2012/12/08 17:01:37
digi2ns
Rain


85 - so you got to see them w/ Cliff Burton, as I just realized seeing the pic. Cool!

Must have been one heck of a show. Thanks for sharing. :)

 From what I remember it was a great show


Notice their lettering hasnt changed a bit as was on the kick drum resonators.


The 86 Monster of Rock was just as good.  Ozzy, Scorpions, ...


Man I got alot of good pics. I scanned them not long ago after moving and finding them packed away. 


Atleast having them put online now I can go back and check out what I used to do.


These were all taken with a Minolta and a huge lens.  I used to cringe running around those concerts cause one of the things they did was hurl bottles full of liquids-the sky would just be packed with 1000s of them.


Oh Boy, what memories
2012/12/08 17:30:38
Rain
tbosco


I remember when tinnitus used to last only 1-2 days.  Now I would give my right arm to have 1-2 days tinnitus-free!!!

I used to sit right up against my guitar amplifier.....it "sounded better".

I've always been a (relatively) low volume kind of guy, even as a teenager, playing guitar. I felt like boosting the sound meant I couldn't hear certain things as clearly. Not that I didn't like loud, but I wasn't willing to trade clarity.


And it's still the same - I work at fairly low volume 90% of the time. I'll only boost the volume when I'm recording and trying to get into it, or for quick checks.


I saw Nine Inch Nails a couple of years ago, and they were loud - that kick drum pounded right through your chest - but the sound was actually very clean, w/ plenty of definition. By comparison, we saw Them Crooked Vultures 2 years ago and by the time they hit the 3rd song, they could all have been playing out of key, you wouldn't have heard it. Man they were loud.
2012/12/08 18:42:12
craigb
Wow...  That brings back some memories - good and sad...  My friend Mike Grove (who was our drummer with Craig Goldy) went on to play drums with Mickey Ratt but didn't live long enough to stay with them when they shortened their name.  He barely made it past 21...  I was in an actual band for all of maybe six months total and had one drummer get put in jail, one commit suicide and two died young (one ala Bonham drowned in his own drunken puke and Mike, who had his own demons).  Spinal Tap made a lot of sense to me!

I still wish I could find that picture of me wearing black leather pants, a black shirt with yellow diamonds on it, black square-toed boots, with long hair and a *Gasp!* pierced ear (long since grown back in).  I was playing this nice black V that Mike made next to a wonderful Marshall JCM-800 stack "borrowed" from a music store (as in bought and returned a few days later after the gig - lol).  What were we thinking back then???

Right after Craig went on to Guiffria, Mike moved north and our keyboard player also went to jail (he had most of the gear because, as we found out when detectives started questioning the rest of the band, he and his mom were involved with multiple counts of insurance fraud).  After that, I pretty much let the corporate world suck me in and the Rock and Roll life was left behind.   *Sigh*
2012/12/08 19:13:27
Rain
Sad but interesting story, Craig.

I'm lucky enough to have missed the glorious 80's hair metal period. I can look back at the handful of old pics I've kept w/o much going "ewwwww", because, besides the hair, not much has changed. 

I guess I can thank Metallica for that - they certainly contributed to sobering the looks a bit. 







2012/12/08 20:36:06
craigb
Cool pics!

I would have killed to have that look and hair...  lol!
2012/12/08 21:09:36
Jonbouy
Fantastic thread.
 
I love those pics of Donnington Park, they really captured the atmosphere.
Where were you stationed Mike?
2012/12/08 22:13:38
digi2ns
RAF Mildenhall

Golfed almost everyday over at Lakenheath

LOVED IT!!!
2012/12/08 22:19:55
Jonbouy
digi2ns


RAF Mildenhall

Golfed almost everyday over at Lakenheath

LOVED IT!!!
Heheh
 
Yes I remember getting caught up in some ferocious drinking in a pub in Huntingdon more than once with some USAF personnel...
 
They certainly knew how to blow off steam...
 
We had some fun with those guys, maybe you were among them?  Perhaps it's best not to delve too deeply, it was a long time ago...lol
2012/12/08 22:22:35
digi2ns
 Yes Sir

The pubs were much better off of base.  Everytime was a good time back then.
2012/12/08 22:25:54
digi2ns
Rain


Sad but interesting story, Craig.

I'm lucky enough to have missed the glorious 80's hair metal period. I can look back at the handful of old pics I've kept w/o much going "ewwwww", because, besides the hair, not much has changed. 

I guess I can thank Metallica for that - they certainly contributed to sobering the looks a bit. 







Great pics!!!
Was this mid 80s?
Wished I could have grown mine out, pretty much a shaved head for us then.
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