Monday, April 27, 2009

They did have a song called "Lightning to the Nations"

Maybe the lightning reminds me of onstage pyrotechnics writ large. I am not entirely sure why, but I always crave some NEW WAVE OF BRITISH HEAVY METAL (NWOBHM) during fierce thunderstorms.
Thus, while some Dubuque County residents were taking refuge in their basements, I was driving home from seeing a film, DIAMOND HEAD absolutely blaring from the car stereo speakers.
Formed by a quartet of teenagers -- Sean Harris (vocals), Brian Tatler (guitar), Colin Kimberly (bass) and Duncan Scott (drums) -- Diamond Head emerged from Stourbridge, in the English Black Country, in the late 1970s.
"Sure, there's a lethal riffing power and a crashing cataclysmic roar (etc.) to Diamond Head, but it's tempered with thought and class, lifting them on to that precarious hard rock/ heavy metal borderline," rock writer Paul Suter once wrote. "Brian Tatler's the resident guitar hero, loud and proud and bristling with electric power."
I listened to Tatler work his magic on his WHITE GIBSON FLYING V while driving last night, the skies overhead growing increasingly dark, as the music grew increasingly loud.
I was ready for a storm

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