I'm up to Saxon's 2013 album -- Sacrifice.
These modern albums are fine. They are heavy. Great production, for sure. I just don't find anything on them that stick outs.
#HeavyMetal #MetalSky #ClassicMetal #NWOBHM
The SAVE Act is a major attack on voting rights. It is not a genuine voter ID reform, but rather an attempt to suppress turnout in future elections.
I'm enjoying Pokemon Legends Z-A, but it seems even more simplistic than Arceus. And I really don't like having just a city to run around in. Arceus felt like a much larger game.
I can go along with a trend! ๐ฅ
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Currently listening to Saxon's Metalhead album from 1999.
But I gotta say: I don't mind the commercial turn the band took starting with Crusader in 1984 and going up to 1988's Destiny. There's some good stuff on those albums.
#MetalSky #HeavyMetal #NWOBHM #ClassicMetal
Peter Criss in Blue Oyster Cult? Mutually beneficial, stylistically compatible, personally motivated, and geographically and culturally logical. It doesn't seem so implausible.
#BlueOysterCult #KISS #PeterCriss #AlternateMusicHistory #ClassicRock #HardRock
The obvious caveat: Criss left KISS and found himself adrift largely due to drug and alcohol issues and personality clashes. That's the real deciding factor. But if he could clean up his act, and we got a motivated hungry Peter Criss... this could've worked.
Peter wasn't looking to be a creative driving force. He never was in KISS. Give him a couple of lead vocals, a songwriting credit or two, a paycheck, and a stage. He's happy. BOC could've accommodated that easily. And his contributions could've added an emotional, sentimental quality to BOC.
By 1981 Criss had something to prove. Out of KISS, his second solo album had flopped. Joining a band with a fresh gold record, name recognition, and a reputation as a strong live act would've appealed enormously to him.
Both KISS and BOC knew each other. Martin Popoff's Agents of Fortune: The Blue Oyster Cult Story book recounts both bands recording at NYC's Record Plant in 1977, KISS for Love Gun and BOC for Spectres, and having genuinely friendly interactions.
Despite downward trends, KISS was still a recognizable name. Adding a former KISS member brings eyes back to a band that was losing them. Real commercial value at a moment when BOC needed it.
With the Pearlman/Meltzer creative stranglehold slipping and BOC chasing soft rock/AOR success, Criss' associations with producer Vini Poncia and songwriter Stan Penridge could've been genuinely useful. Just look at his solo albums. That's a guy comfortable writing and performing in that lane.
His raspy, soulful lead vocals would've added a distinct emotional and vulnerable side that neither Eric Bloom nor Buck Dharma quite possessed. BOC already rotated lead singers naturally. Slot Criss in for two songs an album and nobody bats an eye.
Peter Criss' drumming, rooted in jazz, swing and R&B, would've been stylistically compatible with BOC's early 80s direction. His influences, Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, actually matched BOC's loose, swinging rhythmic feel better than a straight rock drummer would.
They replaced Bouchard with Rick Downey, their own roadie. No disrespect to Downey, but he was essentially a hired hand with no creative input. Something BOC would prove by cycling through several more hired drummers in the years that followed.
When Albert Bouchard left BOC due to personality clashes, the band's most recent album was the gold-certified "Fire of Unknown Origin," their biggest critical and commercial rebound since Agents of Fortune. They were on an upswing. But they needed a drummer.
Should Peter Criss have joined Blue Oyster Cult in the early/mid 1980s? Yes, and here's why. ๐งต๐
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Both are very fun and always have a super cheap sale. Definitely pick up the first when it's on sale!
This is the man that will now protect from those mean, nasty immigrants.
But who will protect this man from the J6ers?
Mullin is another MAGA moron who will undoubtedly continue to allow DHS and ICE to operate illegally and as murderous thugs. Everyone will be calling for his termination/resignation in a matter of weeks.
Replacing Noem with Mullin isn't going to change anything. They always look for the most unqualified and evil person to fill these positions. And, of course, someone who will swear absolute loyalty to nothing and no one but Trump.
Well would you look at that
I need Nintendo to go ahead and connect Pokemon Home with Legends Z-A. What's the hold up? ๐ง
#nintendo #pokemon #pokemongo
You had me at Shining Force. โจ
Sorry Ghost and Quest, but Bum Energy drinks and Built Puff protein bars are running the game right now.
Moving on from Blue Oyster Cult... I am now in my Saxon era. ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ค๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Rating every Dio album cover from 1 to 10! Some absolute classics, some... not so much. ๐ค
What's your favorite Dio cover?
#Dio #HeavyMetal #AlbumCovers #Music #RonnieJamesDio #MetalSky
Always looking for friends on Pokemon Go! ๐
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Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice not doing something permanently with Jorn Lande after the death of Ronnie James Dio was a huge missed opportunity, IMO.
And I wish there was a professional recording of that Heaven & Hell High Voltage tribute show that also featured Glenn Hughes on vocals.
Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer.
Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount.
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