the same show you linked to a while ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2023 15:03:07 GMT -5
I like a very wide range of metal, both eras and genres. My favorite album of all time is Ratt's Out of the Cellar. As a guitar player, my 2 biggest heroes are George Lynch from Dokken (especially Tooth and Nail through Back for the Attack era) and Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom. Alexi is probably my closest "kindred spirit" if you will, I'm still devastated by his passing. Children of Bodom's Hate Crew Deathroll is my favorite, the live Tokyo Warhearts is probably my second. And yeah, I'm a Limp Bizkit fan too. There, I said it. Since there is so much activity (yay!) and I am taking people's suggestions/likes seriously, my replies will probably be piecemeal and delayed. I've made it through Ratt and most of the first Dokken album so far. It's really interesting. I haven't really dug too keep into this particular era and style of metal. My music progression kind of leapt over this from 70s classic rock right into 90s hard rock/metal. I backed into the thrash guys back catalogs, so I have that bit of the 80s covered very well, but the early 80s traditional heavy metal and hair metal I never really spent much time with. It's interesting how much of the late 70s rock ingredients I hear in it, but it's definitely noticeably different. It has many of the signature metal attributes, e.g. faster palm-muted tremolo picking, more aggressive riffs, tones and song structures, etc. It has a lot of that 80s sonic aesthetic, too. Admittedly not my favorite sound or period of metal, but I'm enjoying the exploration. Honestly, it makes me think of the original animated Transformers movie which was dead-on in the midst of this and sounds the part. The theme song rips way harder on here than it needed to. It's a great soundtrack, honestly, and it sounds like you'd like it a lot if you don't already know it. Ratt and Dokken were part of the LA metal scene that emerged from the 70's really driven by 2 main elements (though many influences overall). The first is the heavier riffing sound that Judas Priest developed in the late 70's, and the second was the lead playing of Eddie Van Halen. That DNA is all over the 80's bands that emerged in this genre. George was actually right up there with Eddie and Randy Rhoads during the late 70's, he was considered one of their biggest competitors, but didn't land in a higher profile band until Dokken in the mid-80's. Here's a clip from 1987 of his classic heavy instrumental: Ah, the Transformers soundtrack, that is a thing of joy. The band that plays the theme song itself is Lion, and features a young Doug Aldrich on guitar, another favorite player. He later played with Dio and Whitesnake among other things. I jam this theme song on guitar all the time  I also recommend checking out Lion's Dangerous Attraction album that came out the year after this if you like this song. And agreed, the activity in this thread is awesome!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2023 15:09:44 GMT -5
@jaska , you're an Uli Jon Roth fan, too, right? There's an Uli bootleg where Warren de Martini plays on a few songs, and Don Dokken is on vocals for Sunshine Of Your Love. It's UCLA 5/27/2006. The quality is pretty good (very good, for a boot). I don't know if that's the same show you linked to a while ago. I am indeed, big time. Huge thanks, I did not know about this, I'm digging up some video on this now, this is so cool! And speaking of Uli, for those who only know the 80's Scorpions (which are great as well), run don’t walk to the Tokyo Tapes concert album to hear the 70's era on fire with Uli just before he left. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 24, 2023 15:55:47 GMT -5
Does anybody remember hearing about Anvil in the '80s? I'm still not sure if this is an elaborate prank or not. I didn't hear about them until the documentary came out in the 2000s. Really good movie, BTW. |
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Post by Axe Elf on Jan 24, 2023 15:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by impulse on Jan 24, 2023 17:08:15 GMT -5
I can definitely see the talent in Dokken, good lord. Still not really my cup of tea, but the skill is undeniable. It has a lot of that late 70s sound and early 80s big sound production, two elements/periods I dislike from genres I am generally a fan of.
So far, I am liking the Back for the Attack album more than other two. It sounds more definitively like "heavy metal" than "70s rock but it just kept going."
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@jaska Whoa! Hello there. Mr. Scary That is the first time while I've been listening to those three albums today that a song grabbed me and pulled away to see what it is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2023 17:25:31 GMT -5
Dokken had one of my favourite 'Monster Ballads' called Alone Again
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2023 17:32:23 GMT -5
One to skip rope to
I can't link to Pantera's ****ing Hostile or Body Count's KKK B**ch hehehe
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Post by Calidore on Jan 24, 2023 18:37:02 GMT -5
You don't get much more metal than an 80" gong. And names don't get much more metal than Gong Master Sven.
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Post by commond on Jan 24, 2023 18:41:29 GMT -5
I listened to Destruction's Cracked Brain album yesterday. It's not a highly regarded album largely because the vocalist changed and they did a couple of whack things like covering My Sharona, but I thought the guitar work was pretty good. After that, I played Voivoid's early thrash record, War and Pain, which was really good. I really like early thrash efforts back when it was still raw. Topped things off with Viol-Lence's Oppressing the Masses LP, which is a pretty good sophomore effort. I'm not a huge fan of Sean Killian's vocals but the band is great.
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Post by Axe Elf on Jan 24, 2023 19:29:40 GMT -5
I assume you are all aware of the King of Metal Covers - Leo Moracchioli. He has like 40 albums full of metal covers of pop songs--and the videos are pretty fun.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 24, 2023 20:51:48 GMT -5
I don't think it's the best Metal album, per se; but, I'm quite partial to Def Leppard's Pyromania, Scorpions' Savage Amusement (more a favorite, rather than better than Love At First Sting), and Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time.
For Blue Oyster Cut, Imaginos is my favorite album, but Fire of Unknown Origin and Agents of Fortune are close behind.
I'm more song oriented than album, anyway; so, I tend to think more in those terms.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2023 0:41:28 GMT -5
Metal ballads suit me in January as I'm in goth mode down to black nail polish
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2023 0:54:10 GMT -5
Duran Duran *Metal* style
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2023 8:14:41 GMT -5
@jaska Whoa! Hello there. Mr. Scary That is the first time while I've been listening to those three albums today that a song grabbed me and pulled away to see what it is. Right?! George has actually been a very inconsistent player over the years (both on albums and live), but when he's "on" like with stuff like this, he's pretty much untouchable. If you like this side of him, there was a solo album he did in 1993 called Sacred Groove. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but again the instrumental stuff really shines including Love Power From the Mama Head (weird song name, but in the Mr. Scary vein), and the mellower I Will Remember and Tierra Del Fuego. So back on Marty Friedman, while obviously he did his usual great lead playing on Rust in Peace, have you ever heard his 1988 solo album Dragon's Kiss? As you may know, on Rust in Peace, the album was already written and actually Chris Poland was back in the band originally and even recorded some of the early takes, but replaced by Friedman in the end. Here I think you really hear Marty's full creativity (plus the Cacophony stuff he did with Jason Becker): |
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I also recommend checking out Lion's Dangerous Attraction album that came out the year after this if you like this song. And agreed, the activity in this thread is awesome!!
