Classics Reborn

[redfly]

Hmm weird. Most of his shows that we saw were in Australia. A few here and there were international. And maybe he came and did a show in Florida or Louisiana. Other than that there isn't much for him to film here. If he was doing all sorts of press I think it would have been for the movie? And that wouldn't have been very long.
What pisses me off is Discovery channel said he'd always be part of them. And then they stopped playing his show. He really helped build that network. They had only a few shows. Mostly BBC nature shows.

The first sort of anything I saw like that was Wild Kingdom. I think that started in the 60's, That was a cool show here. I'm not sure if you guys had that one?

 

[Slammed]

Yeah he filmed most the shows here but sold them to America. They started out prime time here but within a year they were Sunday afternoon shows. He'd take an entourage of about 50 people with him to America where he'd spend months promoing the show with live shows where he'd feed crocs and other things. Bindi and Bob took over a lot of that sort of thing here when Bindi was only about 9. They had kids shows, occasional prime time shows, the did all the talk shows, they became far more sellable than Steve was. Now days they are the only face of the business but it was pretty much theirs years before Steve actually died.

Yeah we had that but back then our 5 local TV stations (because we didn't have anything close to cable until the mid 90's) could still produce local stuff relatively cheap so we had guys like Malcolm Douglas who didn't just go out and rescue crocs, or sharks, or rays, or birds, or snakes he'd show people how to use their 4wd, how to find food in the bush, how to survive and how to allow nature to survive. He was a full blown nature conservationist 20 years before Steve. At the end of every one hour episode you actually felt like you'd learned something.

We've gone from education and exciting, to flamboyant and Crikey, to Matt above who tells crocs to sit like they are his pet dog.

 

[redfly]

I liked that survival shows came back a few years ago. But man it didn't last long before the real ones were outnumbered by the slick entertainment versions 5 to 1. Hard to find a good one now.

 

[Slammed]

Yeah I don't watch any kind of reality show these days, it just seems like many of them are trying to outdo each other with stupid. Give me a doco, or something informative (obviously not the news these days) or even a decent quiz show rather than reality. These days after dinner we usually watch Jeopardy, partly because there is nothing else on, but also because our eldest loves to show how smart she is.

 

[redfly]

You should give her a Testament cd as a reward every time she kicks butt!

 

[Slammed]

But they only have 13 albums
Actually Jeopardy is a prick of a show, one day you feel like the smartest person ever and answer the questions quicker than the contestants, other days you answer nothing a feel like a moron.

 

[Slammed]

Check out the opening riff

 

[redfly]

But they only have 13 albums
Actually Jeopardy is a prick of a show, one day you feel like the smartest person ever and answer the questions quicker than the contestants, other days you answer nothing a feel like a moron.

You can follow with Flotsam maybe?

Yeah, it's good for that! Oh I mean. I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Slammed]

She asked me for my copy of Altitudes and Attitudes today, it's a start

I don't know what I'm talking about half the time

 

[redfly]

Hey that is pretty cool

That's a quarter more than me

 

[Slammed]

It's definitely a start, and it's better than top 40 shit

You give no quarter?

 

[Slammed]

No body recognised the riff in the Glory Bell's song above?
Surely not?
It's iconic.

 

[Neptune]

Slaaaaaaaaayeeeeeeeeer!

 

[Slammed]

Written and recorded 2 years before Slayer released it.

 

[Neptune]

Really?!

 

[Slammed]

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Glory_Bell's_Band/Century_Rendezvous/37531

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Slayer/Reign_in_Blood/212

 

[Neptune]

I initially thought it was the other way around.

 

[Slammed]

I would have if I hadn't been reading the YT screen as it played.
Unless there is some sort of documentation that proves Slayer Co. wrote it before they recorded it I wonder why there hasn't been a law suit.

 

[Neptune]

Hmmmm they’re probably not active or dare I say living?

 

[Slammed]

They were broken up, after two albums, by the time Reign In Blood was released. The drummer played in Yngwie's Rising Force and the band reformed but didn't record anything in 2002. It appears all but one are still alive. I'd find it hard to believe if they hadn't heard Slayer.