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On 7/19/2025 at 7:40 AM, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

If you are an old like me and grew up in the Houston area, you will recall a radio show that came on at midnight on the weekends called Metal Shop. Hosted by Linda Silk on KLOL. 

It was the only show you could hear Metallica on the radio in their early days.  They were too fast and thrashy for mainstream album rock radio.   I had only heard them a few times in high school and seen some stuff about them in Circus and Hit Parader magazines, or maybe a Kerrang! that a classmate brought to school. 
 

In 1985 I went with a buddy from my high school band and my big brother and one of his co-workers to see Iron Maiden and WASP at The Summit.  It was the Powerslave tour, and it was excellent. And loud.  
 

Between WASP and Iron Maiden they announced that Metallica was playing at Cardi’s with Armored Saint after the Maiden show and it was all-ages and you could get in for $5 or something with your Maiden ticket stub. 
 

Again, if you are from the Houston area in that time frame, you remember the ads: “it’s ladies’ night at Cardi’s!!!”

It was a school night for me and work night for my brother, but we went anyway.  My friend called his dad to tell him he would be home later than planned and that he had no choice because he didn’t drive.  His dad was pissed, which is a bummer because his dad was a guitarist in a band in high school and still hand a kind of Spicoli vibe when you talked to him. 
 

We went to Cardi’s.  It was packed.  Armored Saint was finishing their set when we arrived.  As they left, the crew rolled off their wall of Marshall’s.  Behind it was a larger wall of Marshall stacks. M

Cardi’s ain’t that big.  Iron Maiden could have used this setup in the Summit and still been too loud. 
 

This was the Ride The Lightning tour.  Cliff was still alive.  I got to see my first ever bass solo that night.  Everything was 100mph and they played like they were trying to kill us.  It was raw and powerful.  I was screaming in my brother’s ear to tell him something and he couldn’t make out one word.  
 

To this day I still do well on audiograms that are administered at work.  I’m not sure how. 
 

The next morning I was very late to 1st period.  I woke up on the living room floor.  I had passed out waiting for my brother to get out of the shower around 3:30am.  I was wearing a Powerslave shirt I bought for my cousin who couldn’t go. 
 

I got up and went to school.  No shower.  Bed head from sleeping on the floor.  Smelled like pot smoke and cigarette smoke.  Giant black X’s on my hands. 
 

Made it to school and walked passed the attendance office without getting an admit.  Went to Algebra and opened the door with maybe two minutes left in class.  Mrs. Allen turned and started pointing and grumping at me.  The class was pointing and appeared to be laughing.  I could hear nothing but ringing.  
 

I said “WHAT?  I CAN’T HEAR ANYTHING YOU ARE SAYING!!!”

I got detention.  And went to choir and told the director I would not be able to participate for a few days until the ringing stopped.  
 

I didn’t smell good.  People usually knew if you wore a concert shirt to school the next day that you had gone.  They could smell me and knew that I had gone. 
 

It was totally worth it. 

I saw Maiden at the frank Erwin center on thepoweslave tour. Best Maiden album imo.

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