Thrashers

[ibmorjamn]

So you may already know but if not a lesson in thrash.
(Posers beware)
Murder in the Front Row Murder in the Front Row - Google Search

 

[Sapient]

You kids and your rock-n-roll music.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

I was pretty young playing the Beatles Let it Be.(45) And Kenny Rodgers and the First Addition and my Mom told me TURN THAT CRAP OFF LOL. Ya you kids and your music .

 

[Clockworkmike]

I've actually watched that documentary, pretty good!

Lol on the topic of "You Kids and Your Music!" I was born in the right time I guess, where MTV ruled the airwaves with actual music videos. Born too late to enjoy the wave of the late 60s to all the 70s great music, but old enough to appreciate that era entirely due to my dad being of that time and getting his album stash. So, I got to enjoy everything from (A)c/Dc to( Z)Z Top.

The thrash thing kicked off right before I was born but hit it's highmark when I was 3-4, which I can remember vividly from seeing videos of bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Overkill, Testament and Flotsam and Jetsam air on MTV Headbanger's Ball when that show debuted ( Adam Curry, pre-Ricky Rachtman); funny thing was I never saw a Slayer video on there until around Seasons in The Abyss.

I remember the night Headbanger's Ball debuted because it was like 2 months after we moved out of the ghetto apartments and into the house my folks still live in lol it was the first program aimed strictly to metal which had showed that it finally hit the mainstream after years of being considered underground.

 

[ibmorjamn]

Music has come a long way unfortunately T.V. sucks.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Headbangers ball was a great show. MTV has been a joke for years.To bad cause it was great show long time ago.

 

[Clockworkmike]

Music has come a long way unfortunately T.V. sucks.

Sad but true. MTV was something special until the late 90s. It gave audiences a chance to see their favorite bands they might not have normally gotten to other than an appearance on Ed Sullivan, Midnight Special, Night Flight etc. And then bands got creative with videos and made you like them even if you didn't like the music as much ( Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer is still an awesome video even if he wasn't my cup of tea). Plus, even if you didn't like Michael Jackson, you can't argue that Thriller isn't a perfect minimovie.

But the channel lost it's way and became reality TV, killing a good medium. It was cool having lil alternative shows like Beavis and Butthead who reviewed music videos for good or bad but then came the shows that had NOTHING to do with music or the culture.

 

[Don O]

This is the first thing that comes to my mind. An Ocean City MD delicacy. :dood:

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

In my area San Gabriel Valley
Thrash bands were everywhere,
And I was late to the MTV party.
But a friend of mine many years later gave me some Headbangers Ball recorded VHS tapes,, early 90’s .
So I did watch quite a few of the shows

 

[ibmorjamn]

In my area San Gabriel Valley
Thrash bands were everywhere,
And I was late to the MTV party.
But a friend of mine many years later gave me some Headbangers Ball recorded VHS tapes,, early 90’s .
So I did watch quite a few of the shows

I just watched the video documentary.
It was a whole scene there in East Bay.
Mostly focused on Metallica and Exodus.
Dave Mustaine , David Ellefson , Cliff Burton.
Lots of musicians and fans.
The record stores and hang outs.

The huge cassette tape trading world wide. The cool thing was it was before internet so it was all mail.