#301 THE METAL DAYS OF YORE: OUR FORMATIVE METAL YEARS

“You’ll be divorced, alone, and flaccid…”

Let’s go back a few years, back to a time when we were young and impressionable and just starting out on our respective metal odysseys as fans and purveyors of all things metal, including (but not limited to) the hard rock of our childhood years in the late 70’s to the plethora of NWOBHM, thrash, and other classic metal bands we discovered during our teen years in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

Back to a time when wearing a newly purchased tour shirt from a show the night before to school the next day was a sacred badge of honor, a time when local bands gave out flyers for shows that included “treasure map” style instructions for locating the venue, and a time when we each had our own personal attaché case containing the cassettes we’d recently procured (or otherwise came into possession of) on our unquenchable thirst and unending quest for anything and everything metal.

Imagine what “Miss Piggy with laryngitis” might sound like and remember to never do people dirty, because just like Pepperidge Farms, karma remembers. Get ready for a “crombination” of “skythes…or scythes”, discover some of the most absurdly talented drummers and bassists in the world today, and prepare to behold one of, if not the best, thrash bands from the local scene back in the day when you JOIN US as we travel back in time to THE METAL DAYS OF YORE: OUR FORMATIVE METAL YEARS.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “He’s 70…and he’s in great shape.” / #DLR / “He started getting a salary and not royalties…”/ MichaelAnthony #⁠VanHalen⁠ / #RussellsReflectionsDavidLeeRothEdition / “Apparently he’s got a #teenieweenie …”/ “There it is…right there…”/ “I think he’s fine…”/ #networth / “He was a 20% member, manager Noel Monk being the 5th…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Once we hit 6 years, we need to do something…maybe we should do our own version of it…”/ “That makes me 100% flaccid…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST FROM DEEP WITHIN THE BUNKERPOON!!!*** / “Sounds too much like #MissPiggy with laryngitis…”

(09:40): “I feel like my whole routine is shot…I talked about it too much…”/ “You mean the front parking or the rear parking?” / “We may be ordering a pizza halfway through this…”/ “You’re gonna be hammered later…”/ “I started to mention it on the #Patreon…”/ “You can’t enjoy ANYTHING anymore because EVERYTHING is stupid…”/ #CharlesBerthoud / “I recognize that name…”/ #bassvirtuoso / FADE TO BLACK #fretlessbass / “That’s next level…”

(18:00): “Let’s talk about the #Patreons first…”/ #PatreonShoutOut / ***JOIN US ON THE PATREON AT ⁠patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast⁠ *** / “Hail TO all…he’s got a case of the Russes today…”/ ***JOIN US on #Instagram and #YouTube and #Facebook and #TikTok or EMAIL US at ⁠metalnerdery@gmail.com⁠ or VOICEMAIL US AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #GalacticEmpire / THE IMPERIAL MARCH / “A #crombination of #KISS and #⁠Slipknot⁠ #KISSKnot …” / “That’s what this show is about…it’s about learning.”/ “Haven’t heard from Milla (Milley) or Geeoff…”/ “It’s just on the edge of being annoying as fuck…or impossible to stand…”/ #sixyearanniversary #metalnerderypodcast / “First of all, we got an email from a girl…”/ #Leafblower #wellplayyourshittah / “Burn Cruise? That sounds awesome!” / UNSATISFIED / “Tool Doom…or Doom Tool…” / “You guys ever see this guy?” #ElEsteparioSiberiano #Blur SONG 2 (Whoo-Hoo!) / “Lars Ulrich on steroids…”/ #⁠Metallica⁠ ONE / #Prodigy

(29:31): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: THE DAYS OF YORE – OUR FORMATIVE METAL YEARS / “What got YOU into metal…what were your earliest memories of metal?” / “He had a #KISS album in his room…I think it’s #Destroyer…” / “The old #Atari2600…and #Cracked or #MADMagazine…”/ “The first thing I can remember is #TheWall…”/ “That’s the first step…that is definitely a step towards metal…that’s fucking metal.”/ “The #HeavyMetal movie…”/#boinkboink / “Bon era #⁠ACDC⁠ was the first thing I heard that was heavier than #KISS…”/ #QuietRiot MetalHealth / “I can’t tell you how many times…every morning it was #⁠Rush ⁠#NewWorldMan…”/ #GroundhogDay

(41:41): “The first real metal tape I bought…” / “As soon as I hit play…immediately, the tonality of my life changed…”/ “Can we just…can we hear a little taste?” / #Metallica BATTERY (⁠Master of Puppets – 1986⁠) /#NoFlans #OnlyDjunts / “Every time…I’m 14 again…”/ “Going back a little bit…” #Nazareth MISS MISERY (Hair of the Dog – 1975) / “That’s early #heavymetal…”/ NOTE: He was mistaken…it was 1975, not 1973…/ “It’s got skythes…or scythes…”

(48:30): “We probably got fully immersed into metal in high school…”/ The transition of our metal tastes going from middle school to high school / “Really? I thought that was a great album…”/ “When do you think you started to move into the next level of heaviness?” / “If you think back, a year in 8th grade was like 15 years…”/ “In fairness to #BonJovi dude, I know we all don’t talk about it…”/ “Poon got into metal…”/ “But you went to high school for 10 years…”/ “I started seeing the division in 8th grade, and that’s when I started going heavier…”/ “I just remember this girl calling me a poseur…”

(57:09): “What’s the last #BigFour band you bought?” / “There’s something about that record that’s just all by itself…”/ “See all that stuff started blowing up in high school…”/ “Had these big suitcases that were double sided…”/ #cassettes #tapecollection / “Is it #CelticFrost or #CelticFrost? Is it #⁠CirithUngol ⁠or #CirithUngol?” / “We bonded over…not blood, but metal…”/ “That’s how people met, at the mall too…”/ “That was important…you’ve got to get the tour shirt with the dates and the cities on the back…”/ “What was your first #⁠BlackSabbath⁠?”

(1:04:47): “What was the first band outside of #⁠TheBigFour⁠ that you got into (back then)?” / #markthetime / “They spoke to me…I gotta know how to play all the metal…starting with that one…”/ “The first 2 thrash bands…”/ “The secret is all in the gum…”/ “He ⁠Ozzy’d⁠ himself out of the band…okay I’m done…”/ “Are you sure?” / “Wait, but are you really?” / #⁠Exodus⁠ FABULOUS DISASTER ⁠(Fabulous Disaster – 1989⁠) / ***GO CHECK OUT GARY HOLT’S BOOK “A Fabulous Disaster: From the Garage to Madison Square Garden, the Hard Way*** / “You just Sabotage’d yourself…”/ “Cos it’s metal as fuck, hell yeah…” / “Even when you’re jamming with some dudes…”/ #riffs

(1:16:07): “High school is when we went deep into the mines of metal…and then youd’ start going to shows…”/ “He would take us to #ThePit…”/ “I miss the old flyers with instructions on how to get there…like a #treasuremap on there…”/ “Would you have ever thought, 40 years later…?” / “You’ll be the only one…you’ll be divorced, alone, and flaccid…”/ “I think #GhostStory and #Akathesia were my favorite #AtlantaThrashBands…” / #GhostStory WHAT FEW EVEN DARE (Surrender to Death: A History of the Atlanta Metal Underground1982-1989) / “That’s like Atlanta’s Maiden…plus thrash…”/ HousewolfRecords / “Maybe he was a dick to dicks…”/ “Oooh, that sounds dark…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “I use a straight razor, bro…and you’re a little shaky…”/ #untilthenext #outroreel