Mapping Influences Over Time
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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If you went to some metal concerts in the 80’s or listened to Metal Shop on WXKE or hung around with some metal head, you were bound to hear some Judas Priest. I was familiar with the name and some of their more radio-ready songs like You Got Another Thing Coming. For some reason, Judas …
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September 6th, 1985 was payday. Aric and I put up our rent. It would be the last time we saw that security deposit. We moved into this duplex on Goshen Avenue. It was duplex by design not one of those big old houses that was awkwardly split into two homes. Our portion was in the …
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At some point that summer Aric and I came to the realization that getting an apartment together would be just like driving around in my car with the addition of a refigerator and a bathroom. So we decided to start looking. We would scan the classifieds in the paper as we drank mutliple pots of …
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VCR’s both VHS and Betamax were starting to become more and more common in homes across America. Columbia House saw this as an opportunity. The Columbia House Catalog suddenly had a music video section. I found Iron Maiden’s Video Pieces there. I bought this only mine was the Betamax version. I had a really nice …
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I have long forgotten why I skipped Killers in my pursuit of Iron Maiden albums. Maybe Wooden Nickel didn’t have it when I went o but it. Maybe I just thought the cover of Iron Maiden looked cooler than Killers. Perhaps I just wanted to get to their very first ablum and experience where it all …
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Here is another cover that belongs in the gallery of iconic album art. I had seen this album cover numerouas times before I was an Iron Maiden fan. I wondered about the music inside that album cover. I wondered if it would be a source of contention between me and my religeously sensitive mother. I weighed …
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