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1:20

Once again, Martin pop up here. Welcome back to

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We're going to be doing that over

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That's kind of cool. So

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yeah, look for that on here

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as well. I'm and yeah so

1:58

this is. this is episode 248.

2:00

This is a bit of an

2:02

arcane one. I'm calling this Metal

2:04

History in First Verses. Good

2:06

Buddy of Mine Dawn had recommended

2:09

quite early on. We

2:11

were discussing back and forth

2:15

the first verses of songs, you

2:17

know, the first things,

2:19

the first utterances of bands.

2:21

So essentially, you know, to

2:23

keep the focus down, the idea was, you

2:26

know, what do these bands say on

2:28

their first song, on

2:30

their first record, side one, very first

2:33

song they ever give us

2:35

on a full-length album kind of thing.

2:37

And I pondered that briefly and came

2:39

up with that episode that was 183.

2:41

I called it Punk Explained Right Away.

2:43

And the reason that one worked and

2:45

was kind of an interesting episode is

2:47

that Punk is happening all in a

2:49

very defined time frame. So that

2:51

was all about how these bands came out

2:53

of the gate, first song, and kind of

2:55

explained what Punk was kind of thing. This

2:57

is a little bit different. This

3:00

is spread over time. So again, the title

3:02

is Metal History in First Verses. And

3:05

what I did here is I went

3:07

to some classic hard rock albums from

3:09

over the decades, going back to the

3:11

early history. And on this, by the

3:13

way, we are gonna go up to

3:15

the history of metal. And I'm gonna

3:18

kind of get, you know, give you my definition again because

3:21

this is a bit, a bit inspired

3:24

by this idea of the difference between heavy

3:26

metal and metal again. But we'll get to

3:28

that a little later. So the idea was

3:30

I went back to some of

3:32

these hard rock releases and

3:35

went and looked at the very first verses

3:39

of some of the songs on these bands,

3:41

very first albums, and sort of like like

3:44

plotted an imagined history of heavy metal

3:46

through it. But also a history of,

3:48

I Did have something fall out

3:50

of this where it was a history of gaining

3:52

more focus. And As we get to the new

3:54

wave of British heavy metal and quote unquote Metal

3:56

in 1983, you'll see that the lyric. Content

4:00

does that kind of change your as well, but

4:02

he adds a little bit of a moving target

4:04

thing because you might say will, what's the validity

4:07

of the very first thing or these guys put

4:09

on these herbs Be. I want

4:11

to argue that it's very important, the first

4:13

thing these bans ever say, right? And it's

4:15

funny. I went through this whole exercise and

4:18

it was hard finding these because a lot

4:20

of bands I've noticed on you know, don't

4:22

adhere to a certain thing or didn't or

4:25

didn't sit the parameter of what I wanted

4:27

to do. Here may be the first song.

4:30

Is some sort of girls sex song kind of

4:32

thing where it's a fantasy song here? or it's

4:34

a. It's. A song about,

4:36

you know some sort of horror lyrics kind

4:39

of thing. So yeah there there were various

4:41

things that were done for songs. There is

4:43

there some real storytelling songs and notices wealth

4:45

and also ends in research for this episode

4:47

went through are a bunch of first our

4:49

first Vs have a bunch of Prague bands

4:51

and I'm going to see if there's a

4:54

C might come up with. There are A

4:56

but anyways I'm. Let's say

4:58

let's go through this and death and see

5:00

what we think of this idea. Let's start

5:02

with our our very first track your this

5:05

is Jimi Hendrix experience with Purple Haze. All

5:34

right. So Purple Haze. Ah, we're starting

5:36

kind of chronologically. I like I say

5:38

arms so you know Purple Haze all

5:41

in my brain lately. Things they don't

5:43

seem the same acting funny, but I

5:45

don't know why scuse me while I

5:47

kiss the sky right arm. So the

5:49

idea here is what I like here

5:52

is the idea of bomb You know

5:54

psychedelic Disturbance Arms. So this is this

5:56

is Jimmy. kind of like I. you

5:58

know we're going the into kind of

6:00

like a dark sort of as of

6:03

psychedelic. Know this is pretty early but

6:05

I love this idea of the idea

6:07

of Purple Haze kicking off the idea

6:09

of heart of Hard rock and Heavy

6:12

Metal. You might say he's for telling

6:14

the started Deep Purple, Private Keys for

6:16

telling the album cover of Master of

6:18

Reality. More to me that Massive Reality

6:20

album cover and and just that the

6:23

bulldozing heaviness of that album is that

6:25

is Purple Haze to me. arms. I

6:27

also looked at Cream. I feel fine

6:29

now. I feel free now. This

6:31

is raw really more or less

6:33

on. Are kind of a love

6:35

song thing, but it is. It is the the

6:38

spirit of youth. Ah, you know this is a

6:40

kick off of Earnest and Sibley. I think Japan

6:42

overrated but sensibly heavy. Banned here writes Ah but

6:44

yeah I feel when I dance with you we

6:46

move like to see I, you're all I want

6:48

to know. I feel free, I feel free soaps.

6:51

Really? You know when we when we all heard

6:53

this song of or you know as I as

6:55

a sort of a sixties anthem I'm too young

6:57

to have heard the song as the sixties and

6:59

them as A, but it does feel like I'm

7:01

you know, the the energy of use sort of

7:03

thing. So on. And then another one

7:06

for the early days I thought. Need.

7:08

I did look at a couple other things

7:10

and like you know, blue cheer doesn't really

7:12

apply because it's summertime blues with the cover.

7:14

M Five had Rambling Rose. That didn't really

7:16

apply, but I thought I thought the Stooges

7:18

nineteen Sixty Nine Know, punk claims the Stooges

7:20

more than metal, but I like this idea

7:22

of it's Nike Sixty and okay, I'll cross

7:24

Usa Son of the year for you and

7:26

me. another year with nothing to do. Ah,

7:28

now last year I was twenty one, I

7:30

didn't have a lot of fun and I'm

7:32

going to be twenty two. I say, oh

7:34

my in a booth who writes on? So

7:36

it's the idea of boredom, you know, rot.

7:38

You know, these guys want a purpose.

7:40

The young guys who did this pent

7:43

up testosterone. Let's get out and rock

7:45

and roll on. and then

7:47

as we move for a chronologically we've

7:49

got black sabbath black sabbath i nineteen

7:51

seventy a what is this that stands

7:53

before me figure in black which points

7:55

at me turn around and start to

7:57

run find out on the chosen one

8:00

Oh no, that's kind of interesting because I

8:02

feel like here you get the birth of

8:04

the birth of doom You know you got

8:06

the figure in black the figure in black

8:08

itself might be heavy metal, right? But

8:12

find out I'm the chosen one. Well

8:14

black Sabbath were the chosen ones They

8:16

invented heavy metal essentially on on February

8:18

Friday the 13th 1970 So

8:22

this is kind of cool. It's an occult lyric, but

8:25

it's basically saying you have picked

8:27

you have been picked to invent

8:29

heavy metal, right? And then another early

8:31

one is bluest occult with transmen icon MC

8:33

with Satan's hog No pig at all and

8:35

all the weather getting dry will head south

8:38

from Altamont a cold-blooded travel trans So clear

8:40

the road my bully boys and let let

8:42

some thunder pass. We're paying we're steal a

8:44

plot of knives We're transmen icon MC. So

8:47

here you get you know,

8:49

the biker image You can you can feel

8:51

the leather even though they don't say the

8:53

leather but you know, you got hog and

8:55

pig you've got Altamonts you've got the you

8:57

know, the dark story of the of the

8:59

Hell's Angels being picked to be Security

9:02

at Altamont for the Stones and and

9:04

that guy getting killed right at the

9:06

front of the stage But you've got

9:08

steel in here. You've got MC for

9:10

Motorcycle Club So it's just a very

9:13

sort of violent lyric that you know,

9:15

very vivid lyric that is that is

9:17

bringing us forward Through

9:20

this idea of the invention of heavy metal.

9:22

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9:24

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back again here on History in Five

11:02

Songs with Martin Popoff. What was I

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calling this again? Metal History in First

11:06

Verses, episode 248. So take a listen

11:09

to our second track here.

11:11

This is Montrose with Rock the Nation.

11:44

Haha, we're in the middle of rocking out

11:46

this heaviness, but we don't really have focus

11:48

on it. We just know we want to

11:50

rock out, we want to rock out hard.

11:52

It's still kind of vague. We're just nascently

11:54

getting the old Metal Mike Saunders definition of

11:57

heavy metal coming out of things. We've got

11:59

a American bands, Canadian bands

12:01

in this category, it's kind of like

12:03

rock and roll intent or ambitious intent,

12:05

right? So Montrose has got it

12:08

in me. I've got it in me. This is

12:10

Sammy Hager singing, you know amazingly,

12:12

right? Ain't gonna quit until it all comes out.

12:14

Gonna do it. Ain't nothing to it. Just shake

12:16

my hips, throw my head back and show. Been

12:18

a long education, but my homework is done. I'm

12:21

gonna rock the nation. Just want to have fun.

12:23

And Aerosmith Make It, their first track is

12:26

Good Evening People. Welcome to the show. This

12:28

was the other thing. I was gonna, you

12:30

know, do like introductory songs, right? You could have looked

12:32

at it that way as well. But

12:35

got something here I want you all to know. When

12:38

life and people bring on primal screams, you

12:40

got to think of what it's gonna take

12:42

to make your dreams. So again, we got

12:44

the idea of hard rockin' primal screams coming

12:47

in here. Rush finding my way. Yeah,

12:50

ooh, yeah. So he's doing the Robert Plant

12:52

thing to kick off the, you know, the

12:54

very first Rush album. This is Geddy Lee

12:56

screaming, doing, doing as good as job as

12:59

Sammy Hager, right? I

13:01

said I'm coming out to get you. I'm coming

13:03

out to get you. Ooh, yeah. Finding my way.

13:05

So finding my way is coming out to get

13:08

you with this direct between the eyes hard

13:10

rockin' music, right? And then the

13:12

Baby Rush. Triumph, their very first song is

13:14

24 hours a day. I'll tell

13:16

you sweetly now why I can't come to bed. I'm listening

13:19

to the music that's playing in my head. So,

13:21

so here we go. Like obsessed with rock and

13:23

roll. Obsessed with rock and roll. You're moved with

13:25

with sleepy dreams. I'm moving to the sounds. The

13:28

beat keeps driving in my brain and the words

13:30

go round and round. I see myself up, up

13:33

on the stage and holding my guitar and I

13:35

can't tell if it's Carnegie Hall or just some

13:38

local bar. But the hands are clapping and the

13:40

place is moving and I feel it in my soul.

13:42

It's late at night. I can't sleep. I got to

13:44

write some rock and roll. So it's rock and roll.

13:46

He's got a guitar. He's

13:48

got, you know, Triumph wants to rock out

13:51

as well. So does Riot on

13:53

their very first song from 1977's Rock City. Desperation.

13:57

Been on the road for 14 days. Got six.

13:59

more left to go. The rain is pounding down

14:02

on my hood. I've got a heavy load in

14:04

tow. So this is almost riot imagining being on

14:06

the road when they're not really all that much

14:08

on the road yet. Famously

14:11

Van Halen's opening lines, running with the devil.

14:13

I live my life like there's no tomorrow.

14:15

All I've got I had to steal. Least

14:17

I don't need to beg or borrow. Yes

14:20

I'm living at a pace that kills running

14:22

with the devil. So here we've got you

14:24

know the badass rock and roller David Lee

14:26

Roth but but you know we go back

14:28

to a more famous debut in in you

14:30

know he's bringing up the devil again. He's

14:32

running with the devil. Black Sabbath had a

14:35

had a figure in black right. And then

14:37

moving on still in this theme of America

14:39

as we move forward chronologically. We've got Motley

14:41

Crue with Live Wire. Plug me in. I'm

14:43

alive tonight on the streets again. Turn me

14:45

on. I'm too hot to stop. Something

14:48

you'll never forget. Take my fist. Break down

14:50

the wall. So you've got fists. You've got

14:52

plug me in alive tonight on the streets.

14:54

So you've got the Sunset Strip coming alive

14:57

with this new heavy metal music. Better turn

15:00

me loose. Better set me free because I'm

15:02

hot young running free a little bit better

15:04

than it used to be. So yeah so

15:06

so young he's got running free in here.

15:08

So we've got we've got a reference to

15:10

Iron Maiden. Although he's not really referencing Iron

15:12

Maiden. But yeah hot young.

15:15

So this is all like the birth of

15:17

hair metal in these in the very first

15:19

lyric of Motley Crue. We've got Twisted Sister

15:21

across the country doing the same kind of

15:24

thing with What You

15:26

Don't Know Sure Can Hurt You. The

15:28

very first song on there under the

15:30

blade album. Just like just

15:33

like what do we got here. Yeah

15:35

just like Aerosmith. So Aerosmith is

15:37

good evening people. Welcome to the show.

15:40

Twisted Sister is good evening. Welcome to our

15:43

show. If you've got that and

15:45

you know they're just they're just down the coast in New

15:47

York right. If you

15:49

got that problem well I think that you should

15:51

know this ain't the same old story or the

15:53

same old song and dance. So here's Twisted Sister

15:55

saying we've got this new powerful new

15:57

kind of music that we're gonna bring to you. Don't

16:00

speak of faded glory. So it's turning a

16:02

new leaf, right? Because you won't get a

16:04

second chance I want to tell you something.

16:07

I'm someone you can trust you better take

16:09

a good hard look because there's a diamond

16:11

in this dust Hit it where no overnight

16:13

sensation no Cinderella fantasy, please. No plaudits or

16:15

ovations. I've heard it all before you see

16:17

so Here's Twists the Sisters statement of intent.

16:20

They are going to rock us as well Okay,

16:23

let's move on to our third selection here. This

16:26

is Judas Priest with one for the road How

16:31

will you be? Okay,

16:52

so we go back to the very

16:54

first utterance of Rob Halford back on

16:57

rockarolla, right So

17:00

we've got One for

17:02

the road. The very first thing he says

17:04

is where would you be without music? You

17:06

wouldn't be nowhere at all And

17:09

the rest of lyrics are kind of weird. They're

17:11

kind of like kind of awkward But but yeah

17:13

This was suggested by dawn and this got me

17:15

going on that old episode and it seems to

17:17

have got me going on this episode So the

17:19

category here is is what is happening

17:21

in the history of metal in UK?

17:24

So we've got kind of our second wave UK

17:26

metal here Another

17:28

interesting statement of a tent intent

17:31

is Ronnie James deal on man on the

17:33

Silver Mountain 1975

17:35

I'm a wheel. I'm a wheel I can roll I can

17:37

feel and you can't stop me turning cuz I'm the Sun

17:40

I'm the Sun I can move I can run but you

17:42

won't stop me burning. So we've got Sun burning wheels Come

17:46

down with fire lift my spirit higher someone scream

17:48

in my name come and make me holy again

17:50

I'm the man on the Silver Mountain. So, you

17:53

know, you could say that Ronnie here is

17:56

Is doing the in the

17:58

inventing of fantasy lyrics We've talked

18:00

about this before how you know you actually

18:02

get a good chunk of this or

18:05

a good impetus of this with your

18:07

eye Heap earlier, you know, especially demons

18:09

and wizards and magician's birthday But here's

18:11

Ronnie the man on the Silver Mountain

18:13

So he is kind of a guy

18:15

defining this second wave of metal. We're

18:17

starting to see a little bit more

18:19

of a Like

18:22

I say, we're starting to build like

18:24

our snow globe bands episode

18:26

kind of but we're building a

18:29

Fantasy metal world a Dungeons and Dragons

18:31

sort of world Ronnie and

18:34

then Motorhead 1977

18:37

very first song from Motorhead is Motorhead Motorhead

18:40

We've got sunrise wrong side of another day

18:42

sky high and six thousand miles away. Don't

18:44

know how long I've been awake Wound

18:47

up in an amazing state can it get enough

18:49

and you know, it's righteous stuff goes up like

18:51

prices at Christmas Motorhead You can call me Motorhead

18:54

So it's kind of cool. We've got this

18:56

idea of staying up all night and lemme

18:58

on speed and we we can again just

19:00

like Previously you can you can see and

19:02

feel like with blue or she called you

19:04

could feel the black leather Of

19:07

all this so this is this is the second

19:09

half of the 70s as

19:11

we're moving forward with some of these first

19:14

songs and Next

19:16

category. Let's take a listen to this. This

19:19

is a diamond head with lightning to the

19:21

nation I I

19:26

I Okay,

19:49

so the idea here is the new wave

19:52

of British heavy metal and we've got Angel

19:55

from the sky put his hand in mine.

19:57

I can I could spread you gifts for

19:59

golden of time I'm going to set you

20:01

down, I'm gonna make it right, gonna bring it

20:03

home, bring you lightning to the nation. So we've

20:05

got this angel from the sky before we had

20:07

this figure in in the black. We've got David

20:09

Lee Roth running with the devil. So

20:12

some mystical force is handing diamond

20:15

head the power of heavy metal

20:17

and they are gonna bring you

20:19

lightning to the nations and lightning

20:22

to the nations might be a

20:24

preamble. It foretells the coming of

20:27

Metallica with Ride the Lightning kind

20:29

of thing. But yeah this is a very

20:31

moving, imposing, doomy, but

20:34

you know speeds up slows down interesting song

20:36

but you get the get the power of

20:39

metal from this as well.

20:41

It's you know the man on the

20:43

silver mountain maybe bringing the next generation

20:45

in diamond head lightning to the nations.

20:48

Michael Schenker Group arguably a new wave of

20:50

British heavy metal band. I think they kind

20:52

of fit you know how we had our

20:54

honorary episodes right. But

20:56

this is a little bit of Gary Barden going

20:59

with the whole introduction statement of the intent thing.

21:01

Are you high tonight? Are you feeling right?

21:03

Because I need to know like I never did

21:05

before is it hard enough? Is it loud enough?

21:08

Because if you don't approve you can use the door. Armed

21:11

and ready I'm gonna I've got my

21:13

gun sight trained on you. So

21:16

here we've got is it hard enough? Is

21:18

it loud enough? Because if you don't approve

21:20

you can use the door. That's a very

21:22

man o'war type thing to say. We

21:24

are talking about loudness. So we are talking about

21:27

metal here. Getting into that

21:29

concert hall armed and ready. So you've

21:31

got that that whole the metaphor of

21:33

you know artillery and bullets and stuff

21:35

like that. So

21:39

there you go. The lyrics with the new

21:41

wave British heavy metal. We know like a

21:43

lot of the lyrics but you know my

21:45

challenge here was to go with first songs

21:48

first utterances saying what these guys say first

21:50

is very important. But

21:53

yeah you've got just like you've

21:55

got you know in

21:57

the in the album cover art and

21:59

illustration. And you know, we've talked about Iron

22:01

Maiden and Eddie and we've got the the clothing

22:04

of Judas Priest the uniform You start to see

22:06

it in the lyrics as well another

22:09

arguably new wave of British heavy metal lyric and

22:11

you know I I had to go deep for

22:13

some of these because I checked a lot of

22:16

lyrics because that's what I do I check out

22:18

my research, right? And then a lot

22:20

of them kind of didn't really apply all that all

22:22

that good But like for example Tigers

22:24

of Pantene euthanasia is about euthanasia

22:26

So, you know that that didn't

22:28

fit our theme here But

22:31

this one kind of does venom sons of Satan

22:33

first song and welcome to hell Somewhere

22:35

in time we were born and brought blood loss

22:38

hatred and scorn You're sorry now you trusted me

22:40

now I command that you get down in your

22:42

knees for held the deceiver Satan's child You're a

22:44

believer and we're going wild Put

22:47

away your virtues stop clear climbing the walls.

22:49

Just sign your name in the paper. We'll

22:51

have ourselves a ball. So Again

22:54

Kronos has been handed by the devil.

22:56

He's the same. He's Satan's child. He's

22:59

been handed by the figure in black

23:01

He's been handed by the angels from

23:03

the sky He's been

23:05

running with the devil and the devil is

23:08

bringing this super heavy music to us heavy

23:10

metal kind of thing And

23:12

a little bit along the same lines is Grim

23:14

Reaper with see you in hell. Can I make

23:16

you an offer? You can't refuse so just same

23:18

thing as as we just heard from venom. Just

23:21

sign your name on the paper We'll have ourselves

23:23

a ball So can I make you

23:25

an offer you can't refuse? I kept my eyes on you

23:27

because I tell you that you lose and you come with

23:29

me to place You know so well, and I will take

23:31

you to the very gates of hell. See you in hell

23:33

my friends. So You know,

23:36

you've got you've got You

23:38

know, you can imagine The

23:40

great, you know, may he rest in

23:42

peace Steve Grim it? Bringing

23:45

us to the concert hall just like just like

23:47

venom is bringing us to the concert hall just

23:49

like Gary Barden is bringing us to the concert

23:51

hall he's bringing us to the very gates of

23:53

hell here and He's saying

23:56

come on down to the the marquee.

23:58

We will we will see you in

24:00

hell my friend and my friend is

24:02

the metal masses in this

24:04

case right so so here we

24:06

are this this whole identification with

24:09

with the devil kind of thing and

24:11

metals lyrics getting more intense again through

24:13

these first songs by these bands ever

24:15

so let's take a listen to our

24:17

last selection and we shall discuss this

24:20

is Metallica with hit the lights okay

24:45

so now like I

24:48

say we got into this every it comes

24:50

up often right I and then I usually

24:52

type in my little Facebook argument right the

24:55

difference between heavy metal and metal and I

24:57

often say Metallica invented

24:59

metal the invention of

25:01

metal comes with 1983's kill them all

25:04

I remember hearing that for the first time I've

25:06

gone through that whole story a couple times a

25:08

couple of times but to me this is the

25:10

invention of metal because thrash begats death

25:13

and black metal and all that kind of

25:15

stuff and gent and deathcore

25:17

and black and black and hardcore and all

25:19

the all that kind of stuff metal core

25:22

so yeah metal starts kind of here and

25:27

and this is a perfect one no life

25:29

till leather we are gonna kick some ass

25:31

tonight we got the metal madness when

25:33

our fans start screaming it's right well alright when we

25:35

start to rock we never want to stop hit the

25:38

lights so we've got leather

25:40

in here we've got metal madness so

25:43

yeah metal he says metal he doesn't

25:45

say heavy metal he says metal and

25:48

and madness right so metal is getting

25:51

more maddening here as well so

25:53

we've got a an uptick in in

25:56

in the description of heavy metal again

25:58

on a first song and Another first song, Anthrax

26:02

Death Rider from

26:04

Fistful of Metal, Riding Hard, High in

26:06

the Saddle, Winged Steed of Unwearing Flight,

26:08

Sweeping Through Air, Just Like Fire, Swift

26:11

of the Foot, Great of Might, Sweeps,

26:13

So It's Mighty, Riding Hard, We've Got

26:15

Kind of a Metal Steed idea here.

26:18

Slayer, Evil, Has No Boundaries, First Track

26:20

on their first album, Show

26:23

No Mercy, Blasting Our Way Through the Boundaries

26:25

of Hell, No One Can Stop Us Tonight,

26:27

We Take on the World of Hatred Inside,

26:29

Mayhem, The Reason We Fight. So

26:31

here we have them raising

26:34

the violence level on Grim

26:36

Reaper and just a little

26:38

bit on Venom. They can be pretty

26:40

wild and crazy as well. And

26:44

then raising it past the artistic level

26:46

of what we had with Diamond Head sort of

26:49

thing. So yeah, getting more violent, more satanic, and

26:51

you can feel the speed picking up as well,

26:54

right? Voivod, Voivod, the very first song. It's kind

26:56

of cool, eh? I like when bands

26:58

do this. You know, we've got Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath,

27:00

right? So we've got Voivod, Voivod.

27:02

Kind of a nice poetry there.

27:06

So their first song is the title track

27:08

of the name of the band. My

27:11

lands are infectious, your sun begins to gloom, you

27:13

see my heart full, what is it,

27:16

country, my sky is black tonight, pay the price for

27:18

your life, your ticket open the gates. Now,

27:21

Voivod, I'm paranoid. Voivod, the wine of

27:23

blood. Voivod, I'm a crazy god. Voivod,

27:25

the ferocious dog. You've got all sorts

27:27

of craziness and ferocity, and now we

27:29

know Michelle had this much deeper story.

27:32

You know, this is a character and there's

27:34

all this nuclear stuff and space and everything,

27:36

but still you get the idea of

27:38

this heavy metal thing going on there,

27:41

heavy metal imagery. Exciter

27:44

as well at exactly the same time here, 1973, stand

27:46

up and fight. Did

27:50

your parents ever tell you to stay away from

27:52

rock and roll? Don't you ever tell them, oh,

27:54

we're more than a million strong. Take your life

27:56

in stealing your soul. So we've got the stealing

27:58

of your soul, the whole devil. thing going on

28:00

here as well. And Million

28:02

Strong, we've got the metal army that's built up

28:04

from the previous generation, the New Wave of British

28:07

Heavy Metal. Exciter's taking this onto

28:09

their, you know, their speed metal band.

28:11

They weren't quite thrashed. They didn't quite

28:13

have it together to be a Metallica.

28:15

So unfortunately, they weren't the

28:17

ones really inventing this thing. And they didn't kind

28:19

of have the talent level, I guess, of a

28:22

Metallica, right? Don't

28:24

you know, it won't be long. Attacked by forces blown

28:26

to the ground where an army like soldiers more than

28:29

a million strong will tear this place down with your

28:31

sadistic power, get mean to the forces of the wrong,

28:33

break down the walls, feel the curse, don't you know,

28:35

won't be long. Stand up and fight. So we got

28:38

the standing up and fighting for metal. You know, so

28:40

you didn't get this in the 70s, right? So

28:43

we've seen an evolution from vaguely

28:45

wanting to rock out. Remember how we talk

28:47

about how the uniform is kind of, you

28:49

know, not defined yet. But now

28:51

we get the, you know, the

28:54

more violence, you know, we have an army

28:56

now. We're a blue jean army.

28:58

We got patches and pins on our jacket. We

29:01

got the sneakers, all that stuff. Similarly

29:03

Exodus bonded by blood with the famously

29:05

Paul Bailoff, you know, kill all posers

29:08

kind of thing. Black magic

29:10

rights in this black evil night begin with

29:12

a slice of the blade. Metal and blood

29:14

come together as one. On lookers they gasp

29:16

in dismay. So now we got metal, blood

29:18

and Satanism all mixed together, right? Taste

29:22

the sweet blood of one another sharing without

29:24

any greed. So we're bang your head as

29:27

if up from the dead. Intense metal

29:29

is all that you need. So now Paul's

29:31

telling us directly intense metal. And

29:35

he's painting the picture of a mosh pit

29:37

here, right? Taste the sweet blood of one

29:39

another sharing without any greed. So bang your

29:41

head. We got literally banging your head just

29:44

like Kevin Dubrow, right, in

29:46

here. So yeah, there you've got

29:48

your definition of metal. You know,

29:50

I've just, just to sort of say

29:53

a few things moving on. You know,

29:55

I want to say officially we've stopped

29:57

with the invention of metal with Kilimals.

30:00

these are your bonus tracks. So

30:02

this isn't part of the main album

30:04

as we've all been debating lately with

30:06

with the whole new priest invincible shield

30:08

situation. So moving on Dio

30:11

stand up and shout. So this is Ronnie. Now

30:14

he's into this this metal army

30:16

thing whereas we had Ronnie earlier just kind

30:18

of being the man on the silver mountain

30:20

and inventing the fantasy lyrics thing. So he's

30:22

stand up and shout first song on Holy

30:24

Diver. He's going into the same old song

30:26

you got to be somewhere sometime they never

30:29

let you fly. It's like broken glass you

30:31

get cupped forward. So open up your eyes

30:33

you've got desires to let it out you've

30:35

got the power stand up and shout. So

30:37

he basically is describing an Exodus gig with

30:39

Paul Beilhoff there you know it's like we

30:41

are the metal army lets us stand up and

30:43

shout same thing as Exciter. Dokken

30:46

breaking the chains first

30:48

song on the first Dokken album. I

30:50

sit there thinking in your room you feel the

30:52

pressure you're going crazy to the walls around you

30:54

closing in you need to change claustrophobic feeling scared

30:56

you need somebody but no one to seem to

30:59

care. One way ticket change of pace breaking the

31:01

chains around you. So this is more vaguely about

31:03

just being a teenager with pent-up energy

31:05

but you can feel the rocking out

31:08

that this this character that Don is

31:10

writing about wants to wants to get

31:12

up to and as we move

31:15

along in time a little more you've

31:17

got Guns N' Roses welcome to

31:19

the jungle welcome to the jungle we got fun

31:21

and games you got everything you want honey we

31:23

know the needs we are the people that can

31:25

find whatever you may need if you got the money

31:27

honey we got your disease so this is these are

31:29

the badasses on the strip so now we're moving into

31:32

you know a hair metal tropes and whatnot and

31:34

just one final one for another thrash band

31:37

we've got overkill with raise the dead their

31:39

first song feel the power rushing forward it

31:41

gets into your veins almighty power building higher

31:43

you'll never be the same I'm wanting more

31:45

I'm getting more of the feelings you can't

31:47

tame I'm the master you're the bastards are you

31:50

glad you came the sign of life your blood

31:52

is red come with us and raise the dead

31:54

so so mixing this all together this is this

31:56

also feels like your blood is rich and we've

31:59

got Paul Bailoff the Mosh pit again people

32:01

are bleeding come with us raise

32:03

the dead, you know all these

32:05

all these bands essentially From

32:07

the new wave of British heavy metal into

32:10

all our thrash examples here They they are

32:12

you know impelling us to come to this violent

32:14

rock and roll show. It's gonna be loud There's

32:17

there's gonna be blood there's gonna be motion,

32:19

but we are an army kind of thing

32:22

let's get together and do this so

32:24

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32:26

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skipped a week in there Maybe I'll do it this time

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that probably should because I don't want this to go down

33:00

to zero But there you

33:02

go books wise. What do we have

33:04

happening? We've got The

33:07

recent ones are the Thin Lizzy panel book the Robert

33:09

plant panel book, but I've still got

33:11

kiss at 50 I've still got ACDC at 50

33:15

Have I written any books on any of these bands here?

33:17

Oh, yeah, we've got deal I've got my two

33:19

deal books never written a dachan book have I

33:22

got my old boy by book But I'm not selling

33:24

that anymore. I did I did the old art of

33:26

Michelle boy by book years and years ago I've

33:29

still got copies of my metallica book

33:32

In soft cover and hard cover. So I've got

33:34

the out of print hardcover as well People

33:38

tell asked me I write a venom book one

33:40

day I'm I've written a

33:42

lot about venom in a bunch of my books. You

33:44

can get that in the in

33:46

the thrash trilogy and whatnot Of course, I have

33:48

a motorhead book early days motorhead book. I've got

33:50

my rainbow book Yeah, so I guess I have

33:52

written about some of these bands Van Halen. Geez.

33:54

Yeah Van Halen motley crew ride I've got books

33:56

on all these guys rush bunch of books on

33:58

them never did any Smith book I've been

34:01

thinking about it and I've even got a

34:03

Montrose. Wow! Geez, Bush's go

34:05

play. Okay, I'll stop. It's funny though,

34:07

scrolling through all this, yeah, I've written

34:09

on most of these bands. Anyways,

34:12

there you go. I hope, you know, let me

34:14

know if you see any other patterns in

34:17

these first verses, these first utterances of these

34:19

bands. I've thought of a couple other ways

34:21

to to chop and change this and I

34:23

might get to it in the future, but

34:25

yeah, I thought this made for a a

34:28

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