Conference napalm::heavy_metal

          
    
    Kerrang are the biggest bunch of tossers in the world.
                         
    1 - They giver naff reviews to the good, good reviews to the naff.
                         
    2 - They give false concert information.
                         
    3 - They are soooooo repetitive.
        
    4 - They are overpriced.          
        
    In the album reviews they gave one album KKKKK (five K's) WITHOUT 
    LISTENING TO IT. They said "even if we'd had given it a bad review, 
    you still would have bought it."  Now I don't remember what album
    it was, but the album may well have been worth the KKKKK, but they
    should have given it a proper review first.
                                  
                                  
    Now, on the other hand, "Metal Hammer" is cool, and blows kerrDUNG
    off the face of this earth.  I can't begin to describe its good
    points, but it has everything (except regular nude pix of Lita Ford
    ;-) ).                             
                                           
         
    Hey Giles, which MH are you missing ???
         
    Cheers,
    -Tony

    Tony,
         I am missing NO.5 May  1987, 'cos the stupid Newsagents screwed
    the order. 
     
          Looking through my collection as i write ( i am dialing in
    cos i am off sick at the moment) i have found a copy of a magazine
    called Hurricane that is as glossy and as well presented as Metal
    Hammer and has a good article on the Scorpions which is probably
    why i bought it, and a magazine called Solid Rock which i have never
    seen any other issues of, but is an ok mag'. I have to agree with
    you Tony, Kerrang really is let down by some of the w*%$#@s that
    write some of the reviews, and Metal Hammer is Head'n'shoulders
    above it, but sentimentally Kerrang is my favourite. 
    
           My boss regularily records the MTV Metal Hammer and Monsters
    of Rock programmes off of Cable television for me, so I can compare
    the Bailey Brothers against Mick Wall - no comment.! So at least
    I can see the videos of new bands and judge them from that than
    magazine reviews.
    
    Prince Of The Dawn.

    Have you checked out RAW yet ?? They gave away a free pilot issue
    with the Donnington tour programs, and the first two issues have
    already hit the streets, with free flexi-discs with tracks from
    the new Ozzy album and another one (can't remember).  It looks good,
    but the publisher is Jonathon "d*ckhead" King, still can't have
    everything !!
    
    BTW - are you at DETHpark ???
    
    Cheers,
    -Tony

    Thanks for the info' Tony, unfortunately i was sipping OUZO on a
    greek beach with my x-girlfriend so i missed Donnington.
    
    Yes i am at DETHpark and have been for three years now working for
    Computer Services and am about to be promoted into our Networks
    group supporting LAN and WAN services.
    
    Where are you..?
    
    Prince Of The Dawn.

    
    I'm at "The giant polo mint" (ie Queens House, RDG).
    
    Hey, I've got an idea.....
    
    Hit NEXT UNSEEN to continue...........:-)

    Excuse my ignorance when it comes to notes Tony, but as there are
    over 5000 entries here i haven't read yet, when hiting NUS i get
    a Nasty Habbits entry, so what have you in mind....?
    
    Prince Of The Dawn.

                                                     
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    ha ha me heartys.....captain blackhead here ha ha...type in LAST
    at the 'Notes>' prompt....ha ha 

    I used to buy Kerrang but I found the faults thats Tony has already
    mentioned with it. I then started to buy metal hammer which is slightly
    better.
    One of the big faults about metal hammer though is it is about 3
    weeks behind Kerrang on upto date news.
    There is 2 things that I really hate about both these mags, 1 is
    when they are writting about an interview with a band, they normally
    spend about half the article talking about how they go there. The
    other thing that annoys me is that they give 1 person the album to
    review and that review is printed. From this conferance alone we
    know that some people think an album is brill where others think
    its s**t. Although I have noticed that in the last few issues of
    MH that I have bought they have given a table with about 10 people
    grading the album. 
    
    Mark        

    
    
    Hey boy
              you wanna read one great mag get circus (if you can get hold
    of it ) it is American but is worth a look at for any price.
    
    the private RATT
    

    
    
    
    	No offense -.2 but in my opinion Circus magazine is more for
    	the teen scene of HM, what I mean is that it seems to have 
    	more of what the public, fans, and puppy-love sick girls want
    	to hear instead of the actual facts. I could and probably am
    	be wrong since I have'nt picked one up in a few years but I
    	still see them on the mag racks and they're still the same cover
    	wise. Myself, I like Rolling Stone (and it's probably the same
    	format as Circus) but it's seems to me to be more realistic
    	and have more variety of the enterainment biz. If it's any con-
    	sellation, I like lookin' at the pic's in Circus, they get some'
    	decent live shot's somtimes. 
    
    	Hollywood..................who subscribes to "Modern Drummer"

    try "pit" magazine outta colorado spgs, co
    it's killer, man