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I hadn’t really thought about Blackie Lawless and W.A.S.P. in years. I have several albums by them, all on vinyl, and no longer have a functioning player. Well let’s say, no functioning needle. I’m sure I could find one somewhere should I desire. But what’s the point these days.
Anyway…
Charles Gramlich had a heavy metal quiz recently on his blog and W.A.S.P. was one of the questions. And then last night Blackie appeared on THAT METAL SHOW running late on VH1-Classic. In his mid-fifties now, and no longer sporting the circular saw blade dangling from his crotch, he didn’t look a lot different than he did twenty-five years ago.
W.A.S.P. has a new CD out, BABYLON, and the video below is playing on Youtube. Sounds good and he still has a political-religious bent to his shows.
I saw W.A.S.P. years ago and found them to be very entertaining. They are playing very near to me sometime soon and I keep wondering about going. I, too, have a few of their albums.
Heavy metal was the thing that turned me off to popular music. I just didn’t get it then. It seemed to be all about guitar riffs played incredibly high. I think it’s a guy thing.
blackie has turned out consistenly good music across his time and that in itself is impressive. I’ll have to pick this CD up.
Patti, I do know some women who like heavy metal but they are definitely a minority. I think it is largely a guy thing. To me, the music is just very powerful and it activates my emotions at both a physical and mental level. Most other kind of music will put me largely to sleep.