On This Day In METAL History – May 7th… From BON JOVI To POLAR
On May 7th, 1989 – BON JOVI‘s smash power ballad, I’ll Be There For You, was making its case for eventually becoming the #1 single on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Chart.
On May 7th, 1994 – The unbelievable RUSH set a record for most performances at Toronto, Canada’s Maple Leaf Gardens, with their 22nd concert at this historic arena. RUSH were on tour supporting their 15th studio album: Counterparts.
On May 7th, 2010 – The mighty EXODUS released their ninth studio album in Europe: Exhibit B: The Human Condition. Gary Holt is a Metal Warrior, by the way.
On May 7th, 2016 – Guildford, Surrey’s POLAR have their newly released studio album, No Cure No Saviour, ranked at #53, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Who, yeah!!
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LONG LIVE THE ROOTS & FAMILY TREE OF METAL.
MOTÖRHEAD FOREVER.
REST IN PEACE, LEMMY.
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May 7, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Exhibit B is one badass album. Nanking is one of my favourtie ever Exodus songs, even after years of being too skeptical to even try out Dukes era stuff initially.
May 8, 2016 at 12:23 pm
AGREED! Rob Dukes is a monster! I bought into Dukes rather easily cuz ‘Shovel Headed Kill Machine’ blew me away off the get-go! \m/\m/
May 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm
I never tried any til 2009 cuz I liked tempo of the dammed too much, if that makes any sense
May 8, 2016 at 9:07 pm
It makes sense. ‘Tempo Of The Damned’ is a fantastic album and Steve Souza is a legend himself! \m/
May 9, 2016 at 6:08 am
Although now ironically I’m hung up on Dukes and afraid to try the new album lol
May 8, 2016 at 8:46 am
Haha that Bon Jovi pic… oughta read “I’ll be there for you… and your hairspray ‘cos I’m all out…”
Rush FTW! So awesome. Sadly, MLG is a grocery store and indoor lacross rink now.
May 8, 2016 at 12:21 pm
Whoa! I had absolutely no idea that MLG became that. Many arenas from yesteryear have been either changed or torn down.
Yes, Bon Jovi were definitely poster boys for BIG HAIR, back then. I get a huge kick outta seeing pics of the Hair Bands from then.
The classic METAL has denim, leather and tee’s both then and now. That’s the way I really like it! 🙂 \m/\m/
May 10, 2016 at 8:31 am
Yeah, MLG is all coverted into other things. Same as the old Montreal Forum. Last time I was there, it was a movie theater, among other things. It broke my heart to stand on the red dot on the floor where center ice used to be. It was in the center of a mall-like hallway.
No respect for history. I know those old hockey barns were run-down and didn’t have as much seating as the new corporate buildings do, but I always say they’d have been better to spend all thoe millions fixing up the old place rather than build new. There’s no soul or history in the new buildings.
Ha, sorry, a bit of a rant there. Toronto is terrible for tearing down old in favour of poorly-built new, instead of fixing and maintaining what’s already there.
May 10, 2016 at 10:16 am
Same goes on here in the States. It seems like history in general gets erased in favor of the almighty dollar AND wars, these past dozen or more years. I so agree with you, renovating sure sounds better than recreating new buildings that have no chance in standing the test of time. 😦
May 12, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Dammit, why don’t they just ask us, eh? 🙂
Rock on, brother! \m/ \m/