{"id":2001,"date":"2012-08-26T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2012-08-26T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:50:28","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-241-the-metal-years-megalomania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/26\/my-musical-evolution-part-241-the-metal-years-megalomania\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 241 The Metal Years Megalomania"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Black<\/a>I met Scott in September of 1984 in Calculus. Arica and Scott had gone to high school together. It wasn’t untilThe Roach Days that we really started to hang out together.\u00a0 30 years later and we still hang out together. We have weekly coffee sessions. I’ve been to the boundaries with him. He’s been on Vermont’s Long Trail with me.<\/p>\n

Scott is the youngest of four kids. He has three older sisters. It makes for a great example of how birth order can affect one’s Musical Evolution.\u00a0 He had 3 older siblings, and eventually their husbands, steering his musical journey.<\/p>\n

Aric, Scott and I all seemed to be musically in the same area. Aric and I are the oldest in our respective families and we took the KISS, Def Leppard, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Dio\u00a0route to The Metal Years.<\/em> Scott’s brother-in-law took him via the AC\/DC, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Dio route.\u00a0That \u00a0had an effect on My Musical Evolution and a great example is Black Sabbath’s Sabotage.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a pair of Sabbath albums that I really though were good but I was more of an 80’s hair metal fan with a strong Iron Maiden<\/em> element. I’d be more likely to listen to Ratt or Accept than Black Sabbath. Scott on the other hand was and still is the biggest Black Sabbath <\/em> fan that I know. He was definately more classic metal than hair metal.<\/p>\n

Scott was still living at his mom’s house on Fricke Avenue during The Metal Years. <\/em>Don’t look for it. It isn’t there anymore.\u00a0 On a cool autumn afternoon, I was a t Scott’s house. He had recently bought these giant speakers called\u00a0 Colossus<\/em> that were massive with 15″ woofers and multiple mids and tweeters on the sides and tops. Yeah, this was still the 80’s before sub-woofers when speakers had to be big to deliver the pounding with clarity at high volume.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I can’t recall how we got on the subject of Black Sabbath but the result was that he felt the need to demo Sabotage <\/em> for me.\u00a0 The song he selected was Megalomania.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>It was one of those moments where everything just seemed right, the temperature, the frame of mind, the Colossi, and Black Sabbath.\u00a0 It sounded incredible, the intro conjured images of the barbarian hero entering the mysterious temple of the ancients to confront the necromancer.\u00a0 The studio effects on the backing vocals sounded like something out of Dr. Who<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I bought Sabotage<\/em> shortly thereafter and discovered numerous other gems. It was different than Paranoid <\/em> and Master Of Reality <\/em>but still a very good offering.<\/p>\n

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Hole In The Sky<\/em>
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