{"id":1768,"date":"2012-08-10T07:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2012-08-10T07:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:58:57","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-213-the-metal-years-stand-up-and-shout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/10\/my-musical-evolution-part-213-the-metal-years-stand-up-and-shout\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 213 The Metal Years Stand Up And Shout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dio<\/a>We are the sum of the choices we make and the experiences we have had. In 1984, The Rise<\/em> was incredible, The Fall<\/em> was devastating.\u00a0 Did it change me? It had to, right? I didn’t dress differently. I might have partied harder. I might have been more focused on the Heavy Metal Music.<\/p>\n

Enter Dio. Rainbow In The Dark <\/em> was making the orunds on MTV and getting airtime on the metal hour radio programs. Ronnie James Dio filled the vacancy in Black Sabbath<\/em> when they fired Ozzy Osbourne<\/em>.\u00a0 If you thought Van Halen<\/em> was different with Sammy Hagar<\/em> , you should check out some of the Black Sabbath <\/em>albums with Dio. <\/em>Oh wait, we will.<\/p>\n

Holy Diver <\/em>was a good addition to the pile of Metal records I was. The guitar work was impressive and the percussion on Dio albums is always mixed in such a crisp manner.\u00a0 Of course Ronnie James Dio’s voice is a powerful force of its own. The guy has the lungs to do opera.<\/p>\n

It was around this time that I upgraded<\/em> my home stereo. I had been rocking my old Sears all in one for years. I wanted something a little louder. Something more modern.\u00a0 I really wanted a kick ass Pioneer component system with massive speakers and 50,000 Watts of power. What I could afford was another Sears all in one. This one was designed to look like a component system. It really was a major upgrade from the previous. It had dual cassettes with high speed dubbing that I never actually used. It have a graphic equalizer and those Mountain Dew Green LED driven peak meters and other lights. The speakers where about 3 feet tall and features 8″ woofers and 3″ mids and 2″ tweeters.\u00a0 For the price range it was really good stuff. It eventually would get passed along to my sister. I wish I would have taken a good picture of it.<\/p>\n

It was considerable louder than my previous model. One afternoon I was rocking out to this very Dio album at high volume. My angry mother entered the room yelling about how loud it was and I couldn’t hear her. After turning it down, she told me she could hear it as she pulled into the driveway.<\/p>\n

It has been a long time since I’ve given these old metal albums a serioius listen. They stir up more emotion than memory. With the music of The Academy Days, <\/em>I’d get mental images of people, places and events. With The Metal Years<\/em>, I get a\u00a0more physiological response. The urge bang my head as it were.<\/p>\n

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Stand Up And Shout<\/em>
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