Mastodawn

#Winger #HeadedForAHeartBreak

I'll go first

Loved this so much seeing it almost makes me cry

Grogmagog Mar 9

@samvarma

This was the gateway for me to all things hard rock and metal.

#scorpions #blackout

@gogmagog Fucking spectacular album

Steven Woolgar Mar 9

@gogmagog @samvarma I saw them on the previous album tour. Animal Magnetism. I was a huge fan at the time and was surprised by Mattias being in the band. I was hoping for Michael or Uli. Mr Jabs did a great job nonetheless. I screamed myself hoarse yelling for them to play Sails of Charon or Polar Night.

Grogmagog Mar 9

@woolie @samvarma

Been a good day at work

imma boost them ALLLLLL

there is beauty in simplicity Mar 9

@samvarma

Proto Himbo European Mar 9

@kinsale42 @samvarma King of the mountain of still such a kick-ass track

@Davi_Dblees EPIC as I've gotten older the genius of this cannot be understated

@woolie UNDENIABLE

Ludwig Vielfrass Mar 9

@woolie @samvarma YAAAAAAS. Here's another one that's my favorite:

Steven Woolgar Mar 9

@lerxst @samvarma I’ve played those songs for decades, I even am starting to play them properly now. 🤪🎸

My band plays Natural Science. Ooof

Ludwig Vielfrass Mar 9

@woolie @samvarma They are tricky hard! Natural Science taught me how to play in 7.

Apple-Apple-Pineapple!

@woolie Bring it

@woolie If you're of 🇬🇧 persuasion

Steven Woolgar Mar 9

@samvarma I still love that album (and the last Quo to me, which was Whatever You Want).

@woolie The OG

@samvarma I was obsessed. I heard Bold as Love last week. Still one of the best ever.

🤘 🤘

@dannotdaniel I see what you did there

#ThingThatShouldNotBe

@woolie #bedrock inescapable

@samvarma Long Live Rock and Roll

@gikkt #GontaGleebinGlausinGlobin

#GenX #Scorpions #KlausFuckinMeine

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Mar 9

@samvarma alright here ya go back in the dayyy

@dannotdaniel COME

more scorps love than I expected

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Mar 9

@samvarma perhaps you've encountered this gentleman? 🎸 🔥

seen him a couple times at Kingston Mines.
no place I'd rather be tbqh 🎶 🍺

Check out his cover of Miss You

#GenX #LarryMcCray

@dannotdaniel Um quite a list of special guests! You hang in the Chi? I'll def check it

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Mar 9

@samvarma just been a few times for conferences, etc. Last time for a wedding..

on that trip I went to KM both nights I was in town 😅

And Joanna Connor was on the other stage 🤩

@samvarma
It’s weird: I don’t remember getting obsessive about album covers. I thought a lot of them were dull or just embarrassing.

I do remember obsessing over some *liner notes*.

@geoffduncan This isn't about the covers—it's about remembering how much we loved the music, and the extent to which the images embody that love

@geoffduncan Maybe I'm weirdly visual, but my pre-experience of the music was the imagery, so the album covers are totems of a sort

@samvarma
I remember my friends going over every detail, talking about hem, speculating, etc. I just didn’t for whatever reason—and *I* was the visual arts kid!

But I remember making sure my parents never saw this one. Or heard it. (Ironic given what happened a few years s later.) About ten seconds of this still lives rent-free in my head whenever someone tells me “Play something terrifying.”

@geoffduncan Listening now for the first time 👀

@samvarma
Bits hold up, “Electric Eye” could be covered today. The end of the title track is still the platonic ideal of a divebomb+rage for me.

A few years later local parents would sue Judas Priest for the suicides of their sons, claiming subliminal messages egged them on. The band was acquitted.

@geoffduncan I do remember that story. Also crazy how much chorus they had in their guitar sound!

@samvarma
It varied, but yeah: the shadow of the Roland Jazz Chorus was getting very long. That album also has pitch-shifted/processed drums. So, you know, Phil Collins' shadow. ;)