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Moon Cat wrote: 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?
Bill Ward is lovely, I want him to be my dad
As for the docu it was pretty full, coulda done with being 4 times longer but then so could the Prog & Punk shows,.What about Cathedral, Godflesh, Lawnmower Death, all important pieces in the great tapestry that is brit metal .I thought the obvious missing piece was anyone from Zeppelin beyond a quick glimpse, not even a soundbite saying ''we are not metal'' or ''My name is Jimmy Page, I like whips & satanism'' , and it stopped just when things coulda got interesting, much as I loathe Venom they are probably as influential to music as the Velvets, just not in hip music writer circles that compile the most important bands ever lists.
Now does anybody know where I saw Ozzy and RJD slagging each other off, possibly it could have been the Purple family tree show
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