Marc Maron WTF with Wolfgang Van Halen

[CaboChris]

I was listening to alot of rap music at that time (lol) NWA, Eazy E, Ice Cube, The DOC...

Same but also DJ Quik and Compton's Most Wanted.

[ziggysmalls]

To be fair I like their newer releases a bit. Black is a great album but it was such a departure. I never had an issue with 5150 but I can relate to why people don't like it cause I felt the same way with the Black album.

For me, listening to Master of Puppets is like Fair Warning.

[CaboChris]

Metallica just became too mainstream. Too mom and dad approved. Safe. Who did that? Gen X passing it down, etc. I get it, I just don't care for it.

[Naked Wake]

Metallica just became too mainstream. Too mom and dad approved. Safe. Who did that? Gen X passing it down, etc. I get it, I just don't care for it.

but their last 3 albums were just as heavy, if not heavier, than their first 3. I think in their case, they're too heavy for me now. I've mellowed out with age, lol.

[CaboChris]

but their last 3 albums were just as heavy, if not heavier, than their first 3. I think in their case, they're too heavy for me now. I've mellowed out with age, lol.

Just as heavy as Kill Em All? Let's just agree to disagree on that.

Honestly, this isn't a hill I'm ready to die on or debate to death. To each their own.

[Naked Wake]

Just as heavy as Kill Em All? Let's just agree to disagree on that.

Honestly, this isn't a hill I'm ready to die on or debate to death. To each their own.

yes. Heavier, angrier, louder mix, the works. Just by a much older band.

[EJC]

Metallica just became too mainstream. Too mom and dad approved.

My parents were more into Iron Maiden and Ozzy lol.

Well, The Beach Boys and Neil Diamond. Tomato To-MAH-to..


I rememeber my mom saying "Revelation, Mother Earth" was a beautiful song... She also liked "You can't kill Rock & Roll".

My dad hated all of it. It was all bullshit to him. No Do-Wop, no dice....

Lol

[Naked Wake]

My parents were more into Iron Maiden and Ozzy lol.

Well, The Beach Boys and Neil Diamond. Tomato To-MAH-to..


I rememeber my mom saying "Revelation, Mother Earth" was a beautiful song... She also liked "You can't kill Rock & Roll".

My dad hated all of it. It was all bullshit to him. No Do-Wop, no dice....

Lol

my parents are from Italy. My dad like Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and used to hang out with Frankie Valli back in the day. My mom liked the Beatles and the Stones.

[Rikk]

Just as heavy as Kill Em All? Let's just agree to disagree on that.

Honestly, this isn't a hill I'm ready to die on or debate to death. To each their own.

The last three albums ARE as heavy as KILL 'EM ALL.

No offense...but if you aren't even listening to 'em, who are you to claim what they are?

NW is right...the band is at a heavier point than they've been in a while.

Sorry...I'm just on a Metallica high. My kid is still on cloud nine. She went nuts last night at her first concert (Metallica). There were tons of metalheads there...but I will say, these metalheads were very cool with my kid. They thought it was cute as shit, this 10-year-old doing the devil horns, screaming the "DIE!" singalong section to CREEPING DEATH. (If that makes the band "safe" now, so be it.)

[Rikk]

Actually, the fans at Metallica last night were cool to my 10-year-old daughter except this one fucking piece of shit:

As we were leaving Soldier Field, there was this drunk younger guy walking out with three girls. He was stumbling along, walking but looking behind him, heading right towards my daughter. I raised my hand, said, "Hey!"

He walked right into my hand (I blocked him from stumbling into my daughter). And he said, "Got a fucking problem?"

I said, "Bro, watch where you're walking! You almost knocked into my kid."

And he looked down at her and said, "So. Who fucking cares?"

"I fucking care. Watch where you're walking."

"Got a fucking problem?"

And these fucking drunken 20-year-old girls were laughing and saying, "You almost knocked over a young girl. Awesome."

Meanwhile, the other guys my age standing around us were staring at this young guy with death in their eyes.

My daughter saw the look in my eyes...

She said, "Baba," (that's what she calls me) "let it go. It's ok. I'm fine."

I was with my daughter, sober as a kitten. But I stared at him for a second and seethed, "You're going to have a fucking problem, asshole."

The fucking idiot kept walking...but he thought it was funny as shit that he'd almost knocked over a 10-year-old kid.

Why am I telling this story? Because I woke up at 2am, unable to sleep.

But I guess I will say, some young people today are fucking so entitled.

What this has to do with VH, I have no idea.

[Raldo]

Actually, the fans at Metallica last night were cool to my 10-year-old daughter except this one fucking piece of shit:

As we were leaving Soldier Field, there was this drunk younger guy walking out with three girls. He was stumbling along, walking but looking behind him, heading right towards my daughter. I raised my hand, said, "Hey!"

He walked right into my hand (I blocked him from stumbling into my daughter). And he said, "Got a fucking problem?"

I said, "Bro, watch where you're walking! You almost knocked into my kid."

And he looked down at her and said, "So. Who fucking cares?"

"I fucking care. Watch where you're walking."

"Got a fucking problem?"

And these fucking drunken 20-year-old girls were laughing and saying, "You almost knocked over a young girl. Awesome."

Meanwhile, the other guys my age standing around us were staring at this young guy with death in their eyes.

My daughter saw the look in my eyes...

She said, "Baba," (that's what she calls me) "let it go. It's ok. I'm fine."

I was with my daughter, sober as a kitten. But I stared at him for a second and seethed, "You're going to have a fucking problem, asshole."

The fucking idiot kept walking...but he thought it was funny as shit that he'd almost knocked over a 10-year-old kid.

Why am I telling this story? Because I woke up at 2am, unable to sleep.

But I guess I will say, some young people today are fucking so entitled.

What this has to do with VH, I have no idea.

Glad you put that guy in his place.

[Rikk]

Glad you put that guy in his place.

Thanks, bro.

I guess this'll make me sound like an old man...but some young people literally act like someone is "triggering" them by actually holding them accountable for something.

My wife was nervous about me taking our 10-year-old to a metal show at Soldier Field. But I knew she would be ok...and I had her glued to me the whole night...and you would not believe how cool people were with her.

I'm (understandably, I think) super-protective of her. But people were so awesome. People my age were high-fiving her the whole night. We had second-row seats in the 100s (great seats)...but people in the row in front of us kept trying to make sure my daughter could see the band ok.

Literally the only problem I had the entire night was this 20-year-old brat. And the minute I called him out, he suddenly started walking away quickly like a punk.

If it had been filmed, I guarantee you the idiot would be going viral right now.

[CaboChris]

So I just listened to new Metallica. New to me anyway. Just randomly picked a song. You Must Burn!

Some of you are telling me that that song is as heavy as anything on Kill Em All? Define heavy.

Okaaaaay.


Carry on

[Bugs Meanie]

If you guys didn’t like the grunge stuff in the early 90s, what the hell were you listening to? You were still listening to shitty cheese metal? Good grief.

There were so few rock bands that survived the 80s and we’re still making good music. You basically had Metallica who was on the verge of starting to suck, Van Halen, and I guess GNR. Sort of. Maybe if you liked Aerosmith and that 80s shit they did which I didn’t. But they were popular. I don’t know was Bon Jovi still pretty big in the early 90s? I guess.

Mostly Sports radio. I gave up on Rock Radio by '92. It was easy for me to resist Grunge, I just didn't like it outside of Soundgarden. I respected bands like STP and Alice and Chains, it was just too gloomy for me to really get into.

I liked some "new" bands that weren't grunge that got a deal way too late in the game. Arcade, XYZ, The Scream, Hardline, Saigon Kick, Badlands, Warrior Soul, Spread Eagle

I'd also buy CDs from any hairband brave enough to still try to put out an album. I really liked Dokken's "Dysfunctional" and Winger's "Pull"

Then I'd circle back and buy stuff up from the 70s that I ignored in the 80s - early Ted Nugent, Nazareth, pre-80s Scorpions, stuff like that.

Basically, there was so much product from the 70s, 80s & 90s to keep my interest going that I didn't need to embrace a fad I didn't like.

[VH1986]

So I just listened to new Metallica. New to me anyway. Just randomly picked a song. You Must Burn!

Some of you are telling me that that song is as heavy as anything on Kill Em All? Define heavy.

Okaaaaay.


Carry on

That song reminds me of a cross between Sabbath and KISS.