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Happy Mother's Day 2015!
Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 12:01AM
Happy Mother's Day to all the Glam moms out there! Make sure you call your mom today, she misses you I'm sure. I'm taking my mom out for a big Mother's Day brunch. Hopefully you have a great holiday, too!
Here's some Def Leppard since my mom let me listen to Hysteria when I was too young to understand what any of the songs meant. All the mothers of my friends at the time were lame and tried to censored what their kids listened to... shortsighted for sure. I can't imagine my life without Def Leppard or Hysteria when I was young!
And here's something really cool: a video of a Def Lep soundcheck from back in 1988. Love seeing Steve Clark at work.
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I still recall my Mother asking me to make cassette tapes for her to listening to while she was working out or cleaning the house. She liked songs with what she called "jungle beats." Her favorites? "You Got Another Thing Coming" and "Who Made Who." Go figure! She would put those tapes into our massive (even for the time) stereo. Hilarious.
She also referred to Ozzy during the Ultimate Sin era as "Uncle Ozzy" and said his outfits reminderd her of a man her Mother (my Grandmother, RIP), loved: Liberace. Priceless.
It's simple and cliche, but true: without them, we wouldn't be here.
And my Mom said, "Turn it up! That's a goodie!" How right she was!
To all the Metal Mom's out there, Have a very Metal Mothers's Day!
mb: I gotta ask...what's your fascination with DL's "photograph"? I believe that it's a song about Joe Elliot's fascination with Marilyn Monroe? Do you have a different (apparently) take on the song? I'd like to know what it is.
Him: mb explained why she uses the moniker, Metalboy!. I'm still curious why you use yours? BTW, thank you for your kind words recently. They helped.
And I am glad you saw my post, Fletch. Truly inspiring words a week or so back.
The moniker? Pretty simple and stupid. I figured that anyone, those who like what I write or don't, would instantly recognize what I write as being my own (as it is with quite a few posters on here, with distinct "voices" and POVs). That is, after Metalboy! realized I wasn't you!
So I imagined a chain of responses as being somewhat like in real life. "Can you believe he wrote that?" "Who?" "Him." "Oh, he does that all the time." Hence, the moniker. If you are going to post anonymously, it doesn't hurt to be a touch mysterious and a bit more self-effacing! Humility, not hubris, gets you farther--and makes you happier--in this world.
[Sidebar: good post on the PMRC, Bob. I still love the Megadeth song "Hook in Mouth" as a response to all that nonsense. And I still occasionally replay John Denver, Frank Zappa, and Dee Snider, and how they so wonderfully took down the stuffed shirts who thought music was a threat. Then again, in every era, people tend to vilify beasts of straw. Call it generational, call it conspiratory, call it what have you. It is a story that is sadly as long as history: people fear difference (all of us, in some measure, do). And some people go to great lengths to tamp down on what is different.]