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Massive Metal Mayhem: a Documentary, Live Shows, New Stuff and Expanded Reissues, Oh My! by Cathy Bernardy 46 Massive Metal Mayhem: A documentary, live shows, new stuff and expanded reissues, oh my! by Cathy Bernardy Three DVDs: Headbanger’s Journey documentary plus Europe and who rode his bike from Spain to Sweden to see a show, which ended up selling out, so Whitesnake shows in London he had to ride to Norway to get a ticket. Metal is a very varied thing, as the fas- Wow. Tempest echoes that dedication when cinating DVD documentary Metal: A he tells about riding a ferry for 24 hours to Headbanger’s Journey (Warner Home see Thin Lizzy play. Tempest also reminis- Video 80575, region one, 96 minutes) cences about meeting his bandmates as shows. (Your parents won’t be scared of teenagers and in college: He wrote the it anymore if they watch this!) A docu- “Final Countdown” riff on Michaeli’s bor- mentary by 30-year-old anthropologist rowed keyboard, for instance. Sam Dunn, the film covers the history of Shorter bonuses include the band the genre and seeks to find out why it’s members showing and explaining their been stereotyped, explores its roots gear setups. Music videos include “Spirit (even delving into classical music), its Of The Underdog” and “Heart Of Stone” relation to gender and sexuality, and reli- done in soundcheck/rehearsal (the quick gion and Satanism. Censorship and the edits get somewhat annoying) and the pro- www.goldminemag.com GOLDMINE # June 9, 2006 • GOLDMINE # June www.goldminemag.com Parents Music Resource Council (PMRC) fessional promo clips for “Got To Have are explored (See Twisted Sister’s Dee Courtesy of Europe/by Michael Johansson Faith” and the fantastic “Hero.” Snider testifying in front of Congress!), Europe today, from left: John Leven, Mic Michaeli, Joey Tempest, Also included are a biography, discogra- as is black metal, especially the John Norum, and Ian Haughland. phy and videography (their last DVD Norwegian music scene, which is an being 2004’s Rock The Night [Rock The extremist anti-Christianity microcosm of World in the States]) with tiny white print. the greater society. documentary on Norwegian black metal, Bleah. It might read easier on a screen big- The subjects of extensive interviews Motörhead’s Lemmy at the Rainbow, direc- ger than my 20-incher, which, 15 years were well-chosen, with some of the most tor’s commentary, travel outtakes and the ago was a pretty good-sized TV. But words eloquent metal masters in Alice Cooper metal history family tree, interactive. are not why people buy DVDs. (“There’s more blood in [William Europe fans will be thrilled with the new Overall: thorough, fun, fantastic. Oh, Shakespeare’s] Macbeth than my show”), Live From The Dark (Music Video yeah, and the music was good too. Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Rob Zombie, Distributors DR-4489) DVD sets. The basic The Whitesnake 2004 concert DVD at Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, Snider, and package is a four-hour two-DVD set, the last the Hammersmith in London, Live In The Ronnie James Dio. I was also surprised at concert of the band’s 2004 tour, at the Still Of The Night (Coming Home how well-spoken the gents in Slipknot Hammersmith, London, and one of two Studios/Hip-O B0006179-50), isn’t quite could be, as any of their songs I’ve ever hours of backstage and tour footage plus as thorough (“only” one DVD). It contains heard have been completely unintelligible music videos. The Deluxe Edition also a solid concert (David Coverdale still has — but then, with those masks, the band includes a bonus 12-track live CD (with not the voice!) and 15-minute documentary could have presented stand-ins. Who that many repeats from the DVD show, so it’s (interviews with band and crew, including knows? Shorter-interview subjects includ- truly a bonus), Start From The Dark, recorded makeup/costume tech and Coverdale’s ed Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil, Slayer’s Tom in Stockholm, and the higher-end package assistant and masseuse) and about a five- Araya, Rush’s Geddy Lee, and Rage Against retails for only five bucks more. I was just a minute slide-show photo gallery. The Machine/Audioslave’s Tom Morello. casual fan in the late ’80s but loved the depth Coverdale’s rotating lineup now contains The running theme explores what it is of the basic set, especially the bonus material. Doug Aldrich, Reb Beach (Winger, Alice about this music that appeals to people and The concert: Lead singer Joey Tempest Cooper), Marco Mendoza, and Timothy brings them together into a community — still has the pipes. Not being a Europe die- Drury. Tommy Aldridge has been his the common bond that metalheads around hard, I was familiar only with the hits, but mainstay on drums for the last decade and the world share. Fans report deriving the newer material fits in very well melody- he was a teen-ager. a half or so. (Can you imagine playing Six catharsis and self-empowerment from the and tempo-wise, probably because the line- The Taxi Diaries are interviews the band Degrees From David Coverdale [also music. They find a connection with others up hasn’t wavered that much. The pacing members did in various London taxis. known as the Kevin Bacon game]? You’d like them, such as school kids who feel like of the concert was good, with hits sprin- Because they were filmed from the front have all of Britain and a good portion of outcasts. Oftentimes, the music inspires kled in among the new stuff so no one seat, it feels as if you’re in the car listening the U.S., guitarists especially, if you’re people to learn to play an instrument, which attending would go very long without to them talk. If you enjoy that “fly on the going to allow everyone on Steve Vai’s also helps them through their tough times. being able to sing along. wall” type of feeling, this is definitely for Favored Nations label!) A Headbanger’s Journey also gives a fami- The bonuses: No matter how many you. John Norum and John Leven talk The collector’s edition of the DVD also ly tree of metal, with examples of bands in times you hang out with a band backstage, about what it’s like to be back together contains a 10-song CD from the concert, different subgenres, illustrating their simi- it’s always fun. That’s where Behind The after so long, how great of a community- so folks can jam out without the visuals. larities and differences. Dunn exposes a bit Tour (25 minutes) puts you, hanging out builder the Internet is, and how things are That and the new Definitive Collection of the marketing scam that is the heaviest of with the band as they wind down from a different now that they’re older and have (Geffen B0003945) would be good road- metal — the album covers and lyrics are show and ready themselves to go to the perspective of a long music career. trip material — if you’re traveling with just meant to be as shocking as possible, an London. The pop-up factoids are fantastic, On the lighter side, Ian Haughland someone who shares the same musical ante that keeps getting upped, year after funny and fascinating. For instance, the explains why he plays drums barefoot and, taste, that is. The kinda chronologically year. Araya said of the inherent calculation, band has covered 22 countries on 43 tours on the serious side, is brutally honest about arranged 18-song set, while not high on “Bands who want to be the biggest badass- since 1983. On this European tour, they the ups and downs he has put his wife complex lyrical content, is still chock-full es take the badass subjects.” traveled 13,000 miles. On stage the tem- through over the last 20 years and how of steering-wheel–pounding, sing-along Bonus materials (87 minutes, on disc two perature under the 168 lights can get to grateful he is that they got back together. anthems about those universal topics of of the DVD but not on the advance screener) 104 degrees. Tempest’s first trip ever to the Mic Michaeli explains why they don’t chasing and recovering from love. Fun include: more interviews, a 20-minute mini- Hammersmith was to see Thin Lizzy when sing in Swedish and tells a story of a fan stuff. It appears that Geffen (or someone).
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