80smetalman's Blog

Frank Zappa

I remain convinced that if you attended Mainland Regional High School in New Jersey back in the mid to late 1970s, it was a school requirement that you had to listen to Frank Zappa. Just about everyone I knew back in high school did ...

“Wayne’s World 2” was totally correct on the point that in late 1976 and early 77, if you lived in the US suburbs, you were practically issued a copy of “Frampton Comes Alive,” although it didn’t come in the mail with boxes of Tide. It would have...

Deep Purple- in the early 1970s

Sometimes, it takes hearing a song being played live to make one realize just how great the song really is. This experience happened to me in March, 1985, when I saw Deep Purple at the Philadelphia Spectrum...

It was this song, “Pigs, Three Different Ones,” where upon listening to it in the car, my first wife forbade me from playing Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album in the car while she was in it. She called the song, ‘music to slice ...

Bob Dylan

The second Bob Dylan song from this series is “Joey” from his 1975 album, “Desire.” Clocking in at just over eleven minutes, the song tells the story of mobster Joey Gallo, who was gunned down in 1972. However, Dylan treats Joey wi...