Let's Talk About Slayer

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Slayer?

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Look a them cover the Crue here (or Araya anyway).. awesome. Speaks to how good the early Motley Crue material was.

 
watson503 said:
Overkill and Motorhead were the openers for their stop here. I looked it up and these were the dates Danzig opened for them on that tour :

08/12/1988 Hollywood Palladium Hollywood, CA (opened for Slayer)
08/15/1988 Aragon Ballroom Chicago, IL (opened for Slayer)
08/20/1988 Harpo's Concert Theatre Detroit, MI (opened for Slayer)
08/31/1988 Felt Forum New York, NY (opened for Slayer)
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Danzig was pretty good as the opener. Eerie Von, John Christ, and Chuck Biscuits were still in the band at that point. I don't think their first album was out yet either.
 
chumbucket said:
Danzig was pretty good as the opener. Eerie Von, John Christ, and Chuck Biscuits were still in the band at that point. I don't think their first album was out yet either.
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Man, that would have been too cool to see as I've been a big fan of Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig's first couple of albums but never seen him or any of his bands live.
 
thegame said:
I was there and vaguely recall Overkill getting a lukewarm reception at first but they won the crowd over by the end of their 6 song set lol. They had the best sound of the night.
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Do you remember the idiots jumping off the speaker towers? A girl I was there with got kicked in the head by one of them. She was fucking pissed. I used to love going to shows at the Concert Hall. Saw Nuclear Assault, Savatage and Testament there, and Holy Terror, D.R.I, and Kreator too.
 
ZEEGLER said:
Do you remember the idiots jumping off the speaker towers? A girl I was there with got kicked in the head by one of them. She was fucking pissed. I used to love going to shows at the Concert Hall. Saw Nuclear Assault, Savatage and Testament there, and Holy Terror, D.R.I, and Kreator too.
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The balcony divers, yes. Absolutely insane. I loved the Concert Hall too. It’s recently been turned back into a concert venue though I haven’t been back yet. I saw that particular Testament show too, as well as Forbidden/Death Angel and New Titans on the Block w/Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Napalm Death and Sick of it All.
 
I saw them twice live and they do have a good show. I like them but never got into them big time or anything. Their popular early stuff is great.

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I love slayer. The only misstep they ever had was the born to be wild cover.
Best thrash band ever, influenced tons of bands and metal genres.
Best live band.

other things I like that are not cool,
emg pickups and t-75's.
things I don't care about,
music theory.
 
We used to go to a local independent record store, got to know the owner, and he would always let us know when he found something he thought I/we would like. I vaguely remember him asking if I heard of Slayer, I said no, he said here's their new album, it was Hell Awaits, just looking at the cover I bought it, I was back at the store a few days later and I bought Show No Mercy.

I saw Slayer with Motorhead and Overkill at the Agora Ballroom in West Hartford, CT - saw many bands there in the '80s. I think it was for South of Heaven? Then saw them at the first Clash of the Titans - Anthrax with Public Enemy, Megadeth and Slayer. Alice in Chains opened and were booed off the stage, their singer jumped into the crowd to fight, not sure what happened. It was an outdoor show, and the mosh pit created a friggin' dust storm in the dry sand/dirt.

Good times.


But you all know, Slayer is really jazz, right? :D

 
I met them in ‘98 in SLC at the Heavy Metal Shop (I’m from SoCal, I moved there after leaving the military). They talked with me, signed my military ID (they were worried I’d get in trouble, lol). Nicest guys you could ever meet. In my opinion, Jeff was the best songwriter of the group.

Musically, they were my doorway to “heavier bands”, starting with South Of Heaven. I remember they played a show at the Palladium and a riot broke out, the windows got broken out. Little things like that make you take notice. For me, they’re more nostalgia. One of those bands that you hear and can remember where you were when you used to listen regularly. RIP Jeff Hanneman
 
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