Am I The Drama? Mon Jul 24 with wired academic on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hello hello hello!

Good theme, origins of metal

Love that s-tron puts the artwork for Led Zep III instead of IV up there. I like III better anyway

Thanks, DTO! I was excited about today's theme -- and I agree abt LZ III artwork being better than IV lol

Spin the wheel... they issued some mini lp cover cd versions of Led Zep catalog bout 20 - 25 yrs ago (Japan releases I think). The copy of III had a working wheel just like the lp. Had to grab one on eBay back when everyone was selling their cd collections . Fun.

I AM IRAAAHH MAAAAAN

This show is already super sick, big ups Wired Academic!

Brian -- oh sick! Back home we have IV I think but not III

That vocal effect on Iron Man intro made me think of hearing Wesley Willis "Cut the Mullet" yesterday on Deirdre's show

I think the Physical Graffiti mini lp cover cd release had the "advent calendar"style cut out windows too

TAndy -- I'm glad hahaha been a while since I listened to Black Sabbath and oh yea HAHAHA I hadn't made that connection to Willis' song

Any Budgie lps available? The song "Breadfan" request if poss.

Yep yep I can do breadfan after this!

Thank you Inci!

Hi Inci!

Hello Parrscream! And Budgie was a great choice thanks for the req!!

Cool choice, Brian. Haven't heard that song in a loooong time!

Actually, to be more general about it, I haven't heard any Budgie in ages.

Had fun teaching that Budgie one to the students in my few years as a gtr teacher. That and Crash Course in Brain Surgery. Both from the Budgie versions but Metallica did a fine job covering them and turning a bunch of people on to Budgie. A good thing

That hopefully put some pounds in Burke's pocket too. RIP

Jeff here going into the stratosphere

Can't hear Inna Gada... without seeing the Simpsons church organist freaking out

"In the Garden of Eden", by I. Ron Butterfly

2/ Although these 3 bands (as well as others like Steppenwolf and Foghat) were in heavy roration on NYC FM stations...first on WNEW and then WPLJ... but, with the exception of IRON MAN, the newer bands that followed were shunned and got virtualy no airtime...in fact, I didn't hear or become aware of the later bands (Judas Priest etc) for years...on WNEW Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath were played only on Horror Host and DJ Zackerley's annual Halloween show.

1/ A little backstory from someone who was there at the time (I even worked for CRAWDADDY!...the first true R&R Magazine back then) Anyway first came IRON Butterfly followed by LED Zeppelin and cemented By Deep Purple's MACHINE Head. It was these terms that the R&R press used HEAVY METAL as a 'dismissive' word because people saw this 'NEW' type of music as a step backwards in rock's evolution.

Oh dear! Yer ol pal Zacherle here...

Yeah...I knew him...hung out with him at Chiller...he even phoned me once

Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom! And of course the Bouchard Brothers

Bud Burroughs... "In the Garden of Eden"...we used to refer to it as "Ina-Gadda-zilla"

Cool hoping Saxon would be in the mix

Excellent alternative name, Sasha! I was also referring back to Brian's "Simpson" reference.

PAINKILLERRRRRR!!!

SHREDDZZZZZ

Underrated dual guitars in Judas Priest!

Finally the song that I was the most excited about in this playlist haha

Priest was always great about the guitar solo details in the album credits.

OH... I forgot to mention BLOODROCK 2 "D.O.A." radio stations would not play the song because of its explicit, gruesome description of fatal injury and the use of SIRENS, out of concerns that the siren sound would confuse motorists...a HIT record that got virtually no airplay for years

Sounds like metal to me. Much more so than led Zeppelin

Yep! That makes sense, Led Zeppelin is usually rock but has been one of the pioneers of both hard rock and heavy metal while these bands I am playing from come from the beginnings of heavy metal solidifying as a genre -- I tried to up the metal gradually lol

UP THE IRONS!

Metal for me will always be jean jackets with iron maiden Metallica and Megadeth patches

Omg, you found my kid's crazy uncle's mix tape. Died in a mosh pit in the 90's, but who couldn't see that one coming. :)

More Twin guitar

Headbanger's ball anyone

That's definitely metal yeah, specifically thrash metal, though there are many other bands -- I recommends looking at speed metal, metalcore, and power metal if you like those!

And yes this is basically my dad's playlist almost lol

LOL, cool dad. :)

I traded in my teenage angst and metal for adult angst and punk

IKR he took me to a metal summer festival when I was 11 and I've been listening to metal ever since ;)

That's fair haha a lot of grunge and punk songs have elements of metal in them to the point where I consider them metal too!

That is wonderful! Seriously!

Thanks for the thought-provoking subject matter. We were arguing at the bar for at least an hour. My friend Rob was screaming MC5!!

Thought Blue Cheer might make an appearance at the begin roots stuff today.

Oh, I actually haven't listened to MC5 -- Blue Cheer would've been good too, honestly, there are way too many good bands that I couldn't include bc 2 hrs of show slot

Sir Lord Baltimore. Bang. Death (Detroit band) . So many. Need a few weeks of shows

Flower Travellin Band from Japan too. Their Satori lp is always fun to hear on wprb

Wish I got in earlier. I love this stuff in blocks at a time sometimes. Have a good night Inci.

@Brian, "Weeks of Shows" Indeed!

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘excellent selections, safe travels!

Thanks all for listening! I might make more of these and expand the origins a little bit since a good amount of these are thrash and heavy metal origins but doesn't quite cover all of it -- so @Brian might make another one indeed!

Thank you Chef!!

Today's show was super. Thank you, Inci!!

This is the song the kids from South America got to play with Megadeth using their homemade instruments from materials found at their town's trash dump. Great documentary on that story . Megadeth is only a part of it. The kids had a great innovative music teacher.

Olive oil drum cellos with forks as tuning machines / bridges and shoe heels fit tuning pegs etc..

Landfill Harmonic is the film

Nice

@Brian -- oh wow I did not now that, I'll find that documentary now and download it to watch it during flight!

Have a nice rest of your day guys!

3:00 PM		Darth Vegas Music for a Haitian Voodoo Priestess Darth Vegas Brainwashing for Dirty Minds Newmarket Music 2012
3:06 PM		Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (Remastered) Rhino Atlantic 1970
3:14 PM		Cream Sunshine of Your Love Cream Disraeli Gears Polydor Records 1967
3:18 PM		Vanilla Fudge You Keep Me Hangin' On Vanilla Fudge Psychedelic Sundae: The Best of Vanilla Fudge Rhino 2002
3:21 PM		Black Sabbath Iron Man Black Sabbath Paranoid Rhino/Warner Records 1970
3:27 PM		Deep Purple Smoke On the Water Deep Purple Machine Head Rhino/Warner Records 2004
3:33 PM		Budgie Breadfan R Never Turn Your Back on a Friend LP MCA 1973
3:40 PM		Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild Steppenwolf Easy Rider (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Deluxe Edition) Geffen 1969
3:43 PM		Jeff Beck Shapes of Things Jeff Beck Truth Epic 1968
3:47 PM		Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Rhino Atlantic 1968
3:54 PM		Coven Black Sabbath Coven Witchcraft Nevoc Musick Company 2015
3:58 PM		Mountain Mississippi Queen Mountain Climbing! Columbia/Legacy 1972
4:00 PM		Blue Öyster Cult Godzilla Blue Öyster Cult A Long Day's Night Sanctuary 2002
4:04 PM		Aerosmith Walk This Way Aerosmith Devil's Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith Columbia/Legacy 2006
4:08 PM		Saxon Princess of the Night Saxon Denim and Leather Union Square Music 1981
4:12 PM		Judas Priest Painkiller Judas Priest Painkiller (Bonus Track Version) Columbia 2001
4:18 PM		Anthrax Madhouse Anthrax Spreading the Disease (Deluxe Edition) Universal Music Group International 2015
4:22 PM		Van Halen Eruption Van Halen Van Halen Rhino/Warner Records 1978
4:24 PM		Winger Can't Get Enuff Winger In the Heart of the Young Atlantic Records 1990
4:28 PM		Dio Holy Diver Dio Holy Diver Rhino/Warner Records 1983
4:34 PM		Sodom Agent Orange Sodom Agent Orange SPV 2010
4:40 PM		Iron Maiden The Trooper Iron Maiden Piece of Mind Parlophone UK 2015
4:44 PM		Sarcófago Nightmare Sarcófago Inri Cogumelo Records 1987
4:50 PM		Slayer Raining Blood Slayer Reign In Blood American Recordings Catalog P&D 1986
4:55 PM		Megadeth Symphony of Destruction Megadeth Countdown to Extinction (Bonus Track Version) Capitol Records 1992

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