{"id":2127,"date":"2012-09-04T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2012-09-04T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:36:02","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-260-the-metal-years-ballcrusher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/09\/04\/my-musical-evolution-part-260-the-metal-years-ballcrusher\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 260 The Metal Years Ballcrusher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WASP<\/a>It has been interesting to do this project. I’m discovering things that may not have been so obvious as they unfolded in real time back in the 1980’s. For example,\u00a0 I can see my interest in Heavy Metal <\/em> waning a lot faster than I remembered it.\u00a0 Originally it seemed that The Metal Years lasted so much longer than they actually did. It was still a fairly long time and the end of The Metal Years<\/em> didn’t mean I stopped listening to metal music completely. It just became a smaller portion of the listening and the active acquiring of new metal albums would all but cease.<\/p>\n

I can feel it as I write. with each metal album to discuss, there seems to be less enthusiasm and in many cases, I cannot remember listening to them much. Compare that to the albums at the beginning ofThe Metal Yearswhere every song was committed to memory and associated with so manyremember whenevents.<\/p>\n

The Last Command<\/em> is firmly on that stack of albums that mark the beginning of the end of The Metal Years. <\/em> I don’t wish to demean it, it has some good stuff on it and even MTV was playing W*A*S*P\u00a0<\/em> videos from this album.\u00a0 You could tell that the record company told Blackie Lawless toclean it up a little to make it more marketable.<\/p>\n

The Last Command <\/em>is one of the few albums I had on vinyl that I had not replaced on Compact Disc. It is on the list and it will happen someday. I like it enough to put it on the someday list.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wild Child<\/em>
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