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Happy Anniversary, Glam Fans
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 12:01AM
It's December 3rd, 2013. That means today is the seventh anniversary of Bring Back Glam! It blows my mind that I've been updating this site every single day for the past seven years, but here we are. It's certainly been a fun ride and some of my best friends came about because of this site!
I thought it might be cool for people to share their favorite music-related experience of all time in the comments section today. You know, to reminiscence and what not.
You all know my stories. What have you got to share with me?
Reader Comments (45)
As you will see by my forthcoming account, our paths have intersected from time to time. But, before I get into it...
A couple of more questions...
Gene! What band were you in? I was at that 1998 G'n'R Ritz Show and the KISS Reunion Shows at Madison Square Garden in 1996, all at Point Blank range!
ROK 2007 was amazing. It was the first and best year.
Not glam, but Shinedown doing Simple Man at Peabodys in Cleveland opening for Tantric.
I really loved my night with Queensryche on the Promised Land tour.
Megadeth, Newport Music Hall with Warlock and Sanctuary, So Far...So Good...So What Tour.
Too many more to list...
DISCLAIMER: Any inconsistencies in Metalboy's Rock'n'Roll Recollections are due to long term memory loss and a chronic tendency to exaggerate.
1) September, 1963 -- 3 1/2 years old and singing along with the car radio to "She Loves You" by the Beatles with my Mom to the radio while leaning over the front seat in her Robin's Egg Blue '55 Chevy Nomad wagon while going to pick up my Dad at the train station waiting for his return to Old Greenwich, CT on the New Haven line from NYC. Thanks for not crashing, Mom! No seatbelts back then! Yikes!
2) February 9, 1964 -- Staying up late to watch The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show at age 3 years, 8 months.
3) Playing to death all of my 45s my Mom would buy me based on my reaction to the car radio from the backseat of her Nomad wagon. "Henry VIII" by Herman's Hermits, "Satisfaction" by The Stones, "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks and "Bus Stop" by The Hollies, etc.
4) My Mom giving me the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP for my 7th Birthday.
5) Her giving me "Yellow Submarine" on LP a year later along with the Corgi "Yellow Submarine" and an outfit which looked like it belonged on one of The Beatles in the movie.
6) Hearing "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin in 1969 for the first time on late night radio long after I was supposed to be asleep.
To Be Continued...
I just saw the same record player on that Toy collector show and it was worth a mint. Wish I still had it but got used and abused for many years until I upgraded to the jumbo cassette boom box of the 80's!!!!!
My favorite music memories is probably seeing Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson this year right up front! It was my first time seeing both of them and it totally blew me away. Manson tore it up and then Alice blew him off the stage.
Not glam at all but Zeke, the greatest punk band of all times, invited me into their van so I could listen to a couple of tracks from a soon to be released album.
I was a huge fan of Rock City Angels so when Bobby Durango finally stepped back into the limelight after what seemed like a fifteen year hiatus I was thrilled. I got to know him a little and he mentioned my band in interviews which was very kind of him. R.I.P.
Kickin' myself I never did. They played a reunion show with ALL the original members in Fort Lauderdale the same night the last good Shiprocked! left from the same port.
If only they had played the night before, I would have been there.
p.s. Stood next to and talked to Iggy in between songs during a '92 warm up show at The Ritz in NYC for G'n'R's "Use Your Illusion" Tour. This was like two weeks before Stradlin quit. It was a hilarious conversation. Pop looks quite a bit different now then he did then, but what the h*ll, so do I, and I don't mean that in a flattering way on both counts, hahaha!!!
So, here's the highlights...
METALBOY!'S MUSICAL MEMORIES, PART II
First Concert: Dave Brubeck Quartet (original line-up) at Kennedy Center, October, 1973.
First Rock Concert: J. Geils Band at The U.S. Naval Academy, September, 1975 (I was 15 and it was my first "real" date, if you know what I mean ; )
Last Concert: M3
The Bands (worth mentioning) I saw in between (as well as I can remember)...
J. Geils Band ('75), Aerosmith 7X ('75, '76, '79, '82, '07), Lynyrd Skynryd ('76), Ted Nugent 4X ('75, '76, '77, '79), Nazareth 3X ('75, '76, '79), Jethro Tull ('75), Tommy Bolin ('75), Blue Oyster Cult ('76), Led Zeppelin ('77), AC/DC 11X ('78, '79, '80, '82, '85, '95), Ramones 14X (every year at least once from '77 to '90), Frank Zappa ('78), Van Halen ('78, '81), Cheap Trick 8X ('78, '79, '80, '82, '84, '94, '06, '09), Stranglers ('78), Kraftwerk ('78), Tom Waits ('78), 999 3X ('78, '79, '85), The Dickies 3X ('78, '79, '86), The Cure ('79), The Dead Kennedys ('79), Crime ('79), SVT ('79), The Cars ('80), Duran Duran ('81), The Misfits ('82), KIX 35+X (Starting in the late 70's as The Generators and The Shoes, 1st time as KIX -- 1982 opening for Cheap Trick at The U.S. Naval Academy) from the late 70's to 2013, Joan Jett ('82), Queen ('82), XTC ('82), David Bowie ('83), The Plasmatics ('83), Heart ('84), Black Flag ('85), ZZ Top 2X ('83, '90), U.K. Subs ('85), Circle Jerks ('85), Saxon 2X ('85, '13), Guns n' Roses 6X ('86, '87, '88, '92), The Dead Boys (reunion '86), L.A. Guns 5X ('87, '88, '10), Kingdom Come 2X ('88), Lizzy Borden ('88, 2000), Chuck Berry ('88), Bullet Boys ('88), Steve Stevens ('88), Alice In Chains ('88), Britny Fox ('88, '89), Kings of the Sun ('88), Warrant 2X ('89), Junkyard 2X ('89,'91), Tommi Gunn ('89), Savatage ('89), Black Crowes 5X ('89, '90, '91), Sisters of Mercy ('89), RATT 2X ('90, '12), Bang Tango ('90), The Damned ('91), Buddy Guy ('92), Ozzy ('92), Dick Dale ('95), Dicky Betts ('95), Quiet Riot (1997)...
More to come...
Cool you had a chat with Iggy.
METALBOY!'S MUSICAL MEMORIES, PART III
Fleetwood Mac (1978), Boston (1979), Beach Boys (July 4, 1985), NRBQ 2X (1983, 2001), Child's Play 10X (1983-'93), Roxx Gang 2X (1988, 1989), Dirty Looks 2X (1988,'89), Spread Eagle (1990), Valentine (1991), Accept 2X (1992, 2010), Rick Derringer (1992), Leslie West (1992), KISS Reunion 2X (1996 - Madison Square Garden), The Who (w/Entwistle at Madison Square Garden, 2000), New York Dolls (2007), Velvet Revolver (2007, '08), M3 w/ Scorpions, Cinderella, Vince Neil, KIX, L.A. Guns, Winger, Jetboy(!), etc. (2010), Sh*trocked! w/ Cinderella, Vince Neil, Black Stone Cherry, Teslugh (2010), Motley Crue 2X (2009, 2010), Poison (2011), Monsters of Rock Cruise w/ Cinderella, KIX, Stryper, Lynch Mob, Firehouse, Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango, Keel (2012), M3 w/ RATT, KIX, Queensryche (w/Tate), Lynch Mob, Night Ranger, Loudness (2012), Monsters of Rock Cruise w/ Saxon, Dangerous Toys, KIX, Loudness, Lita Ford, London Quireboys, Faster Pussycat, Vixen, Femme Fatale, etc. (2013), M3 - WASP, Love/Hate, Steelheart, TUFF, Danger Danger, Twisted Sister, Firehouse, Loudness, Jackyl, Great White, Steel Panther, Vixen.
Next: All our Rock Heroes I've ever met!...
I've said it before and will again: you have created a great space for people who love music to chat, and moan, and gripe, and posture, and pontificate, and on and on.
Mostly civil, often funny, and occasionally amazing, this site is a testament to your work and effort over these past six years.
Here's to another six!
Long Live Rock & Roll!
p.s. Great sentiments, HIM.
1. Waiting for weeks to receive cassettes that were only available in Europe (you remember those days, with _Kerrang!_ and _Circus_, right?): like Venom's _Black Metal_ or a certain single from W.A.S.P. that was banned in the States.
2. Watching the crowd nearly riot when the headliner, Megadeth, pitched a fit and refused to go on in 1987. That said, the openers, Overkill and Necros, put on solid sets!
3. Experiencing Camp Ozzy in Devore, Calif., at Ozzfest in 1999. Two sun-baked days camping in a dirt lot. But, hey, I got to see Bill Ward drum . . . and a drunk and naked woman passed out on top of a pile of discarded corn cobs.
4. Seeing Helix play in a small hotel ballroom in Montana.
5. Being there to experience a close friend from grade school getting punched in the arm (good naturedly) by Dee Snider.
6. Meeting John Corabi, after watching him perform "Uncle Jack," at the Rock n' America Festival.
And a couple of non-metal music memories (since my heart belongs to metal, but my tastes range widely):
1. Seeing Run DMC on the "Tougher than Leather" tour in 1988.
2. Being able to say I saw Boston while Brad Delp was still around.
3. Seeing a solo show by Bob Mould in Pittsburgh.
4. Watching an older-than-middle-age woman throw age-appropriate Granny Panties up on stage at a Tom Jones concert (yeah, I admit it).
There are plenty of others (this summer, for instance, I saw over twenty bands perform . . . a seasonal best for me). But those memories never fail to make me smile when things are off-kilter.
Now please leave me alone about Tom Jones! At least he can still carry a tune (that was a jab meant in good fun).
I will get to some of my anecdotes soon. I can see why Ace doesn't bother recounting all his stuff here. He could write a book compared to what will amount to mere footnotes from moi.
The whole exercise has made me wish I could achieve my one life long dream -- to meet Jimmy Page, something a friend of mine got to do when Page sauntered into his friend's bar solo, "Dorian's" (of Robert Chambers Murder Case fame).
As Jagger might say, I'm such a "Starf*cker"!
p.s. I LOVE Tom Jones! Used to watch his show when I was a kid. Got all of his stuff! My personal fave, "What's New, Pussycat?" from "Casino Royale", an excellent Burt Bacharach scored movie soundtrack, if you don't have it. And your recollections of "Granny Panties" and "A Naked Woman on A Pile of Corn Cobs" (which, BTW, could be a title of anything from an abstract painting to a book or song, etc.) are totally hilarious and surreal memories. Rock On, Brother!