Who was your first?

Lord of Delusions

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Jeez you guys have dirty minds. That isnt' the "first" I was asking about. I want to know which band, when, and where you first witnessed the life changing force known as Metal. It doesn't have to be a concert, just a time when you heard metal for the first time and said "Holy Pointy Metal Studs, Batman! Listen to that!". If you can, post a link to one of thier sites so we can all check them out! :headbang:
 
Up untill the late 70's, early 80's, all I had known was country music, as that is what my dad listened to. At some point I thought to myself, "Man, there has to be something better than this." So I dialed around and found the local rock station, which if you grew up in the midwest you know they played mostly pop stuff. Then on a fatefull winter day in 1986(?), my life changed when I witnessed metal for the first time. A drummer named Rick Fisher, who has been a long time family freind, brought to me an album his band was getting ready to release. It was named "Crystal Vision", and the band was Manilla Road. I immediatly took it upstairs and threw it on the record player. I was floored. I don't know if I ever thanked him for that, so I will do so now. If it wasn't for him, I truly fear what my musical tastes would be now. Manilla Road didn't have very much success here in the states, but in Europe they were popular, and are still playing. Rick is no longer in the band, and has his own buisness back in Kansas.
Manilla Road :worship:
 
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden/Killers tape I got in 1981. First tape I ever owned...listened to it so long it died.

-Hobbes

bestwestranger said:
Jeez you guys have dirty minds. That isnt' the "first" I was asking about. I want to know which band, when, and where you first witnessed the life changing force known as Metal. It doesn't have to be a concert, just a time when you heard metal for the first time and said "Holy Pointy Metal Studs, Batman! Listen to that!". If you can, post a link to one of thier sites so we can all check them out! :headbang:
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bestwestranger said:
Jeez you guys have dirty minds. That isnt' the "first" I was asking about. I want to know which band, when, and where you first witnessed the life changing force known as Metal. It doesn't have to be a concert, just a time when you heard metal for the first time and said "Holy Pointy Metal Studs, Batman! Listen to that!". If you can, post a link to one of thier sites so we can all check them out! :headbang:
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1st, I was 7 and went with some friends and their older brothers to go see Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult.

2nd, I was 10 and my Dad took me to see The Who at the Ampitheatre.

Aerosmith, AC/DC, Uriah Heep, Blue Cheer, Alice Cooper, these were a lot of the bands my uncles listened to and they got me into them. The first album I bought was Rush 2112, I listened to it with my Dad. His words to me were 'you buy another record like this and I'll kick your ass.' Needless to say that is probably one of the most tame ablums that I own.
 
hmmmmmmmm...I think it was in 1998, when I was 10 years old...I saw the movie Detroit rock city ... it was the song Iron man from black sabbath... not much later there was Crazy train from Ozzy... and then came Enter Sandman after 1 year I think...and then...
 
BTW, if any of you DO check out Manilla Road, try and find the song "Riddle Master". I very highly reccomend it! Be aware as you listen to it that it came out before Whitesnake's "Still of the Night". Listen to the beginning and you will see what I mean....
 
1978, Oakland California, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Mahogany Rush. Funny thing was the only song I knew was Cat Scratch Fever! Ok, so it's not metal and it's not really what grabbed me (although I now know the music and like it). Right around then I started listening to rock music. Then I remember in 9th grade one of the students brought the new and first Van Halen album (1979) into the art class. The teacher would let us play records in class. Hearing Eruption and Atomic Punk (man those songs still kick ass!), I think that was the start to my road into metal. It wasn't until 1981-2 that some friends introduced me to Maiden, Priest, Saxon, Rush, Sabbath, Ozzy, etc. The rest is histooory!
 
Judas Priest, Van Halen (Eruption), Maiden. I was so drawn to and intrigued by vocalists who had a unique value to their voices and attitudes from hell. I never forget the first time I heard Accept's "Fast as a Shark" it made my blood pressure skyrocket! I couldn't get enough of it! My parents really hated that song.
 
My last couple of years of high school were profound musically. KISS' Double Platinum came out, Boston, Van Halen I, Alan Parson's I Robot, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was still everywhere. The Wall came out just after I got out of high school. Blue Oyster Cult's Some Enchanted Evening (I go see them next week). All the metal like Priest, the Scorps and Maiden didn't show up till I was in college.
 
I was about seven years old when I first heard Pink Floyd's The Wall and those marching hammers and what rock was all about! That led to harder rock/metal with The Number of the Beast, Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz, and AC/DC's Back In Black, Judas Priests British Steel in the early 80's. :cool:
 
Doodoobubbachuck said:
Judas Priest, Van Halen (Eruption), Maiden. I was so drawn to and intrigued by vocalists who had a unique value to their voices and attitudes from hell. I never forget the first time I heard Accept's "Fast as a Shark" it made my blood pressure skyrocket! I couldn't get enough of it! My parents really hated that song.
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Dear dog! I totaly forgot about that kick ass song. I didn't even have the album, just that one song on tape, and played it over and over and over...

-HobbesDawg
 
alanbirdsell said:
My last couple of years of high school were profound musically. KISS' Double Platinum came out, Boston, Van Halen I, Alan Parson's I Robot, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was still everywhere. The Wall came out just after I got out of high school. Blue Oyster Cult's Some Enchanted Evening (I go see them next week). All the metal like Priest, the Scorps and Maiden didn't show up till I was in college.
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Your welcome, Alan :headbang:
 
I used to steal my foster brothers Deep Purple and Alice Cooper records (you know those big black platters with the grooves in them) and play them until he caught me (again) and beat the tar out of me.
My first concert was Boston and Sammy Hagar at the Seattle Center Arena in '78. Sammy did a solo hanging upside down from the lighting rig! Blew me away.

From then on it was a steady diet of hard rock, Van Halen, Ted Nugent (where I got jumped while scalping tickets), Rush, :worship: AC/DC etc.
Then one day, the vocalist in my rock band "Myth" came tearing into rehersal, "You guys have got to hear this! Chris your gonna SHIT!!!!" He popped in "Killers" and it was all over, I never missed a Iron Maiden show from then until I left Washington. I remember one show was Girlschool, Motorhead, Maiden and the Scorps. Kicked my ASS!

Hey, Alan, do you remember Denny and all those Judas Priest concerts? And BOC and Rail (everybody on this list should check out Rail and Company, they were the Gods of Northwest Rock) Good grief I could go on and on, Culprit, Heir Apparent, Anthrax
 
You're welcome Chris. Actually Chris gets credit for beingthe first one to bring home Queensryche some 20+ years ago. There was a little record store, the only record store in Pullman. And one day he came dragging home the QR EP. We were all into D & D and stuff them so I think being a Seattle band, an obviously metal band and the mideival looking sleeve is what caught Chris' attention. I got a phone call after he put it on the stereo in his dorm room, the rest is history. We wanted to write them and see if they would play this spring thing our dorm had but come to find out they hadn't even played their 1st gig yet and weren't interested in playing college parties.

Yeah I remember Denny's obsession with the Priest (and Pink Floyd). I never got to see Priest back then. I saw Halford in TWO at a tiny bar here and then saw Halford on hte Maiden, Ryche tour. As far as BOC, I'm goin' to see them Tuesday night at this new killer venue in town.

Heir Apparent... I've been friends with Terry Gorle for almost 20 years. I should get ya some stuff with their new singer, he's killer. They do need a drummer these days.

Culprit... Terry helped them remaster Guilty as Charged and get it pressed to CD and they went to Wacken a couple years ago.

And all the rest... I got lots of stuff in my archives that will make you miss Seattle, Chris LOL

And speaking of Rail... reunited for the EMP Grand Opening...
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