I've been on a massive Graham Bonnet buying spree for a number of years now. I got to see him in 2018, and he's still got it at 70. That voice will punch you in the face and just doesn't give up.
Still have my no parole cd from the 80s and it still plays fine, love this one it really is kick ass, the energy was amazing. I was already a yngwie fan but this made me a graham bonnet fan also so it’s all good, they made great music and it’s a shame they had a falling out. I like steve vai but that album didn’t do much for me. The Impelletieri album with GB was great tho..
Goddamn. There is no other UA-camr as consistently entertaining as Razorfist; all these videos are just so well written. I'd love to see a Metal Mythos Steve Vai, or maybe Deep Purple?
Right. I find myself watching this video thinking " Who the fuck is Alcatrazz? Never heard of them. I don't even like the clips I have heard. But I can't stop watching the story once it starts because it is so well done. That's bad ass. Razorfist rocks.
Graham Headroom really was always the focal point of every band he sang in. I never could be bothered by the guitar acrobatics of Blackmore, Malmsteen or Vai. They were always secondary to the vocal power of Graham.
I just realized that the singer was Graham because of this comment lol. I mean I was thinking that the singer sounded a lot like Graham. Also with him doing samurai and desert song on his tours make a lot more sense now.
They've been playing that fucking new Taylor Swift song all week in my town on the radio. I needed something to get it out of my head. Thanks Razor. :)
+seatspud That was a phenomenal doc, really shined light on the early 80s period of Alice and why he can't remember that time. It wasn't drinking... it was coke.
Razorfist, got a piece of family history: an uncle on my Father's side went to Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped as part of military surveillance. He wasn't the same, even up until the day he died.
"God bless your for this Video" A Hardcore Alcatrazz fan. PS: Graham Bonnet is about to release a new album with his new band. They sound terrific, the man is back and alive.
I agree!! I am so happy that they finally released the whole show on CD as a double. I had gotten the original Live Sentence CD many years ago but it only had nine songs which was half the show. Just yesterday I got the deluxe edition of Disturbing The Peace album which the second CD is the complete show that Alcatrazz did with Steve Vai in Tokyo the year after the Yngwie show. I love the Yngwie Live In Japan Complete Edition more but the Steve Vai concert is also amazing.
That is 100% exactly correct! Every single guitar player that was serious about their instrument back in the day had known about Steve Vai LONGGGGGGGGG before Alcatraz. Several appearances on Zappa records including showcases like Stevie ' s Spanking , his own solo releases Flexable and Left Overs. And then his superb contributions to Public Image Ltd. generic CD, Album, Cassette, etc. . Steve Vai was already a huge figure in the guitar community before Alcatraz. Alcatraz did NOTHING to elevate his career in that respect. After that record not one single person knew him that did not before. That record was ignored by everyone except Steve Vai fans. Then came David Lee Rothschild Eat em and Smile. That was a game changer for Vai's career. Not Disturbing the Peace. Anyone that says otherwise is lying to themselves.
That is 100% exactly correct! Every single guitar player that was serious about their instrument back in the day had known about Steve Vai LONGGGGGGGGG before Alcatraz. Several appearances on Zappa records including showcases like Stevie ' s Spanking , his own solo releases Flexable and Left Overs. And then his superb contributions to Public Image Ltd. generic CD, Album, Cassette, etc. . Steve Vai was already a huge figure in the guitar community before Alcatraz. Alcatraz did NOTHING to elevate his career in that respect. After that record not one single person knew him that did not before. That record was ignored by everyone except Steve Vai fans. Then came David Lee Rothschild Eat em and Smile. That was a game changer for Vai's career. Not Disturbing the Peace. Anyone that says otherwise is lying to themselves.
+James Justin Don't forget that the DLR job was the MOST coveted in metal at the time as well. Because of Steve Vai, his successor needed to be on the same level, and boy was he ever (Jason Becker). Sucks Jason never got a tour with DLR, because he would have made the Vai-era DLR look like a band of n00bs. I love Vai, but Jason Becker was a once in a lifetime prodigy that will sadly never touch a guitar again.
I got into that first Alcatrazz record last year and I was SO blown away! Now, thanks to you, I'm all hard for the rest of it and that Rainbow record. THANKS!
Alcatrazz was my first experience with Yngwie and then Steeler, then Rising Force. Going to the Troubadour and seeing short haired asain dudes with shirts that said Yngwie is God was a trip.
Great episode as always! :) Because you´ve talked about both Yngwie and Steve you should definitely do one about the mighty Racer X with Paul Gilbert! How about that?
Weird, I was just wondering the other day what Razorfist thought of Graham Bonnet and this video gets put into my recommends. Great video as always, great singer, and Alkatrazz was a great band!
This might have been one of my favourite episodes so far. Alcatrazz were always some way or another in my periphal vision when it comes to early 80s metal, but now, with a broadened view of their catalogue, I actually found a handful of new gems to listen to.
Have you listened to Rhapsody of Fire? I find Luca Turilli to be a pretty underrated, myself. His new material is pretty rokin'. Lots of orchestral and melodic power metal. Met the guys a few weeks ago in Anaheim, along with Primal Fear. Both guys in those bands are really cool peeps. Btw, love your videos, man! Keep them up!
Great job I’m a buddy of Graham’s & it’s sad to say he did get the shit end of the stick during the 80s.. but now is flourishing with his own band & finally playing with Micheal Schenker
I'm still waiting for the Michael Schenker Metal Mythos. You've got Scorpions, UFO, MSG (Michael Schenker Group AND McCauley Schenker Group) and all his other stuff. A bombastic banquet of badassery!
Great job at covering the legendary band Alcatrazz! I loved this band in the early to mid '80s! This video was not only informative, but very entertaining too! Thanks! :-D
I first heard of and listened to Alcatrazz back in the late 80's at barely 10 years old. I used to go to Camelot Music store back then with my older sister and I would buy Hard Rock/Heavy Metal albums from the $1 and $2 sections. I worked at my father's restaurant on the weekends and made $50 every week. I spent all my money at Camelot Music and I would get the general manager to show me all the Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal albums since he was also a huge fan of. One day he showed me Alcatrazz's Dangerous Games album and I loved it big time. The crazy thing is that I was already a huge massive fan of Yngwie Malmsteen, and I did not know until a few years later that he was Alcatrazz's original guitar player , and I ended up getting both No Parole For Rock N Roll, Live Sentence, and Disturbing The Peace albums and loved them also big time. All these years later I still listen to everything that Alcatrazz has put out, and I am really looking forward to their next studio album that should be coming out soon called Born Innocent with Joe Stump as their guitar player. I know that Dangerous Games is considered to be Alcatrazz's worst album, but it has a very special place in my heart. I listened to it very often when I first got it. I got the remastered version from a label called Hear No Evil a few years ago and it sounds better than ever. It also has eight bonus live songs from the Dangerous Games tour with Danny Johnson as their guitar player. The concert is an audience recording , but the raw sound in my opinion is amazing. Danny Johnson did a phenomenal job on the Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, and Ritchie Blackmore songs. He is a great guitar player, but he is not as flashy as the previous guitar players.
I went to see Yngwie and was blown away by Steve Vai. I also saw Steve Vai with David Lee Roth. I remember thinking any guy that could play Yngwie and Eddie was a god in his own right. No doubt those three guys have gone down in history as amazing guitarist. I also saw Vai on tour with Whitesnake. That guy can do anything.
@@Yngsatchvai Graham does not sing in BCC. That's Glenn Hughes that sings and plays bass in BCC. Graham has been doing the Graham Bonnet Band for a number of years, and now he's reformed Alcatrazz. Now we'll see the new release hopefully soon.
Awesome job on this one, was a fan of Alcatrazz back in the 80's, I followed Steve Vai from his Zappa days and beyond. Lighter shade of Green is one of my favorite Vai tunes, so much so that in 2005 when I got married it played as my entrance song!
So I took some time and watched this again. I have to agree with you on Yngwie being at the top of his game at this time. I'm sure you've seen the video of Yngwie's performance with Alcatrazz of Kree Nakoorie live in Japan. He was so amazing then. Also, a suggestion, maybe a mythos on Queensryche?
I watched this video recently, and it reignited my interest in Alcatrazz. I just ordered their career spanning Ultimate Fortress boxset, and greatly looking forward to it. Thanks, Razor, and I hope you can fit more Mythos vids into your schedule |,,|
I knew Alcatrazz was this band Yngwie started in but never thought of checking them out. Thanks for giving them some spotlight time. Quite solid 80' style metal.
Just saw this for the first time today, 5 years delayed. Love Alcatrazz and they put out a very good album, Born Innocent, in 2020 with Joe Stump crushing it on guitar. Stylistically, it could have been released right between No Parole and Disturbing the Peace. Great songs, vocals and guitars!
I'm a big Bonnet fan since Rainbow, and it was Alcatrazz "No parole" album that introduces me to Yngwie. It blews my mind when i first heard it back in '86. What an amazing album track by track.
This is the first Metal Mythos I have seen, and if the rest are half this good, I am in for some great entertainment. Thank you! We featured this video in the Saturday Morning Cheese group 1/25/20.
Definitely one of the more intriguing Metal Mythos you've made. A damn fun & informative mini-documentary! Any chance on giving us a hint for your next Metal/Music Mythos?
God Blessed Video was a great choice for Vice City as I've always thought of Disturbing the Peace as the musical equivalent of driving a tank along the Miami coast with explosions going off in all directions. Fucking awesome.
I was lucky enough to see Alcatrazz open for Ted Nugent on his World Penetration tour in Omaha, Nebraska. I believe it was 1984. My brother was a big Nugent fan. Yngwie's main solo was so unbelievably loud. It was painful. I loved Bonnet's voice.
what a voice! graham bonnett is a very under rated singer in my very humble opinion! the man is a legend! great episode! the guitarist weren't bad either ;) ha ha!
Islands in the Sun was an awesome song with a great Video. A great version of Since You've Been Gone as well. Some good music. I also liked Skyfire and Dangerous Games.
I'm really glad I finally checked this out! I'm a big fan of the Metal Mythos series you do, and i finally decided "well shit, ima take a peek at the episodes about bands i don't know" Really glad to know this now Cheers dude!
Love love love "Disturbing the Peace" listened to it because I'm a huge Vai fan and I too was surprised it never went huge. I discovered the album around the time Vai's Passion and Warfare came out and my love of his playing was unbound. I worked my way backwards through his catalog and was so amazed when I discovered this terrific album. It was a treasure trove of amazing songs, riffs, solos and really fun interstitial playing. Vai is great when he's in a band and will find all kinds of fun little eccentric ways to comment with his guitar as he does rhyming playing. The chorus lick in "God Blessed Video" is really fun, interesting, two-handed work that takes what Eddie started and goes to a really cool place. There's also a terrific ballad called DESERT DIAMOND that has a solo that begins with a symphony of guitar overdubs recorded BACKWARDS: ua-cam.com/video/T4_NiXTK4vs/v-deo.htmlm56s Also starting an album with the lyric, "Let's take a plan and go somewhere exotic to play with a nondescript song" is BRILLIANT.
Great stuff. Just watched all of your Metal Mythos. Learned a thing or two, and revisited some classics. Love your work, looking forward to the next! God fuckin' Speed!
Love that T-shirt, love you did a Malmsteen Mythos. Wanna cry when I hear ya trash his instrumentals😥 Nobody can one take the last 1:50s of Overture 1383! Free hand and pitch perfect, it's PERFECT
That was a pretty good grilled cheese sandwich.
Really great with the Tomato Sauce narration.
Natakupl You beat me to it
What the FUNKe?!
No parole from rock and roll is one the greatest albums no one has ever heard. I listen to it everyday
It truly is. Thanks for watching.
I've been on a massive Graham Bonnet buying spree for a number of years now. I got to see him in 2018, and he's still got it at 70. That voice will punch you in the face and just doesn't give up.
Absolutely!!!
Still have my no parole cd from the 80s and it still plays fine, love this one it really is kick ass, the energy was amazing. I was already a yngwie fan but this made me a graham bonnet fan also so it’s all good, they made great music and it’s a shame they had a falling out. I like steve vai but that album didn’t do much for me. The Impelletieri album with GB was great tho..
I’m from Iran and heard the [___] out of it, and I’m glad I downloaded it via dial up internet back in 90’s 🫡🤘🏻
Imagine being tony iommi and richie blackmore. You both lose great frontmen only to replace them with great frontmen
Woe is them
Its funny also that Ritchie lost and Tony gained the same guy. Ronnie James Dio.
Imagine being Graham Bonnet. You lose a great lead guitarist only to replace them with a great lead guitarist
@@oz_jonesTony Iommi -> Ronnie James Dio, Ritchie Blackmore -> Joe Lynn Turner 😊
Goddamn. There is no other UA-camr as consistently entertaining as Razorfist; all these videos are just so well written. I'd love to see a Metal Mythos Steve Vai, or maybe Deep Purple?
He is very entertaining and Ive also learned a shit ton of new words thanks to him😁
Right. I find myself watching this video thinking " Who the fuck is Alcatrazz? Never heard of them. I don't even like the clips I have heard. But I can't stop watching the story once it starts because it is so well done. That's bad ass. Razorfist rocks.
Absolutely killer! I would love to see a Savatage Metal Mythos... I think they're catalog warrants it. Keep killing it!👍
Island in the Sun is a damn near perfect pop metal song
Graham Headroom really was always the focal point of every band he sang in. I never could be bothered by the guitar acrobatics of Blackmore, Malmsteen or Vai. They were always secondary to the vocal power of Graham.
Schenker's Assault Attack is one of the greatest Hard Rock albums of our time, Bonnet's voice is simply MONSTER
I just realized that the singer was Graham because of this comment lol. I mean I was thinking that the singer sounded a lot like Graham. Also with him doing samurai and desert song on his tours make a lot more sense now.
Great fucking album
If you want to hear the starting point Yngwie Malmsteen you should check out Steeler's first album. It's very raw but Yngwie shines in parts.
Steeler is Yngwies start, you are right. Ron Keels band
that first steeler album kicks asss
They've been playing that fucking new Taylor Swift song all week in my town on the radio. I needed something to get it out of my head.
Thanks Razor. :)
I can't fucking wait for a Metal Mythos on Alice Freaking Cooper. That would be a 3 hour long video but who cares!
MarneusAndMilkyBlood If not, there's always Super Duper Alice Cooper, done by the same guy what gave us Metal Evolution.
seatspud I didn't know about that! I'll check it out!
MarneusAndMilkyBlood that would be cool
+seatspud That was a phenomenal doc, really shined light on the early 80s period of Alice and why he can't remember that time. It wasn't drinking... it was coke.
Did you rike it?
metal mythos episodes under 40 minutes are now officially called a grilled cheese sandwich
game zhark I'd prefer an actual grilled cheese sandwich, but I'm hungry at the moment.
game zhark Eh, I'd say under 30 minutes, as the Danzig Mythos was under 40 minutes, and that didn't feel like a grilled cheese sandwich.
underthepale I find it almost impossible to eat a grilled cheese sandwich without a side of pickles.
Welcome to Grilled Cheese sandwich and today on the Cheese Mythos is GRIM REAPER.
Zappa launched the career of Steve Vai, Mike Varney launched the career of Malmsteen
Razorfist, got a piece of family history: an uncle on my Father's side went to Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped as part of military surveillance. He wasn't the same, even up until the day he died.
"God bless your for this Video"
A Hardcore Alcatrazz fan.
PS: Graham Bonnet is about to release a new album with his new band. They sound terrific, the man is back and alive.
Live in Japan - Complete Edition is my favorite live album. So much energy and Yngwie had such great style!
I agree!! I am so happy that they finally released the whole show on CD as a double. I had gotten the original Live Sentence CD many years ago but it only had nine songs which was half the show. Just yesterday I got the deluxe edition of Disturbing The Peace album which the second CD is the complete show that Alcatrazz did with Steve Vai in Tokyo the year after the Yngwie show. I love the Yngwie Live In Japan Complete Edition more but the Steve Vai concert is also amazing.
Breaking the Heart of the City is GREAT live. So powerful.
I remember one of their songs got onto GTA: Vice City, I believe. That was actually the first time I've heard of Alcatrazz.
I'm not a "metal fan," but I find this series really interesting and informative.
I'm surprised you didn't become a metal fan after this amazing series.
It's been 8 years. Are you a fan yet?
03:41 insane vocalist
12:49 gifted guitarist
15:31 and Jeff Scott
"So I gave him a knuckle sandwich & that was that".
Yngwie the GOAT.
He "released the fucking fury" once before it seems =)
Foooking doonuts!
Hell yeah, Alcatrazz is such an obscure classic!!
Didn't Frank Zappa launch Steve Vai's career ?
That is 100% exactly correct! Every single guitar player that was serious about their instrument back in the day had known about Steve Vai LONGGGGGGGGG before Alcatraz. Several appearances on Zappa records including showcases like Stevie ' s Spanking , his own solo releases Flexable and Left Overs. And then his superb contributions to Public Image Ltd. generic CD, Album, Cassette, etc. . Steve Vai was already a huge figure in the guitar community before Alcatraz. Alcatraz did NOTHING to elevate his career in that respect. After that record not one single person knew him that did not before. That record was ignored by everyone except Steve Vai fans. Then came David Lee Rothschild Eat em and Smile. That was a game changer for Vai's career. Not Disturbing the Peace. Anyone that says otherwise is lying to themselves.
That is 100% exactly correct! Every single guitar player that was serious about their instrument back in the day had known about Steve Vai LONGGGGGGGGG before Alcatraz. Several appearances on Zappa records including showcases like Stevie ' s Spanking , his own solo releases Flexable and Left Overs. And then his superb contributions to Public Image Ltd. generic CD, Album, Cassette, etc. . Steve Vai was already a huge figure in the guitar community before Alcatraz. Alcatraz did NOTHING to elevate his career in that respect. After that record not one single person knew him that did not before. That record was ignored by everyone except Steve Vai fans. Then came David Lee Rothschild Eat em and Smile. That was a game changer for Vai's career. Not Disturbing the Peace. Anyone that says otherwise is lying to themselves.
+James Justin Don't forget that the DLR job was the MOST coveted in metal at the time as well. Because of Steve Vai, his successor needed to be on the same level, and boy was he ever (Jason Becker). Sucks Jason never got a tour with DLR, because he would have made the Vai-era DLR look like a band of n00bs. I love Vai, but Jason Becker was a once in a lifetime prodigy that will sadly never touch a guitar again.
@@JimiJustin His guitar playing on Disturbing The Peace is fucking superb, especially on God Bless The Video!
I got into that first Alcatrazz record last year and I was SO blown away! Now, thanks to you, I'm all hard for the rest of it and that Rainbow record. THANKS!
Alcatrazz was my first experience with Yngwie and then Steeler, then Rising Force.
Going to the Troubadour and seeing short haired asain dudes with shirts that said Yngwie is God was a trip.
Can you please do a Metal Mythos for W.A.S.P?? I know you're a fan and I think it would make for a brilliant episode. Cheers, keep up the good work.
Zombie Squad Your wish came true buddy. Hope it was to your liking.
Metal Mythos on Christopher Lee when?
Wormwood That’s gonna be a short one
@@mr.schrader1093 Rhapsody of Fire and that other band
Thnx for this comment, I discovered his stuff
Hoping for an update to this, since there has been 2 more albums since.
Bout fucking time somebody fucking did a video like this, and gave Alcatraz their due and proper. Sir you are a patriot and scholar. Rock on!
Bonnett does have a kick ass voice. He can sing on my songs anytime.
"Alcatrazz? You've probably never heard of them." Raz0rfist, 2015
Great episode as always! :) Because you´ve talked about both Yngwie and Steve you should definitely do one about the mighty Racer X with Paul Gilbert! How about that?
, or Cacophony.
@@TEAMEXTREMEORTIZ both good ideas all great guitarists!!!
Mr Rageaholic, I love your approach on music. Great takes!
Weird, I was just wondering the other day what Razorfist thought of Graham Bonnet and this video gets put into my recommends. Great video as always, great singer, and Alkatrazz was a great band!
David Lee Roth would say "sit down Waldo!!!"
This might have been one of my favourite episodes so far. Alcatrazz were always some way or another in my periphal vision when it comes to early 80s metal, but now, with a broadened view of their catalogue, I actually found a handful of new gems to listen to.
Have you listened to Rhapsody of Fire? I find Luca Turilli to be a pretty underrated, myself. His new material is pretty rokin'. Lots of orchestral and melodic power metal. Met the guys a few weeks ago in Anaheim, along with Primal Fear. Both guys in those bands are really cool peeps.
Btw, love your videos, man! Keep them up!
Great job
I’m a buddy of Graham’s & it’s sad to say he did get the shit end of the stick during the 80s.. but now is flourishing with his own band & finally playing with Micheal Schenker
got the entire discography and now am preordering their upcoming album. thank you.
I'm still waiting for the Michael Schenker Metal Mythos. You've got Scorpions, UFO, MSG (Michael Schenker Group AND McCauley Schenker Group) and all his other stuff. A bombastic banquet of badassery!
Great job at covering the legendary band Alcatrazz! I loved this band in the early to mid '80s! This video was not only informative, but very entertaining too! Thanks! :-D
Well done sir. I really dig your program and watch it often. Big fan of Alcatrazz too.
Forget the Rainbow Mythos, I'm dying to see an Alice Cooper Mythos!!!
The most powerful voice in rock music
Geoff Tate and Rob Halford hold this title sorry graham,
Bonnet cant hold Tates jockstrap
I first heard of and listened to Alcatrazz back in the late 80's at barely 10 years old. I used to go to Camelot Music store back then with my older sister and I would buy Hard Rock/Heavy Metal albums from the $1 and $2 sections. I worked at my father's restaurant on the weekends and made $50 every week. I spent all my money at Camelot Music and I would get the general manager to show me all the Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal albums since he was also a huge fan of. One day he showed me Alcatrazz's Dangerous Games album and I loved it big time. The crazy thing is that I was already a huge massive fan of Yngwie Malmsteen, and I did not know until a few years later that he was Alcatrazz's original guitar player , and I ended up getting both No Parole For Rock N Roll, Live Sentence, and Disturbing The Peace albums and loved them also big time. All these years later I still listen to everything that Alcatrazz has put out, and I am really looking forward to their next studio album that should be coming out soon called Born Innocent with Joe Stump as their guitar player. I know that Dangerous Games is considered to be Alcatrazz's worst album, but it has a very special place in my heart. I listened to it very often when I first got it. I got the remastered version from a label called Hear No Evil a few years ago and it sounds better than ever. It also has eight bonus live songs from the Dangerous Games tour with Danny Johnson as their guitar player. The concert is an audience recording , but the raw sound in my opinion is amazing. Danny Johnson did a phenomenal job on the Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, and Ritchie Blackmore songs. He is a great guitar player, but he is not as flashy as the previous guitar players.
I went to see Yngwie and was blown away by Steve Vai. I also saw Steve Vai with David Lee Roth. I remember thinking any guy that could play Yngwie and Eddie was a god in his own right. No doubt those three guys have gone down in history as amazing guitarist. I also saw Vai on tour with Whitesnake. That guy can do anything.
Down To Earth is an incredible album, especially during a road trip at night
Metal Mythos episodes that need to happen ASAP:
Bathory
Alice Cooper
Black Sabbath
David Bowie
Why Bowie? I didn't know Bowie had any metal songs
disturbedrocks1996 Well, Metal/Music Mythos...either way, these are the ones I'd like to see...
***** Can you recommend any Bowie albums? I've heard a few songs and I couldn't help but think "eh" Maybe I'm missing something
disturbedrocks1996 Ziggy Stardust is considered a classic, so is Space Oddity. If you want something a bit heavier, check out Earthling.
***** Will do, thanks bro
Graham Bonnet is the most underrated singer EVER!
Unless you follow him.
He sings or was singing with Black Country Communion. Check out the song (The Great Divide) 😲 mans still a damn BEAST!
@@Yngsatchvai Graham does not sing in BCC. That's Glenn Hughes that sings and plays bass in BCC. Graham has been doing the Graham Bonnet Band for a number of years, and now he's reformed Alcatrazz. Now we'll see the new release hopefully soon.
@@donosborn9899 Damnit my brain was scrambled on that one. You are right. I never knew about Glen untill BBC. He got pipes for sure!
And The Last Guardian _still_ came out before Alcatrazz's latest album.
If I don't see an update featuring Born Innocent in the next year I am going to become more bitter than Yngwie when someone denies him his dohnuts
Indeed
I really enjoy this concept and please,please make more Metal Mythos.
Awesome job on this one, was a fan of Alcatrazz back in the 80's, I followed Steve Vai from his Zappa days and beyond. Lighter shade of Green is one of my favorite Vai tunes, so much so that in 2005 when I got married it played as my entrance song!
Nice grilled cheese sandwich, can't wait for your next one.
Amazing how we went from legendary stuff like this where even the lesser know bands can stomp some of the new popular bands into the ground with ease.
So I took some time and watched this again. I have to agree with you on Yngwie being at the top of his game at this time. I'm sure you've seen the video of Yngwie's performance with Alcatrazz of Kree Nakoorie live in Japan. He was so amazing then. Also, a suggestion, maybe a mythos on Queensryche?
My favorite "obscure" band of all time. Graham Bonnet is the best voice in the history of hard rock/AOR/metal as far as I'm concerned. Love this band.
Thanks razorfist. I'm a metal head, a black one and I've been watching your metal mythos. Thanks for leading me to mamstein and Alcatraz.
I watched this video recently, and it reignited my interest in Alcatrazz. I just ordered their career spanning Ultimate Fortress boxset, and greatly looking forward to it. Thanks, Razor, and I hope you can fit more Mythos vids into your schedule |,,|
I knew Alcatrazz was this band Yngwie started in but never thought of checking them out. Thanks for giving them some spotlight time. Quite solid 80' style metal.
I can picture this guy spitting all over the place!
no parole is still top ten albums I ever purchased back in the glorious seed changing moments that were the 1980s...
the best Yngwie solos are in the first Alcatraz and 1988' with Turner. Real Art.
Down to Earth . I used to listen to that album . Pretty good stuff, from what can remember . Still have that vinyl,, somewhere .
“Graham Bonnet if you’re listening...” next video: Graham Bonnet interview.
Just saw this for the first time today, 5 years delayed. Love Alcatrazz and they put out a very good album, Born Innocent, in 2020 with Joe Stump crushing it on guitar. Stylistically, it could have been released right between No Parole and Disturbing the Peace. Great songs, vocals and guitars!
I'm a big Bonnet fan since Rainbow, and it was Alcatrazz "No parole" album that introduces me to Yngwie. It blews my mind when i first heard it back in '86. What an amazing album track by track.
This is the first Metal Mythos I have seen, and if the rest are half this good, I am in for some great entertainment. Thank you! We featured this video in the Saturday Morning Cheese group 1/25/20.
Word of the existence of this band needs to be spread.
Definitely one of the more intriguing Metal Mythos you've made. A damn fun & informative mini-documentary! Any chance on giving us a hint for your next Metal/Music Mythos?
Great mini-documentary on an important rock band! Thank you.
15:30 The connotation between JSS and the Muppets (while I am a fan of both) is hilarious. LOL!
God Blessed Video was a great choice for Vice City as I've always thought of Disturbing the Peace as the musical equivalent of driving a tank along the Miami coast with explosions going off in all directions. Fucking awesome.
Do a mythos on Voivod?
You can't get more 80's than zebra print furniture
You can name your band Zebra.
Please please please... Let us have Metal Mythos: Rainbow
I was lucky enough to see Alcatrazz open for Ted Nugent on his World Penetration tour in Omaha, Nebraska. I believe it was 1984. My brother was a big Nugent fan. Yngwie's main solo was so unbelievably loud. It was painful. I loved Bonnet's voice.
Someday I want to own every album covered in this series.
I never really listened to much of alcatrazz, but now i am intrigued.
what a voice! graham bonnett is a very under rated singer in my very humble opinion! the man is a legend! great episode! the guitarist weren't bad either ;) ha ha!
I'd love to see you show this much passion on a review of Gary Moore's 'Dirty Fingers' Lol!
Graham Bonnet is one of the best vocalists I’ve ever heard.
Graham Bonnet is The Man!
Graham Bonnett is the most underrated singer of all time. If anyone deserved top of the charts success and never got it it's him.
I guess I'm in the 10%...I know exactly who Alcatrazz is...been a fan for decades...
You have some awesome stuff. A Metal Mythos on Doom metal masters Trouble would be the shit!
Steve Vai and Yngwie, hell yeah!
Your commentary is awesome. Watched the King Diamond one too. Great stuff.
Islands in the Sun was an awesome song with a great Video. A great version of Since You've Been Gone as well. Some good music. I also liked Skyfire and Dangerous Games.
Truth... you should have an episode dedicated to Graham Bonnet alone - the man is legend!
I'm really glad I finally checked this out!
I'm a big fan of the Metal Mythos series you do, and i finally decided "well shit, ima take a peek at the episodes about bands i don't know"
Really glad to know this now
Cheers dude!
Black sabbath for next mythos?
Can’t wait for the metal mythos update of the two new Alcatrazz albums
This was the best grilled cheese sandwich i've ever seen.
Love love love "Disturbing the Peace" listened to it because I'm a huge Vai fan and I too was surprised it never went huge. I discovered the album around the time Vai's Passion and Warfare came out and my love of his playing was unbound. I worked my way backwards through his catalog and was so amazed when I discovered this terrific album. It was a treasure trove of amazing songs, riffs, solos and really fun interstitial playing. Vai is great when he's in a band and will find all kinds of fun little eccentric ways to comment with his guitar as he does rhyming playing. The chorus lick in "God Blessed Video" is really fun, interesting, two-handed work that takes what Eddie started and goes to a really cool place. There's also a terrific ballad called DESERT DIAMOND that has a solo that begins with a symphony of guitar overdubs recorded BACKWARDS:
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Also starting an album with the lyric, "Let's take a plan and go somewhere exotic to play with a nondescript song" is BRILLIANT.
Thankyou Razor! Just discovered a hidden gem in Alcatrazz, can't believe I didn't know of them.
Great stuff. Just watched all of your Metal Mythos.
Learned a thing or two, and revisited some classics.
Love your work, looking forward to the next! God fuckin' Speed!
9:57...Graham, what are you doing to Yngwie?
Natendowii I just noticed that... Yeah... I'm going to reserve comment on that... unfortunate video capture! That's hilarious though! :)
Natendowii "Oh, Yngwie... I must feel your smooth, Swedish chest hair..."
Hey Razor, where did you find that footage for Dangerous Games? It looks like a promo of some sort, but I can't find it anywhere.
EBAY!
Alright, alright I'll add it to my Amazon basket.
But seriously, how have I not heard of Alcatrazz before because they sound awesome!
Love that T-shirt, love you did a Malmsteen Mythos. Wanna cry when I hear ya trash his instrumentals😥 Nobody can one take the last 1:50s of Overture 1383! Free hand and pitch perfect, it's PERFECT