![]() They’d also play Queensrÿche, Megadeth, and Dio era Black Sabbath. The longest running rock station in the city, I could always rely on them to deliver my fix of heavier bands, like Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica. Where else are you gonna hear that over the airwaves? Plus, a couple days ago they played Judas Priest’s rendition of “The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)”. Granted, those deep tracks are played less and less as the years go by, but they have an entire HD station devoted to these album cuts, so I can’t entirely fault them. Their main focus was flagship classic rock, bands like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and so on, with deep tracks sprinkled in between. The first was 97.1 The Drive, which is still on the air to this day. Here in Chicago, there were three stations I listened to on the regular. This was before the soulless bastards at iHeartRadio swooped in and downgraded every classic rock radio playlist in America to “Hotel California”, “Freebird”, and half of Back in Black. Sure, it was a far cry from its album oriented glory days of the 70s and 80s, but there was still a wider variety of music being showcased to a large-scale audience. To hear new music, you had to actually show up to the store and purchase the CD (streaming wouldn’t catch on for quite some time). The late 2000s were a last hurrah for the music industry as past generations knew it. In today’s essay, I look back upon Quiet Riot’s Metal Health, what it meant to me, and what it meant to heavy metal as a whole upon its release. The point is, 13 years and a few thousand records later, these two were the ones that started it all. Mind you, this was about the going price for vinyl in the late 2000s, before hipsters hijacked the market, but I digress. I was 10 years old and I bought them from my neighborhood Half Price Books for the low, low price of $2.99 each. As the evening went on and we reminisced over various memories, one friend asked the question, “What was the first record you ever bought?” For me, there’s two answers to this question: AC/DC’s High Voltage and Quiet Riot’s Metal Health. A couple nights ago, I went out to dinner with some friends. Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. ![]()
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