Love the profile pic melt.
It doesn't get any better then Maiden and Priest.
That's one hell of a list of shows.Not sure I'd say I'm a metalhead, but definately seen my share of metal bands
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Black Sabbath
Dio
Ozzy
Anthrax
Metallica
Alice in Chains
Van Halen
Motely Crue
Scorpions...the list is pretty long now that think of it, going to concerts has been a passion of mine for a while now
Love the Blood of Nations album. I'd never thought I could like Accept without Udo but Mark is pretty damn good. Glad Wolf is there.Really digging accept's Blood of the nation's cd right now...lol
Seen maiden and priest about 20 times each,And all a fucking experience my friend...lol
That's one hell of a list of shows.
Doesn't beat mine I think. But you probably have more years left then me. I've only done two this year and have only two more planned for the year, but to date I'm at 148 shows since age 12. Not counting the ones I forgot or state fairs where I have seen some greats from the past like Motley Crue, Journey, Alice and Chains ect.
Love the Scorps. I first heard the Blackout album and some of the earlier ones just a few months before my first show ever in 1982. Thank pete my cousin got me into them and stuff like AC/DC early on.
Love the Blood of Nations album. I'd never thought I could like Accept without Udo but Mark is pretty damn good. Glad Wolf is there.
IM and JP account for about 18 of my concert totals. I missed a lot of shows in the early to mid 80s because of age restrictions.
Seen the last 2 tours of Floyd when they came to Toronto and seen Rodger Waters a couple times also....both incredible showsI have been to around 200 shows.
First was pink floyd at tampa stadium in 1977 (gotta love your brothers)
Same here friend.Always been into music...spent all my money on going to gigs and stereos and albums {see how old I am lol}...been working since I was 15 and most if not all my cash went to music...it was and still is my major form of expression and escape
Never got to see Pink Floyd live, just Roger Waters.Have you heard Stalingrad? (Accept)
Fucking awesome!! Just saw maiden in GA.
I bought Pink Floyds "The Wall" in very freak'n format since it's release...many times due to people coming over for a party and getting it scratched to shit or someone walking away with it....damn the money I spent on record needles alone is probably enough to choke a horse.Same here friend.
My dad hated my music, he look at my LPs and cassette tapes, shirts and anything related to music not as if they were evil or anything, but he could never understand why I would want to spend all my money on it.
I do admit I've wasted many thousands on stereos. lol I currently have my dream home system but I'm actually debating about throwing something new and nice into my ride like the old days, even though I almost never use my car. It's a great hobby and lifestyle either way.
I once fought a guy 3 years older then me when I was in Junior high 8th grade for breaking my WASP self-titled album over his knee after he grabbed it out my arms because I made the mistake of taking a shortcut through the Senior high parking lot going home. I saw red after he broke it, then nothing. We beat each other bloody until two teachers pulled us off of each other. I think the only reason I felt I lost was because my album broke. I needed the cassette anyway.
I have bought that album more then a few times myself.
My cousin who got me into metal who worked at one of the only metal record shops in mn in that day gave me much of my stuff which really helped me afford weed and beer in the early days. $5 was a lot of money at that age.
LOLBang'n some restless and wild now.
The folks next door hate me,But i own my home! So ...
Aye I'm with you man, those are my prefered albums aswell. And indeed the pre-cowboys stuff isnt really my cup of tea either. I think I have the respect for them that I do due to the talent that you mentioned. Maybe they werent the most prolific though. Been playing guitar for 8years and I'm only about able to play cowboys from hell now hehe, challenging stuff.Love Pantera, Phil and Dime(RIP). They just didn't make my all-time cut mostly for not having very many full studio albums out compared to most metal bands of that stature. As for talent and live performances they were amazing.
The pre-Cowboys From Hell albums are ok but not great. IMO And after Cowboys and Vulgar, even though I enjoy Far Beyond and Trendkill, they just didn't have the same ???????? that Cowboys and Vulgar had. And Reinventing was only so-so. Again, IMO
Ya early Pantera was basically bad glam metal and the Power Metal album was a mix of harder thrash type metal with glam and it just didn't do it for me. It's what was in at that time I guess, and in order to get anyone important to listen to your music you had to follow a genre. Now don't get me wrong, I loved/love some glam/hair metal bands WASP being one of them, but whenever a band tried to mix genres together like that it never went over well for too long.Aye I'm with you man, those are my prefered albums aswell. And indeed the pre-cowboys stuff isnt really my cup of tea either. I think I have the respect for them that I do due to the talent that you mentioned. Maybe they werent the most prolific though. Been playing guitar for 8years and I'm only about able to play cowboys from hell now hehe, challenging stuff.