OFF: Re: Dio, Maiden, etc.

[mike coleman]

stained class + killing machine=a nice pair
british steal helps with the comedown
jmo


On 9/24/08, Stewartbas at aol.com <Stewartbas at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/22/2008 4:53:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK writes:
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> Halford's singing's silly but competent--but there's also some live
> bonus material, on which he sounds *awful*. Was he always like this or
> did they just have a very thin selection of material to use as bonuses,
> do you suppose?
> At one time Halford was THE voice of Heavy Metal  whom all others were
> judged
> against. The only others who came close were;  Gillian, Freddy Mercury and
> Robert Plant (although by this time Plant was in  serious decline). Halford
> began loosing the hi notes in concert somewhere after  Screaming for
> Vengeance,
> which by that time they were the hottest act in town,  due to a series of
> 'Hit'
> singles and continuous radio play.
> One of the greatest rock shows I've ever saw was JP at the old Academy of
> Music on 14th St in NYC around 1977. The billing was(from top to bottom)
> REO
> Speedwagon, Starz, and JP at the bottom of the bill.
> It was a July evening and it was billed as a BARGAIN Night as the tix sold
> for only $3.50. The temperature  outside had to be close to 100 degrees
> F  and
> inside was at least 10 degrees hotter..and for $3.50 a head management
> saw  NO
> reason to put on the AC. Priest played most of Sad Wings and the place went
> completely mental. I remember Halford had long flowing red hair and he was
> dressed in chiffon and he acted, aaaa, how can I say this...gay. That's why
> my
> friends and I were always surprised that everyone else was surprised when
> RH
> came 'out'. The next tour, JP headlined and had switched the whole persona
> to
> the campy, leather, S&M thing, which was immediately copied by 100's of up
> and coming heavy metal acts.
> I remember seeing Iron Maiden open for the Priest with the EXACT same stage
> setup, runways at each side of the stage coming up behind the drummer,
> strobes,  everything was the same except smaller for Iron Maiden.
> I saw the Priest last month in NY and they were GREAT...Halford got his
> voice back or was it just trickery.
> Anyway it was a fantastic show.
> Since the Hawks were on a long hiatus from the states that wouldn't
> end  till
> around '89 --the Priest filled that void, for a few years anyway,
> very,  very
> nicely.
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> <ObCD: Space Ritual - _Otherworld_, which I only just got and  which is
> <confusing me by being not bad enough that I'm not entirely  certain it
> <might not be good. A terrible string of negatives, but I  was truly
> <expecting it to suck, and it fails to do so. More on this I  expect...
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> I thought this was Nik's best work since Sphinx (both). Finally I think he
> may be over the whole, 'I'm the spirit of Hawkwind' crap that's been
> hindering
> his artistic progress for years. This is a good one.
>
> bill s
> ny
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