I used to rent this full show and it had Exodus and Venom. I was in high school at the time the little video store in town got this one in. People would get pissed because I never took it back and would re rent it over and over until they decided to sell it to me for $10. Give me a break. I was 16. I wore it out, but I remember that because of this tape I actually learned how to pull of alot of Slayer tunes on guitar and never stopped. I'm blessed to have found this here.
That story is so synonymous with the era! Same thing happened to me with Cliff’em all and the movie Amadeus! Rented it so much they finally sold it to me!
I was 16 when this came out. Friend of mine got a copy on video and we would watch it wondering how they play so fast. Never seen anything like it before. It was an experience.
I saw Slayer at Madam Wong's West with Beowulf in 1984. Me and my friend were only 14 so they let us in with the help of Dave Lombardo's mom vouching for us. Everyone there was in the front row. Epic.
on some of the old boots when they are trying to tune and the crowd is loud Tom yells "Have you no mercy?" I think I'm going to put together a "Tom's greatest hits" of his stage banter sometime...
I was 14... Listening to everything i could find in the village NYC. I bought a vhs with slayer, exodus and Venom...the sound and speed blew me away. Now 51, still listen and gives me the chills every time. dont give a flying f*** what people say.
I saw this tour at Fort Hesterly Armory Tampa Florida when I was 21. Testament and Anthrax were with them. They 3 bands were rotating as head liner band show to show. I had just seen Megadeath a few weeks before this show. I could tell clearly, even by this early time in the Thrash genre, Slayer was and would continue to be the best and the standard bearer on this beautiful new art!
absolutely.. people say the big 3 Slayer albums are RIB SOH and SITA, but that is wrong. The 3 album peak of real Slayer is HTC HA and RIB. with HTC being the pinnacle.
They played Hammerjaxx shortly after that dressed in chainmail. It was sick. Definitely there was fear in that hall on that particular night. Needless to say, every drink that night was served in a plastic cup - that was Slayer’s reputation!
@@timbuk1126 he's right still. all those bands are good but what slayer did will never again happen. They revolutionized extreme metal more than ANY band. Took the sound of Mercyful Fate and the guitars of NWOBM and made it their own. They laid the foundation of everything.
The fucking best there is, I haven't listened in a month or so. Die by the sword just played, I went through my room like a god damn bulldozer. Nothing like it to bring me those deep pleasure moments hahahahahah. Fucking SLAYER rules
I grew up with this! Love it. When this came out, as a metal head and guitar player, this was the next level for me! Kerry, Jeff, Tom, and Dave were it man.
The first of the two times I saw them live was three years after this on the South Of Heaven tour with Nuclear Assault supporting. I don't think I have ever seen this, it was only Hell Awaits from the same show so it was good to see this.
I was literally just 3 days old when this was recorded and I will pay a handsome reward for anyone who can find the lost footage of babyme jamming the fuck out 😂
I wasn’t even born.. and they were this good already. By the time I was ten Undisputed Attitude was one of my first tapes I bought on my own. It showed me punk and metal and they were from near me in Oakland so I thought they were the coolest thing ever. Last time I got to see them as a full original band was 2007 with my buddy Ryan. They played with Marilyn Manson which was fucking stupid.. skinny goths who hadn’t left home in months versus a bunch of bearded dudes drinking beers wanting to break shit. It was badass tho, my friend broke his toe. Slayer Fuckin Slayer!
'85...let's see...I went to my 1st concert (KISS and W.A.S.P.) as a 12 year old. It wouldn't be for maybe another year that my brother would introduce me to SLAYER. The thrash/speed metal genre has come quite a long ways since then, but if these 4 guys never got together, it would have been a lot different.🤘
The best of times to be a metal head. The shit was still underground and taking off at the same time. After 1988, it all went to shit . My opinion only . Kerry Kings mocking bird with black candlewax melted on it pretty cool. That's old-school metal genius.
Kerry has his hands full during this song. People were talking the other day that they can tell the difference between Kerry songs and Jeff songs, I have been with Slayer since the beginning and I can't tell the difference, yeah Kerry is a dick now, but he was pretty cool BITD.
@@kickyourfaceandlaugh607 Kerry king songs usually contain simpler riffs (with a shit ton of exceptions) like songs off of GHUA or Repentless, where he had the most songwriting.
Look at Slayer's first 4 albums. Pick out all of the legendary songs, the ones played at every show. The ones everyone knows (I mean I know them all back and forth but..) Your Dead Skin Masks, your Angel of Death, Raining Blood, South of Heaven the list goes on and on. Music: Hanneman. Even the ones that are not only Hanneman are both Hanneman/King. Find me the songs where the music was written solely by Kerry... almost none of the classics. Make no mistake, when it came to music writing, Hanneman was God. King was second fiddle. All you have to do is look at Repentless and it's terrible songwriting to see that. I have never been a Kerry fan. Its funny that Kerry hates on South of Heaven for having "too much singing". Which means he is the cause of the "scream everything in one monotone key" garbage that we heard on every album after Seasons. (I liked D.I. but... the vocals were the beginning of the downfall of Tom's abilities and the beginning of his "SCREAM. EVERY. THING. LIKE. THIS. IN. EVERY. SONG" style which was nothing short of disappointing. I think Slayer would have been better with Hanneman/Holt. There. I said it.
