Any 80's Hard Rock/ Metal Fans? - Page 3

JonZ · 05-20-2008, 07:34 AM

Troy,
2 weeks dont go by that I dont have a Voivod album in my car CD player. Dimension Hatross and Nothingface = perfection to me. NOTHING can top Nothingface blasted on a good stereo. And Im in awe of it as much today as I was when I first heard it 19 years ago.

Adam,
I saw Death in the town I lived.I didnt even have to travel. It was a 10 minutes drive from home. It was a small place with about 200 people who showed up. A late night sunday night show. We got to meet the band and everything. My brother a drummer at the time ended up working and couldnt go to the show (I told him to quit). Gene Hoglan signed a business card for him saying "Wish you were here". He laminated it and still has it.

And I did get to meet Chuck, who was very nice to everyone.

Adam_Duncan · 05-20-2008, 10:04 AM

Cool story, Jon. I thought Gene Hoglan was out of the band by 1997?

JonZ · 05-20-2008, 01:15 PM

Hmmmm, It was before I came to IBM which was May97.

I dont think it was as early as 95. It was The Symbolic tour. If it wasnt 97 Id guess fall of 96.

Aaron Silverman · 05-20-2008, 01:40 PM

I saw Voivod around '93 (give or take a year) in a TINY club in Ft. Lauderdale or Miami (ye olde memory is going). They were opening for Chris Poland's excellent one-off band, Damn The Machine. The cops had to break up the show during DtM's set because some clowns who'd gotten kicked out earlier during the opening opening act (they were called The Big F and were nothing special as I recall) returned, apparently with firearms.

I remember a bunch of us standing around and complaining afterward about how we'd been waiting to see DtM and then got a very abbreviated show. Then they dropped off the face of the Earth.

Voivod and DtM were awesome. And the club was so small, there wasn't really any stage to speak of -- I was standing 2 feet from the performers on the same floor, basically.

I saw Porcupine Tree at NEARFest several years ago. Fan-freakin'-tastic. Had breakfast in the hotel the next day at the table next to Steve Wilson, too.

BTW, I am currently listening to the latest Coheed & Cambria disc (so shoot me!

), and it has a very '80s neo-prog vibe to it.

wish · 05-20-2008, 04:20 PM

Wow, great thread but I'm way to late to the party to respond to the many posts that caught my eye so here's a "cover all" response.

Def Lep - New album is a pass for me. They claim its a back to roots album effort but I'm not buying it. They are following the Bon Jovi formula to a T. Nothing wrong with that as they are successful but it isn't for the old school Def Lep fan. High n Dry and Pyromania...now THAT'S the Led I grew up with!

Queensryche - To the comment that Empire was a masterpiece...meh. It IS a great album but IMO Operation: Mindcrime is not only their best album by FAR but it is one of the top 10 metal masterpieces of all time. To date it is still the only metal concept album I know of although the new Priest album Nostradamus is also supposed to be a concept.

New albums by Whitesnake, Great White, Dokken and Scorpions are IMO all very good and recommended for the 80's metal fan.

Cinderella - The comment that they are a hard rockin blues band is spot on (as is Great White). Tom Keifer is one heck of a musician (songwriter, singer, guitar player, etc). He can do it all.

Tesla - One of the few 80's metal bands that never sold out by frizzing their hair or wearing makeup. Blue Jeans, t-shirts and a hard rocking two-guitar attack is what they were/are all about. LOVE EM & very under-rated IMO.

Newer bands that you guys need to look into:
Airbourne - Australian band that is kind of a Bon Scott AC/DC throwback.

Black Stone Cherry - From the hills of Kentucky this band is footstompin' hard rock. Kind of a modern day Blackfoot sound.

Wolfmother - Another Australian band that is kind of 70's Led Zep psychedelic

Last but not least if you have the ability to get away the years greatest 80's mucis party will be in Pryor OK at the second annual Rocklahoma festival. Sunday's lineup is incredible!

Check out this lineup:
Thursday July 10th
Bret Michaels
Sebastian Bach
Dokken
LA Guns
Enuf Znuff
Vain
House of Lords
Jet Boy
(Only guests who purchase three-day tickets will be allowed to see this show.)
Friday July 11th
Triumph
Extreme
Lita Ford
Night Ranger
Living Colour
Kingdom Come
Armored Saint
XYZ
Saturday July 12th
Cinderella
Warrant
KIX
Lynch Mob
Trixter
Black N Blue
Tora Tora
Every Mothers Nightmare
Pretty Boy Floyd
Sunday July 13th
Queensryche
Tesla
Ace Frehley
TBA
UFO
Zebra
TBA

ChrisBEA · 05-20-2008, 08:02 PM

I love Tesla! Those guys are quite underrated...

That fest has an impressive lineup!

Sebastian Bach's latest release is fantastic and highly recommended.

Just finished writing a review of the new Def Lep. I like the album, it feels like an album they wrote for themselves. That said it is miles away from their glory years.

Paul_Medenwaldt · 05-20-2008, 09:05 PM

Airbourne is a great new band mentioned a few posts ago that will certainly give the guys here who really enjoy those 80's/90's metal a nostalgic feel. Great rock album! One plus with this album...no ballads.

The the new Def Leppard album from what I read isn't a throwback to their roots, but their influences in the 70's. I've enjoyed the CD and it has some great catchy hooks.

I've listened to the new Jon Oliva's Pain album a few times and going along with the lyrics, i'd compare it lyrically to Sebastian Bach's new album Angel Down. Another rock star trying to save up from George Bush. Keep it simple, sex drugs and rock and roll and you'll have no problem attracting your old fan base, but along with them new ones will come with. Nothing more I dislike is being preached to, give me more bands like Airbourne and that style of music!

Paul

Greg_S_H · 05-20-2008, 11:37 PM

Am I reading that right that Bach preaches, too?

Don Giro · 05-21-2008, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Queensryche - To the comment that Empire was a masterpiece...meh. It IS a great album but IMO Operation: Mindcrime is not only their best album by FAR but it is one of the top 10 metal masterpieces of all time. To date it is still the only metal concept album I know of although the new Priest album Nostradamus is also supposed to be a concept.

Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is a concept album as well. I agree that "Operation: Mindcrime" is far and away Queensryche's best album. I enjoyed "Empire" very much, and the production is immaculate, but I can't listen to it all the way through like I can with "Mindcrime."

Regarding Death: I used to work for Death's record label in the late 80's, and I spent a good amount of time on the road (in their bus) with them on the "Leprosy" tour. I never could get over what a quiet guy Chuck Schuldiner was. Dark Angel were on the road with them, and Gene Hoglan was DA's drummer (and chief songwriter). Hoglan is one of my most vivid memories of my time in the "biz." He'd call me up just to shoot the breeze, and I stayed at his (parents) house when we went to the singer's wedding...

JonZ:Your Gene Hoglan story reminds of me of a similar situation when I was on the road with Dark Angel and Death: we rolled into a McDonald's somewhere in Indiana (en route to Chicago), and were accosted by a group of redneck truckers who were "commenting" that us longhairs were "far too pretty to be boys" (and were singling out Chuck). Thank God a lot of us (myself included) were of a "larger persuasion," so nothing bad happened. I completely learned the meaning behind Bob Seger's "Is it Woman/Is It Man?" lyric in "Turn the Page" that day...

Anyway, the manager of the McDonald's came out to greet us and asked if we were the bands that had just played (in Milwaukee, I think) the night before, and had our entire entourage sign a McDonald's bag for an employee who couldn't make the show because of work (and he was off this particular afternoon). When I tried to explain that I was not actually IN either band, Gene Hoglan said "You're our brother, you're on the road with us. Sign the f**king bag!" So I did...