Mapping Influences Over Time
Aric picked up Accept’s follow up to Balls To The Wall. It was called Metal Heart and it picked up where Balls To The Wall left off. The opening track appealed to my love for classical music. Here in the intro of Metal Heart was the fusion of classical and metal. How cool was that. …
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Living at The Roach Motel with Aric was a blast. I couldn’t have asked for a better house mate. I hope I was as courteous and supportive to him as he was to me. I almost said that I was at the perfect age again but that really doesn’t cover it. It was a great …
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Mötley Crüe’s success with Shout At The Devil and Theatre Of Pain led to a reissue of their debut album Too Fast For Love. It started to show up in records stores. So we did what we had to do as Mötley Crüe fans. We bough it. I can’t say that I didn”t like it. …
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You might recall that I had bought a guitar from the pawn shop and struggled to get anything but pain from it. I also bought a Fender Dual Showman Tube Bass Amp from Brian with a big Woodson cabinet sporting dual 15″ speakers. I don’t know why I bought a Bass amp for my guitat. …
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You might have noticed a few photos of Madonna attached to some of these posts. Part of it is because I was trying to visually express the look and style of the girls of the 80’s. Madonna was the Queen of style back in 1985. Sometimes the style got a little over the top but …
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As I post this photo of the Bark At The Moon album cover, a thought occured to me that I had not considered before. Who had the idea to dress Ozzy up as a werewolf? Did Ozzy approach the record label and say “I’d like to be a werewolf on the cover of the next …
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I finally picked up Killers and thus had collected all of the Iron Maiden studio albums. I still was firmly in Team Dickinson but the Paul Di’Anno albums had a quality about them that was – I’ve been sitting here for a few minutes trying to think of the word to summarize that quality. If I …
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Every guy that has picked up a guitar in the 1970’s or 1980’s has played the riff from Smoke On The Water. It always happened. Deep Purple is one of those bands that I’m often tempted to include with The Metal Years. All of my metal friends liked them. They had a heavy sound. They …
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W*A*S*P seemed to be what Mötley Crüe would have been if they truned toward Metal instead of glam after Shout At The Devil. They had many of the same things that made Mötley Crüe so cool. Blackie Lawless had a more powerful voice than Vince Neil but the metal distorted guitars and big drums were …
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Roach Days Revisited covers the time from September, 1985 to May, 1988. During that time Aric and I lived at The Roach Motel then Stately Roach Manor. It was an epic time of parties, women and Rock & Roll. While we moved in on September 6th, It wasn’t until Halloween that the name Roach Motel …
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