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Somebody please document a band's progression as interesting as Judas Priest. The good old days of a label allowing a band to figure things out over time! They actually adapted to the genre that they helped create as it went through its cycle. It's so weird to realize that it was only a 16 year span from the first video here to the last. Metal sure did go places.





Judas Priest - Painkiller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM__lPTWThU
 
I always forget how great a singer the 'new' guy from Alice In Chains is. And Charlie Benante from Anthrax is always a monster.


^^^^^ Thanks for posting that, always been a big Kim fan. And no doubt Charlie is an all time legend and solid effort for sure but both of those shoes are impossible to fill, once in a lifetime talents. That late 80s, early 90s stuff was some of the best ever IMO. Timeless.
 
...always been a big Kim fan.
Kim Thayil, guitarist for Soundgarden, for those who didn't know. I remember when that record with Spoonman came out (their biggest one by far at that point) and every song was a radio hit. One of the guitar magazines gave their yearly Best Solo award to something on that record. Most of the complaints read like 'but it's only a handful of out of tune notes played horribly out of time/is he injured?'. I have to agree that those complaints were spot on (I'll try to find my 30 year old copy of that magazine at some point. BTW - does anybody want a bunch of 25-40 year old guitar magazines?). I am a fan of Soundgarden but only for a few specific things - Cornell's voice and "Outshined" being the two biggest. Matt Cameron's drums are worth a listen, too. I'd have loved to hear him sing some WHO songs; Roger Daltrey and Cornell had the best 'on the verge of total loss of control' voices in rock music, IMHO. Cornell probably harnessed it better than Daltrey did. Hell, the scream in Outshined is just as great as the one in Won't Get Fooled Again.
 
Kim Thayil, guitarist for Soundgarden, for those who didn't know. I remember when that record with Spoonman came out (their biggest one by far at that point) and every song was a radio hit. One of the guitar magazines gave their yearly Best Solo award to something on that record. Most of the complaints read like 'but it's only a handful of out of tune notes played horribly out of time/is he injured?'. I have to agree that those complaints were spot on (I'll try to find my 30 year old copy of that magazine at some point. BTW - does anybody want a bunch of 25-40 year old guitar magazines?). I am a fan of Soundgarden but only for a few specific things - Cornell's voice and "Outshined" being the two biggest. Matt Cameron's drums are worth a listen, too. I'd have loved to hear him sing some WHO songs; Roger Daltrey and Cornell had the best 'on the verge of total loss of control' voices in rock music, IMHO. Cornell probably harnessed it better than Daltrey did. Hell, the scream in Outshined is just as great as the one in Won't Get Fooled Again.
Yes, Outshined has obliterated many of my speakers. That entire album (and the one before) was ground breaking and the louder the better. I followed that tour in HS and met those guys a few times at the shows. Chris was one of a kind, not only for his voice but for not being a big timer like so many became. Who knew he had such demons. Layne too but in a different way.

By the time Spoonman came out the thrill was gone, still Chris, Kim and crew but commercialism and mainstream (and MTV) killed it. Same thing with Metallica and the Black Album. Blech. And Justice For All was the last pre-sellout masterpiece (side note, on full volume there wasn't a speaker that could handle that album, the bass was legendary).

Big Dumb Sex as loud as it will go...

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Kim Thayil, guitarist for Soundgarden, for those who didn't know. I remember when that record with Spoonman came out (their biggest one by far at that point) and every song was a radio hit. One of the guitar magazines gave their yearly Best Solo award to something on that record. Most of the complaints read like 'but it's only a handful of out of tune notes played horribly out of time/is he injured?'. I have to agree that those complaints were spot on (I'll try to find my 30 year old copy of that magazine at some point. BTW - does anybody want a bunch of 25-40 year old guitar magazines?). I am a fan of Soundgarden but only for a few specific things - Cornell's voice and "Outshined" being the two biggest. Matt Cameron's drums are worth a listen, too. I'd have loved to hear him sing some WHO songs; Roger Daltrey and Cornell had the best 'on the verge of total loss of control' voices in rock music, IMHO. Cornell probably harnessed it better than Daltrey did. Hell, the scream in Outshined is just as great as the one in Won't Get Fooled Again.
I'm sure I'm mentioned this before, and it may sound like a brag, but it's just highlight Chris' amazing voice. We went the the Temple of the Dog tour show in San Francisco about 6 months (IIRC) before he died. That's the one and only time I've seen him in any form or fashion and it did NOT disappoint. His voice was haunting and just as accurate live as in the studio. I hate he left us way too soon, but am grateful I did finally get a chance to see him, with a kickass band suppporting no less, before it was too late.
 
Speaking of Metallica And Justice For All. Definitely one of my favorite Metallica albums. But have you ever noticed that there seems to be something missing from the sound? After the death of Cliff Burton, the band could not fathom having anybody but Cliff on bass. They hired Jason Newsted. Newsted recorded And Justice For All in the studio with the band and played on every song, but the band pulled the bass line from the final mix on the whole album. There is no bass guitar on And Justice For All. It was removed from the sound mix. I guess that's why the Black Album sounds so much fuller and "complete" compared to Justice. Newsted went on to record and be heard on several of the albums following And Justice, but he was always treated as an outsider and never got the attention that he deserved as a solid bass player.

I am a huge fan of pre-Black Album Metallica music, but I'll be honest, the guys are assholes. The way they treated Newsted The whole Napster thing. Lots of things they did turned me off to them and I hardly ever listen to anything they did after the And Justice For All album.
 
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I'm sure I'm mentioned this before, and it may sound like a brag, but it's just highlight Chris' amazing voice. We went the the Temple of the Dog tour show in San Francisco about 6 months (IIRC) before he died. That's the one and only time I've seen him in any form or fashion and it did NOT disappoint. His voice was haunting and just as accurate live as in the studio. I hate he left us way too soon, but am grateful I did finally get a chance to see him, with a kickass band suppporting no less, before it was too late.

Yeah, I should have gone to that show when it was up here...... Cornell at the Paramount.... hard to get more iconic than that. I saw the in the early 90's when blackhole sun got really big. I kick myself in the ass for not going to see them here. I don't do a lot of concerts as i'm let down quite a bit from live performances, but he was a great one live.

In terms of Rock Vocals he is in my top 10 of all time along with

(these are in no particular order)
  1. Freddie Mercury
  2. Serj Tankian
  3. David Draiman
  4. Layne Staley
  5. Ronnie James Dio
  6. Rob Halrod
  7. Bruce Dickinson
  8. Cory Taylor
  9. Peter Steele
  10. Chris Cornell
 
 
Court room llama dramma.....

 
These guys are really playing. Tom Hanks made them learn how to play for the movie. That is Steve Zaun singing.

 
This. 28 hours long so almost done. Very good writing, Ike with all his positives and negatives, not a sunshine book. Still, probably the best president in history. some funny Eisenhower one liners from the cabinet meeting minutes, such as ”godamnit we forgot the silent prayer”.

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Really been digging on this Mongolian folk/metal band recently.
They will be up here with five finger death punch and megadeath in August.

 
Really been digging on this Mongolian folk/metal band recently.
They will be up here with five finger death punch and megadeath in August.


I got tickets to see them the 19th
 
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