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

[bigfanNY]

Originally Posted by steve B

Dio was good on records, but the time I saw him live he wasn't all that good.
I'd thought the performance filmed for "Black and Blue" might have just been a bad night, but no.

Of the guitar players I've seen, Malmsteen…. not even top 10. People like him, but again, just unimpressive in concert.

How is it even possible to have a list of Metal singers "even in no particular order" that has Brian Johnson BUT NO BON SCOTT??? Johnson is a solid vocalist but his best work ( Back in Black) was a tribute album to Bon Scott. And his job from day one with AC/DC was to Mimic Bon. Now you might say many are too young to have heard Bon. But I am pretty sure Every person reading this thread has listed to Highway to Hell (the Album not the single) many many times.
J

[Exhibitman]

Bon Scott...not just great but so distinctive. Two words into any song you know it is him.

No love for Glenn Hughes? I guess it's an era thing as I was a teenager in the late 1970s-early 1980s so the formative years bands for me were Zeppelin, AC/DC, Van Halen (gods in the San Fernando Valley area while I was in high school in North Hollywood 40 or so years ago), Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc. Classics, you might say.

FWIW, which ain't much, I think Eddie Vedder has one of the great rock voices.

I don't recall if she'e been mentioned yet, but Joan Jett is awesome. I saw her at the Hollywood Bowl last summer and she rocked. I'm more of a punk than metal fan, though I was into the early metal bands until punk and related genres (except hardcore...yech) came on. I kinda dropped out of it in the mid-eighties, so the 'hair bands' are mostly unknown to me. Learning a lot in this thread.

[earlywynnfan]

Glenn Hughes?

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

Glenn Hughes?

No, that's incorrect.



Deep Purple...not The Village People.

[Shoeless Moe]

Doug, any Van Halen run ins? Specifically Eddie

Good guy or bad guy? I've heard both.

[bigfanNY]

I first saw Van Halen in 1978 when they opened up for Black Sabbath at MSG. I was staying in a hotel in Long Island in 1995 and was talking to a few colleagues in the Lobby when the Members of Van Halen walked in after a show. I saw Alex and started talking and mentioned the 78 tour and he called over Sammy Hager and the two of them spent about an hour telling me stories about the tour. Great night for me Alex signed an auto wrote it to me but I asked him to personalize it to my son Kyle. Sammy looked for a CD took out the liner and signed that gor me. Eddie I saw briefly the next day and also was very nice and signed for my son. Really nice guys.. Rest in Peace Eddie. We lost a National Treasure

[Exhibitman]

RIP EVH

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

I was staying in a hotel in Long Island in 1995 and was talking to a few colleagues in the Lobby when the Members of Van Halen walked in after a show.

Your hotel choice made this tour manager laugh out loud 220 days into the zombie apocalypse.

I will guess that the show must have been at Jones Beach, although I suppose it could have been at the Nassau Coliseum, either way, I always do my best to avoid putting the band at a hotel out there. Last time we spent the night in Philadelphia and drove in early afternoon directly to the venue for sound check, then headed out straight away after the show to the next city (and hotel).

When forced to stay somewhere close, that's the same hotel I have used.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Doug, any Van Halen run ins? Specifically Eddie

Good guy or bad guy? I've heard both.

A very sad day.

He and one of my bosses were very good friends, so I met him a couple of times (once with Alex) and he was VERY nice both times. Both to me, and to others.

And just being friends (famous or otherwise) with the boss does not always equate to being nice to the bosses employees.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

How is it even possible to have a list of Metal singers "even in no particular order" that has Brian Johnson BUT NO BON SCOTT??? Johnson is a solid vocalist but his best work ( Back in Black) was a tribute album to Bon Scott. And his job from day one with AC/DC was to Mimic Bon. Now you might say many are too young to have heard Bon. But I am pretty sure Every person reading this thread has listed to Highway to Hell (the Album not the single) many many times.
J

I didn't put Bon on because he was dead at the time Stars was done.

But yes of course he'd be on the All Time list.

Sorry All, I was referring to who they could have had better then Dio for the Stars album. I'd dig Bon myself up if I could. Definitely was the most distinctive and in the Top 3 for sure.

.....and to the above list, my error on Rob Zombie, not a particularly great voice, as probably can be said of Lemmy, but just love how they sound.

And my one big omission, and Winner of the Best Scream hands down.....TOM ARAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[Shoeless Moe]

And for those who like Chick Rock, check these chicks out....they are pretty good and funny too.


HIGHWAY TO HEALTH - pretty funny play on words during these Virus times.

And nice to look at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwQzjLCIaI


Their Site:
http://www.backnblackgirls.com/

[doug.goodman]

I found a box with my 45s today...

[bigfanNY]

Gotta love picture sleeves!!!

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

How is it even possible to have a list of Metal singers "even in no particular order" that has Brian Johnson BUT NO BON SCOTT??? Johnson is a solid vocalist but his best work ( Back in Black) was a tribute album to Bon Scott. And his job from day one with AC/DC was to Mimic Bon. Now you might say many are too young to have heard Bon. But I am pretty sure Every person reading this thread has listed to Highway to Hell (the Album not the single) many many times.
J

That is what is wonderful about music... the varied selection even within each genre. I personally was shocked to find that ANYONE in this thread enjoys listening to George Thorogood

The most iconic voices in hard rock belong to Ozzy (without Black Sabbath, there is no heavy metal), Scott (so identifiable), Halford (greatest range and arguably best band) and Dickinson (no greater songs were ever written about English history/culture... well maybe by Led Zeppelin). This is just my oh so humble opinion.

[Shoeless Moe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFUMMwg7_cY

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFUMMwg7_cY

A perfect post since Kerry's birthday was a couple days ago, and Tom's is tomorrow. And our president is an idiot who only cares about himself.

Doug "some think I'm an idiot, too" Goodman

[Shoeless Moe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87y2Y9h_o0w

[Shoeless Moe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFUIYkitPy0


This dude is great!


"Did he just say he wants me to die" ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!



"400,000?" ahahahahahahahahahaa



"What'd I do to you"....ahahahahahaaahahahaahah

[smokelessjoe]

I love this thread but do not really have anything exciting to add... I wanted to ask about this business card as it came out of a collection of sports tickets from the mid to late 1950s etc that I purchased but this card is out of place? Just a business card for some random record shop run by Johnny or does this have some history to it? Plus I bumped the thread...

Also, Tom Waits is the king.