Mapping Influences Over Time
The Blackout album cover belongs on my list of iconic album covers. That is to say that I had seen this cover numerous times before I knew anything about Scorpions. It always drew my curious attention. Look at it. How couldn’t it. I, like most American teens in 1984, was just discovering Scorpions music. Again, …
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Oh look. Another band that has a song named after the previous album. That was a coincidence unless subliminally, I had it planned all along and just was not consciously aware. After completely enjoying Def Leppard’s Pyromania I had to get more. At that time more meant On Through The Night or High ‘N’ Dry. I …
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Helix? What? Are they Canadian? Of course I had to by Helix’s No Rest For The Wicked. They were the Heavy Metal Love guys fromt he radio. Maybe No Rest For The Wixked wasn’t the heaviest or the metalist but the album had a few good cranker-up-ers. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Helix …
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With all the great Scorpions music out there, I’m almost ashamed to admit that my entry point was Rock You Like A Hurricane. Sure, that is a good song too but I tend to skip over that one most of the time. Maybe it is just a victim of being played to death. This album …
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I sometimes wonder if the Metal side of me made surviving The Rise & Fall Of ’84 any easier. The Metal music and accompanying persona was more rebelious and driven to party. Krokus was another one of those bands to come out of frozen Europe. The Germans, the Swiss, the Norwegians, they all had this …
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On May 27th, 1984, Brian and I were at the American Rock Festival at the Timber Ridge Ski Resort in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was an all day show. The concert goers were spread out all over the ski slope and the stage was set up in front the base lodge. It was certainly a festival …
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I liked Black Sabbath but I was hardly what you would consider a true fan. To me a fan, a true fan , will seek out more. I knew a lot more about Mötley Crüe than I cared to find out about Black Sabbath. I had Master Of Reality and now, Paranoid but I couldn’t …
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My very first Led Zeppelin album. I had heard Whole Lotta Love in Brian’s car at proper volume. The instrumental bridge leading into the guitar solo by Jimmy Page had me hooked. It had so many of the elemens that I had loved. It was kind of like mixing up Agony, Aldo Nova, Space Battle …
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Continuing the new metal movement was Ratt. The had a sound that seemed to take elements from Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and some of the other up and comers in MTV’s metal genre. You can also hear a little Eddie Van Halen influence here. Round And Round was on the radio and MTV. Listening to …
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I felt compelled to post both blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of A Madman on the same day because I bought them on the same day. I had heard Brian’s Ozzy albums and new I had to get my own. Diary picked up right where Blizzard left off. I found out much later that all …
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