Never thought about it until now. The first lineup of Talas sounded a lot like Y&T.

Metal School cracks me up. Genuine lol's. Reminds of Circus mag (or was it Creme) when they would do these exposes with a hint of satire. Great stuff. Here in this video, by the time Udo got to the strip club, I was was cry'n. Funny stuff.

I wish they would come back out on tour I would love to see him again

To me they were such an underrated band I mean every time I saw them they blew the house up just an incredible band !

I guess the hardest part of writing a Tank song is finding a title, then you just sing it repeatedly.

My favorite band since I read an article about them in Cream magazine back in 1984. We (a communal effort of friends) bought Mean Streak and the rest is history. We lived in Nashville at the time and only got to see them 3 times as openers for Twisted Sister/Dio and I can't remember the other. Motley Crue maybe? I moved out to L.A. in 1986 and was fortunate to see them several times after Contagious and 10 came out. After the live album I thought they were done? It wasn't until about 2005 that I found out they were still around. I moved back to Nashville and have seen them about 4 times when they would do their annual tour. Their last stop or next to last was always Nashville before the Monsters Of Rock Cruise. Got to meet Dave several times after the shows and he was such a great guy to talk to. Y&T FOREVER!!!.

My first three albums when I was a teenager was Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous....AC DC Powerage...and Yesterday and Today !!!.

Like a lot of bands from this era it's there first two albums that are the best and the rest is meh. Those first two albums are mostly songs written when they were working the clubs and honing their craft. After that the record companies had too much influence trying to make them sound like what was the best seller at the time. Motley, Ratt, Twisted Sister etc.

They just never got on a good tour in the states or they would have been a lot bigger

I like the music.

Love the song Turn me On!!

Leonard Haze was a monster on drums. My favorite albums are the ones he is on, but have and love them all. Saw them a few times when we lived in the Bay Area. I would love to see them if they came to PNW.

I was a late bloomer and by late bloomer, I mean I first heard of WASP in Stranger Things when Eddie has the pin on his vest. I got curious, looked them up on KZbin and immediately fell in love with their Golgotha album. Miss you is my favorite song of theirs. Eventually I worked my way backwards, particularly enjoying Unholy Terror and Restless Children along the way. Then my buddy got tickets to their show in Boston last week and when I heard they were doing their entire first album, I gave that a good listen and was in awe over most of it. Totally irritated I waited until almost 40 to listen to them but they're easily top ten for me in terms of greatest bands of all time. Blackie is a musical genius. As for the show, Blackie still has it and it was epic! Wild Child was fantastic live!

It's Tom's versatility and his constant quest to bring something original to the table is what made him a real pioneer. I didn't really care for the direction he took with glam, but I'm glad he did things beyond that.

Having been a Priest, Maiden Motorhead guy, I picked up Meanstreak just off the album cover alone without having ever listened to them before. Meanstreak immediately won me over as a song, but the rest of the album felt underwhelming, and I still picked up the next few albums as well. Saw them live on In Rock We Trust tour-with Helix opening(Helix was awesome-Long Way to Heaven album support). IRWT with Tom Allom producing, I thought gave them the best production sound they'd ever had, and I also liked much more of that album...but alas they kept chasing the radio hit...and their hardness suffered, and they failed to actually reach the next tier of success with each successive album. Many bands of the early 80s kept chasing the radio and suffered from it. Some won fans back, some lost them forever.

One of the most underrated band black tiger hang em high. So many great tracks

Can you do Toxic? So underrated and ultimate shredding!

When I was a kid in the 80s I had a masters of metal tape that had mean streek on it. That was my introduction to Y-T.

I had no idea that these guys were making making 70's proto metal albums. Interesting how that mid-career fork in the road worked on so many industry bands. Something tells me, once they hit the big labels, they weren't being encouraged to find their own voice as much as to be like either Motley Crue or Bon Jovi. Who knows what would have happened if they had gone the Anthrax, Slayer metal circuit.

Forgot about these guys. Had their Vices album way back in the day when I heard Heavy Metal shuffle during a metal show on local radio. Thanks for these reminders of bands I've totally forgotten about.

Open fire was my introduction to Y&T. Loved it. I saw them open for Ace Frehley I 1987. They are great. Thanks for your killer video

That original singer wasn’t very good I agree lol. He reminds me of the band Hyskos also from 1982 who had that one album and faded away pretty quickly. Killer riffs but kinda made less good by bad vocals

Fred Nile was a pedderfile aka kid tucher and was convicted and my spelling is hopeless

I discovered this band from a french metal youtuber i like (im french canadian from quebec by the way)named maxwellmetal and since this is my favorite french metal band,my favorite song are d'ailleurs and vampire(from the new album apocalypso)

Great band.sorry u were sleeping

watched so many of your killer videos! great research! saw this one just before going to see testament play in seattle. any plans to cover forbidden or vio-lence?

Did they mention "I Beieve in You ?". That was the showstopper.

Headhunter was my first into to Krokus, specifically when "Screaming in the Night" got lots of MTV play time.

My girlfriend in the 80's said i looked like MIKE TRAMP ??? And they say the dope back then wasnt as potent as todays ??? ,, I BEG 2 DIFFER!!!!!😆 GREAT CHSNNEL KEEP UP THE GREAT STUFF!!!!!

Had the Steeler album back in 83. Loaned it out never got it back. Had the KEEL right to rock as well. Have to say listening to it in my 50's, not so much into his voice. But will say his vocals seemed to improve with age. Yngwie made that Steeler album in my opinion.

My alltime favorite bands!

They were okay..too generic sounding…

as a 13 years old child i bet so many people to being bigger fan than all. because helloween is my life i cant live without helloween its always makes me wanna cry so I'm so surprised 'bout you shared this helloween documentary i wish someday i see them. because even sascha gerstner is youngest member in helloween. he is 47 and if he could played in helloween why i cant see helloween so i wish to see helloween and thanks to you man i'll sub your channel right now take care

the band reminds me of Spinal Tap

I have heard of Cirith Ungol since the beginning of 9th grade in 1992 but never got around to checking them out...until tonight when I watched this video. I wish I would have gone to the local music store and bought a couple of their CDs because I missed out on these guys! I would see a few albums here and there from time to time, but again...never bothered!

Open Fire is one of my all time favorite live albums

Tied between mean streak and black tiger for me.

KROKUS

That Beatles album with the babies almost looks worse than a Cannibal Corpse album. WTF is going on with that? What's the symbolism supposed to represent?

The plane behind Tior in the second album is there because Narita is a Japanese airport. Tior dressed as Sumo and Narita airport are a dedication to Japan for making their first album a hit.

I met Leonard at the back entrance at a show many years ago. What a humble dude. His wife/girlfriend came out after a while and he was telling her about the shoes he was wearing and how they weren’t good to play in. It was a little funny but showed how human these guys can be. This band is definitely underrated and one of my favorites. It’s a cool memory, I think we sat there and talked for at least a half hour. He is in my top five drummers of the 80’s.

What an irritating voice there's absolutely know quality!😂

Takes me back to my High School Z28 Camaro days!❤❤ Thanks for posting!

Hot Wire was such a good album

The first CD I ever purchased in 1985 was Y&T In Rock We Trust.

Thank you for making this, it was very entertaining to watch and it gave me an insight in the late 90's era (of which I didn't know much) of one of my top favorite bands. I laughed a lot with your description of the Dying illusion video! And I can't believe you didn't mention The edge of heaven! Great work and very nicely done!

My first album was HARDWARE . To be open my sister came up with it first... 🙂

Discovered this channel this morning and here is whats not done at the house yet: Break out and fire up the snowblower Winterize 3 pressure wahers Run the generators for their monthly Scoop cat litterboxes Organize the wood in the shop that is scattered about. The list goes on. Its early yet