The Music Thread

As I come From the birth place of heavy metal and my father is quite a well known guitarist I only have and only will listen to one genre of must.

I started off with Thin Lizzy, Queen UFO and Status quo in the mid to late 70s but was Into my fathers music before that. Bands like The Who, Hendrix, Deep purple, Emerson lake and Palmer early ZZ Top. When The ‘NWOBHM’ (New wave of British Heavy Metal) Broke out in 1979 I became a ‘Heavy Rocker’ and still live and dress the same outside work as I did when I was 14 years old. I’ve Seen all the big hitters live over the years and still go these days, but not in the pit any more as its too much for the wife.

I like so many bands it would take too long to name the all, But Iron Maiden are my all time favourite band, I even have a shrine to them in my house and am a collector of all things maiden. First saw them on the Killers tour 1980.

I play guitar myself and own many ‘Axes’ I even build them

Stay Heavy……and up the Irons.

Spoke to Angus on the phone, briefly. My old man was having work done on his Gibson in  a guitar builders  in Brum . My father has the same guitar as Angus but his is quite rare. Les Paul RIP, Made Gibson take his name off that style, as he never liked the design. Gibson then renamed the model S.G which simply means Solid guitar. My fathers has Les Paul on the Stock and worth a few quid. Anyhow, Angus had seen his guitar in the workshop and phoned to see if he wanted to sell, The old man was doing a gig so I passed on his message. He never did sell it to him, and these days never uses it, preferring to use his Strats or Tele’s.