Punk & Metal Music

Here’s a rarity for early 80s punk bands – a concert that was professionally filmed & recorded so it’s actually a great document some 40 years later. Audio of this show was just released as part of the Super Deluxe Remaster of the band’s debut album, “Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash”

Set…[Read more]

This could have been not only the greatest Black Flag album ever, but easily one of the best punk records ever made by ANY band. Except it wasn’t technically an album at all. Just a demo session…. legal hassles from the band’s record distributor would keep them from making any records for another 2 years after this. Sadly, by that time, this…[Read more]

no relation to either the Eddie Cochran or Rolling Stones songs…..

These are perhaps the least known & rarest of all of the Sex Pistols’ demo recordings. Often dubbed, “The Italian Demos”… after they were mysteriously broadcast on Italian radio in 1977…

1) No Feelings (instrumental) 0:00 2) No Future (aka “God Save the Queen”) 3:03 3) Liar 8:03 4) Problems 11:37…[Read more]

The first recordings by Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill. And while Ozzy’s voice is unmistakable here, the rest of the band’s signature sound is still very much undeveloped at this point, though about halfway through the second track there’s a section that would evolve into the band’s “theme song”, Black Sabbath. Aside from that, it’s fucking JAZZ on…[Read more]

If there was a Van Halen song I didn’t think anybody would ever attempt to cover, it would be this one. But I’ll be eternally damned if they didn’t pull it off. I played this for Eddie, and even he was impressed…..

This band was originally called “The K-Tels”, but a certain mail order record company didn’t take very kindly to that name, and young punk bands can’t afford lawyers, so that was the end of that…..