OT - Of interest to metalheads only (and Kingston Trio fans)

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

By the way love the autographed Nugent stub...

And I LOVE that stub...

[Shoeless Moe]

Terrible Ted went to my High School. However he was there before I got there, but you'd still hear the stories. It was an all boys Catholic school, so yah not sure if it was the best fit for him, and years later he offered to fund a football stadium for the team, since all we had was a field, literally grass only.

But the Priests and Nuns said NO to him.

Mistake.




....and Doug love the pix and stories......I'm gonna stump you yet on a band, unless you really do have a story with each.


Here's a few more and if anything on #3, I WANT DETAILS and VISUALS.

1. Savatage - Loved them

2. W.A.S.P

3. Lita Ford

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe;

1. Savatage - Loved them

2. W.A.S.P

3. Lita Ford

Savatage! I love them too. My first bus tour was with them in 1988 at the end of the Hall of the Mountain King tour., which included a show opening for Dio at the Long Beach arena (capacity 10,000) with Megadeth as the support act. Our bus driver drove the wrong way out an entrance that night after the show and blew a couple tires on one of those metal spike barriers, so that slowed down our drive to the next gig at The Mason Jar in Phoenix (capacity 300).

In 1991, on the Streets tour in Europe (with Vicious Rumours) after seeing the new t-shirt design (a drawing on the band) at the merch stand lead singer Jon Oliva told me he needed to get the manager on the phone "NOW!".

I found a phone that we could make an international call from in the promoter's office, dialed up the manager and after he answered handed the phone to Jon, "I just saw the new shirts" he said calmly, "what do I think about them?" he repeated into the phone so that the rest of band (who had followed us to the promoter's office) would be able to follow the conversation. He continued "since somebody decided to replace the fucking fat lead singer on the fucking artwork with fucking Doug, I fucking hate them!"

Jon's brother Criss the guitar player was chuckling as he looked at a shirt "it does look like fucking Doug" he said.

I never asked for a cut of merch sales.

Steve "Dr. Killdrums" Wacholz played so hard, and used such huge sticks, that when we ran out of them on the road I would buy plunger handles at hardware stores for him to use until the new shipment of sticks arrived. We would round the edges by scraping them on the pavement so that he could use them without instantly cutting thru his drum heads.



I was going to see W.A.S.P. one time (I think at the Stone in SF, but they cancelled. I went to the Rainbow one time years later and Blackie was working the door.



I saw Lita Ford at The Stone in Aug 1984, but that's about it. She was certainly a looker, but I was partial to Doro Pesch from Warlock (and later Doro) or mostly Dawn Crosby from Detente.

[GrayGhost]

What great stories from the great world of Rock and Roll

I know someone who would LOVE that band order sign w pre Metallica

[LEHR]

Doug,

While we're all reminiscing in this thread, have you ever have anything to do with the band Armored Saint? I saw them around 1987'ish when they opened for Alice Cooper. I had no idea who they were before I went to the show but I was blown away by their performance. I've been to probably 300 shows over the years and never saw them again. lol

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by LEHR

Doug,

While we're all reminiscing in this thread, have you ever have anything to do with the band Armored Saint? I saw them around 1987'ish when they opened for Alice Cooper. I had no idea who they were before I went to the show but I was blown away by their performance. I've been to probably 300 shows over the years and never saw them again. lol

I have never worked for them, but my lovely wife used to work for their label, so she knew them before she knew me. Hahaha.

I saw Metallica open for them at the Palladium in LA (and saw them open for Metallica a couple times, too).

John Bush, their singer, who was also in Anthrax for a while, was asked to join Metallica back in the day, but he turned them down. When they played their 30th anniversary shows at the Fillmore Dec 2011 in SF, James Hetfield introduced John with "what might have been" prior to performing "The Four Horsemen" with him. Armored Saint opened that show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25XSRjC8G3A


Once upon a time, I was in Hamburg, with a band that wasn't metal (Ben Folds Five supporting Travis). I called the lovely wife to say hi, and after a brief chat she cut the conversation short. "I have to go" she said, "why what are you up to?" I asked, "Going to a strip club with the Armored Saint guys" she replied. "Wait, I'm in the Reeperbahn and NOT going to a strip club, and my wife is going to a strip club with a metal band?! What's wrong with this picture" I said. "Bummer for you" she said with a laugh.

Joey Vera, the bass player for "Saint" is going to be playing bass for Mercyful Fate if the previously planned "reunion" tour happens...

[doug.goodman]

On February 15, 1982 their limo driver hit EVERY light at yellow between the San Francisco Cow Palace and their hotel, which means that I ran every light at red. And, I owe Phil Rudd an apology for being so excited for succeeding in my quest that I didn't realize he was getting his bag from the trunk, until I had driven away.

But

Look

At

THIS!