![]() I’ve been lucky enough to witness the birth of several new sounds, styles, and significant sub-genres in realtime, while following Metal’s twisted path, and if you’re my age, you have too: NWOBHM, Thrash, Death, Black… Ok, yes, also Hair Metal and Nu Metal. That’s the thing about Heavy Metal if things get stagnant or stale, it re-invents itself. Maybe AC/DC’s ‘Let There Be Rock’? I, like many others, kept searching for records that would outdo those records on the Richter Scale. As a kid in ’78, the ‘heaviest’ record I had ever heard was Sabbath’s ‘Master of Reality’ possibly Van Halen’s debut. A lot of growth occurred in Metal’s first decade we went from The Yardbirds’ version of ‘The Train Kept a’ Rollin’ to Judas Priest’s pulverizing ‘Hell Bent For Leather’. In my view, 1978 was Heavy Metal’s tenth anniversary year. I understand that the rest of the world seems to have settled on Black Sabbath’s 1970 debut as Ground Zero for Metal. If I had to pick The First Heavy Metal Band, I’d choose Blue Cheer First Heavy Metal Album: Blue Cheer’s ‘Vincebus Eruptum’. My own tastes and personal understanding of the genre led me to the conclusion that Metal became a ‘thing’ in 1968. As I started to develop my tastes and buying records as they were released, I also started buying music that appeared before my Metal awakening. My Heavy Metal fandom started in 1978 I was 14 years old. What gives? Why do I now frequently find myself musing, ‘wait, is it Metal, or is it Hard Rock?’ The answer to that question may well depend on when you were born. I’m sensing some kind of shift has been underway in the historical understanding of Heavy Metal, and it’ troubles me. Using the term ‘Heavy Metal’ in a 1970s context used to come naturally and feel completely appropriate to me but lately I find myself questioning it’s validity in a 1970s context. Lately I’ve found myself hitting something of a roadblock when putting these articles together, usually when exploring a topic from the 1970s. As sunset becomes later, it will be harder to view the chain.For the last seven years or so, I’ve been writing about the music, musicians, albums & songs that I love. ![]() If you’re interested in seeing the chain of satellites, they are often visible every other night, just beyond sundown. “We have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar, which may at least partly explain the increase,” said Melissa Dalton, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense. ![]() Pentagon officials said they posed no security threats, but so little was known about them that Pentagon officials were ruling nothing out - not even UFOs. Since then, fighter jets last week also shot down objects over Canada and Alaska. Part of the reason behind many viewers' concern was a “heightened alert” following a spy balloon from China that emerged over U.S. Falcon 9 launches 55 Starlink satellites to orbit /kASyhCqrko- SpaceX February 12, 2023Īccording to a website that tracks the satellites, the scene could be visible in the Boston area again this week, with sightings possible Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, though seeing them will depend on a number of conditions, including the weather, and locations could shift.
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