Who's pissed about zakk wylde? He's great.

it's phil who long ago said and did too many questionable things for me to give even 10 dollars for a concert ticket, and thats coming from someone who still thinks cowboys from hell, and the first down album were instant classics.   I would love to mosh out and have fun hearing those songs live, but not to fill his pockets at the expense of my personal integrity.

baxterdog: phedex: Who's pissed about zakk wylde? He's great.

it's phil who long ago said and did too many questionable things for me to give even 10 dollars for a concert ticket, and thats coming from someone who still thinks cowboys from hell, and the first down album were instant classics.   I would love to mosh out and have fun hearing those songs live, but not to fill his pockets at the expense of my personal integrity.

You're goddam right. Cowboys was an instant hit for me too. They were great for that time period but it doesn't surprise me much that a lot of the people who liked thrash turned out to be assholes. While I like the tunes and a little bit of the attitude, some of them dudes took the mosh too far and outside of the pit.

Because I'm replying to a farkied Maiden fan I would also like to say, isn't it funny how quaint the metal from back then sounds now? I mean, Kill 'em all, Powerslave, Killing is my Business, South of Heaven all sounded beyond heavy at the time. Now they're almost classic rock.

Don't know that i necessarily agree across the board because when i think classic rock, i think of boston, kansas, the kinds of things my dad would listen to when i was a kid 30 years ago.  now... to me, it's classic rock because i've heard it all so many times that it just feels like a warm blanket (a warm, killer blanket in hell) to listen to reign in blood.

Maiden though, absolutely.  Maiden is the classic rock that my elders avoided because of the album covers, but if they would have listened they would have LOVED every moment of it.  Same thing with priest; now there's a band who i consider total classic rock.

What stands out to me in that 84-92 thrash scene was the attitude.  i wasn't old enough at the time, but there were a lot of really intense bands that were fighting back from all the glam elements and with their music, showing that they didn't need some kind of spectacle to their look and sound;  just 200bpm, fast and aggressive, seriously talented musicians and with in many cases, some really insightful lyrics...  if you come out to the show, you're going to get bruised but you're going to let it all out of your system and have fun.

Thats what drew me in and i'm so glad I got to experience so many of those bands even though they were in their late 30's/early 40's by the time I started going to shows.