Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    Yeah,
    
    I was pretty much into them back around 1980. I remember seeing them
    in a little run-down bar in Paisley (Bungalow Bar). There was only 
    'bout 20-30 people in this tiny little room, but the atmoshphere was
    electric. We spent about 1hr chatting to them afterwards at the bar.
    
    I got the promo album and me denim waistcoat (sic?!) signed by the band
    blah..blah and just to cap it all off, some 7 years later after I had
    just moved outta my parents house, my brother took the bl$$dy album
    to a record fair in Glasgow (together with most of my other 'rarities')
    and flogged it! What's more I didn't find out for about 6 months, by
    which time, he'd spent the lot on various Stranglers bootlegs etc..
    
    Fave songs were Sucking My Love ; Am I Evil ? ; It's Electric
    
    A band ahead of there times IMO,
    
    Tom

    
    Just picked up a copy of the Friday Rock Show Session/In Concert cd.
    It has 8 tracks - 2 from the radio session in '80 and 6 from the
    Reading Festival '82.
    
    This is Diamond Head at their best, ie pre Canterbury, with Sean Harris, 
    Brian Tatler, Colin Kimberley and Duncan Scott. 
    
    If you ever liked this band do yourself a favour and get a copy of 
    this cd. It's excellent.
    
    The track listing is :
    Sweet and Innocent, Lightning To The Nations.
    Am I Evil, In The Heat Of The Night, Borrowed Time, Don't You Ever
    Leave Me, Sucking My Love, Play It Loud. 
    
    Without doubt the best band to come out of the NWOBHM. They should have
    been huge.
        
    Derzo.
                          
    

    I heard Canterbury and thought it was boring.
    
    
    
    
                                                 Staynz

    
    Canterbury is not as good as their early stuff but it did have
    it's moments. To say it's a boring album is nonsense. Sean Harris
    has the kind of voice that could make Ten Green Bottles interesting.
    Boring is the kind of adjective used to describe pap bands like Skid Row,
    Motley Crue, Poision etc etc.
    
    Derzo.

    SHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's why NO one even like Diamond
    Head! Comments like that make me SOOOOO pissed!
    
              Friz
    

    
    Actually Friz I like DH.
    
    ...and I consider Warrant and Poison boring.
    

    Ditto!  I like Diamond Head too!  So Pftttttth! to you Friz!   :')
    
    I was just listening to them last night AAMOF (As a matter of fact(TM))
    
    It's Electric is a roolin toon.
    
    |KS|
    
    

    
    YEAH!
    
    It's Electric is Awesome!
    
    Ken-
    Do you have NWOBHM? It's fackin' roolin' It has Dh and endless other
    euro-bands about that time. 

    Yeah I do have NWOBHM Chris.
    
    I was listening to this other CD though.  Called Behold The Beginning. 
    It's a best of Diamond Head CD.
    
    Has Am I Evil, The Prince, It's Electric, Sucking My Love, Waiting Too
    Long, Helpless, and a bunch of others that I can't think of.
    
    Lars Ulrich wrote the liner notes, (like NWOBHM)
    
    |KS|
    

    No Chris...You ARE pathetic! You taste in music is without a doubt TRES
    LAME!  
    Diamond Head will never go anywhere....
    
               Friz
    

   > Diamond Head will never go anywhere....
    
    Why, have they reformed?
    
    barry.

    >   Why, have they reformed?  
    
         No....Just another reason, in a long list, of why they will never
    go anywhere.
         Despite how many lame geeks in here like them. 8)
    
             Friz
     

    
    KEN-
    
    	Can I get that CD anywhere?
    
    
    FRRIZBOOB-
    
    	Sometimes you say the stupidest things. (sometimes?)
    	Diamond Head has had more influence on Heavy Metal than
    	Warrant, Poison, Skid Row, Faster Pussycat, Ect Combined.
    	Like it or not. 

    Sometimes...but not this time.
    
     What have they done for metal?  
    
            Fri<z
    

 >    What have they done for metal?  
    
    There were a major influence.
    But listening to bands like Poison and Warrant you wouldn't know!
    
    What have Poison an Warrant done for metal besides give it a bad name?
    
    Chris, I found it at the music store in the Greendale Mall.  They have
    a large heavy metal section with some obscure stuff sometimes.  I only
    saw it there once, and they only had one.  I had to settle for a
    cracked case!  But it was worth it!
    
    |KS|
    
    

    
    They influenced the corner stone bands of Metal.
    
    I know you don't wanna hear it, but Metallica and Megadeth, Exodus,
    even early Crue, early Def Leppard, and lots more. 
    

    Def Leppard influenced by DH? I don't think so, unless I got 
    your drift wrong. I'd say Leppard's influences were more in the
    way of Thin Lizzy, UFO, Mott the Hoople. Both DH and Leppard 
    appeared at very much the same time as each other. Pity about 
    DH though, lesser bands have made it a lot further.
                                          
    barry.

    
    Ah...got this topic alive and kicking. Not before time.
    
    Behold The Beginning sounds excellent, I wouldn't mind getting a
    copy. Could someone take the time to check if its still available
    in the states. It would be greatly appreciated as I'm positive it ain't
    available here.
    
    Maybe you'd like to grab a copy as well Friz. It's about time you
    improved your taste. Warrant, Faster Pussycat glitzy pap. Go get
    a metal education.
    
    Derzo.
      

    RE: .17
    
    Just because bands start out at relatively the same time doesn't mean
    one can't be influenced by the other.

    
    FWIW this band have reformed and have a new cd out called "Death and
    Progress". Brian Tatler and Sean Harris are the only 2 members
    remaining from the original line up. 
    
    Del.

    Cooooooooooool!