Metal

I love Music, most of this blog is about that very thing so this weekend was special. I had a chance to hang with my musical-mentor-student-frenemy-brother-guru-champion-challenger this weekend, Mr. 666. He was giging in S.A. with a bunch of black,death,hell I don't know what to call it Metal bands at a very underground fest. They managed to get bands from Italy, some Asian country, even all the way from Canada! Anyway kicked ass even for a relative outsider like myself and I say outsider cause this scene is like a CIA/Mossad/KGB cocktail party. If you know about it, then you know about it....if you get my drift.

( a band that really caught my eye, they are called Hod, from San Antonio, they were really good check 'em out here...http://www.myspace.com/hodtheband/music)

 There is no adversing, the radio sure they hell isn't hip to it and frankly never will.....well maybe... and that is where this post comes in....( Wayne's World "ditally dops" right here)

Metallica.

Remember the first time you heard Metallica? For some, hell for most it would be '88-89 somewhere in there, probably One, the video that Lars and James said they would never make...oh they made it all right, had to wait for Cliff to die, cause we know if that bad ass was still alive Metallica would still be laying it down old-school!

Well for me and few others, Metallica "broke" way back in '82/'83 with " Hit the Lights" ( I think ) or "Four Horseman" ( Mr. 666 a little help....) We all thought this is it music we have been waiting for, made by dudes about or age, American dudes,drinking beer,wearing jeans jackets and t-shirt with the sleeves cut off,  this is ours! No one can have it, no one will ever listen to anything this fast, brutal, full of evil energy... never!

I'm not going to get into the rest...time marches on...and from where me and my friends were sitting these guys took the money and ran. Lars says it was a natural progression ( I call it Bob Rock) but regardless.. once they were unknown and jaming for the love of metal, I saw allot of that this weekend, dudes jaming for no other reason then to get people moving and banging their heads, some just might be doing it for a higher cause but surely none for the money cause this stuff will never ever be on radio or t.v. or win Grammys... but then again we thought that about Metallica!

Early on Cliff seemed to only played a Rick...later ( when the money started to roll in an Alembic and Aria) James was still cool enough to wield a Flying V!

A man of the people!

Skinny jeans before they were cool....and are those jams or capris?

...on through the dead of night.....

Who bass solos anymore? Cliff did! The Major Rager!