Lemmy - need I say more?

I watched Lemmy on That Metal Show last night.  That dude is just the coolest motherfucker on the planet.  A quick Lemmy story, last year I went to Atlantic City to see Lemmy at the House of Blues.  I went down the night before with the wife and some friends.  So it's getting late and i'm ready to hit the bed, plus i'm seriously tanked up.  So as I walk up to the room I do a sweep of the slot machines.  Why you ask?  Well I know from watching Lemmy the movie that he loves the one arm bandits (slots machines).  I also know he played the Starland Ballroom and would probably head straight down after show.  I roll through all the slots and no luck, so I walk towards the elevator.  Just as I turn the corner I see him playing the slots right near the walk through. I figured he would have picked a few machines out of site, but I  guess at 3 in the morning he figured what retard would be walking around trying to find him.  He was sitting by himself so I walked over and started talking with him.  He was totally cool and his assistant came over and took a picture of the great Lemmy and myself.

I don't think I look nearly as wrecked in the picture as I really was.  Lemmy you are one cool mother fucker.

By the way he killed it the next night, easily one of the best Motorhead shows I had seen and I've seen a lot of them.

A few notes:

*  I finished the Zakk Wylde book and it was classic.  A ton of stories of drinking, puking and shitting.  Also can't forget the penis pumps.  A funny thing is Zakk refers to his guitars as fiddles.  I thought that was funny so when I told my wife I was going to practice my fiddle she just looked at me like I was a fucking idiot.  I get that look a lot.

*  The new Accept cd is out, Stalingrad.  I'll have to pick this up.  Loved Blood of the Nations.  Caught them live when they opened for Overkill.  Great show.

I'm out brothers in Metal!  SDMF

Zakk Wylde * Viking Savior

Once upon a time I was the biggest Ozzy fan on the planet and Randy Rhoads was my guitar idol.  I wanted to be just as good as he was.  I got into arguments daily with kids in school that tried to tell me that Eddie Van Halen was better than Randy Rhoads.  No way, not in my world.  So when I got the news that Randy had died in a plane crash to say I was devastated was an understatement.  For a year straight I wrote RR on my hand with a pen.
The next two records with Jake E Lee were pretty good, nothing like the ones with Randy and I was starting to lose interest in the Ozz.  Then I happened to see the video for Miracle Man and was totally blown away. The song kicked ass, it was heavy and evil sounding and who the fuck was that playing guitar.  He was amazing and when I listened to the cd  and heard the solo for Devil's Daughter I was hooked.  Ozzy was back and Zakk Wylde had brought him back.  I became an instant fanatic for Zakk's guitar playing and followed his career though every side project.  Zakk had brought back the heaviness to Ozzy's music and his solos were legendary, with his patented squeals you could always tell when Zakk was playing.

Looks like Zakk has a little hair spray in there doesn't it?  So I've written about the early Zakk in my next post I will go into the Black Label Society years and transformation Zakk went through to end up looking like this crazy fucking viking.

Until next time my fellow Rivitheads......

Odds and Ends

* Still listening to Danko Jones I Think Bad Thoughts every day....  multiple times!
* Zakk Wylde's book is truly a masterpiece.  Laugh out loud funny at times.  A must read.  I'm not even finished yet.
* Going to see Manson next week at the House of Blues.  I'm thinking he is going to put on a great show.  I'll get a pics and talk about it here.

I'll post more later.  I want do a post about my favorite living guitar player.. Zakk Wylde.

Talk to my millions of followers later.

Up The Irons!

Ahh, Iron Maiden.  Where to start...  How about at the beginning?  It's my junior year in High School and I'm a full fledged solo Ozzy and Randy Rhoads freak, driving around with my buddy listening to whatever metal tape we have at the time.  What we were listening to now was a cassette of the first Maiden album, most likely recorded from the album because the sound was terrible but the songs were great and we listened to it over and over again.  The next time I was at the mall I went to the record store as per usual and I went looking under Iron Maiden.  There in the stack I found Iron Maiden and behind that was Killers.  I glanced to shelf above it where the new releases were and there was the Number of the Beast.  Decisions, decisions.  Well I wasn't going to spend my hard earned money on the album that I had a million times.  I needed some new Maiden but which one.  In looking over both albums I noticed a new singer on the Beast album.  What the hell?  They changed singers already.  I thought that was strange but I wanted the newer one and it didn't hurt that it was called the Number of the Beast.  As a young metalhead I figured any mention of the Devil the album had to be heavy.  So there it is the first Maiden album I bought is the best Maiden album still. 

There it is The Number of the Beast.  An Iconic release, one of the cd's that you have to have if stranded on a deserted island.  So that was my introduction to Maiden, since then I've seen them many times live and I faithfully buy every new cd and dvd.  One cool thing, the first time I saw Maiden was in Jersey in 1982, they opened up for Judas Priest.  How great of a double bill was that?  I went to school the next day with a shirt I had brought in the parking lot with the Priest Screaming for Vengeance cover on front and Iron Maiden Killers cover on back.  That got me promptly sent to the office.  HA, there wasn't much of a metal following in my High School to say the least.  My homeroom teacher thought my shirt was offensive.  Imagine that!

 In some future blogs I'll talk about some of the Maiden shows I've been to, I have some good stories to share about them.  Anyway before I sign off for the day I thought I'd list my top 5 Bruce Dickinson Maiden cd's and also my top 5 underrated songs.  You know the songs you don't hear much but are great.  I notice I don't have many followers but if you happen to read this leave your top 5 under comments.

My top 5 Bruce Maiden cd's

The Number of the Beast (of course)
Piece of Mind
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
PowerSlave
Brave New World

5 underrated Maiden songs

Children of the Damned
To Tame a Land
Back in the Village
Blood Brothers
No More Lies

Well Rivetheads I'm out for now. 

Zakk Brings the Metal!

What's up metalheads?

I like to throw a post up everyday even if it's just a few words like I'm going to do today.  I need to get my guitar practice in.  So tomorrow expect a full post on Iron Maiden.  Just caught Adrian Smith on That Metal Show so being that Maiden is one of my top five I need to talk about them.  So a few thoughts for the day.

* I'm a huge Zakk Wylde fan, as a guitarist and his work with Ozzy and Black Label Society plus the fact he is one bad ass motherfucker.  So yesterday I went to Guitar Center and ordered the Epiphone Zakk Wylde Signature guitar.  Expected delivery May 25th.  Hells yeah I cant wait to plug it and play.
 I just got back from Barnes and Noble where I brought Zakk's new book "Bringing Metal to the Children".  I'll have a review up soon.

Peace

Overkill - The Electric Age * Meeting the Blitz

In this blog i'm going to review the new Overkill cd and talk about meeting the guys at in store signing but first a things.

* I can't stop listening to Danko Jones - I think Bad Thoughts.  I love that song.
* I started listening to the new Iced Earth Dystopia so far so good.  Super under-rated band.
* Scorpions playing PNC on the final sting tour, think i'm going to go.  Playing with Queensryche and I love Queensryche.

I have to preface this review by saying I'm a huge Overkill fan so before I even listen to this cd I know I'm going to like it.  The only question is how much.  Well the thing is I love their previous release Ironbound.  It's a top five all time Overkill cd.  Right up there with Feel the Fire, Taking Over and From the Underground and Below. So the question is did they top it with The Electric Age?  No they didn't but its not a step down either.  It's almost as if Ironbound had another ten songs.  The only real difference is the lack of an epic song like Ironbound.  The cd kicks off with the blistering Come and Get It and goes head first into the Electric Rattlesnake, a classic Overkill sound that shows Bobby Blitz in fine form.  In fact Bobby sounds in top form on the whole cd.  Wish You Were Dead and Save Yourself are two more stand out tunes on the cd.  The thing about Overkill is you know what you are going to get.  A cd full of classic trash metal to bang your head to.  They remind me of Motorhead ever consistent with their sound and never disappointing.  The boys in Overkill will be playing a show at the Best Buy Theater, NYC in May.  See you there!

Here I am with Blitz at Vintage Vinyl in Ford's NJ.  As you can see I came decked out in my Overkill gear complete with a Feel the Fire vinyl that I had Bobby and DD sign.  The guys were super cool, signed everything and posed for pictures with everyone who showed up.

That's it for now my fellow Metalheads and Earthdogs.  We'll talk soon.

Six Strings & Skids

Guitar lessons yesterday... scales, scales and more fucking scales.  Good stuff.  By the way the guitar I'm currently playing is an Epiphone Les Paul Ultra.  Here's a picture.

I just got this guitar off of Ebay.  I'm always a little nervous about buying a guitar that i haven't played, but this one turned out to be right on the money. 

On to the Skid Row show at the Starland March 31................

First a quick picture I took from my Iphone.  I took a bunch and they came out like shit, maybe I need to learn how to use the damn thing.

Anyway, cool pic of Snake Sabo, as far as the show went....  They kicked ASS!  They had a great set list and were tight.  They opened with Big Guns and went right into Piece of Me, the place went nuts and they were in control from there on in.  They played every Skid song you could have wanted to hear, they even played three tunes from the ThickSkin cd that they recorded without Sebastian.  If you haven't heard it, buy it, its great.   Johnny Solinger does a great job on vocals and I would imagine he's not a big douche like Sebastian.  I wish they would record another cd and tour more.They are way too good to be just playing a few shows a year.  Anyway back to the show, Rachael took over the vocals on the Ramones cover Psycho Therapy which was amazing and I was surprised when they played Quicksand Jesus which as you know is a great fucking song.  They closed it up with the expected 18 and Life and Youth Gone Wild.  It was a great show and a great night.  Anytime they play in the area.... I'm in. 

Hey, if you wondering why I call my blog space Enny Metal my last name is Enny so I thought it was a cool play on words.  You know Any Metal,  meaning i'll blog about ANY and all metal.  Except I spell it ENNY like my last name.  Get it?  Now that we cleared that up. 

A couple of things i'm going to blog about in future Enny Metal Blogs, I recently saw Skid Row play live and they killed it so I wanted to expand upon that.  I also just started taking guitar lessons and i have a ridiculously talented and cool teacher so i'll get into my guitar playing in the future.  I also want to talk about the new Overkill CD "The Electric Age" and the meet and greet I went to where I got to meet the guys in the band.

We'll talk soon Rivetheads.  I think Rivethead will be my little catch phrase when I end my blog.  What do you think?????

First Blog - Danko Jones???

Hey what's up?  First blog of many all having to do with the greatest form of music ever created METAL!
I'm going to blog about metal from the first time I heard Kiss in 1976 to what i am listening to now and everything in between.  I just wanted to check in, by the way where the fuck have I been , I just started to listen to Danko Jones today.  The dude is awesome, just happened to hear I Think Bad Thoughts on Pandora.  What a killer tune.  Now I'd heard of him just never took the time to listen, what a big mistake.  Danko you fucking rule, listening to some of his podcasts as well.  Cool shit.

Peace until next time Rivetheads!

Tom