POWERAGE! that bastard got powerage! the best AC/DC record ever. man, he got the starting line up (see previous updates to see what i'm ranting about), aerosmith, rush, thin lizzy, gary numan, AC/DC, and i'm sure the other ones will come to my attention soon, got to be an early judas priest missing too....well getting another cd of powerage will have to wait, i got to pack up for the trip to FL.
ok, a few things.....there's a bunch of originals now available in the "original buy now" gallery. i have another piece i did last night called "my heart let memories flood my mind". that one is up in the "original archive" gallery. tomorrow i'm gonna be on ft. myers NPR radio station. we'll be chattin' it up about my show i'm having there in their city at the howl gallery. the opening is september 2nd, see the august 8th update for info.....anyway, the radio station is on WGCU and you can listen on line. i'll be on from 12:05pm to 12:35pm, that's eastern time.
what were you doin' 12/18/83? i was driving in a snow storm with my pals, chris, steakman, and larry "fuckin" weber form where i lived inlittle italy to the cleveland agora to see metallica. this was metallica's first tour and they were touring "kill em' all", i think some of you might understand why that's a big deal. kill em all was one of those special music landmark records, like "never mind the bollocks, here's the sex pistols", "downward spiral" by NIN, "the wall" by pink floyd, "black sabbath" by black sabbath", and many more i can't think of right now. metallica changed the face of metal in 1983 with kill em all....well on our way we spun out on martin luther king blvd (i think it was still named "liberty ave" then) and blew a tire. this didn't stop us, just made the mission metallica all that more of a mission, it was a mission possible. we changed the tire and went a little slow down MLK. we got to the agora and there was only about 50 others who survived the trip threw the blizzard. needless to say metallica was BRILLIANT! i saw them the next year touring their second record "ride the lighting" at the old variety theater here in cleveland and that was amazing and the last i saw of them. with their "master of puppets" record they made the jump to arenas and master of puppets was their last good record. being an arena rock band your audience gets bigger obviously. and as my friend duane denison of the jesus lizard (ground breakers in their own right) once told me, the bigger your audience gets, the dumber it gets...so to be able to maintain arena rock size attendance, you have to dummy down your music, hence metallica sucks now.
