No Sleep 'Til Sudbury by Brent Jensen

Author:Brent Jensen [Jensen, Brent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Music, Genres & Styles, Heavy Metal
ISBN: 9780987715906
Google: ZjWCtgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0987715909
Goodreads: 13565853
Publisher: Edwards Press
Published: 2012-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

Alright, back to these cassettes.

In looking at Dokken’s first album, the cassette that I bought along with Kill ‘Em All, All For One, and Show No Mercy because of the band logo, I see that the liner notes list Ratt’s Juan Croucier as the bass player, not Jeff Pilson. Hmmm. Didn’t notice that before, or know that was even the case until now.

There’s all kinds of stuff in this collection that I had long forgotten about. Flotsam and Jetsam’s No Place For Disgrace, Riot’s Restless Breed, a copy of Frehley’s Comet Live + 1 with a hole punched through the spine of the cassette case like a used deck of Vegas cards. Jetboy’s Feel the Shake, a tape I bought hoping every song would sound like the title track. Not so. Helloween’s 1985 five song EP released on Banzai with the ‘this side’ and ‘that side’ labeling in the place of side one and side two. Most definitely a bullseye. Kingdom Come’s debut record, Keel’s The Final Frontier, Kix’s Blow My Fuse, Kreator’s Terrible Certainty, Laaz Rockit’s City’s Gonna Burn, Michael Schenker Group’s Built to Destroy, Tokyo Blade’s Midnight Rendezvous, and Y&T’s Mean Streak. I might be tempted to play a couple of these if I had a tape player.

Here’s the rare 1983 Ratt EP, whose liner notes contain this message, devoid of syntax: ‘to all our families and all heavy metalists and dangerous women everywhere’. Heavy metalists? Blotzer must have been responsible for that. In among the special thanks list of the Ratt EP, rife with family members and unfamiliar names, is Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell. Makes me wonder what the relevance is.

As I continue to pull open these drawers and investigate their content, I’m reminded that there are some really lousy and obscure albums in this collection that I don’t remember buying at all. Ruthless’ completely unremarkable Metal without Mercy, Samain’s Vibrations of Doom, Sanctuary’s Refuge Denied, Heathen’s Breaking the Silence, and USA Warrior’s Fighting For the Earth. Vinnie Vincent’s two solo records are also here. And as clowny as they are, I actually wouldn’t mind listening to them. Probably only once though.

I move on to some of the more obscure cassettes that spent a lot of time in the player back in my high school days. If you’re like me and you like the chu-chu-chug muted note guitar riffing, Malice is your band. I was always disappointed that this band wasn’t bigger than they were, but I wasn’t surprised. I think that people didn’t necessarily know what to do with Malice, because the band couldn’t be compartmentalized. They sounded like a slightly less heavy version of Judas Priest, but a heavier version of Ratt. They weren’t as good looking as most hair bands, but dressed better than most of them. It’s funny, because the individually posed pictures of the band on the sleeve of their License to Kill record actually look nothing like the band. The shots of guitarist Jay Reynolds and singer James Neal may as well be of someone else entirely.

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