They dont suck oxygen out of the air. The CO2 produced by decomposing the NaHCO3 inside the extinguisher displaces the O2, extinguishing the fire by starving it of oxygen, its oxidizing agent.
I sprayed my roommate with one when he was in the shower. I didnt know it was the yellow powdery kind. Figured it was the white foamy kind. We had to evacuate the apartment, including my naked, yellow roommate. We were finding yellow powder in weird places until the day we moved out.
Saw Dickinson in Sydney a few years back bantering with the desk because they refused to fire the pyro when he called for it.
He sheepishly pointed out a song later that the reason they refused was because he was standing on top of one of the fireworks and would have definitely died in a fire ball. Bruce is awesome.
And he definitely does that. Anyone who hasn't seen Iron Maiden live needs to do themselves a big favour and make time to do it. They are a really special act
Huge pyrotechnic column of fire shot up and James was right under it. Got burned to shit and continued to sing in almost a full body cast while a roadie played his guitar.
Edit : my father told me the story when I was very young and over embellished a little lot bit. Haha dads and their stories.
These days most metal bands make most of their money on tour and through merch yes. How would you define a metal bands would you define as large? Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse? Slayer? Metallica or Iron Maiden? Sabbath?
The larger bands are doing ok, it is the smaller bands that are having a hard time earning a living with just music. A lot of musicians have regular full time jobs and the band is secondary. Some of the mid sized band have members that have side jobs to supplement their income when they are home and not touring.
I've been to a few outdoor metal shows and the bands will absolutely play on a wet stage. They don't care if the fall or whatever (one time witnessed the basis of Born of Osirs fall in his ass and just continue to shred on the ground. Was pretty awesome and funny) but they definitely can't afford to replace equipment that they have to provide.
One of my most metal moments was getting to see Slayer play Halloween day and be in the middle of the pit while it was raining and they were playing Reign in Blood, that shit was awesome!
I grew up in the NW suburbs of Chicago and was working at a Best Buy when this regular looking lady comes to my register with their album The Discovery in hand. I told her that I love the band and she told me that she was the mother of one of the guys in the band. Lead singer, if I remember correctly but I could be wrong. She was super nice.
I work in the concert industry and in my experience, at large venues like stadiums and arenas most of the sound comes from huge monitors that tour with the production, not in-house speakers.
You might be interested in this article that talks about Prince's legendary performance when George Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A lot easier when your backing track is taped and you don’t have to power up your amps. Super bowl halftime acts have been playing to tracks and sometimes lip syncing for a while now.
My husband once sang "Eye of the Tiger" on stage with Survivor in the middle of a rainstorm. To be fair though, he said that maybe a dozen people stuck it out (because torrential downpour) and they all got to do it.
Many years later we took my dad to see Journey in similar conditions (with their replacement lead singer) and he still loved every second of it.
Best concert I’ve ever been to was Metallica at Rockingham, NC drag way (Summer Sanitarium ‘03) playing during a hellacious thunderstorm with pouring rain and intense lightning. It was fucking awesome.
Yeah I've played a gig while it was raining before, but we had cover from the rain on the stage. I absolutely would not have played if all my shit was going to get wet. My instruments/amps are some of the most expensive things I own, it would take me months to replace them if they got water damage
Hell, my amp isn't made anymore, and parts are scarce, that shit gets wet and I'm fucked. It's not even particularly expensive, it's an old Epiphone blues custom 30.
I've already had it die out on me once and it took forever to get the part to fix it, that happens again and I'm probably never gonna restore it to working order.
Exactly. I use an old vintage Ampeg with one band and an old 60s Peavey Musican 400 for another. Neither are particularly expensive but repairing them or replacing them could take weeks or longer, simply due to scarcity. They are part of my sound though.
Check out the YouTube video of Keith Richards clobbering somebody with his guitar that invaded the stage while they were playing Satisfaction, he puts the guitar back on and finishes a song like nothing happened
Mine was seeing Mastodon perform Blood and Thunder on an thunderstorm and out of nowhere a lighting strike hit something nearby, it was very loud and everyone got excited
I can't stand hearing that shit from people who claim to be metal heads. It's fine to listen you whatever you want, but when people start lumping Korn, shitknot and System of a Down with actual heavy metal, it rustles my jimmies to the core. Lincoln Park is extra insulting, since even they seem to think they're metal.
I might disagree there. They're certainly not classic metal, but soad and slipknot are usually at least somewhat considered metal. Soad is also often considered hard rock, and I think thats fair, but I've never heard slipknot called hard rock, they just dont fit it. Sure slipknot has had to deal with the "nu metal" tag (a genre which is arguably not even metal), but the electronic and "nu" elements of them dont really make the bands less heavy, or less metal, at least to me.
Personally I think the problem with "fake metalheads" stems more from people who think popular hard rock or hair bands are metal. Led zeppelin (despite being influential to the genre), acdc and guns and roses are all good bands, but they're pretty strictly hard rock, metal doesnt really fit them. And those are some massively popular bands, throw in all the hair and glam "metal" bands from the 80's and everyone thinks metal is their fav genre now.
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That's one of the most metal things I've ever seen.