Classics Reborn

[redfly]

 

[Slammed]

More like three days

I figured it would take him 3 weeks to come down

 

[Slammed]

You could have warned me there was Super Tough Scott in the video

Playing older songs they haven't played, now that's a silly idea

 

[redfly]

Super tough!

I bet they didn’t last in the set!

 

[Slammed]

I remember not that long ago they played Now It's Dark and the claim was something like, it was 37 years since it had been played live. From memory he mentioned Gung Ho and Lone Justice in the video. I remember Gung Ho was in their set, possibly as a part of a medley at some point, maybe before Joey left, maybe even after he came back. But I don't remember seeing Lone Justice ever.

 

[redfly]

Yeah I can’t recall Lone Justis either. . They really need to dig deep and try things. Not sit back and just think about a song and say nah it won’t work live.

 

[Slammed]

The only reason most of their songs wont work live is because they wont let them. Ok songs like 13 wont work because they are instrumentals, but pretty much everything else could work live if they gave it a chance.

Lone Justis only existed since they moved to Texas

 

[redfly]

Oh yeah, fo sho! It's like they're scared of their own songs.

 

[Slammed]

Scared of making mistakes and having the fans pick them. It would ruin the prefect image of themselves that they have.

 

[zerostatic]

I get why they want to play the classics off Among the Living...but I would love to see some deep cuts from Spreading the Disease or Persistence of Time.

So many metal fans have so much disregard for Anthrax. Shit, even the GMD discussion forum of this site, back when it was more active, did album rankings for all of the big thrash metal bands and Anthrax just got passed over.

 

[Slammed]

Yeah they do cop a lot of crap, and to be fair some of it is justified, but I think a lot of it is carried over from the 80's and 90's when they looked goofy and played differently to the other bands in the Big 4. Look how many people still to this day claim Anthrax shouldn't have been in the Big 4, despite also knowing that the big 4 was about money and sales only. People wanted to dislike the band years ago and that dislike has carried through to today to where some people are too embarrassed to even admit they like the old stuff in case people think they are less 'metal'.

However because of their own doing the last decade or so has not won them too many new fans. Even on FB where they do post regularly (today it's the 35th Anniversary of ATL), they don't often get the number of responses bands like Testament do, and no where near the responses Slayer do. Obviously FB responses are not the only thing to measure popularity by but add to that lower record sales and smaller tours and it's not hard to see they are a shadow of what they used to be. I don't think they'll ever get back to where they were but they could do themselves a favour and start treating the fans they do have with respect and not just a cash machine they can remove money from when it suits them.

 

[redfly]

I think also a lot of it is the rap thing. It's really stuck with them.Doesn't help that they keep saying how groundbreaking it was.

 

[Slammed]

At least they don't still have that stupid fucking Not Man character running around the stage.

 

[redfly]

Yeah. Unfortunately they still think he sells merch.

 

[Slammed]

Yeah they still use his face but I remember back in the 90's, may even have stretched into the 00's where they used to have some guy in a huge bubble head mask run around the stage

 

[redfly]

Yeah they still use his face but I remember back in the 90's, may even have stretched into the 00's where they used to have some guy in a huge bubble head mask run around the stage

Yeah I remember that. I prefer the Indian Headdress myself.

 

[Slammed]

Oh yeah, that looked cool when Joey was in full flight running across the stage.

 

[redfly]

Yeah it did

 

[redfly]

 

[Slammed]

How cool would it have been if the drumming was that loud in the recorded mixes