A Team Netherworld Music History Moment: The Bare-Ass Facts

Back in the early daze, AC/DC's promotional team tried to amp up the band's sex appeal. Malcolm always looked like he felt a bit silly striking sexy poses. After the group started selling albums, his clothes stayed on and properly buttoned.

Angus, however, had a natural affinity for stripping off, and showed enough skin for both brothers. This allowed Malcolm to show off the band's stripped-down sound without having to bare his assets.

The Team Netherworld Music History Archives

M is for Metal

Metal, glorious metal! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, and thy many genres.

Metal was born in the late 1960s in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in the blues, folk rock, and psychedelic rock.

From these mighty beginnings, many innovative offshoots of the genre were formed.

Black Sabbath are one of the greatest forces behind the formation of the metal genre. Deep Purple's hard-driving guitar riffs also played a part, as did Led Zeppelin's mystical lyrics. The term "heavy metal" may have been influenced by Led Zeppelin's lyrics "talk about heavy metal underneath the hood." The heavy sounds of Slade were surely an influence as well. 

Jimi Hendrix' inimitable heavy blues played a part in the development of the metal genre. Steppenwolf was also an influence, with songs such as Born To Be Wild. The heavy, distorted, epic psychedelic sound of Iron Butterfly was also a factor in the early metal periodic table.

Some people feel that metal is an untalented and uninteresting genre. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is as varied as the Universe itself in its expression, and new forms are brought to light in the modern age, as well as new artists adapting the classic styles and making them their own. Metal is here to stay.

~DJ Opal~

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I. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades 0:00 

II. Slayer - Hell Awaits 2:49 

III. AcDc - Who Made Who 9:02 

IV. Metallica - Battery 12:30

V. Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone 17:44

VI. Metallica - One 23:32

VII. Anthrax - Panic 30:59

VIII. Skid Row - I Remember You 35:01

IX. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast 40:15

X. Megadeth - Looking Down The Cross 45:04

XI. Black Lable Society - Stillborn 50:07

XII. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell 53:23

XIII. Accept - No Shelter 01:07:48

XIV. Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns 01:13:52

XV. Dio - Gypsy 01:19:56

XVI. Mötley Crüe - Wild Side 01:23:35

XVII. Ozzy Osbourne . Dreamer 01:28:18

A to Z Blogging Challenge: L is for Lynyrd Skynyrd

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

L is for Lynyrd Skynyrd

by

Lily Strange

Lynyrd Skynyrd is one of the best-known Southern rock bands of all time. I'm not going to go into arguments about whether Skynyrd is still really Skynyrd. I never got to see the original Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert. I've seen more current incarnations, and they do put on a good show.

Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, and Gary Rossington began the band as "The Noble Five" in 1964. Bob Burns and Larry Junstrom joined in 1965. They changed their name to "My Backyard." In 1970, they became "The One Percent." 

Later that year they changed the band name to "Leonard Skinner" in honor of their high school gym teacher, who had a habit of sending them home for violating school policy against boys having long hair. They altered the spelling when they released their first album. 

Skinner actually had a sense of humor about the band using his name. He allowed them to use his photograph and a photograph of a sign from his business, Leonard Skinner realty. The band members developed a friendship with Skinner.

Lynyrd Skynyrd is a band plagued by incidences of tragedy. On October 20, 1970, their plane crashed in a wood near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray were killed on impact. The other band members and road crew sustained serious injuries.

Following the death of his wife Kathy in 1980 due to a massive hemorrhage (likely caused by a placental abruption) during her pregnancy with the couple's third child, guitarist Allen Collins' life spiraled out of control. Collins was involved in a serious auto accident in 1986, which killed his girlfriend and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Allen died January 23, 1990 from pneumonia.

In 1987, the band reformed with Johnny Van Zant as frontman. The band included several of the original members. Most of them have died or left the band since then. 

Artimus Pyle left the band in 1991. Michael Cortellone is the current drummer.

Leon Wilkeson died from emphysema and chronic liver disease on July 27, 2001. He was replaced by Ean Evans. Ean died from cancer on May 6, 2009. Lynyrd Skynyrd's current bassist is Johnny Colt.

Keyboardist Billy Powell died from heart failure on January 28, 2009. Skynyrd's current keyboardist is, fittingly, Peter Keys.

Guitarist Ed King left the band in 1996 for what he assumed would be a temporary hiatus. In the meantime, he was replaced by Hughie Thomasson of the Outlaws. Hughie ended up becoming a permanent replacement, until he died from heart problems on September 9, 2007. 

Skynyrd's current guitarists are Gary Rossington, Rickey Medlocke, and Mark Matejka.

Gary Rossington is the only remaining original band member.

Enjoy the short movie about the history of Lynyrd Skynyrd, if you care to.

~Lily~

Cleveland County NC Bluegrass

We of the KHEL 666 Krew love all kinds of music, and that certainly includes Bluegrass! Here's a little history.

Jukebox Heroes Badfinger Documentary

Another documentary about Badfinger.

The Tragic Story of Badfinger

The tragic story of one of my favorite classic rock bands.