Any Heavy Metal fans in here?

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fbl9 said:
one needs a vast collection in the tractor especially when the days run into 16 or more hrs…Garage Inc had that one on tape…one of my most remebered lyrics from ozzy is “too many churchs and only one God.”…early on in the thread there was some discussion on traditional church music,which i myslef do prefer too…as for my music give me Beethoveen any day over Britteny…one tractor i spend all night in only has an am radio,so i listen to the oldie station(which sometimes sounds like the tunes of me youth:eek: )then in the evening they do about 3hrs of protestant messages,so the station is tuned to the classicals…one night i heard the orginal version of Mettalica’s Whiskey in a Jar…there wasn’t a lot of difference in the way it came out…then they played a really good peice i can’t rtemember the names anymore,so i was looking at the music rack with my wife who was looking at the metal tunes when a sales clerk noticed and mentioned how odd we looked…
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I would need music definitely if I spent 16 hours in a tractor. I like all kinds of music, classic rock included, but I must say that metal is my favorite. I couldn’t handle it in the liturgy. I can’t stand the hippy-style liturgical music at my parish. My wife and I had to “offer it up” this last weekend. 🙂
 
fbl9 said:
one needs a vast collection in the tractor especially when the days run into 16 or more hrs…Garage Inc had that one on tape…one of my most remebered lyrics from ozzy is “too many churchs and only one God.”…early on in the thread there was some discussion on traditional church music,which i myslef do prefer too…as for my music give me Beethoveen any day over Britteny…one tractor i spend all night in only has an am radio,so i listen to the oldie station(which sometimes sounds like the tunes of me youth:eek: )then in the evening they do about 3hrs of protestant messages,so the station is tuned to the classicals…one night i heard the orginal version of Mettalica’s Whiskey in a Jar…there wasn’t a lot of difference in the way it came out…then they played a really good peice i can’t rtemember the names anymore,so i was looking at the music rack with my wife who was looking at the metal tunes when a sales clerk noticed and mentioned how odd we looked…
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I like Metallica’s version of “Whiskey in the Jar,” too. There’s this Celtic rock band called Seven Nations that does a different version of “Whiskey in the Jar” that is slightly longer and different parts to the story added in than the either what Thin Lizzy or Metallica has. I think the Seven Nations version is more “traditional” and is similar to ones done ages ago by the better known Celtic groups like the Chieftains or the Dubliners.

You mentioned Ozzy – wasn’t his song “Miracle Man” about Jimmy Swaggert and his “fall” from grace? I think some of Ozzy’s stuff pointed towards what he perceived as hypocrisy in organized religion – whether rightly or wrongly.

By the way I’m always told I don’t look like I should listen to metal either. I prefer it that way too.

ChadS
 
fbl9 said:
something funny: this thread is over 7 pages long and still going strong…i started one called any farmers here and it was dead after 2-3 pages…lol
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You appear to have killed the thread by mentioning how strong it was going and in a few short posts all activity ceased. J/K 👍

ChadS \m/
 
ChadS said:
You appear to have killed the thread by mentioning how strong it was going and in a few short posts all activity ceased. J/K 👍

ChadS \m/
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welcome:D …i seem to be to threads as fire is to ice…
 
fbl9, You’d mentioned in a previous post how you’d take Beethoven over Brittany any day. I think a lot of people into metal would agree. I think somebody may have mentioned this earlier in the thread but there is so much in metal that classical music has influenced. Two quick examples I can think of are Randy Rhodes was learning classical guitar befor he died and he was incorporating some of the picking and fingering into his metal playing. Many of the death metal bands like Cradle of Filth etc. are incorporating strings and complex vocal arrangements akin to classical arias into their music. But, I can definitely see a connection there were one source has cross-pollinated the other.

ChadS
 
ChadS said:
fbl9, You’d mentioned in a previous post how you’d take Beethoven over Brittany any day. I think a lot of people into metal would agree. I think somebody may have mentioned this earlier in the thread but there is so much in metal that classical music has influenced. Two quick examples I can think of are Randy Rhodes was learning classical guitar befor he died and he was incorporating some of the picking and fingering into his metal playing. Many of the death metal bands like Cradle of Filth etc. are incorporating strings and complex vocal arrangements akin to classical arias into their music. But, I can definitely see a connection there were one source has cross-pollinated the other.

ChadS
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I’d also guess that practicing Catholics who like heavy metal are far more in favor of traditional church music at Mass instead of the Protestant/secular-oriented stuff called “Praise and Worship.”

Your thoughts?
 
Lepanto said:
I’d also guess that practicing Catholics who like heavy metal are far more in favor of traditional church music at Mass instead of the Protestant/secular-oriented stuff called “Praise and Worship.”

Your thoughts?
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Another thing that really bothers me is that sometimes Catholic hymnals will change the wording of old Protestant standbys. For instance compare the words of “Amazing Grace” in the back of the pew missal with that of your average Protestant hymnal. Also, check out the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” same thing. They aren’t huge changes but it might be one or two words that change the entire meaning of the song.

I find it akin to “Let’s spend some time together.”

ChadS
 
Lepanto said:
I’d also guess that practicing Catholics who like heavy metal are far more in favor of traditional church music at Mass instead of the Protestant/secular-oriented stuff called “Praise and Worship.”

Your thoughts?
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I think you are right. I think we discussed this a bit towards the beginning of the thread. 😉
 
heavy metal?..how bout a shift to…
guitarist Adrian Legg, the man is said to have extra fingers
 
Yep, at the very beginning we talked about what seemed odd on the surface: People at home with classical music and traditional liturgy having a liking for heavy metal. At one college, there was an English professor and member of Opus Dei. And he liked Iron Maiden, and would remind me what a Renaissance man Bruce Dickinson was–Masters of English from Oxford, world-class fencer, commercial jet pilot, etc. Face it, it’s not that hard to understand–under all the leather, ear-blistering power chords, and threatening looks, metalheads are just nerds at heart. 😃
i see you mention Dio with sabbath,did you know that Dio was the name of an acual band?
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Oh yeah. “Holy Diver” is a standard. Click and cringe: youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5yHDXWz5Y
 
The Pat Boone version of Holy Diver is very Richard Cheese, isn’t it? I remember ol’ Pat making the rounds of the talk shows when he did his metal album, but I’ve nvever been able to listen to a whole song.

Last in Line is my favorite from Dio, but he had a lot of other good ones, like Sacred Heart.
 
Sam_Maloney said:
The Pat Boone version of Holy Diver is very Richard Cheese, isn’t it? I remember ol’ Pat making the rounds of the talk shows when he did his metal album, but I’ve nvever been able to listen to a whole song.

Last in Line is my favorite from Dio, but he had a lot of other good ones, like Sacred Heart.
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my favorite from Dio would be “rainbow in the dark”
 
i was wondering if anybody remebers Dokken? i think that’s how it was spelled…
 
Scottgun said:
Face it, it’s not that hard to understand–under all the leather, ear-blistering power chords, and threatening looks, metalheads are just nerds at heart. 😃
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Bingo! 😃
fbl9 said:
i was wondering if anybody remebers Dokken? i think that’s how it was spelled…
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Dokken. That takes me back! I thought their “Dream Warriors” video was so scary when I was a lad. 🙂 I still loved it, though.

I saw them in concert, along with Alice Cooper, Slaughter and Warrant. It was kind of amusing. The bands performed from youngest to oldest (Slaughter, Warrant, Dokken, and Alice Cooper). And each lead singer wore leather pants just a little bit tighter than the guy before him! By the time Alice Cooper took the stage, I was surprised he could even move in those things! 🙂

George Lynch is an awesome guitarist. It was quite cool to see him play “Mr. Scary” in concert. I think he and Don Dokken must have had personality conflicts. Don started the concert saying they would play one song from each of their seven albums (at that point). Yet they played nothing from their two more recent (and far inferior) albums “Shadowlife” and “Erase the Slate”, because Lynch would start playing something else on his guitar and the rest of the band had to follow suit. I didn’t complain though because their older stuff is much better.
 
fbl9 said:
i was wondering if anybody remebers Dokken? i think that’s how it was spelled…
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Saw Dokken at Monsters of Rock at RFK stadium in 198?. My crummy high school band covered one of their songs. What I remember about George Lynch was that he said he saw Mammoth in concert (before they became Van Halen) and said watching Eddie made him want to quit guitar. I’ve also heard two quotes attributed to him which I can’t confirm. One was, “There’s no money above the 5th fret.” and the other was that if it was all about the music, we’d all have our guitars strapped up to our nipples. 🙂
 
Did anybody catch ‘‘That Metal Show’’ on vh1 classic? That show is hilarious! I’m not much of a metal fan but I was widely entertained.
 
Doorbell said:
Did anybody catch ‘‘That Metal Show’’ on vh1 classic? That show is hilarious! I’m not much of a metal fan but I was widely entertained.
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I had heard about it but I didn’t get a chance to watch it. From what I’ve heard it does sound pretty fun.

ChadS
 
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