MGP’s Metal Origin Story (The Early Years)
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2021
- Let’s go back to my early days of metal discovery through the important albums that paved the way for my life-long dedication to the genre. In this video, I’ll talk about those crucial records I discovered, as well as some of my fun, crazy, and sometimes strange stories connected to those albums. It’s a trip back to the 1980s to explain one man’s journey through metal.
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If YOU have your own metal origin story - or stories - let me know about them. I’m sure we all have our moments of metal discovery or those turning points in our youth when we found this music. Tell me about that, or anything else relevant, in the comments below.
Please do a part 2, this was very intresting. My ”metal” Discovery was Long live rock n roll then later maiden and arter that I hooked!
I have now 47 years old, and memory bring me of my 13 years old, hearding AC/DC and Maiden too. Awesome video and tnks. Cheers.
I will try to get one done tonight.
Holy shit, Matt your origin story is very similar to mine (up until around '86 when our similarities end) even the timeline is pretty much the same except you are about 3 years older than me (June 1971) and I got into music at an earlier age via one of my half brothers who let me listen to his records ( lots of the stones, the Who and lots of Pink Floyd) starting when I was 8 years old. My first vinyl purchase was the 45 of Shaddup your face by Joe Dolce which was a popular novelty song in 1981. My first rock album was Dirty Deeds by ACDC followed by Gary Numan, the pleasure principle and Telekon, and Leftoverture by Kansas. Other early "heavy" music purchases include Def Leppard High and Dry when I was 11and later pyromania. At this time I decided to be a metalhead and started buying tapes since my brother moved out and I lost access to a turntable. I should probably at this time mention that my parents moved us around a lot because my mother was very mentally ill and her paranoia had us moving, sometimes with only a few hours notice. In my childhood I went to 19 schools (21 including kindergarten) My much older half brothers (4 of them) had all moved out and just before 12 years old a teacher of mine called children's aid because I often came to school disheveled, bruised and without a lunch and for 6 months I lived the horror that is the foster care system and finally my dad got me back but the damage was done. By 13 I had discovered the first 2 Motley Crue albums which led me to Iron Maiden and Judas Priest which I listened to endlessly on my Sony Walkman (first model was a large, heavy thing I wore with a strap) just before I turned 14 I was living in a small town near buffalo NY and on Saturday 's my parents would drop me off at a mall in Buffalo and I would hit the record store (by now I had a real stereo) and I was looking through some Scorpions albums when the clerk put on Kill 'em all and my life changed forever. I left that store with a copy of that record and the next week I asked the clerk for anything similar to kill em all and in the weeks that followed I got Venom welcome to hell, Slayer show no mercy, hellhammer apocalyptic raids and many others, that summer before high school ('85) my family moved back to Toronto Canada and I was finally able to see my favorite bands live. My first show was Celtic Frost/VoiVod/Running Wild and I was blown away and decided to become a musician. I begged my father for a drum kit and he finally relented and got me a cheap used kit with cracked cymbals and I played it everyday until we moved again and this time to an apartment where I couldn't have my drums so I decided to learn guitar and I practiced a lot and started jamming with some friends, 1 of whom played drums and 3 of us on guitar so I switched to bass and vocals and I stuck with bass for years until I moved out at 16 and by 19 I was a drummer again.
Great video Matt, thank you. I hope there is a part 2. So interesting hearing people's personal journeys. Technically mine began in 1990 when I was 12 and this new kid came to my school. He insisted I listen to Appetite for Destruction and gave me a cassette he'd copied. I listened to nothing but that album for about a year. I had a Walkman knock-off and I swear I wore out it and the cassette. The following year a different friend had an Iron Maiden CD with him at school and I was taken by the cover art (it was Number of the Beast) and I borrowed it and was hooked from the intro to Invaders. From then it was mostly down to MTV and other music channels, everything from Metallica to Morbid Angel, and I'm still discovering "new" (to me) stuff - listened to Exhorder for the first time ever last week, and Xentrix completely passed me by despite coming from my home town! As you say, ever forward.
This definitely needs a part 2. My journey started with my cousin playing Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot for me and I was instantly hooked. From there it was hair metal for a few years until I discovered Metallica, Slayer, Testament and Suicidal Tendencies. Then I started reading Metal Maniacs magazine and made a connection through that who got me into death metal like Deicide, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse. From there it was the Relapse / Nuclear Blast mail order catalog where I would buy up as much as aI could and discover the European death and black metal scenes. I just turned 46 and have grown to love it all through the years, death, black, thrash and even some hardcore and punk. The journey continues.....🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Would absolutely love a part 2 to this video! My metal journey started by my parents playing various hard rock bands of the 80s in the car which led me to looking up more classic rock which then exploded into heavy metal starting around the summer before my 8th grade year and the rest is history.
Awesome series man! Meat loaf and Queen were early rock influences in my childbood. Bat out of hell and News of the World were records my mom owned that I loved as a pre schooler and still do. Then someome gave a copy of Kiss Alive! When I was like 5. I was 5 in 1980 and I remember loving the Flash Gordon movie. Haha we used to lift copies of ACDC tapes when i was in Jr high.
Too weird. just building a set for an upcoming show about the exact same thing! Makes us love you down here even more. hahahaha YES!
My story started in 1976 when I was at a skating rink and i heard a song that blew me away. I was a very shy kid, 9 years old at the time. I had a friend ask the DJ and he said it was Calling Dr Love by Kiss. I immediately was a huge Kiss fan. As a matter of fact, didn't listen to any other band for a whole year until I heard Boston' self titled. After that I listened to a ton of hard rock, Ted Nugent , Aerosmith,.Nazareth , AC/ DC etc. 1983, I moved in with my mom. She lived in Winston Salem and they had a Record Bar in the mall. Even at that time, it had a dedicated heavy metal section. I picked up Metal Massacre a week or 2 before Kill'em All came out. That was the start of my 2nd favorite band. I was a metal head through and through by then. Got a job , bought hundreds of metal albums. I remember buying metal mags every time I saw them. I still have issues of Metal Mania, Power Metal and Cream Metal. I think the mid 80s was a huge highlight of my life.
Your probably going to hear a lot of what I am about to post from others as well.
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Nice video, good stories and memories. Keep with the videos, it's a real pleasure to watch !
Great video, Matt. Thumbs up all the way.
Your contest seems to have brought out the story teller in you! Great video Matt. No matter how many times I see people show that Live Ozzy album I can't get over the Americanised title. My copy is correctly titled "Talk Of The Devil". Some fantastic albums, I have many of those myself, Def Leppard the exception of course no pop music in my collection 😂
Matt, please continue your story in episode 2! It's very interesting to hear and know the story of the one who got me into vintage metal from the 70-80s.
Do it! I love hearing how people got into metal. Listening to other people's stories helps me remember my own journey.
Nice to get an insight into your early metal journey. Cool stories and albums! 🤘definitely need to continue with it as it’s going to have loads of thrash and more extreme metal.
Fun video to watch and yes definitely do a part 2, lots of good bands & memories to cover. I do remember you getting the TS album at the fair, it's such an amazing record and to find it still wrapped like that was sick!