The 1980s

anthony777 wrote: »

What is your best memory from or about Rock and Metal in the 1980s, it can be anything...

I grew up in the metal hotbed of North Wales, my overlasting memory of the 80's was The Friday Rock Show with tommy Vance, dunno if you got that here

I remember lying in bed in Feb '87, i was dying of flu and listening to the show, he played 'Can i play with Madness', the new single from Maiden, after the track he said he had a copy of it, and on the back sleeve was a note...ONLY UK APPEARANCE 1988, DONINGTON MONSTERS OF ROCK, I got better instantly

Met the guy a few times years later and he always had time for a chat and a pint with me, was very bitter with the way Radio 1 had treated him, and rightly so.

Total legend of metal

Just a few off the top of my head.

Friday Rock Show, would be out with my friends and go home to listen to it (loved the Cozy Powell theme tune Theme 1).

Discovering Kerrang

Going to see my first concert in Cork City Hall, End of the Road tour - Quo.
Probably been to better concerts after but none as memorable.

Seeing Def Leppard in Connolly Hall in Cork on their rehersal tour pre their appearence in Donnington (supported by Scarlett Page)


The joy of discovering AC/DC, the crushing disappointment of Fly on the Wall and the joy of hearing Who Made Who on the local snooker hall juke box


Purple reuniting and Perfect Strangers

Denim jacket with Sabbath's Born Again full size patch and the pleaseure I took wearing it to mass

Putting on newly acquired Piece of Mind and listening on headphones and thinking holy **** when Where Eagles Dare comes on.

Appetite for Destruction

Donnington 87, Wasp, Anthrax, Metallica, Dio and ahem Bon Jovi

Leeside Music in Cork where I built up my record collection with second hand records, knowing sadly that these were being sold because most of the guys who owned them had to immigrate. My brother had to go but left me in charge of his collection.


I discovered so much music in the 80s I find it hard to think I fitted 2 decades in to 1 (70s). Where did I get the time, no CDs (well not at the start) or mp3.
I loved the fact that my brother and myself were the only people in to heavt metal in our class and were looked down on for it.

I could go on for hours but that's probably enough

TV on the radio! I could pick it up on medium wave but the signal would get pretty distorted by that time of night...

There was a station in Dublin in the late 1980's called Capitol (not to be confused with the station which later became FM 104). Tom Hayes (who did DJ sets in McGonagles) presented metal shows on there, one night was Thrash/Speed/Hardcore (mostly), the other was Metal/Rock stuff, and he'd do a top 10 album rundown based on what the Sound Cellar was selling that week.

When the pirates got shut down at the end of 1988 it suddenly became possible to pick up a faint FM signal from BBC Radio 1 so recording stuff off Tommy Vance & Alan Freeman's shows got a lot easier (Freeman did the classic rock 'Saturday/Sunday Rock show on R1).

Kerrang/Metal Hammer were essential reading, RAW came along a little later. And we had 'Monsters of Rock' with Mick Wall on the original Sky channel. Seeing the video for 'Welcome to the Jungle' for the first time was an eye opener. MTV was available around 1990.

As for our national broadcaster, they routinely ignored Metal music despite it's popularity.

Tapes & records were swapped, copied, passed around as much as possible. And buying something was almost an event in itself - when I picked up a copy of 'Live After Death' I spent ages going over all of the liner notes & little details.

It's nostalgic, and rose-tinted at that. I love being able to hear songs with relative ease now via internet services, not relying on bad radio signals or 30 second video clips on TOTP.

Was raw power with Phil Alexander very late 80s or early 90s had only discovered GNR about 88 either Dave Fanning or Gerry Ryan played welcome to the jungle on late night 2 fm changed the way an 11 year old listened to music from then on remember the first time I seen raw power on late night itv I mixed up Phil for Slash. No internet them days to figure it out.
EDIT quick Google tells me it was 91 ish ...ah well .

The SFX. The amount of bands that played there in the 80s was unreal.

Bands I saw there off the top of my head:

Metallica
Accept
Dokken
Queensryche
Dio
Def Leppard
Wasp
Ozzy
Dave Lee Roth
Gary Moore
Anthrax

I’m sure there were many more.

Sound cellar for buying vinyl. Was it Tommy that was the guy that ran it?
I remember going in and looking for something new and browsing the new releases. I had two albums from bands I’d never heard of. The first one was an Overkill album and thwas second one, which he recommended because they were going to be huge, was Kill Em All by Metallica.

1984 Piece of Mind.
Listening to Tommy Vance on the Radio and he announces Cliff Burton had died
Ride the Lightening and Master of Puppets
Getting puked on in the SFX at an Anthrax gig


good times

Sam Hain wrote: »

Raw power was preceded in the mid eighties by the power hour presented by the appropriately named metal minx Nikki groocok. Used to sit up late and watch it on utv. Also recall some mad lad on it called crusher, I think. Or that might have been raw power.

Steve 'Krusher' Joule, he was the design editor on Kerrang for years.

Discovering metal via puppets

Sigh. If I had a time machine I'd go back to that era when the Big 4 of Thrash were at their peak.

Alas I was a toddler for the last couple years of that decade.

Jealous of some of you guys here!

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I wasn't born in 1980s and I don't listen to any 80s rock, mainly because they didn't use scream vocals much.

What

blastman wrote: »

Steve 'Krusher' Joule, he was the design editor on Kerrang for years.

Funnily enough i'me actually friends with Krusher now, met up with him quite a few times. He's been royally screwed over in the past, mainly by Sharon Osbourne