I have this t-shirt, purchased at their last SF Bay Area gig three years ago...
Posted on 07/09/2015 1:01:36 PM PDT by Sopater
Heavy metal was the No. 1-selling music genre in 1989, and parents feared the worst: that Satan worship, drug use, loads of sex, and suicide went along with it, write researchers in the journal Self and Identity. Records were burned, "Parental Advisory" warning labels were born, and some '90s research suggested that teens who were into metal had a boatload of problems. And then decades passed. How did those metalheads turn out? Pretty OK, found the team led by Humboldt State University psychologist Tasha Howe, reports Billboard. It found that while middle-aged metalheads were more likely to have engaged in risky behavior as youths, they in no way differ from both non-metal-loving peers and college students in terms of "life satisfaction and current functioning."
To get to that conclusion, researchers surveyed 377 adults, both metal-lovers (groupies, musicians, and fans), peers who preferred different music, and California college students. It turns out the metal groups' recollections of their youth were "significantly happier" than the comparison groups', and they had fewer regrets (about a third did, compared to 44.9% of students and 51.3% of non-metal peers). As for why they possibly turned out like they did, the researchers point to a "kinship in the metal community ... a way to experience heightened emotions and intense connections with like-minded people, which seemed to contribute to their eventual positive identity development." This suggests, they write, that "fringe style cultures can ... serve a protective function" for youth. The authors do note, however, that "this was a community sample of relatively high functioning individuals who volunteered to participate," which may have skewed the results. (Another study found excessive headbanging could kill.)
Have you seen TODAY’s kids?
Yes I have Uncle Miltie. Mine is a Respiratory Therapist with 2 college degrees, and she has 3 sons the oldest of which is an amazing hunter, baseball player (scholarship caliber), but is considering a military service academy.
...and I still listen to Metal. Turned my grandson onto AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.
What music we like has nothing to do with who we are.
Do you know what Kip Winger does today?
He writes symphony pieces, and arranges music for the best Symphonies around the world.
Also Winger has a new album, and it rocks pretty good. Great Bass player.
I don’t care what anyone says about them being an MTV/studio band.
Anyone says that they don’t have clue about Rock history.
Def Leppard were playing gigs in London clubs at age 14-15. Parents had to attend most. The First album (Through the Long Night) came out when most of them were 17-18. “Bringing on the Heartbreak” was a hit in England before MTV debuted.
I wish I has a dollar for every time I have seen some ‘metal fan’ post somewhere or have hear myself, how they couldn’t play and thats why Hysteria took so long and on and on.
Yea Hysteria itself was a studio creation practically a note at a time. But like you said, they were in the trenches for years before without the wizardry.
And when they did it live it was damn near studio perfect since they’d played it a thousand times making the record. Easily one of the top shows I saw.
Yea Hysteria itself was a studio creation practically a note at a time.
Yes it was, but it was also a Concept album. and the idea came from Mutt Lange.
Thriller was huge then, and Lange wanted a rock answer to that success.
The band was very wary of putting out another “Pyromania”.
It was a home run if sales are an indicator.
Rob Halford would have taken one look at her and all you would hear is a metallic jingling sound as he sprinted back inside the tour bus in full stud and leather regalia.
“She almost made me her turbo-lover, gross,” he would shriek.
Freegards
Many metalheads are todays conservatives.
+1
Thanks guys. My daughter’s planning on starting her own business within the next year so that she can homeschool her daughter. I’m praying that she can make it work.
My son... if he doesn’t die, he’ll be alright.
Great stuff. His voice did sound awesome there, manly with not too much helium induced screeching.
The bull whip in the holster and handcuffs were a nice touch for Rob’s outfit. Pretty darn funny.
Freegards
Yup. Among my favorite bands are Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and Megadeth. And somehow I turned out all right...
Pantera did rule. “Walk” is the ringtone on my phone. They had a big Priest influence in Cowboys from Hell and an Exhorder influence in subsequent records.
Winger was the bassist on Alice Cooper’s “Constrictor” record.
I have this t-shirt, purchased at their last SF Bay Area gig three years ago...
Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!!!
I’ll get in on this....
My personal fave albums are:
1) Powerslave
2) Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
3) Live After Death
And that’s as far as I’ll go on that, since I only own eight Maiden albums, all of which include Bruce and Adrian.
Wow, that is officially a piece of trivia I didn’t know, and I’m a pretty big Alice Cooper fan.
Drank some beers with him on his bus in Charleston WV once. One of his snakes was sick. It had crawled up on the heater coil of the bus, and was being treated by a vet there.
He’s a nice guy, and soundly Conservative.
1982 HS grad, bands I liked, Rush, Zeppelin,J Hendrix experience, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Ozzie Osborne, Black Sabbath with Ozzie and Dio, Ted Nuget,Judas Priest, Motley Crew, Motorhead, Pink Floyd, Frank Marino and Mohogany Rush, Queensryke,
Bands I liked because Of my girlfriends, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Boston, Journey, Guns and Roses, whitesnake, Van Halen, Sammy Hagar.
My buddy saw Def a few months back..said they rocked it!
Even there you should not paint with a broad brush. A guy who played drums for both Nirvana and Soundgarden later became a Special Forces soldier serving tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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