NICE! I was scrolling down the thread thinking.. "Maiden! Seventh Son!" LOL! I played this album to death in High School and it still gets into the regular rotation. Comcast has a full length Maiden concert video right now. Brazil from a couple of years ago, I think.

Steve Harris is a monster!

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...1&d=1203735169

Thats me on the left.In my friends Basement..
They Added my name to the credits of South Of Heaven.

nice!

That's cool as sh#t, NIB. I've seen Slayer in small venues, but not a basement :D

I saw you had Hangar 18 posted, but I had to add more Megadeth. My favorite thrash band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq9CS...708EC&index=20

I like these guys a lot for newer metal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVl-Q...eature=related

:splat::splat::splat::splat::splat::splat:

Here is One of my friends, Dave Mustane and I..Prior to Dave being kicked out of the band..In my house in 1980 or 81 I'm not sure..
On Dave's shirt it says Metal Up ur Ass.It was the Name of the demo tape that was to be part of their first album.It's what brought em out east from the west coast.

Mustane was a out of control drunk.While they had planned on booting him prior to coming out east.They had a few shows lined up they where dissaster.Between equipment or electrical problems and Mustane just out of control. It was not to be an they %$%$%$%$ canned him..We convinced a few local bar owners to let em play.They already had Hammet lined up.While it went off well.None of us liked Hammet he was a girly boy or worse a poser....
They played Ride The Lightning for 9 of us in my friends Basement to get our opinion.The same basement from the other pic.I remember none of us liked it at first and we told em so..We where wrong of course.Our dislike was due to our allegiance to Mustane.
Ride the Lightning turned out to be one of my favorite albums as was Kill em All.It was all Mustanes music.

hey nib, how did you hook up with these guys?

That's some cool stuff, NIB. Metallica was one of the bands that got me started listening to metal. And I remember rushing out to buy Killing is My Business.....as soon as it made it into my local record store. Thanks for bringing back some memories from my high school days.

I also heard that Mustaine had to find his way back to California with no money after they kicked him out of the band. Any truth to that?

I'm a legend..:hihi:

here ya go NIB

early days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfK6Fy-eQQc

I bet you fit right in with these nuts

Ha
look at this one I found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTtku-LQRI

I never listened to this slipKnot band ever in my life

love the old stuff like cryptic slaughter,crumbsuckers,cro-mags,and old metallica, NIB thats some cool s#$# must of been good times.There is so much metal out right now it's crazy,some of it is amazing and so much of it sucks.I like stoner rock too bands like the melvins and high on fire are good.

I wonder if he still has that shirt? lol
I remember it was rumoured that he would call out megadeth fans for wearing metallica shirts @megadeth shows.. :eyes: I did just that and high fived dave and chris poland at the end of a peace sells show. I always thought that the drama between metallica and megas was good for business.

Dave rules. :cheers2:

You're a Metal God! I'm jealous, dude. That must have been pretty fricken cool to have hung out with those bands at the beginning of their careers. That's like hanging out with Geezer and Tony in 68... heheheh :lama:

Although not nearly as cool as NIB's Metallica story, I have a little Cro-mags one you can appreciate if you remember those guys (not sure if they are still around). Me and a buddy went to see the mags at our local hole club "the living room" (the old one with the bubble window) I think we were 15 or 16 then and getting backstage was nothing really. It was just a little room with a cooler. Well, we had gotten pretty sh*tfaced before and through the show and when it was over, the band was doing something on stage (I think they were filming something) and most folks were getting kicked out. Me and my bud decided it would be a fantastic idea to go into the backstage room and take the Cro-mags beer from the cooler. We start grabbing them and sorta wrapping them in the stomachs of our shirts (real hidden, yeah). Those guys were really healthy dudes and the beer consisted of LA ( low alcohol) and non alcoholic cans of beer, but we didnt care. We just wanted more beer:huh:. So there we are walking out of the room we were not supposed to be in and there on his way in is a Cro-mag! It was the drummer, not the tattooed-Swatzanegger-like bass player, thankfully, cuz I mighta pissed myself otherwise.:blush: But the guy who had caught us was pretty big, ripped and most definitely sober. For a moment, I envisioned the mags beating us to bloody pulps in the alley next to the club... and I was pleasantly surprised when he merely explained to us that they had to pay for the beer and it would be really uncool to take it. He explained this with a level of calm that still surprises me to this day... Anyway, we obviously apologized for being alcoholic as$h0les and carefully put them back in the cooler and quietly left the building. Those guys were cool as hell, I tell you. cool as hell.

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Not really sure this guy falls into metal but if he wanted he could do it. He is a chameleon and can do any style and I really like how he blends them together. Greg Howe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65xH...eature=related

This is truly a good one.IM at their very best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjAQSlTVcYI

Here's something a little different for anyone that's interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnW87XRr_MA

This is a great live performance of a Maiden tune I love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpZSEc77wgk

The originals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRhZISswW_k

cro-mags are playing a reunion show in may.

what about faith no more. mike patton is the man

http://www.ironmaiden.com/index.php?...articleid=1064

Can and will be there!!!!!!

I ran into Bruce #^&#^&#^&#^&inson one afternoon outside of Toads Place in New Haven. I was pretty psyched to meet him, but he was sort of a douche and blew me and my buddy off.
We used to hang out in an abdonned parking lot on weekends , partying and listening to Metalzone on WPLR. Merciful Fate, King D, Metallica, Maiden. Those were some of the best times of my life.

[QUOTE=RIJIMMY;663805]I ran into Bruce #^&#^&#^&#^&inson one afternoon outside of Toads Place in New Haven. I was pretty psyched to meet him, but he was sort of a douche and blew me and my buddy off.
We used to hang out in an abdonned parking lot on weekends , partying and listening to Metalzone on WPLR. Merciful Fate, King D, Metallica, Maiden. Those were some of the best times of my life.[/QUOTE

KING DIAMOND!

i was just being lazy

not busting your balls about the d, just happy you mentioned him. i think the all caps thing gave you the wrong impression.
:btu:

A few of my friends got a old goat skull or some kinda skull and dried it out.We went backsatge at L'Amours in Brooklyn and they gave it to King Diamond prior to the show... He was so psyched.He was one of the only guys that scared me.He was the real deal I have met many bands this guy was off the charts..I would have to say KD and Kronos from Venom where the sickest I have met.One night Venom was in town they stayed at my friends house.We where sitting around the table drinking and doing crazy stuff.One of my friends eats a beer glass.Kronos not to be out done eats a shot glass.Thats the gods honest truth..
Kronos was a little guy,He would chew up and spit out James Hetfield..
I like the original version of phantom of the opera with Pal D'anno much better.Bruce D is a whinney fairy..The first 2 albums are right up there on my fav's list..
I was thrown out of a cromag's show at the Beacon theater three times in one night.We never payed any attention to where our seats where and pretty much just went tot he front.
Well they didn't like that game at the Beacon Theater.We got into a huge fight after the last time and escaped out of there before the coppers grabbed us..:heybaby: When I think about the crazy stuff I did as a youth.It's amzing I'm still alive..One night outside the Roseland Ballroom some guy sold us a bad beat. So I was in the middle of teaching him a lesson.After four or five good knocks to the head region.I realize this guy must be used to this.So I start ramming him back and forth from the building across the sidewalk into a parked car.I did this a few times.I still don't think he's getting th message..I noticed one of them heavy metal grate garbage cans. I hoisted it over head and was about to bring down the pain when it was cracked With a nightstick from a NYC policeman.
He gave me a some stern advice and we got out of there.
NIB was not a good person in those days..:hs:
Karl, when that comes on I always crank it up..