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Was at home frantically typing assignments but my brother (pretty cool guy) saw some stuff for 50c at a market that seemed like me and picked them up.

Armored Saint- Revelation

Kreator- Cause for Conflict

 

On 26/03/2017 at 11:59 PM, Thrashman said:

Ordered this the other day too.

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That makes sense. I need to find me a shirt with a grey silhouette on it.

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I finally purchased a copy of the Mayhem rehearsal CD 'Out of the Dark' featuring Dead on vocals. I think I now have pretty much all searchable official and bootleg releases. Until something else turns up and I'll try to get my hands on it. 

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I went to the US for 10 days (California) and bought about 45 cd's at stores like Amoeba in San Francisco and Hollywood, Rasputin in San Francisco, a coupla in San Diego and one more shop in Hollywood too.

I also bought some Vynil: Armored Saint - ST (ep), Alice Cooper Killer, Y&T In Rock we Trust, Franke & The Knockouts Makin Point (the band of Bon Jovi's drummer Tico Torres) and MSG Perfect Timing.

The coolest thing about the trip was my pilgrimage to the sunset strip. Saw some decent emerging bands that sounded and looked like living fossils of the 80's. A band did a cover of "Sonic Reducer" by the Deadboys, "Search & Destroy" by Stooges and "Heartbreak BLVD" by Shotgun Messiah. Pretty cool. Went to the Rainbow with my gf and the somehow sneaked into an illegal afterhours party on Santa Monica Blvd.

THE MAN was a dude named Vinnie running a record shop in Melrose. He was around then and said to be friends with everyone. From Axl and Izzy to Kevin Dubrow. He had stories to share about everyone from the Starwood days, the original Cathouse days and shit.

When I entered the shop I felt like home cause he was blasting "Coup d'Etat" by Wendy & the Plasmatics. The track was their cover of Motorhead's "No Class", so I karaoked the whole of it while looking at records. I totally connected with this guy. He told me about the first west coast show by Kiss in 75 or 76 and how he went there entirely skeptical being a devoted Alice Cooper fan and then got blasted by Kiss. He made an intelligent remark. He said that he was used to the Coop's shows that were at times extreme, but had a certain flow and plot to them... With Kiss it was BANG from the get go! The whole show was full throttle with explosion every minute or so. Definitely less artistic than Cooper, but very original and HUNGRY (in a positive way). 

He told me about going to that gig in which Guns opened for Alice and having access to Alice's dressing room having become friends with his manager Shep Gordon in the 70's while Guns had no access to his room because Alice was clean then and they obviously were not (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-wildest-guns-n-roses-moments-20151124/october-23rd-1986-g-n-r-lose-an-axl-for-alice-cooper-gig-20151119).

He told me that once at the Cathouse Kevin Dubrow - "coked outta his mind" - mistook him for Frankie Banali.

He also told me how great and fresh it felt the first time that WASP played in Los Angeles and threw raw meat in the audience.

I shoulda recorded his anecdotes. That's my kind of shit.

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3 minutes ago, Skull_Kollektor said:

I went to the US for 10 days (California) and bought about 45 cd's at stores like Amoeba in San Francisco and Hollywood, Rasputin in San Francisco, a coupla in San Diego and one more shop in Hollywood too.

I also bought some Vynil: Armored Saint - ST (ep), Alice Cooper Killer, Y&T In Rock we Trust, Franke & The Knockouts Makin Point (the band of Bon Jovi's drummer Tico Torres) and MSG Perfect Timing.

The coolest thing about the trip was my pilgrimage to the sunset strip. Saw some decent emerging bands that sounded and looked like living fossils of the 80's. A band did a cover of "Sonic Reducer" by the Deadboys, "Search & Destroy" by Stooges and "Heartbreak BLVD" by Shotgun Messiah. Pretty cool. Went to the Rainbow with my gf and the somehow sneaked into an illegal afterhours party on Santa Monica Blvd.

THE MAN was a dude named Vinnie running a record shop in Melrose. He was around then and said to be friends with everyone. From Axl and Izzy to Kevin Dubrow. He had stories to share about everyone from the Starwood days, the original Cathouse days and shit.

When I entered the shop I felt like home cause he was blasting "Coup d'Etat" by Wendy & the Plasmatics. The track was their cover of Motorhead's "No Class", so I karaoked the whole of it while looking at records. I totally connected with this guy. He told me about the first west coast show by Kiss in 75 or 76 and how he went there entirely skeptical being a devoted Alice Cooper fan and then got blasted by Kiss. He made an intelligent remark. He said that he was used to the Coop's shows that were at times extreme, but had a certain flow and plot to them... With Kiss it was BANG from the get go! The whole show was full throttle with explosion every minute or so. Definitely less artistic than Cooper, but very original and HUNGRY (in a positive way). 

He told me about going to that gig in which Guns opened for Alice and having access to Alice's dressing room having become friends with his manager Shep Gordon in the 70's while Guns had no access to his room because Alice was clean then and they obviously were not (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-wildest-guns-n-roses-moments-20151124/october-23rd-1986-g-n-r-lose-an-axl-for-alice-cooper-gig-20151119).

He told me that once at the Cathouse Kevin Dubrow - "coked outta his mind" - mistook him for Frankie Banali.

He also told me how great and fresh it felt the first time that WASP played in Los Angeles and threw raw meat in the audience.

I shoulda recorded his anecdotes. That's my kind of shit.

Wow, this is a great account. I love hanging out on the Sunset Strip too. Where did you see those bands play? I saw some bands at the Whisky a Go Go which were cool but unfortunately I wouldn't say they were 80s throwbacks. The Rainbow is amazing and so much smaller than I expected. Good stuff. I love hearing old guys talk about times past. Once Duncan Patterson from Anathema was at a friend's place with whom he was doing a project and I drank booze with him for hours, asking him all about Anathema in the early years. 

Anyway, what did I buy yesterday you ask? I bought: 

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Cathedral - The Last Spire

British metal forever. 

 

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As for the bands I saw in Hollywood. I went to the Rainbow first, but there I only saw a female cover band that did justice to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs", yet I don't remember their name... It was SomethingVixen and they were all sorta latinas... Pretty much in the same way that Death Angel are all filipinos. Then there was another band that did a few uninspired originals and also covered Van Halen and Quiet Riot (which made perfect sense in the context, although they had a pitiful singer).

Then we moved to that afterhours party and the first band had a female singer that did the covers I mentioned in my earlier post. After that one I saw the best band. They are called ELECTRIC HOUND and they seem to be three brothers (blood brothers if I got that correctly). The singer/bass player moves on stage just like Blackie Lawless, but has an entirely different vocal tone. The playing was top notch. I fancied their originals but they also did outstanding covers of "Stranglehold" by The Nuge and "Let There Be Rock" by AC/DC. They covered Billy Idol's Rebel Yell too, and they did well, but I can't stand that song anymore.... It's too overplayed... I can understand that emerging bands might want to play that to become more accessible and to crossover and appeal to the casual listener, but I can't give a fuck...

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2 hours ago, Skull_Kollektor said:

As for the bands I saw in Hollywood. I went to the Rainbow first, but there I only saw a female cover band that did justice to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs", yet I don't remember their name... It was SomethingVixen and they were all sorta latinas... Pretty much in the same way that Death Angel are all filipinos.

The band were all latinos in the same way that Death Angel are all Filipinos? Got it.

Regarding the Rainbow show, was it one of those parking lot gigs at the Rainbow, because I'm pretty sure they don't hold gigs in the actual venue. It's a tiny bar and restaurant! 

You're lucky to have seen some good old fashioned Sunset Strip music though. When I was in LA a couple of years ago I scanned all the venues to check if there was anything cool on. There wasn't really, although the Whisky show was free being a Tuesday or Wednesday night so it was good to go in and have a (very close!) look, listen to bands and drink beer. The spirit of Nikki Sixx was with me that day. I was a one man party machine. 

Just writing about all this makes me nostalgic and a little sad I can't go there now! 

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No it wasn't in the parking lot! It was upstairs and it was really tiny indeed!

On sunday I did go to the Whisky and saw Michael Graves (the ex Misfits dude) play an acoustic set. It bored the hell outta me except when he did "dig up her bones" and "saturday night". He even played a Nirvana  tune... how lame is that?

I'd post pics but they're too heavy and I'm too lazy 

 

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I went to the US for 10 days (California) and bought about 45 cd's at stores like Amoeba in San Francisco and Hollywood, Rasputin in San Francisco, a coupla in San Diego and one more shop in Hollywood too.

I also bought some Vynil: Armored Saint - ST (ep), Alice Cooper Killer, Y&T In Rock we Trust, Franke & The Knockouts Makin Point (the band of Bon Jovi's drummer Tico Torres) and MSG Perfect Timing.

The coolest thing about the trip was my pilgrimage to the sunset strip. Saw some decent emerging bands that sounded and looked like living fossils of the 80's. A band did a cover of "Sonic Reducer" by the Deadboys, "Search & Destroy" by Stooges and "Heartbreak BLVD" by Shotgun Messiah. Pretty cool. Went to the Rainbow with my gf and the somehow sneaked into an illegal afterhours party on Santa Monica Blvd.

THE MAN was a dude named Vinnie running a record shop in Melrose. He was around then and said to be friends with everyone. From Axl and Izzy to Kevin Dubrow. He had stories to share about everyone from the Starwood days, the original Cathouse days and shit.

When I entered the shop I felt like home cause he was blasting "Coup d'Etat" by Wendy & the Plasmatics. The track was their cover of Motorhead's "No Class", so I karaoked the whole of it while looking at records. I totally connected with this guy. He told me about the first west coast show by Kiss in 75 or 76 and how he went there entirely skeptical being a devoted Alice Cooper fan and then got blasted by Kiss. He made an intelligent remark. He said that he was used to the Coop's shows that were at times extreme, but had a certain flow and plot to them... With Kiss it was BANG from the get go! The whole show was full throttle with explosion every minute or so. Definitely less artistic than Cooper, but very original and HUNGRY (in a positive way). 

He told me about going to that gig in which Guns opened for Alice and having access to Alice's dressing room having become friends with his manager Shep Gordon in the 70's while Guns had no access to his room because Alice was clean then and they obviously were not (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-wildest-guns-n-roses-moments-20151124/october-23rd-1986-g-n-r-lose-an-axl-for-alice-cooper-gig-20151119).

He told me that once at the Cathouse Kevin Dubrow - "coked outta his mind" - mistook him for Frankie Banali.

He also told me how great and fresh it felt the first time that WASP played in Los Angeles and threw raw meat in the audience.

I shoulda recorded his anecdotes. That's my kind of shit.

 

Sounds like a fun time. I've only been to Amoeba in LA, and didn't find much that I was interested in there, but it was a cool store. We drove down to see Bolt Thrower, Autopsy, and Benediction, and got an offer from my friends in Vektor to come see them at The Whiskey the following night. The other record store we hit while we were in town was better, Bionic Records in Buena Park, which was more of a metal store rather than a mega record store like Amoeba. Some good grabs there and cool guys. The Whiskey was overrated as shit though. Maybe it's because I don't care for the bands that cut their teeth there, so there's no historical allure or sheen of mysticism to hide the fact that it's just a run-down shithole. It was good to see my friends there, but I'm glad we didn't have to pay for entry, because the 7 (!) other bands that played were all shitty retro thrash, so it felt like a waste of time burning several hours to catch Vektor for 40 minutes. The Bolt Thrower show was cool, but I can't say that I'm crazy about California overall.

 

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I used Discogs to fill a few gaps:

Great White st (debut album, US first press cd)

Great White "shot in the dark" (second album, US first press cd)

Great White "recovery live" (US Edition which includes the very first ep by Great White)

Enuff Znuff st (CaNadian first press cd)

Enuff Znuff "Animals with human intelligence" (Canadian first press)

Bullet "The Road to Hell" (Angel Air UK cd with the unreleased album of the band of ex Atomic Rooster and Quartermass fellas that became Hard Stuff)

Sadus "A vision of Misery" (metal mind reissue)

I'm trying to get the first two Sadus cds on MetalMind, but they are too expensive... I am offering 35€, but the buy it now tag says 70something! Let's see if I get rejected...

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