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

[steve B]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Here is my Ronnie James Dio story :

https://haggisbuffet.blogspot.com/20...nie-james.html

That's a really cool story.

I only saw him once, and must have caught a bad night. (Mob rules tour, so yeah maybe not such a good night for him.)

[GoCubsGo32]

Seriously.I look forward to this thread whenever there's a new post.Reading that Dio story,proves exactly that! \m/ Beautiful man. Love the stories and all the details. Simply amazing!

I know King Diamond and Motörhead have been mention....combine the two names...

Anything for Diamond Head?

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by GoCubsGo32

Anything for Diamond Head?

I wish.

The closest I've ever came was Metallica covering them.

Cuing up "Lighting to the Nations" right now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOnh...IQ25yV3LJJ41Hi

[midmo]

Nice. Speaking of, got any early Metallica stories to share? I ordered the "Murder in the Front Row" dvd (already have the book), can't wait to get it.

I grew up in Downey about a mile from Ron's house where they had their practices in the early days. Didn't know it at the time, found out way later. When I saw his yearbook come up for auction I had to have it. As a bonus, my best friend's older sister who I had a childhood crush on is in it!

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by midmo

Nice. Speaking of, got any early Metallica stories to share? I ordered the "Murder in the Front Row" dvd (already have the book), can't wait to get it.

I grew up in Downey about a mile from Ron's house where they had their practises in the early days. Didn't know it at the time, found out way later. When I saw his yearbook come up for auction I had to have it. As a bonus, my best friend's older sister who I had a childhood crush on is in it!

That's pretty cool.

Murder is a GREAT book, I'm tempted to say "Trivia quiz : how many times is Doug pictured?"

I have the DVD on pre-order...

[midmo]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Murder is a GREAT book, I'm tempted to say "Trivia quiz : how many times is Doug pictured?"

The 9 U-Haul pictures are obvious, but there's so many live and groups shots who knows. I'd say somewhere between 9 and 50?

[doug.goodman]

The first time I went to Japan was in 1993 with a band called D.R.I.

We almost weren't able to go because 6 days before the first show 3 of the 4 band members were locked up in a prison in Spain (it wasn't jail, it was a prison), but that's a completely different story.

That story ends with a high speed drive to the Barcelona airport, even though our flight was from Madrid, but we eventually made it to Japan, and that's where :


When I checked us into our Tokyo hotel, I used this credit card, fully expecting that the front desk clerk would frown at me and ask for a real card.

But he didn't.

So we all headed to our rooms, and it wasn't until a few hours later, while returning from a record buying adventure, that somebody asked me for another credit card because "the one you used to check in keeps being declined".

So much for "Unquestioned Credit".

[doug.goodman]

Now for some Holocaust! :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pCQ...8mb6od8J9huAPJ