Recap by The Metal Wulf;
Despite some early technical difficulties (we could hear Joe and Rick, but they couldn't hear us...), we got rolling on a discussion about some new Stryper material, specifically a CD of covers called...The Covering!
Go figure...
Okay, so enthusiasm was a little lukewarm, I must say, although we were intrigued by the songs that were getting the Stryper touch. Joe played their version of Deep Purple's "Highway Star", and we were all pleasantly surprised! Imagine that! And their take on Ozzy's "Over The Mountain" didn't exactly suck, either!
WOW!!!!
Of course, Joe just had to once again bring up the subject of me having a photo on Facebook where I'm actually wearing a Stryper shirt. Normally I'd have just brushed it off and denied it, although the proof has been right there in the pudding for months. So, I openly confessed that, yes, I'd seen Stryper (in 1987, on the "To Hell With The Devil" tour), yes, I had a t-shirt (actually, it was a jersey...) from that show, and yes, there was a photo on Facebook of me wearing that shirt! On top of that I promised that before I went to bed, that photo would be posted to the Metallic Onslaught's Facebook page.
And being a man of my word, I did just that!
Of course, all that confession just left me a quivering lump of self-disgust, and most of you probably quite clearly heard me admit to just how lame I truly can be sometimes...
Of course, I felt a LOT better when Rick dropped his own confession. Seems he actually owned Nelson on cassette at one point!
Honestly, I don't feel so bad about liking Stryper, after knowing that! Hell, let's face it, I'm sure we all have our little guilty pleasures that really don't fit into the metal category, and in the end, it's not that big of a deal, anyway!
Let's see, other topics of discussion...
Rick gave a little recap of last weeks' Valentine's Metal Massacre show in Clyde, a show that more of us would have attended if weather and/or sleep deprivation hadn't intervened. Glad to know Rick had a good time, though!
In a similar vein, we're starting to promote Finger Lakes Metal Fest 2011, which is only two-and-a-half months away. 20 bands on two stages, all in one day, at Donselaar's in Clyde, NY, and I do believe that it is a FREE show! Oh, the Metallic Onslaught is also emceeing the show! We ran down some of the bands that will be appearing this year, and you can expect to hear lots more in the coming weeks, as well as numerous visits from Spater's Dave Henninger, and some of the other bands on the bill! We'd love to see a big turnout for this event!
Funny thing is, I'd jokingly mentioned that we should actually do a little documentary piece on the Metal Fest when the time arrives, with band interviews, as well as some fan discussions. I'd actually meant it more as a joke, but nobody seemed to be laughing. Okay, so maybe it's not that bad an idea!
Josh had actually mentioned getting an interview with one of our biggest fans during the Metal Fest, a guy who goes by the name of Necro Morbius. Not a terrible suggestion, really, it was just unfortunate that Josh had to follow that suggestion with an imitation of what that interview would sound like...
Basically implying that Necro Morbius is a toothless, beer-guzzling redneck...
Oh boy...
JOSH! WHAT THE HELL, MAN?
Okay, so we were going to assume that good ol' Necro had a good sense of humor and wasn't too insulted by Josh's remark. Seriously, I can honestly say that it wasn't intended to be insulting, and that Josh was just having some spontaneous fun.
Still, we made sure we did a three song block of Morbid Angel songs, just to appease the possible Necro rage...
There was some lamenting over the loss of Eastview Mall's FYE store, quite possibly the greatest entertainment store we had within traveling distance. Granted, Carousel Center still has one, but that place is a hole in the wall compared to what was at Eastview!
Actually, I propose a brief moment of silence for FYE at this juncture of the recap...
Wow, you can almost hear "Taps" being played, can't ya?
Don't know how we got on the subject, but apparently Joe would love to have his own rhino to ride around while wearing a modified Boba Fett helmet, and somehow this led to a brief discussion of Jeffie's bus and who should claim ownership of it.
Josh seemed to think that, since I was the one who killed Jeffie, I should actually be the one to have the bus. Of course, that discussion just got sillier as we decided it would have to be called the Hoax-mobile.
And then, once again, I honestly don't remember how the discussion came about, we got talking about Monster Movie Matinee, an old Saturday afternoon series that would play classic (and not-so-classic) fright films. None of us could remember who the host was, just that you never actually got to see his face. You'd hear his voice, and see his hand, and that was about it.
Well, thanks to a quick check on Bill's droid, that we discovered that the host in question went by the name of Dr. E. Nick Witty, and was portrayed by Alan Milair.
Not to be confused with Mike Price's classic Baron Daemon, who hosted his own series in the 1960's, and had a minor music hit with "Transylvania Twist"!
Wow, five hours of metal, some humor, and some actual educational value! Who would've figured!
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