Erica is soooo brilliant in the way she handled this interview. She has personally said this is one of her favorite interviews that she has done and she absolutely loves Blackie
@@GrabAStackofRocKDee Snider’s PMRC senate hearing is another great example. They expected him to be a complete fool. Instead, he was articulate, respectful and well prepared.
I wish I had the chance to see them back in the 80s, but I was only 13 in 1985 so too young to enjoy metal in any other way than on records. Which I did a lot. But the resurgence of rock in the last 25 years has given me the chance to see WASP and many more in my adult age. Last time I saw WASP was a couple of years ago. Great time.
Went to see KISS on 12-28-1985. Black and Blue opened. A few months later, W.A.S.P. would be their opening act. I WAS PISSED!!!!!!!!!!! Black and Blue were OK, but nothing could beat a KISS and W.A.S.P. show. Have never seen them live. My son, who was my concert partner, passed away on 10-12-2023 from a car wreck. It is hard to think about seeing a show without having him here with me.
@@seanhammer6296 Into The Fire/ Heaven's Hung in Black/ The Great Misconceptions of Me/ Raven Heart/ Hate To Love Me/ Let It Roar>>>Totally killer WASP songs/
@perrytornado No doubt those are great songs, but are they as relevant today as this: Father come save us from this Madness we're under God of creation are we blind? Cause some here are slaves That worship guns that spit thunder The children that you've made Have lost the minds This monster that we call the earth Is bleeding Cause the children have been Left along too long This thing that we've made is fat And feeds on the hate Of the millions that it's taught to sing The song The headless children The screams that fill the night Fill the night fill the night fill the night Oh the headless children The madness steals the light Steals the light steals the light steals the light Time bombs in the hands of all the wicked warbabies Light the fuse of temptation and we all burn Four horsemen sit high up in the saddle And waiting are ride the bloody trail of no return Sleeping in the arms of a nightmare and Wake to find we've been away too long This Frankenstein of flash Stitched together back from death And preying on the souls of everyone The headless children The screams that fill the night Fill the night fill the night fill the night Oh the headless children The madness steals the light Steals the light steals the light steals the light
I think every metalhead kid back then saw The Metal Years. When "Forever Free" first played on MTV, my mom saw Chis and said, "Isn't that the asshole in the pool?"
Their show in 2022 was the same way as he describes. It had a big political message of what's basically wrong with the US. It was a great show. Rocked hard from beginning to end.
You dont become an iconic rock band by being idiots...their music gor me through the tough years, and empowered me to not be abused at home. Ive been free since i saw how free you could be
Ditto, I bought the cassette when it came out, in New Zealand. 14 year old high-school kid, I was already a big fan, but The Headless Children elevated WASP to an entirely different dimension. Music at the time was 98% dog$hit; The Headless Children was so far beyond the reach, let alone the reach, of all but a handful of bands. Every note of The Headless Children is seared into my DNA. _"This Frankenstein of flesh, sticks together, fat from death."_ Geez Blackie, why don't you say what you mean.
What a great guy also lived a life of the stop as nikki sixx I don't understand why he didn't have a partner I have children if you see that he was a great guy
Kinda sad an interview with a metal band is better than our current REAL JOURNALISTS when it matters with politicians. Iron Maiden first---UP THE IRONS...but socially aware? No, but a historian--yes!
9:29 his role and what he does could and have been two different things I want to be somebody too I want to be somebody cool I want to be somebody so cry out
It was the style at that time. What is up with baggy ass pants with underwear showing? It is the words out of his mouth that matter, not his hair design. Focus on the serious things in life, not the unimportant stuff. Peace out
@@jamesvincent1434 I was there at the time. Well aware it was style. We're allowed to say how funny it was. I'll leave you to worry about the serious issues in life. Rock on!
Realize that Canada is NOT England, and it is not the United States. We have our own London, and that's the reaction Canadians give when the word "London" is spoken. London Ontario is 2 hours away from where he was seated.
A thousand years of roamed the plains and waved The hand of Doom I ride I ride I ride I ride the winds that bring the rain a creature of love and I can't be tamed I want you
So is Sergeant Eric met skirt one of your doppelganger brothers or one of Eric metzger's doppelgangers and how is that related to Allen and Edwin Metzger?
Remember when I worked at Price Chopper and you guys tried to scare me out of my job and out of my mind with the saw blades and tried to hurt my back remember that? I was little it was awhile ago remember?
20:11 I was just hit by a truck and it was bragged that it was called Shadow ghost and gang stalking people on that it was intentional that they were following me and that they didn't mean to almost kill me that part was supposedly an accident
I would be interested to hear what Blackie thinks about this interview now, in the midst of this 4th Industrial Revolution. Did he eventually learn about Hegelian Dialectics or who funded Hitler maybe? Read Tragedy & Hope & Game of Nations folks.
I am sure he has learned quite a lot more since then. He is a very smart man. To this day one of the people in metal that I find most knowledgable is Blackie Lawless. God bless him and his band. I loved you brought to the attention the book Tragedy and Hope. I have yet have to read that book.
What a load of socially concious, and other crap being spewn from the hosts mouth! Maiden is big on being nice and other stuff, dude locks his mouth and throws away the key. Girl hired by propagandists.
My daughters hair looks like yours .. like you are her male configurant... Yall look like you just crawled out from under a condemned house... That said, you have a lot of emotion in your music and i do respect that.. i have a live and hate relationship with yall
Erica is soooo brilliant in the way she handled this interview. She has personally said this is one of her favorite interviews that she has done and she absolutely loves Blackie
I remember my parents used to be shocked when a heavy metal band member was able to hold an intellectual conversation
It was always great to have interviews like this to hold over their heads!
@@GrabAStackofRocKDee Snider’s PMRC senate hearing is another great example. They expected him to be a complete fool. Instead, he was articulate, respectful and well prepared.
I never understood why Ozzy had done so many news shows...defended heavy metal like Biden's last debate 😂
I never realized how much he sounds like actor Michael Keaton.
This guy is an absolute king! The Headless children is one of the best if not the best WASP album ever!
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👍🏻😎 I just seen W.A.S.P here in Wichita Kansas last night. Excellent show. It caught me by surprise when he mentioned Wichita in this interview.
Very cool! My sometimes cohost Johnny Metal just saw them and met Blackie. Great show.
That album was worth the two year effort. Still my favorite by them to this day and I still play it often.
I wish I had the chance to see them back in the 80s, but I was only 13 in 1985 so too young to enjoy metal in any other way than on records. Which I did a lot. But the resurgence of rock in the last 25 years has given me the chance to see WASP and many more in my adult age. Last time I saw WASP was a couple of years ago. Great time.
I have never seen them, but my buddy John Clauser saw them on the last tour and met Blackie!
Went to see KISS on 12-28-1985. Black and Blue opened.
A few months later, W.A.S.P. would be their opening act.
I WAS PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!
Black and Blue were OK, but nothing could beat a KISS and W.A.S.P. show.
Have never seen them live.
My son, who was my concert partner, passed away on 10-12-2023 from a car wreck.
It is hard to think about seeing a show without having him here with me.
Started going to shows at 10 myself.
"The Headless Children" is more relevant today than when it was released. Great album!
I know some people prefer Crimson Idol, but Headless is the one for me.
@@GrabAStackofRocK Mean Man was the song that got me into WASP.
Interesting!
@@seanhammer6296 Into The Fire/ Heaven's Hung in Black/ The Great Misconceptions of Me/ Raven Heart/ Hate To Love Me/ Let It Roar>>>Totally killer WASP songs/
@perrytornado No doubt those are great songs, but are they as relevant today as this:
Father come save us from this
Madness we're under
God of creation are we blind?
Cause some here are slaves
That worship guns that spit thunder
The children that you've made
Have lost the minds
This monster that we call the earth
Is bleeding
Cause the children have been
Left along too long
This thing that we've made is fat
And feeds on the hate
Of the millions that it's taught to sing
The song
The headless children
The screams that fill the night
Fill the night fill the night fill the night
Oh the headless children
The madness steals the light
Steals the light steals the light steals the light
Time bombs in the hands of all the wicked warbabies
Light the fuse of temptation and we all burn
Four horsemen sit high up in the saddle
And waiting are ride the bloody trail of no return
Sleeping in the arms of a nightmare and
Wake to find we've been away too long
This Frankenstein of flash
Stitched together back from death
And preying on the souls of everyone
The headless children
The screams that fill the night
Fill the night fill the night fill the night
Oh the headless children
The madness steals the light
Steals the light steals the light steals the light
Мудрый, остроумный, хороший человек.
Aww, this girl was adorable. I laughed when she started slapping Blackie for the "our first rack girl" comment. haha
Erica Ehm is an icon! A legend to Gen X.
When I was a kid, Blackie Lawless had a sound we went crazy for. Nobody sounds like him
I would argue that nobody sounds like him today either!
Blackie droppin' truth-bombs !
The wit & wisdom of "our" generation is unmatched....
Love this guy🎉
LOVE Blackie! Going to see them in November :)
That's awesome! He will put on a great show.
Blackie is a genius
I saw em in 1985 at a teen disco in South St Louis County. With Metallica. Ride the Lightning had just come out. Fakken goat rock show.
Best Wasp album time band line up
Fully agree with this.
3:38 he is like "What the fuck am I even doing here right now?"
If you close your eyes he sounds like Michael Keaton being interviewed.
Yes and you are not the only one to observe this!
Dont go chasin waterfalls.....now just creep....creep.
Bloody hell, he does eh🤣
So stand up, and cry out for the last time, whoa whoa hear the call we are the last command
Thanks for the earworm
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I think every metalhead kid back then saw The Metal Years. When "Forever Free" first played on MTV, my mom saw Chis and said, "Isn't that the asshole in the pool?"
I never saw The Metal Years until the 2000's. I just had no interest - I knew it was a hatchet job.
It was a bad ass record and a bad ass concert.
Toma los remedios 💊💊
The one and only, Blackie, no one like HIM
Intelligent and talented.
GOAT 🐐 INTERVIEW
For the Goats of the world from a Maggot 🤘🏻🎭
Their show in 2022 was the same way as he describes. It had a big political message of what's basically wrong with the US. It was a great show. Rocked hard from beginning to end.
The whole shit ist global... almost everywhere
Last command best music I ever heard blues power cord
I thought Chris Holms interview was Rocking Roll as Hell !
@georgegriffith7263 if it wasn't staged! We did a whole show about that on Rock Daydream Nation. Jury is still out.
You dont become an iconic rock band by being idiots...their music gor me through the tough years, and empowered me to not be abused at home. Ive been free since i saw how free you could be
Forever free!
chris holmes never played a show drunk.. period
CH is a god.
Yeah he was a tweaker 😂😂😂😂😂
BOUGHT THAT RECORD BRAND NEW
Nice! I bought the cassette after hearing "Forever Free" in 1989!
@@GrabAStackofRocKsame: I knew instantly this was not just their best but special in its own right.
@@star4dreamers It really is. It's unique in their catalogue as something that really speaks.
Ditto, I bought the cassette when it came out, in New Zealand. 14 year old high-school kid, I was already a big fan, but The Headless Children elevated WASP to an entirely different dimension. Music at the time was 98% dog$hit; The Headless Children was so far beyond the reach, let alone the reach, of all but a handful of bands. Every note of The Headless Children is seared into my DNA.
_"This Frankenstein of flesh, sticks together, fat from death."_ Geez Blackie, why don't you say what you mean.
You know, this chick...Is freakin' good.
I mean, she is reeeeeeeally good.
She went toe-to-toe and didn't lose a beat..
Well, she did refer herself as a "chick" once in an Iron Maiden interview.
Erica Ehm is a very accomplished & pioneering woman. She has got to have some amazing stories to tell herself!
I saw Blackie Lawless out here, in Antelope Canyon.😂😂😂😂I think it was 2001.
This dude is too serious for a rockstar.
Which is kind of the point, because up until this album, he was considered one of the most UN-serious guys in rock.
This guy is fine as he11
8:55 beyond the realms of death how many like him are there still
Penelope was my friend too.😂😂😂
What a great guy also lived a life of the stop as nikki sixx I don't understand why he didn't have a partner I have children if you see that he was a great guy
did anyone actually see this headless children live set hes talking about?
I don't think that tour happened as he envisioned.
@@GrabAStackofRocK lol just like the last tour ? nothing but a bunch of lies from him...
Either that or a vision that exceeds any realistic means.
Kinda sad an interview with a metal band is better than our current REAL JOURNALISTS when it matters with politicians. Iron Maiden first---UP THE IRONS...but socially aware? No, but a historian--yes!
9:29 his role and what he does could and have been two different things I want to be somebody too I want to be somebody cool I want to be somebody so cry out
It’s all gone down hill since men started wearing hats indoors.
@@CØFFĮN_ÐĘLĮVĘRY I fully endorse this sentiment.
Erica was cute as hell
Michael Keaton with long hair
Perfect biopic casting.
@@GrabAStackofRocK lol
Oh my goodness no! Take it back Now I can't unsee it!
@@joes-wife4ever lol
The best album!
100% agreed.
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i was 19 in '89....i look back now and go...wtf is up with the big hair....
And we thought it looked so good back then!
@@GrabAStackofRocK i know....but looking back...i shake my head.....
We should go back in time and buy stock in hairspray companies.
It was the style at that time. What is up with baggy ass pants with underwear showing? It is the words out of his mouth that matter, not his hair design. Focus on the serious things in life, not the unimportant stuff. Peace out
@@jamesvincent1434 I was there at the time. Well aware it was style. We're allowed to say how funny it was. I'll leave you to worry about the serious issues in life. Rock on!
Eric Michael David what are some of the other names I forgot
22:46 I'm coming out with the album called children with heads legs arms feet hands and voices better Way scarier than a stage show
"London England?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Realize that Canada is NOT England, and it is not the United States. We have our own London, and that's the reaction Canadians give when the word "London" is spoken. London Ontario is 2 hours away from where he was seated.
A thousand years of roamed the plains and waved The hand of Doom I ride I ride I ride I ride the winds that bring the rain a creature of love and I can't be tamed I want you
How often did Blackie wear his natural hair color? He never shows it in music videos, live performances, or album covers.
it's really a disguise - if you go back and watch Rick Des doing Disco Duck, you'll soon realize who Blackie really is
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@@dwaynejessome1728 and what does that video prove?
@ it proves that Blackie how to hit before wasp under a different name
@@dwaynejessome1728 was that really him?
So is Sergeant Eric met skirt one of your doppelganger brothers or one of Eric metzger's doppelgangers and how is that related to Allen and Edwin Metzger?
Remember when I worked at Price Chopper and you guys tried to scare me out of my job and out of my mind with the saw blades and tried to hurt my back remember that? I was little it was awhile ago remember?
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Oh yeah I think Steve was one of the names too yeah I forget the rest
Steve Edward Duran
Thank you for the possibly correct input I appreciate it very much.
What am I supposed to do get on my horse and ride all the way back to LA don't fall off
20:11 I was just hit by a truck and it was bragged that it was called Shadow ghost and gang stalking people on that it was intentional that they were following me and that they didn't mean to almost kill me that part was supposedly an accident
Like a dog in heat all dirty love is a treat
I put a thumbs down on it
I was a child
And they specifically aim those lyrics at me
Ask them they admit it
The explicit label
Was a ploy
To attract
Is certain rebellious young man
Who was rightfully rebellious
With excellent reason to be
8:19 Jack action
13:44 ultimatum glutton globin all right I got something to say
Y'all are going to crucify me again to make an album are you?
15:32 what about Newburgh New York when when will you be coming back here again?
Oh you mean you don't starve them on purpose anymore to break their Spirit oh maybe that wasn't you my bad
Party boys mystery detectives
Some of the best music I ever heard in my life with the worst lyrics I've ever heard in my life with nice sounding vocal quality
Remember remember? Remember the n not see occult?
So cry out exclamation point
Is that where Peg Bundy got her hair style from?
He looks like a giant baby.
@Errcyco odd, nobody else seems to think so. Never seen a baby with that much hair before!
@@GrabAStackofRocK I dunno man.. imagine the Gerber Baby on the label wearing a hair-metal wig and it’s spot on.
@@Errcyco OMG now I cannot unsee it. Gerber Baby all grown up?
He looks more like Chucky the doll to me lol
The smell of green I stack my dollars High a famous face I get what you can't buy
What do you mean again?
I would be interested to hear what Blackie thinks about this interview now, in the midst of this 4th Industrial Revolution. Did he eventually learn about Hegelian Dialectics or who funded Hitler maybe? Read Tragedy & Hope & Game of Nations folks.
I am sure he has learned quite a lot more since then. He is a very smart man. To this day one of the people in metal that I find most knowledgable is Blackie Lawless. God bless him and his band. I loved you brought to the attention the book Tragedy and Hope. I have yet have to read that book.
I call her liar her eyes burn the flame liar the daughter of desade
What a load of socially concious, and other crap being spewn from the hosts mouth! Maiden is big on being nice and other stuff, dude locks his mouth and throws away the key.
Girl hired by propagandists.
You think the moon is fake, so...
My daughters hair looks like yours .. like you are her male configurant... Yall look like you just crawled out from under a condemned house... That said, you have a lot of emotion in your music and i do respect that.. i have a live and hate relationship with yall