Strange the fascination with the Devil and death music or just the subject in general! I could remember when Running with the Devil by Van Halen was frowned upon by many.....what a great song!
When my two girls were very young my Dad gave them an old stereo 8 track player. The kids didnt know albums and 8 tracks so I pulled out some of my old 8 tracks to play with. The kids thought this stuff was ancient! Within a few months my oldest came to me and said, Dad.. I heard some of that music on the radio today! She was amazed! I told her to listen carefully, most of that music is still being played!
Even today!
I listened to Cheap Trick, Van Halen, Eagles, Kiss, Ozzy, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Kinks, Joan Jett (Hung out with her first Bassist a few times just around 3 years ago local guy), Boston, Kansas, Metalica, Rush and many many more! Songs you could understand the words and sing along!
Concerts...I only did a few. Bad experience in a crowd of nearly 80,000 people standing in JFK's field. Super hot day, all fkd up. Thats when you could bring a gallon of Gin and tonic and a couple big fatties in the concert! They were hosing down the crowd with fire hoses. It was the Kinks, Joan Jett , Lover Boy, and Foreigner. Lines of 50 people at every bathroom! Kids were just peeing on the ground in the hall ways. If you made it in the bathroom they were using the sinks! We lost a few that day that never returned to the bus!
Then there was what I called the Kingston Armory massacre! Blue Oyster Cult was playing with some tickets being sold at the door. Well, no tickets were sold at the door which caused a riot. I saw kids tipping cars over and cops beating kids with billy clubs! Me and my friend nicely asked 3 different groups of police if we could go in and we showed we had tickets. They let us in just in time to see Godzilla and the drummer was wearing the Godzilla head! Lots of good smells in that concert for sure! Man those were the days! I have hearing loss to this day!