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Tommy Vance has died.
When I was a teenager the Friday Rock Show was my only chance to hear the music I liked. Living in a small town and being into metal in the early eighties his show was about the only way I could hear new music. In many ways he was a cliche, but the show was a big part of my life back then. I read Sounds and Kerrang, but he played the music I wanted to hear. My tastes may have broadened, and the metal scene deteriorated into a thrashy mess, but I still love that rocking sound.
As Saxon said in "Denim & Leather" back in 81:
"Did you read the music paper from the back and to the front
Did you find out where to see your favorite band
Did you listen to the radio every Friday night
Did hang around your local record store"
Yep, that's what I was doing back then. How did it get to be 20 years ago?
It's a bugger this getting older.
When I was a teenager the Friday Rock Show was my only chance to hear the music I liked. Living in a small town and being into metal in the early eighties his show was about the only way I could hear new music. In many ways he was a cliche, but the show was a big part of my life back then. I read Sounds and Kerrang, but he played the music I wanted to hear. My tastes may have broadened, and the metal scene deteriorated into a thrashy mess, but I still love that rocking sound.
As Saxon said in "Denim & Leather" back in 81:
"Did you read the music paper from the back and to the front
Did you find out where to see your favorite band
Did you listen to the radio every Friday night
Did hang around your local record store"
Yep, that's what I was doing back then. How did it get to be 20 years ago?
It's a bugger this getting older.
