Shit, Survive by Nuclear Assault was pretty much my favourite album for a while when I was a teenager. Funnily enough I never owned Reign in Blood, but I loved Hell Awaits.

Oh yeah, Nuclear Assault. And Suicidal Tendencies - I really love them up to "The Art of Rebellion". Man, they were REALLY important for me back then. Another really, really great metal record is "Extreme Aggression" by the german band Kreator. I don't think they were ever that good again, this one is soooo hard and aggressive, you can really feel that the strings are made of steel...

Oh yes,Cro-Mags with "The age of quarrel" were good too. I would add S.O.D., Nuclear Assault,Suicidal Tendencies the first one, Ludi-Christ,Crumbsuckers... wow!! Doc Sanchez said:

"Masturbatory guitar work", haha, exactly! You can't say it any better!

I always loved these guitar solos which seem to have no structure at all, but still you always can say whether it's King or Hanneman playing. They always feel like some otherworldly noise, more like the screams of the damned in hell than guitars. But I like the brutal riffs better than the solos, they're so powerful, played with so much pressure. And Rick Rubin did a good job producing the album - clear, with loads of pressure, but still dirty as hell. Reminds me more of, say, the Cro-Mags than of other Metal acts (especially scandinavian Death Metal bands from end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s often had a pretty weak sound).

As you said: Slayer rules and leaves nothing more to be said.

The Reverend Beat-Man is a total Metahead and a Slayer fan! Go figure!

"Masturbatory guitar work", haha, exactly! You can't say it any better!

I always loved these guitar solos which seem to have no structure at all, but still you always can say whether it's King or Hanneman playing. They always feel like some otherworldly noise, more like the screams of the damned in hell than guitars. But I like the brutal riffs better than the solos, they're so powerful, played with so much pressure. And Rick Rubin did a good job producing the album - clear, with loads of pressure, but still dirty as hell. Reminds me more of, say, the Cro-Mags than of other Metal acts (especially scandinavian Death Metal bands from end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s often had a pretty weak sound).

As you said: Slayer rules and leaves nothing more to be said.

One of the best,if not the best,in thrash genre.
Just 30 minutes that left nothing more to be said.

SLAYER RULES! Slayer was my all time favorite band in middle school and I will always hold a special place in my heart for them. "Reign in blood" is one of the definitive thrash albums of all time. Dave Lombardo's drums are out of control, as are the manic and frenzied picking. Amazing masturbatory guitar work, if Kerry King played through a reverb tank he'd sound like dick dale. I feel like guitar wise there's a lot in common between surf and metal, players with a need for speed.

Hi there,

since I've been listening to this record quite a lot lately: What do you guys think of Slayer's "Reign in Blood"?

I know this record since I was a teenager, but only had it on tape. So a couple of years ago I bought the LP, and only recently I realized how much I like this record. All lyrical controversy aside, I think it's fucking brillant, it has a supercool non-metal guitar sound, Tom Araya thankfully doesn't do this eunuch metal screaming (well, almost), and "Reign in Blood" just kicks ass.

Who else here is a secret metalhead?

Cheers, Doc Sanchez

oh for fuck's sake

Totally fucked up the link there, this should be better

It's a week old now but what the fuck

http://http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/15/label-love-in-the-red

and I never knew that about Ike, woulda been killer if he could've pulled it off.

I was kinda worried about that myself, on the gonerfest page (somewhere) they have a list of hotels, and i remember there being a hostel also, but to stay there you gotta do some work or some sort. Scary Manilow said:

Where's a good place to stay in Memphis? We we stuck at a Red Roof in across town when the Gories played last year-- needless to say, I wanna be a little bit closer tot he action this time around. That's a lot of walking back and forth.

Where's a good place to stay in Memphis? We we stuck at a Red Roof in across town when the Gories played last year-- needless to say, I wanna be a little bit closer tot he action this time around. That's a lot of walking back and forth.

Thanks for sharing!

I remember Miriam Linna telling this same story in Kicks with Bobby Fuller as the lead story. Scary stuff. I wouldn't doubt Bobby's family and friends for a second. Who knows what he could have done in his future? I believe he would have been one of the leaders of country rock and WAYYY better than the Byrds or Gram Parsons. He probably would have also done something experimental like Johnny Rivers just because that was the thing in '67 and '68. But it probably would have been good. But yes, there is a lot of great music that we don't have to dwell on this.

I had a fascinating phone conversation this afternoon with Rick Stone, a friendly guy from El Paso who in the mid '60s was the road manager for The Bobby Fuller 4.

Rick had contacted Kyla Fairchild of No Depression, where I'd cross-posted my recent column on the new Norton Records Bobby Fuller reissue El Paso Rock, Early Recordings Volume 3. (I also posted that column here in The Hideout). I wanted to find out what those might be and clear them up.

First, a little background on Rick.

In July 1966 he'd just finished what sounds like a hellish tour with the Bobby Fuller 4. They toured in a hot and crowded truck and, as might be expected, tempers were short and tensions were high.

Bobby and his brother Randy, the band's bassist, had gotten into a fistfight at a San Francisco Club called the Chinese Dragon. (Stone stressed it wasn't a serious fight, but something typical for young brothers.)

 

Bobby had decided to break up the band, Stone said. Guitarist Jim Reese had just received his draft notice. Drummer Dalton Powell was missing his wife and new baby back in El Paso. Bobby was happy about his decision, Stone said.

 

Now he was hoping to get out from under the thumb of Bob Keene and Del-Fi Records, Stone said. "He really wanted to get away from Bob Keene."

 

Keene died in January.

 

As he's told other journalists, Stone was one of the first of Fuller's friends to arrive on the scene after Fuller's mother found Bobby's body in her car. In fact, he's told Spin magazine and others that he had crashed the night before on the couch of Bobby's apartment, just a couple of blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre where Bobby's mother Lorraine also was staying.

 

Stone said when he woke up the morning of July 18, 1966, Lorraine Fuller told him that Bobby hadn't come that night. At this point Stone wasn't worried. "Bobby liked women," he said.

 

In the Spin article, Stone said he'd thought he'd heard Fuller leaving the apartment about 2:30 a.m.

 

Stone told me went down to the parking lot and didn't see the silver blue Oldsmobile Bobby had been driving.

Stone said he later attended a scheduled meeting at Del-Fi Records. Other members of the band showed up, but not Bobby. On his way back to the Fuller apartment, Stone said he had a horrible feeling. Soon police cars started to pass him. Stone said deep down he knew that something terrible had happened.

The Oldsmobile was there in a lot next to Fuller's apartment building -- not on the street, as I had written.

Bobby was inside, his head in the seat facing the back, Stone said. His face was swollen and distorted from the heat and the gasoline fumes that permeated the car. "Two thirds of his face was black and blue," Stone recalled.

In Fuller's right hand was a hose, which Stone said looked as if someone had placed it there. Nearby was a gas can.

Stone denied the statement in Del-Fi Records press release I quoted that the gas can "was removed by a policeman (who apparently didn’t consider it vital to the investigation) and thrown into a nearby dumpster." He also said the gas can was on the front floor board, not in the back of the car.

Stone told me something I hadn't heard before. He said the officer there put the can in the car's trunk. But later Fuller's family and friends found not one but two gas cans in the trunk, he said. Neither were empty.

Contrary to what was said in the Del-Fi press release, Stone said he doesn't remember any dried blood on Fuller's face, which he said was too discolored to immediately tell if there was any blood.

But, Stone said, the shoes Fuller was wearing -- which were his mother's house slippers -- had marks as if someone had dragged his body.

As I said in my initial column, all these details are tantalizing, but if Bobby Fuller really was murdered as his friends and family believe, it's unlikely the killer ever will be caught.

So let's remember Bobby Fuller for his music.

UPDATE:

I forgot to mention that Rick pointed out to me that Bobby Fuller's body was found about 250 feet away from the apartment where Janis Joplin would die four years later.

The 13th Floor Elevators are my favorite band ever and I've waited in anticipation for this book's release. AND, I tell ya, this book just blew me into the weeds, AMAZING!! The 13th Floor Elevators are the true pioneers of psychedelic music, whether you like that kind of music or not.

And if you think you have a hard time scoring grass to smoke these days, those boys had it REALLY rough!! Followed by cops, gigs getting busted, homes raided and the sheer fear and paranoia of being 'the next big thing' in their music scene. I truly loved the whole book, even as sad as their story gets toward the end of their career.

Julian Cope did a nice forward but all the writing credit goes to Paul Drummond. I've read hundreds of books about bands, songwriters, producers, music movements and this book is truly an amazing read written by a man who truly loved their music. Great work, well researched, and a must read for any fan of 60's music. ***** five stars out of five!

Read that Cope was an established author, but hadn't read any of his books. Good to know it's worth the time.

I recently purchased and devoured from Amazon "eye mind: The Saga of Roky eRickSon and The 13Th flooR elevaToRS" by Paul Drummond and Julian Cope and it was totally amazing. One of those books that makes you feel like you are in the van along for the ride. Highly recommended for any Roky fans, fans of Texas music, or fans of 60's rock n roll. 454 Acid drenched pages. 

When I first heard - or rather read - the term 'gunk punk' I thought it was sounded like like some dumb shit the maintstream (probably British) press would come up with to hype up the latest hip scene or something (y'know, the one that's been around for years but they've only just discovered), and the snob inside me was thinking, oh man I really hope this doesn't catch on, I don't want to hear a bunch of trendy fuckers talking about how much they're into this "gunk punk thing" or see 'we name the ten hottest gunk bands you need to hear this year' on the cover of some rag. Course now I don't really give a fuck. And so far it's a fucking great read.

And I was into gunk punk before it was popular!

Yeah... Eric has real nice way with words. I've been enjoying picking my way through the book early in the morning before I head into work. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Well it is a good term. Gunk is to punk what grunge is to alt. Both are filthy. When you put gunk in the label, you don't think of Green Day or Blink 182. And now we know why singers sound snotty.

Ken (Evil Empire Records) said:

Y'all can listen to, or download the RPR interview with Eric Davidson by clicking on this here link! It's on Blip.TV. And Blip means quality.

Well it is a good term. Gunk is to punk what grunge is to alt. Both are filthy. When you put gunk in the label, you don't think of Green Day or Blink 182. And now we know why singers sound snotty. Ken (Evil Empire Records) said:

When he did the Columbus book reading Eric said that it was a quick-and-easy rhyme that was more or less a placeholder while they came up with another subtitle... But somehow managed to stick on all the way through the publishing process.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Understandable. I didn't think about asking him that either when I met him. A few of our friends that we had in common stopped by the record shop where he was doing the book signing and everybody was talking about old times and what not. I don't belong to the chat board that's on the real punk radio website so I couldn't do anything about it. BUT since he's on facebook, I guess I can ask him myself. I was just a bit surprised though, since nobody has ever used that term before.

Hey! Just listened to 'Rocks' by Primal Scream. Have'nt heard it since the 90's. I think i'll be listenin to that for a while now. Wot a rockin' toon. Its mad how songs like that'll just creep up on ya, especially since it was on BBC Radio 2 just now, Britains radio answer to a lobotomy, or an old folks home.

There's an update to this column HERE