Re: Giving the Demon one more try
JammerMatt said:
Hey TO, you'd be proud, I picked up 3 CD's a couple of weeks ago, and I snagged 3 CD's last week on Ebay. Last week I picked up Saxon, "The Eagle has Landed", which replaces a scratchy vinyl version (that live album was great IMO), I picked up Loudness "Thunder in the East" to replace a lost tape (wok and wo cwazy nights), and I'm almost embarassed to admit to this one, but here goes... Grim Reaper, "See You in Hell." Call that a guilty pleasure. My wife saw the cover of that one, and just shook her head.
That's alot of CD purchases for me in one period. But, they've all been 2nd hand, and that suits me fine.
Matt, I
am proud, buddy! That's some serious CD shopping!
EAGLE HAS LANDED - Great NWOBHM album!
THUNDER IN THE EAST - From
Clockwork Toys all the way to the end, that album ROCKS and gets the official TO
\m/ sign of approval. Since this is a subject I know a little about: I think that as far as their English language albums go,
Lightning Strikes is their best effort. Ignore anything that doesn't have Minoru Nihara on vox.
People always make fun of Nihara's English, which, I admit, is terrible. The solution is simple: just buy the Japanese-language versions of the albums! I really love their oldest material, like
Birthday Eve, On the Prowl, Law of Devil's Island, Live and Loud, Disillusion. (If you listent carefully, you can hear all sorts of Loudness influence in my playing.) The Japanese language version of
Jealousy is great, too. AKIRA TAKASAKI ROCKS!!!
SEE YOU IN HELL - Yeah, it's a guilty pleasure, but I like it, too! Every metalhead needs the Grim Reaper albums. HELL is a solid effort, actually, with the exception of the God-awful
Suck It And See. Nick Bowcott knows his way around the fiddle, and it's good American-trying-to-be-European metal, in my book.
... http://randommaidenpix.tripod.com fer some REALLY cool live shots!!
The trooper riffs.
