History of Heavy Metal, 1983

[@RockNewsDesk]

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[@pablomoreno1204]

80s best decade ever !!

[@RockNewsDesk]

Indeed. Who was your favorite band?

[@firesideshats]

Man 80s where not good man overall you seem to looking at it with rose tinted glasses because apart from music most of it was shit.

[@pablomoreno1204]

Motley Crue

[@AFloridaSon]

1983 is probably my favorite year of all of my single life. I lived too far out in the country to get cable, so I only got bits and pieces of MTV when I visited people in town. But I did see everyone of these bands mentioned, except KISS. My circle of friends all felt like they were sellouts for taking off their make-up, although in hindsight, it might have been that we were finally old enough to go to the big city, and stay out late at concerts, and we lost the opportunity to see them with their make-up on. They had been heroes since elementary school. It would be watching the lone ranger without his mask. 'Piece Of Mind' is still one of my all time favorite albums, and definitely my fave in '83. That tour was als one of my most memorable concerts. Iron Maiden, Saxon, and Fastway. Even though we were a bunch of teenage country boys from the sticks, we still managed to dress metal, and we would even wear eye liner. We really thought we were the schitt. 😅

[@RockNewsDesk]

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[@RenewedBodyMassage]

We WERE the schitt!

[@AFloridaSon]

@@RenewedBodyMassage Yes we were.🤘🤘

[@danzielinski5036]

1983 I was 12. I was hooked on DEF LEPPARD and SCORPIONS, DIO, OZZY, and WARLOCK were soon to follow. I was hooked on metal then and I'm still hooked on it now! 80s metal was the greatest time of my life.

[@RockNewsDesk]

Do you still go see the 80s bands live?

[@trance9158]

I was a part of this era... good times. It was all about having fun and excess.... 🎉

[@RockNewsDesk]

Yes! All about the party!

[@robertoliver5347]

If a little was good then more was better and even then more made it epic .. Bigger, Louder, with more attitude we needed more and that was Life on the Wildside 🤘🤘😎

[@michaelvrckoff6966]

IRON MAIDEN. DIO . TWISTED SISTER. MOTORHEAD. WARLOCK 80's were the best

[@RockNewsDesk]

Absolutely!

[@andrewbroughton65]

Thin Lizzy released their most Heavy Metal album in 1983 'Thunder & Lightning' it featured John Sykes Shredding like a madman 4 years before He stepped into the American limelight on Whitesnakes massive '1987' album. 'No Parole From Rock n Roll' by Graham Bonnets new band Alcatraz also dropped in '83 & featured another lead Guitar Shredder Yngwie Malmsteen ( ex Steeler)who would take the spotlight soon after & Kickstart the whole neoclassical Guitar revolution with His phrygian dominant mode & diminished scale speed work. Also of note from 83 : Raven 'All for One' Lita Ford 'Out for Blood' Y&T 'Mean Streak' MSG 'Built to Destroy' Manowar 'Into Glory Ride' soon followed by 'Hail to England' Ratt ep Saxon 'Power & Glory' Black Sabbath 'Born Again' ....these along with the Krokus 'Headhunter album were My main Metal soundtracks of 1983.

[@RockNewsDesk]

So many good ones that year

[@Armored_Saint]

Yes, I remember. I was there at age 20.

[@unclerobby]

February 1983 got my driver's license and a cassette of Metal Health been burning up the road since.

[@RockNewsDesk]

Ha ha! I just had a vision of Kevin Bacon in Footloose. Wasn't he driving though town, cranking Quiet Riot when the police pulled him over? That movie came out in 84.

[@unclerobby]

@@RockNewsDesk I was driving the same car back then as now. Awesome visuals Footloose.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@unclerobby ha ha! Nice!

[@kevbev1524]

Rock on Rock Long Rock hard and long

[@sind77]

Great video. Wish you'd mention W.A.S.P. A few current updates about Blackie Lawless would be fantastic.

[@RockNewsDesk]

W.A.S.P. is awesome! Unfortunately, their first album didn't hit until 1984. So, we will have to save them for another video. - Tom

[@tomthomas2646]

Great great expose short though....

[@tomthomas2646]

OH. By The Way... from Kansas...83--84 ISH...we didn't have MTV. Or Night Flight... we had NIGHT TRACKS On WTBS Atlanta...Was the BOMB...!!!!

[@danistirling515]

INCREDIBLE YEAR FOR MUSIC SO MANY INCREDIBLE MEMORIES 🖤🤘🖤🤘🖤🤘🖤🤘🖤

[@kerrydavidsadler980]

The best years of my life!!!!! The 80's HARDROCK and HEAVY METAL was the best time in music. ROCK ON AND ROCK HARD.

[@RockNewsDesk]

It was a lot of fun! Who was your favorite band back then?

[@kerrydavidsadler980]

@@RockNewsDesk my favorite 80's band was and still is MOTLEY CRUE , my favorite 70's hardrock band is KISS.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@kerrydavidsadler980 I hear ya! My favorite all-time is KISS, and my favorite of the 80s bands was Motley.

[@BrutusMcCrunch]

That was a very very special time

[@jakechandler4497]

Hell Yeah!!!

[@Thomas-ej9fz]

Warlock is one of my favorite bands even now . But the king is and will always be DIO !!

[@Armored_Saint]

Riot, born in america (1983)

[@ChadLSmith-ys8qw]

Lick It Up came out on Sept. 18th, not the 22nd.

[@wordup897]

I was 16 in 1983. There was so much going on musically... metal, punk, country rock, blues, alternative, reggae. "Classic rock" (zeppelin, stones, who, ac/dc) was still there but fading fast with exceptions of David Bowie and Peter Gabriel reinventing themselves yet again. In 1981 The Rolling Stones would put out their last great album, Tattoo You. Folk rock (Dylan, CSN) was officially dead except for a hangers on who gave birth to the next generation of dead heads listening to that utter garbage. Along with metal but getting no airtime were post punk bands like REM, Smiths, Joy Division/New Order, U2, Echo, Pixies, Violent Femmes and many more who we played at house parties. It was a phenomenal time for music. The current corporate albatross seems to have taken over but will definitely die of atrophy as there's no passion there so no one cares about it. What will be next?

[@RockNewsDesk]

Who were your favorite bands back then?

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@wordup897 Isn't music great?

[@wordup897]

@@RockNewsDesk Yeah, it really is indescribable how it instantly transports us back to the exact time and place we were when we first heard it. Life's a trip.

[@adambutsch2820]

83 was a good year. But not as good as 1987, the Pinnacle of the histories of all human culture.

[@mikerivera7509]

Quiet Riot copied off of Slade, not once, but twice

[@centaurus5676]

Quiet Riots greatest hit was a Slade cover! Not even their own song lol.

[@RockNewsDesk]

Yep. I was just telling someone about that last night. They didn't even want to do it, but the producer talked them into it. It did so well, they recorded another Slade cover for the next album. Ha ha!

[@centaurus5676]

@@RockNewsDesk Yes Kevin's voice sounded just like Noddy Holders . SLADE earned allot of royalties of that.

[@tomthomas2646]

SCORPIONS. WHERE ARE DE SCORPYONS.......?

[@RockNewsDesk]

Scorpions REALLY hit in 1984 with Love at First Sting. Blackout was 82, I think. So, no releases in 1983.

[@tomthomas2646]

@@RockNewsDesk you are right... Brother. I was 13 in 1983... the music. UNFATHOMABLE....Yes forgot. Scorps were 84. Ur right...life was FULL THROTTLE For me. Yes. It's how it was. Was so drunk in 84-86. (not too bad..just beer). Oh. By the way. First real big city concert.. Wichita KS. WhiteSnake opening for QUIET RIOT....E.P.I.C. ....... THX 4 Setting me straight on Scorps(my BIGGEST Disappointment in life 4 real..not getting to see Scorps on Sting Tour 84..🤧

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@tomthomas2646 I missed Scorps in the 80s. I didn't see them until about a year and a half ago. I flew to Vegas to see them. My first big concert was KISS and Ted Nugent in early 88 in Fayetteville, NC.

[@michaelmichaels138]

Joe Elliot is goofy looking.

[@RockNewsDesk]

Ha ha! They were so young back then. They all looked a little goofy. That whole band!

[@michaelmichaels138]

@@RockNewsDesk - but now he’s 60 with the same haircut. I’m the only one that can pull that off.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@michaelmichaels138 😄😄😄

[@dragonzuniga]

You can't cover 83 in 8 minutes

[@RockNewsDesk]

Nope. I'd need about 365 days to cover it well. 😁

[@catfishguy3822]

Ehh .. you tried too hard to tie this together. Not bad though, first off Metallica fans in 83 were not remotely close to even being in the same room as the bands I grew up listening to. Metallica openly admits they hated sunset hair bands lol .

[@RockNewsDesk]

It isn't all about hair bands. It's about hard rock and metal, as well. Iron Maiden was far from a hair band, as was Metallica.