On This Day In METAL History – October 16th… From DEEP PURPLE To IRON MAIDEN
On October 16th, 1984 – The great DEEP PURPLE released their eleventh studio album: Perfect Strangers. I love this album so much! Honestly, I recommend this album to every music loving human being on planet Earth. I remember getting my first copy of Perfect Strangers on cassette! I bought it back in ’84 at Strawberries Records & Tapes in Avon, Connecticut. Whoa!
Perfect Strangers featured the super legendary “Mark II” lineup of: guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, vocalist Ian Gillan, Jon Lord on keys & organ, Ian Paice on drums and Roger Glover on bass. My favorite songs on Perfect Strangers are: Knocking At Your Back Door, Perfect Strangers, Wasted Sunsets and Hungry Daze.
On October 16th, 1985 – KISS released their thirteenth studio album: Asylum. This is not one of my favorite KISS albums, yet King Of The Mountain and Any Way You Slice It are very cool songs. Tears Are Falling kinda gets on my Metal nerves, after all these years. The album cover is cheesy too. Hell, the late & great Eric Carr has the bottom of his face cut-off on this Asylum album cover. WTF? That’s blasphemy!
Embed from Getty ImagesShown above: The legendary Steve Harris of the iconic IRON MAIDEN, performing at the IRON MAIDEN Concert on October 16, 2006, at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ever since I was first introduced to IRON MAIDEN, (so many terrific years ago), I could not fathom life without them. Metal be thy name!
On October 16th, 2015 – The newly released studio album from STRYPER is now ranked at #1, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Holy cow!
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LONG LIVE METAL.
LONG LIVE THE ROOTS & FAMILY TREE OF METAL.
Stone.
October 17, 2015 at 10:48 pm
True story, one night at my local club in NJ, they were giving the KISS “Asylum” away free to the first 25 people who came in that night. I was definitely one of the first to arrive but I arrived too soon apparently so I didn’t get one. I still feel that I was cheated.
October 17, 2015 at 10:58 pm
Yeah, you were cheated!! I feel bad for that, my Metal Buddy. What the heck is “too soon”? Sounds like that club had already pre-picked who the first 25 people were going to be – 100% likely friends of the owner, ticket person and/or bouncer. Bad business practice, indeed.
October 17, 2015 at 11:02 pm
I agree. The club closed down about six months after that so it only goes to show.
October 17, 2015 at 11:10 pm
Whoa! I agree to that… when you run a cheapskate promotion, you’re likely running a cheapskate business “behind the scenes” as well. \m/\m/