Vintage speed metal ala Priest!

Well, you might not have been 15 years old in 1977 either.

There were like three of us that listened to Priest back then. lol. Advantage- hanging out in a record store when we should have been in school.

Ha! Most of the dudes couldn't hang with it either. It was a little too heavy for the average Joes back then.

Sinner!

We were some little hellions alright.

At least you didn't whip out the great white buffalo.

In the mid 70s we couldn't live on Priest, Nuge, and Foghat alone!

Remember this one?

He had me at

Nobody put their heart and soul into it like Phil did.

I wasn't much of a Bonnet fan. Hard to replace a guy like Dio and be impressed.

I'm with you Dave, I liked the Soto stuff, but by the time I saw Yngwie, Joe Lynn Turner, another Rainbow reject was at the helm. He was pretty darn good and joked about having a much better time here than hanging out with Blackmore. lol

It was loud and proud. Tore the roof off Irvine Meadows, although they didn't even have one.

Well I saw the last Rainbow tour with Dio and the the first one with Bonnet, so I guess you might know where I'm coming from.

At that later show Randy Hansen, the guy that did the Hendrix thing, opened and he had the crowd so worked into a frenzy, Blackmore had the lights in the arena turned on which abruptly ended the show. He was a great guitarist, but must have been some kind of asshole.

It was kind of the opposite, that Randy Hansen dude was shredding, and Blackmore said enough is enough.

I liked watching Cozy Powell drum no matter who played the guitar.

Ha! The dude's still around! I wonder what Blackmore's up to these days. Strumming a harp or something.

That Clutch is enough to make me start taking hard drugs again.

Do you think these guys will get back together too?

That takes us full circle then doesn't it? I think he was a teenager when he did the session work on Sin After Sin. And a well polished musician by the time he hooked up with Jeff Beck.

You should visit the Greek Theatre sometime. It's just lovely.

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We call them "home boys" and I was lucky enough to see them on that tour with Pantera and Exodus. Big mosh pits.

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Is Muse considered hard rock or should that be somewhere else.

Totally agree with that.

I'd know that album cover anywhere!

Let's take it back near the beginning then.

This one includes hard rock too I guess. Not just metal.

As much as I played the heck out of Stained Class, sometimes it got a little on my nerves. What I liked about Hell Bent (fifth album) was Halford was able to find another voice range. Although it was the stepping stone to commercial success.

Edit- Album was called Killing Machine in the beginning.

Lol. Hell is OK, but killing isn't.

I took my daughter to 5 guys last night for dinner. As we were sitting there eating peanuts waiting this song came on. I asked her if she knew who it was. She said "not sure". i explained I was 6 years old at the time and it was basically the birth of heavy metal. When the lyrics started she said "Ozzy?" I said "close".

And Fairies Wear Boots may be the greatest rock anthem of all time .

Could have been Steppenwolf that gave it it's name.

I got thrown out of a Wasp concert for stage diving, and then snuck right back in.

I guess I'm just a wild child.

No, but I brought my own hibachi because I lake my meat rare, not raw.

In an interview Blackie Lawless said his only regret he had about becoming a rock star was that he was a darn good baseball player, good enough that he could have gone pro.

It was sad earlier to hear the passing of Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries. Maybe not the hardest of rock, but this song always takes me back. RIP.

Since this is a hard rock/ metal thread, how bout some Jethro Tull?

It doesn't mean the end. Just means the perfect time for a Judas Priest pinball machine!

And some Joan Baez while we're at it?

And to think I thought Priest was done when Les Binks left the band before that album was released. I guess it's all relative. That being said, Binks was an awesome drummer.

I was never a big Chicago fan, but after watching a documentary Searching For Terry last night, I have a whole new respect for the man. A most underrated songwriter and guitar player.

Watch him shred thru this live version of 25 or 6 to 4.

Me neither, but at 11 I had to start somewhere.

Your technology in NZ was way ahead of ours in the states.

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Damn, by '81, I was already well into my punk rock phase.

You can never have too much cowbell.

This was big when I was 8.

It's about one bad ass guitar solo at the end. That album pretty much kicks ass front to back.

Here's Heathen's version of Sweet's Set Me free.