Hello folks and friends and enemies alike,
Here it is, my first experience with Anthrax!
I remember I was 12 and I had just spent the morning cleaning up the front of my parents motel and helping rake the lawn and other shit that my pops had me do around the house. Normally, my parents had me do the work for free(since they bought me all my clothes, tapes, music anyway), but on this day, my dad came up to me and said, "Hey, nice job today, I didn't even have to remind you to rake the leaves", and he gives me a $20.00 bill! So I rushed down to RadioShack(the only source for music in small town wyoming) which back in those days tapes were always around $8.95, or $9.50 so I figured that I could get at least 2 new albums. I remember picking up Dokken "Under Lock and Key", and thinking "Yes, finally, my Dokken collection is complete, and then I saw it! Over in the A section, ANTHRAX: AMONG THE LIVING with a new sticker on it! I remember seeing Anthrax t-shirts in my Thrasher magazines, and I had always thought that Anthrax was a skateboard brand or something(you gotta remember, I grew up in a very small town that banned MTV and the only music news was what you could discover on your own terms), and I was like, "Oh my God, this is a good day!". I remember thinking that maybe they were a punk band, but looking at the song titles, "Among the living" "Caught in a Mosh", "NFL" "I am the Law", I figured it was worth the purchase! So here I go walking out of RadioShack and I happened to bump into a good friend, Jason Spaulding(same age as me), and him and our other friend Jason Beck were going camping(big thing to do in Wyoming since there's nothing but mother nature) and asked if I wanted to go also! I ran home and asked my parents and ofcourse it was kewl, so I packed my sleeping bag, tent, food, and ofcourse the boom box and the newly purchased tapes. Once I caught up with my friends and we had our camp setup, I remember the Jasons starting to pull out all the tapes they had brought and advancing to my boom box! They had Judas Priest, ACDC, Motley Crue, and some more Dokken albums. But I remember when I showed them the two new tapes I purchased, Jason Beck was like, "Whoa, is that a Anthrax tape?", and I was like "Yeah, we should listen to it, we know what all this other stuff sounds like", so we cranked it up and let me tell you folks, I don't think that Among the Living left the boom box for the night or the next morning until we packed up the camp and left for home. Both Jasons were very impressed as well as me. Infact, when I got back home and showed Among the Living to my brother(older brother), he liked it so much that it took me about a week to get the dam thing back! Among the Living was the first actually notes that I ever heard by Anthrax and I've never forgotten that day or that camping trip or especially, the album "Among the living"!
AugDawg rating of Among the Living
10 out of 10
AugDawg
Here it is, my first experience with Anthrax!
I remember I was 12 and I had just spent the morning cleaning up the front of my parents motel and helping rake the lawn and other shit that my pops had me do around the house. Normally, my parents had me do the work for free(since they bought me all my clothes, tapes, music anyway), but on this day, my dad came up to me and said, "Hey, nice job today, I didn't even have to remind you to rake the leaves", and he gives me a $20.00 bill! So I rushed down to RadioShack(the only source for music in small town wyoming) which back in those days tapes were always around $8.95, or $9.50 so I figured that I could get at least 2 new albums. I remember picking up Dokken "Under Lock and Key", and thinking "Yes, finally, my Dokken collection is complete, and then I saw it! Over in the A section, ANTHRAX: AMONG THE LIVING with a new sticker on it! I remember seeing Anthrax t-shirts in my Thrasher magazines, and I had always thought that Anthrax was a skateboard brand or something(you gotta remember, I grew up in a very small town that banned MTV and the only music news was what you could discover on your own terms), and I was like, "Oh my God, this is a good day!". I remember thinking that maybe they were a punk band, but looking at the song titles, "Among the living" "Caught in a Mosh", "NFL" "I am the Law", I figured it was worth the purchase! So here I go walking out of RadioShack and I happened to bump into a good friend, Jason Spaulding(same age as me), and him and our other friend Jason Beck were going camping(big thing to do in Wyoming since there's nothing but mother nature) and asked if I wanted to go also! I ran home and asked my parents and ofcourse it was kewl, so I packed my sleeping bag, tent, food, and ofcourse the boom box and the newly purchased tapes. Once I caught up with my friends and we had our camp setup, I remember the Jasons starting to pull out all the tapes they had brought and advancing to my boom box! They had Judas Priest, ACDC, Motley Crue, and some more Dokken albums. But I remember when I showed them the two new tapes I purchased, Jason Beck was like, "Whoa, is that a Anthrax tape?", and I was like "Yeah, we should listen to it, we know what all this other stuff sounds like", so we cranked it up and let me tell you folks, I don't think that Among the Living left the boom box for the night or the next morning until we packed up the camp and left for home. Both Jasons were very impressed as well as me. Infact, when I got back home and showed Among the Living to my brother(older brother), he liked it so much that it took me about a week to get the dam thing back! Among the Living was the first actually notes that I ever heard by Anthrax and I've never forgotten that day or that camping trip or especially, the album "Among the living"!
AugDawg rating of Among the Living
10 out of 10
AugDawg
