March 1985
SAMMY HAGAR
CREEM CLOSE-UP: METAL ROCK N' ROLL Copyright 1984 CREEM Magazine. Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording. or by any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.
CONTENTS
VINCE NEIL OF MOTLEY CRUE
NEW SCREECH FOR OLD!
AT LAST! Here it is, folks—the battle of the ages! Bigger than Meatloaf vs. Billy Joel! Bigger than Ratt vs. Motley Crue! Bigger than Elvis Presley vs. Nipper The Wonder Pooch! It's the biggest battle in world history—It’s... ...NEW METAL vs. OLD METAL!!
STUCK IN THE METAL WITH YOU: THE "EVOLUTION” OF SHRIEK MUSIK
Richard Riegel
“Metal is where you find it,” as the sage who runs my friendly neighborhood junkyard once told me, just after he made that uncalled-for remark about my foot straying on the scale. This guy knows his rock ’n’ roll as well as he does his aluminum can futures, as heavy metal’s obviously getting more important to The Music by the day.
RATT MEAN BUSINESS!
Yep, Ratt are tired of being just one of the many thousands of truly accomplished rock groups in the world. From now on, they mean business. According to informed sources, the guys have started the Stephen Pearcy School of Keynesian Theory, turned over scads of supply-side videos to The Learning Channel and started franchising their band from matchbook covers!
NIKKI SIXX OF MOTLEY CRUE
ASK DOC SEX-THE HEAVY METAL PH.D!
Laura Fissinger
Hello, faithful readers, and welcome to the regular new column by rock’s leading expert on perversion and good times, Dr. Sex. This month she is answering questions about the role of sex in heavy metal. “My role in heavy metal??!!" she asked innocently when given this topic.
QUIET RIOT
KEVIN DuBROW OF QUIET RIOT
HEAVY METAL'S CLASSIC ALBUM'S IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW
The best heavy metal albums in history? Pshaw! Who could ever claim to mention them all in one thin magazine/ Not us, folks! Instead, we've asked three of our well-liked, throughly respected, and deeply involved with the metal lifestyle-type writes to draw up short lists of their own faves.
TOP TEN METAL ALBUM'S OF THE '60s
Richard Riegel
Even in the 1960s, virtually a prehistoric era as classic heavy metal goes, there were far more than 10 essential metal LPs released, and I had some trouble narrowing down the list. What I’ve finally chosen are albums that made metal impact as albums, and that became widely-known to the newer bands that would define the style in the early 1970s.
TOP TEN METAL ALBUMS OF THE '70s
Gregg Turner
There was a sense of purposefulness in defying '67's Summer Of Love’s proposition of soft, mellow things to come (from James Taylor to Cat Stevens). In this regard, over-amped guitars and chords ringing ripe with fat layers of harmonic distortion and fuzz-tone became cogent symbols (common denominators) of an upright rebellion.
MOTLEY CRUE
TOP TEN METAL ALBUMS OF THE '80s
Sylvie Simmons
The '70s just ran out without leaving a forwarding address. It’s probably sitting right now in some centrally-heated airconditioned little house in the suburbs searching for its pud beneath a mound of flabby flesh. It started off so well; it finished off so dull.
THE YARDBIRDS vs. MOTLEY CRUE: Yardbirds Forever, Motley Crue Never!
Anastasia Finn
I know how my younger boy would put it if he were asked to compare the Yardbirds to Motley Crue. He’d say that Motley Crue sucks. But I don’t think that’s nearly strong enough. In comparison to the Yardbirds, Motley" Crue eats the undergarments of persons of highly impeachable personal hygiene.
THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL LISTS ATTENTION HEADBANGERS! BE LISTLESS NO MORE!
Rick Johnson
Heavy Metal music and crummy science fiction movies have a lot in common. They both eventually will end? No such luck, little cinematographers. We’re talking about such endearing traits as fun-though-predictable, lousy and great at the same time, and loud if you sit too close.
TWISTED SISTER MEET UNCA SCROOGE!
Even though they’re highly respected millionaires, Twisted Sister still have dreams—just like you! Their life-long fantasy?...to visit Donald Duck’s uncle, Scrooge McDuck, the richest duck in the world! It all happened when the guys jetted to Duckburgh, U.S.A., where they played with Huey, Dewey & Louie, helped Scrooge thwart the Beagle Boys’ assault on his legendary vault and even whooped it up by helping Donald crush the life out of pesky Chip ’n’ Dale!! It was great!!
VAN HALEN IS ... VAN HALEN
OK, kiddies, let's face it. Van Halen have now gone beyond the concept of heavy metal.
THE END OR...THE BEGINNING?
After all the info provided by the fine writers in this Close-Up, we’re rapidly coming to the conclusion that it's pointless to suggest that, say, the Yardbirds or Cream were actually “better” bands than current greats like the Scorpions or Grim Reaper!
VINCE NEIL OF MOTLEY CRUE