i love that you can actually hear the bass on this album and on this performance. alot of the times when i see them live its like toms bass might as well be unplugged
Hell yea goin APE SHIT SLAMINN N STAGE DIVING AND FOR ME bk nn 1990 GETTING THREW OUT AFTER STAGE DIVING BOOOOOOOOO FUK THEM LAME ASS BOUNCERS AT THE OLD MISSIPPPI NIGHTS N STLOUIS BUTTT TIMED MY DIVE JUST RIGHT BELIVE ME WANTED TO STAGE WAY EARLIER AND OFTEN BUT ANGEL OF DEATH!!!!!!! LAST SONG RIP JEFFFF AND SLAYERRRRRR FOREVER !!!!!!
I believe they are referring to when Dave Lombardo quit in 86 for around 6 months and Tony Scaglione had joined Slayer. Dave eventually rejoined Slayer in 87.
I was also at this show and I can't believe it was taped! My ears were ringing for a week afterwards. Still ranks as one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen. I watched all the videos and was trying to see the inverted crosses at each end of the stage with lights on them - couldn't find it. If you have more of these vids post em! Any vids of Slayer at L'Amour in Brooklyn? Those shows were the sickest. Also the reason for no real pit as the place was packed and you could barely move.
I had the pleasure of seeing Slayer at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. It was the most intense show I'd ever seen, and the most fun. General admission and started out around where the 3rd row would be then the pit started and it was chaos the whole concert!
My friend was tony portaro's cousin(the singer and guitarist from whiplash) yes tony scaglione did fill in for lombardo in 1987 I was four but liked metal I used to drink beer with tony's cousin after school
wow i never thought i'd say it but i would be so insanely scared to get into that mosh just like oh my god im sure id end up in there and love it but as a 125 pound fifteen year i'd get fucking annihilated haha
one thing that made Slayer so rad then was that Tom Araya played bass w/o a pick,so the bass was all muddy and blobby sounding,you can especially hear it in the last 20 seconds of this vid. it gave them a muddy,depths of hell sound that they lost after Reign In Blood like the Haunting The Chapel EP,that has that awesome muddy,dark sound that made them so evil at that time Samhain had that kinda sound too
I've always said that about Slayer. They are closer to black metal than Venom is, in my opinion, sound wise. Their earlier albums were a lot more Satanic, and a lot of the black metal bands were influenced by Slayer. Yeah, they can thrash like no other, but I've always thought of them as the next progression towards black metal after Venom and before Bathory.
West Is Best I get where you are coming from, but darker lyrics and tone don't make a band black metal. Of course there is a Venom influence but Slayer is far from black metal. It's closer to a death metal vibe if anything.
thrashtildeth247 I could see that. Maybe like Possessed. They were influenced by Slayer. Lyrically, I'd say Slayer was much closer to Black Metal back in the day. And some Black Metal bands have Slayer-influenced riffs, like "Carving a Giant" by Gorgoroth. Early Slayer, for me, is hard to place, because thrash was not really Satanic. It was fast, but they sang about different shit from Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and their likes. Slayer was much, much darker lyrically, and their riffs sounded much more Satanic. But, that doesn't make them Black Metal. I'd say they are a genre all of their own.
@mikeystringthumper cool,im a guitarist but i think its criminal what happens to most bass parts. sometimes a band will have a virtuoso on bass and unless you listen really hard you would never know
Yeah i know he is from Chile, u and everyone else r just taking my previous comment a bit to seriously even though i said i was joking, and that tom rocks
And the youth today think they can shock the older generation with untalented rap, lol (c)rap, absolutely hilarious, 1:37 lol ... actually sounds as from hell
i held seeing slayer in dublin in '88 as being the all time best gig i'd ever seen until i saw ministry in dublin in '03. i couldn't walk the following day, i couldn't hear properly for three. mind you i was on crutches after the 88 slayer gig. ministry was still better though
