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Reverend Valek's Heavy Metal School of FL


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Well, at least once every two weeks, I'm going to try to feature a music video from some of my favorite metal bands and provide a little history.

So, welcome to Reverend Valek's Heavy Metal School of FL.

This time around I'm featuring Warrant. Now, some of you might think, here we go, Cherry Pie time.

No. Jani Lane, lead singer of Warrant, hated that song. It wasn't even originally on that album. The album was done. But the record exec said he wasn't hearing the single. The album was called "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Art work was done. All tracks recorded.

Warrant went back to the studio and recorded Cherry Pie. Four days later, the cover work on the album was re-done, the title was Cherry Pie, and Jani Lane became known as the Cherry Pie Guy. Sorry, Jani, I know you had a lot of great hits like The Down Boys, Machine Gun, and I Saw Red but you'll forever be known as the Cherry Pie Guy.

So, for your listening pleasure, click the link in my sig for the music video to "Uncle Tom's Cabin". :cool:

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Warrant sucks.

For true Heavy Metal schooling, go way back to the first metal band to get serious radio airplay (which opened the door for every other metal band to make money)- Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot, with their cover of Slade's Cum on Feel the Noize, which they didn't even want to do, did open up some doors. Amazingly enough, they tried to screw it up in the studio, but it backfired and what you hear on the radio is the first and only take done in the studio.

Don't worry, Prof, I plan on covering Heaven and Hell (Dio Sabbath) next week.

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Quiet Riot' date=' with their cover of Slade's Cum on Feel the Noize, which they didn't even want to do, did open up some doors. Amazingly enough, they tried to screw it up in the studio, but it backfired and what you hear on the radio is the first and only take done in the studio.[/quote']

I prefer "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)" to "Cum on Feel the Noize" by ratio of 100000000000 to 1.

"Open up some doors"? If by that you mean "create a mad signing scramble by a vast majority of the record labels to snap up metal bands", then yes, they "opened up some doors". Heh.

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I love the Uncle Tom's Cabin song. It was a good song/video to listen to back in the days that MTV played music.

One of my favorite videos was the battle of the band vid of Aerosmith vs. Run DMC singing Walk this way. I thought it was a great marriage of metal and rap.

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Valek I swear if you do not do something for Metallica and Ac/Dc I will personally come to your apartment and have a few words with you about it.

Rens

AC/DC will get their say, albeit much later.

Metallica will also get their say along with the other three main thrash metal bands that came along at the end of "teeth" or "hair" metal, whichever term you prefer. 100 points to anyone who can name the other three thrash bands that go along with Metallica. :cool:

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Are we talking about when Metallica first came out with an album or when they hit it really freakin big? Because that's the differance of like 4 or 5 albums?

Because I guess if I had to guess I would say Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, and gosh probably Anthrax although Anthrax is prolly the baby of those 4.

Rens

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