Julian Cope presents Head Heritage
Head To Head
Log In
Register
Unsung Forum »
Metal Telly Night on BBC4
Log In to post a reply
31 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
Moon Cat
Moon Cat
6762 posts

Edited Mar 06, 2010, 16:41
Re: Metal Telly Night on BBC4
Mar 06, 2010, 16:39
Oh well. I enjoyed the metal docu as something to watch and seeing footage n stuff but it was very incomplete with some glaring omissions.

Where was all the Purple offshoot stuff - Rainbow, Whitesnake, Gillan? All big, succesful bands. Budgie but not UFO?

Saxon but no Def Leppard? No Girlschool? And weirdly, no Venom. Whatever you thing of 'em as a band (daft but fun at my pod) they are hugely influential to a generation of thrash and extreme metal bands - even having a huge sub-genre named after an album of theirs!

Plus, couldn't see why it ended with a cursory glance at the NWOBHM. I mean it's not like the story stops there. Again, however you regard their music, bands like Cradle of Filth and Paradise Lost are big bands worldwide and influential in their own right. DragonForce...

On the plus side, I thought Rob Halford was a hoot - "Mad innit when you think about it? In the morning I'm there eatin' me cornflakes, and at night I'm on stage screamin' me tits off!". and Mick Box seemed a very jolly fellow.

Enjoyable then, and more or less what I was expecting in line with the Prog Britannia show., but coulda, shoulda been much more.

ps To answer a query above, the Sabs Family trees thing wasn't edited as far as I know. I used to have it on tape from when it was first on and that's how I remember it. Bill Ward seems such a nice bloke dunnee?
In reply to:
Metal Telly Night on BBC4 (Moon Cat)		 Replies:
Re: Metal Telly Night on BBC4 (machineryelf)
Topic Outline:
Unsung Forum Index