Raven, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Fist, Jaguar, White Spirit, Sweet Savage, and Tank ( a personal fave of mine) and the list goes on. The NWOBHM was the best time and one that will never be again, sadly. Be that as it may, make no mistake, these guys were the TRUE pioneers of metal!
"You can go to a punk gig and they've all got spiky hair, in their punk gear, or disco freaks with their silly little shoes on y'know. People see us and they know we're heavy rockers" I love that guy! \m/
Too much hipsters concerned to be considered serious and more refined, mature, like craving validation from other parts of society and tell them "hey! We make protest lyrics and look serious in our pics, give us approval" Eccentric, outrageous and strong personalities are less and less in rock derivated genres, and that's causing stagnation. Being serious doesn't call anybody's attention.
most kids my age listen to rap or pop. I'm hooked on metal \m/ and NWOBHM is the greatest there is. Saxon, tank, ironmaiden, motorhead, ethel the frog, tygers of pan tang, grim reaper, crucifixtion, nightimeflyer...the good stuff
I was there the first time iron maiden played. Right up front.tiny venue massise speakers. I couldn't hear the TV over the ringing in my ears for four days after the gig. I never could afford a cardboard guitar .mine was imaginary
Ironic, I was there at the Soundhouse, crying 😢in my 🍺 beer with a friend, how this was the last Rock refuge in the Free World as Disco and Punk had taken over the scene 35 years ago, much like your lamenting today....
Really sad to see the scene die due to the glam bands and a generation of people thinking that's metal thankfully thrash and death metal continued the legacy of the real metal bands
I was there, American Navy. Kay, Loonhouse & the gang knew me as 'Captain Kirk', due to my signature black Greek fisherman cap. I was the bloke that gave Loonhouse the advice on the Air Guitar prop, having made mine from a replica Scottish Claymore Broadsword....The American Gang hung out with Mick & the Brits on the right side of the stage, adjacent to the convient Fire Exit.... I could write a book on those beginning😉!
ps did you know his buddy Alan Dunn? (Allan Doug?) he actually commented here some years back. Meanwhile in the USA I was making my own cardboard guitars as well never knew anyone else was doing so...mine was explorer style with stripes like Matthias Jabs
I remember buying the Kerrang! In the eighties when it had proper metal dudes on the cover, now it has teenagers with hair parted on the side, wtf happened!? RIP old days
It's funny how the documentary says that women aren't really into Metal(at that time), and how guys are into it mostly, but around 2;29, you can only see ONE girl in that crowd, that's how rare metal head chicks were in the early 80s until more started liking it in the mid 80s.
But the girls they had were tuff as nails back then...I know, I am OG NWOBM from the Heavy Metal SoundHouse days....that was my place and this was my tribe!
@@ouicb Well said Chris...It was all rather perfect till the H.A. + Rats started coming in + leaving a big black cloud over everything...I used to occasionally take over on the lights. One day we had a tip off that the safety inspector was coming to pay a visit + all the lighting rig had to come down as if we didn't have any till they'd gone. If they'd have seen what we were working with, they'd have shut us down in a flash (or a strobe)...🤣 One girl actually used to put the earth wire between her teeth...lol...I used to just wrap it round my finger...😌 It was more than sad the day the Soundhouse ended...People who missed out on it, just don't understand, it was a way of life...(SIGH...!)
"Before Kay turned it into the Heavy Metal Soundhouse, the Bandwagon featured disco music five nights a week"...err - wrong! The Bandwagon had been running a "Rock Night" on Wednesdays and Sundays for some time before Neal ever set foot in the place. Neal, and his pal Ray, first appeared one Saturday night when the DJ's were having a charity evening where you made a donation to have your track of choice played. We got chatting and I later introduced him to the DJs there...the rest is history.
I remember the Thursday rock night, but not the Wednesday. The original Sunday rock night was my favourite. Used to hear Roxy Music, Dr. Feelgood, (probably) Bowie. When Neal Kay launched the HM Soundhouse, everything he played sounded bass heavy to me. Eventually the more popular HM nights became more popular than the disco nights. I saw Maiden play there for 70pence.
@@TheAudiostud Hey! I was there in the Seventies, the first American who brought all his military mates there....we hung out right side of the stage at the fire exit with 'Long Scarf' Mick and his tribe...Neil gave me the Captain Kirk handle, plus I will NEVER EVER ride on a motorcycle with him again😉...tell Neil that Captain Kirk says "Hi" next time you see him and I wonder how Loonhouse 🤔 is doing these days.....thanks for the memories 😀
@@dragonbodyevo maybe I am, but I survived it all then and it was a blast! I feel bad for all you young dudes, you will never have the adventures we did, & live to tell about em....😉 Ironic that Kay, Maiden, & host was still kicken last I checked...maybe it is YOU that is the dead geezer in all this😱🤣😂🤣😂❗
Neil Kay was really the sole person who started the NWOBHM era as he was a DJ with the Heavy Metal Soundhouse radio show! He put together the first compilation album called "Metal for Muthas" in 1979 with Iron Maiden, Samson, etc. The Soundhouse Tapes with Iron Maiden and Praying Mantis' first releases were also done by him and the label was named after his radio show!!
@@Lyngypsy2112 First time I ever heard Angel Witch which for me is a milestone as they were really the first band to introduce the Doom Metal of the 80's (or as I called it back then Death Rock)!
@@marshall8408 I knew Neal very well...The trouble with Neal was he was always late...When he was doing The Clay Pigeon in Eastcote it was supposed to be from 8ish - 11pm but he would turn up after 9.30pm + then expect to do a sound check, so the punters were lucky if they got an hour in the back bar...We even suggested to him that he took the equipment there at lunchtime, we would set up during our own lunch break before going back to work + as he didn't want to drive back to Maidenhead twice I gave him my keys to stay there til the evening...He was still late + I only lived a couple of miles from the venue. We gave up in the end. My partner at the time was the sound engineer (John) who's sadly passed away now + I used to do the lights occasionally to give John a break. John bought into the Soundhouse in the end to do the reunion gigs but Neal was up to his old tricks + after only a few, he quit, leaving John with nothing to show for his money...I miss those days so much...I met Neal 1st time when he was doing a usual gig at The White Hart in Acton around 1980, we were very different people back then but all good things have to come to an end sometime...😢
@gyroe182 Do you even know what drop D is? It's a tuning that only changes the top E string down to a D note. Which makes power chords easier. And, you can't deny that power chords were dominant in a lot of metal and punk music before it was a staple to go to drop D. Of course rock and metal music has changed plenty throughout the years, but that's why the classics still hold power after so many years.
EternityInValhalla this full documentary is feachered on the DVD called iron maiden the early days.. If you can find a copy it is on there on the second disc
+Mitzi73 In the late 70s and 1980s Heavy Metal was a movement among young people. These days there are no "Rock" clubs kids can go to. The record companies killed it it seems.
"New Wave Of British Heavy Metal" what a load of bollocks. I have never ever heard anybody say new wave. It either heavy rock or heavy metal. And I should no Iv been a head banger since the 70's
I get it....I am an American who was there during Neil Kay's Soundhouse Days...OG for sure, and you are correct, I never heard the term bandied about 'New Wave' and you wouldn't say that to diehard OG Metalheads without a swift reaction because that was known to be Punk slang, and antiethical, abhorrent and offensive to Headbangers back then....The big draw for us young American males there was the Soundhouse was very receptive to our rock vinyl which us serviceman brought to the scene, and played the closet genre of music that closely resembled American FM radio deep cuts that were accustomed to....you have to remember no internet so word of mouth advertising was big and there is a definite American influence on the Soundhouse top 20 playlists that was complied weekly by Neil Kay, published by Melody Maker internationally, and played with input requests every Sunday night back in the day...that was how the business was run then....I know, I helped Neil set up a concert Glenn Miller style at one of the aircraft hangers at the USAF base at Lakenheath for Ted Nugent. My advice is NEVER EVER ride on a motorcycle with Neil Kay unless you like 100+ MPH thrills as I experienced the first time we left London to go to Lakenheath AFB to set up the concert up the M1!🤙
@progjazzfusion priest were pretty influenced in som ways by classical music thats probably were most of their ideas for harmonizing dual guitars came from
I have seen this before! - But I still can't take it seriously! IRob Loonhouse eminds me of Peter cook talking to Dudley Moore in Derek & Clive! hahahahahahha. Love how he thinks it's alright to make a cardboard guitar to headbang with, but drawing frets on the neck is taking the piss! Is cardboard guitar not putting 'air guitarists ' out of business?
Lol...I remember Rob from all those years ago. He was actually a really nice guy. It was more of a meeting place for us really + of course somewhere you could go to let your hair down...lol I met Neal back in 1981 when he used to do a slot at The White Hart in Acton among other places. I started going to the Sound house around 1984ish + became a member. By then it was the Clay Pigeon, Eastcote on a Friday, The Queens Arms, Harrow on a Saturday for Oldies night + back there on Sunday for the usual mainstream rock. It was a great time + very sad when it all ended as it was the only place around that brought everyone together + most lost touch after that, apart from a few yearly reunions years later.. I miss it..😞
@@grevennazg1204 read the article written by CherryBomb dated 07.05.2019 entitled "THE STORY OF ROB LOONHOUSE: AIR-GUITAR PIONEER & THE UNDISPUTED KING OF CARDBOARD GUITARS" at The Dangerous Minds website...Sadly, early Kancel Kulture was not kind to Loony and it tells of the sad withdrawal from society the fallout caused...🤙
I'm from Brazil, all my life I watch, listen and read english stuffs. But these guys speak really really strange, I just understand 20% I guess, hahahaha
@@condor7430 at least us Yanks know how to spell 'color' and 'tire' correctly and with brevity that you commonly mistake for 'bastardization'...say, do you have any grey poupon? 🍯😱🦧
@@imaouima Some of the older early 70s genesis w/ peter gabriel was heavier, Steve Harris cites them in that era as a big influence on maiden. Check out the genesis songs "The Knife", and "Return of the Giant Hogweed" among others. There is even finger tapping guitar solos and riffs before van halen did it (by steve hackett). Lots of odd timings and complex drumming...early genesis was big influence on maiden and heavy prog, which eventually turned into prog metal. But the overall reason is people were more diverse and open minded and "rock" and "heavy rock" was pretty much treated all the same, you can see he has a Styx patch too, so nwobhm fit in well with the album rock fan type of music of that era, people werent concerned with fitting in or looking cool the most obscure bands or most heavy bands etc, just be diverse, that was the 70s...such a diverse open time
@@RocknJazzer plus at the HM Soundhouse us Americans with our favorite Southern Rock vinyl were always welcome to be played on Sunday nights plus I was there when Nugent was promoting 'Paralyzer' & he dropped in the Soundhouse signing people's arses🤙
Practiced those chords? A power chord is literally two notes. Three if you're feeling adventurous. It's not a lack of skill for someone to tune to drop D, that's just silly of you to even suggest that.
Like what you like, dislike what you dislike. All this "I only listen to metal type A and never type C" makes you all sound like the pop music lemmings we are trying to get away from.
Yeah, tho the term was used generically going back to the 60s short for the term discotheque, meaning a club that played records, regardless of style, far before disco music even existed
Yeah The NWOBHM gained momentum in the late seventies and early 80's but there were a few bands right before them who made it possible such as Judas Priest, UFO, Budgie, Motorhead etc. Yes even RUSH to some degree. Listen to Hemishpheres. That's the blueprint for prog metal right there. Not Genesis though. Prog yes metal no.
Lol....that 'I am 23' was a running joke back in the day......my wife at that time was 26 and still being carded, I was 25, and I was cracking up while a friend of Loonhouse was describing to her about how terrible it was being married to an over-the-hill geezer like me! You should have seen the jaw drop of the dude complaining about age when she told him how old she really was cause she looked around 16 years at the time! I sure miss those days, the HM Soundhouse and the gang😔
@@ouicb Loonhouse was a looser I assume - or incel as they say now a days. And loosers tend to feel they are too old even when they are 15. But your story was hilarious! :D And yeah, I also miss old times even if my "old times" are only in the 2000s...
@@balazsszomor5964 I think the colloquial term you are looking for is "Tosser" vice looser, but what Brit MetalHead worth his salt was not?🤔 If you knew him, he WAS opinionated, but also a very gregarious and extremely funny chap, a fun guy to be around, and we ALL loved him for it. No pretentious airs with him. If you spent any time around him, you couldn't help but love the guy's zest for life back then...with his shortimer attitude, the good thing about that was he was full throttle, I suppose thinking he was not long for this life..... Glad you enjoyed the story as your comment brought back some good memories. I am not sure, but I fuzzily remember Nugent visited the Bandwagon & signed people's arses, and it Loonhouse's butt that got signed first as it was his brill idea😉!
its funny how punks and metal heads didnt like each other by the time it was all shitney and punks and metalheads hung out to save rock from preppies he he,
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Raven, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Fist, Jaguar, White Spirit, Sweet Savage, and Tank
( a personal fave of mine) and the list goes on. The NWOBHM was the best time and one that will never be again, sadly. Be that as it may, make no mistake, these guys were the TRUE pioneers of metal!
"You can go to a punk gig and they've all got spiky hair, in their punk gear, or disco freaks with their silly little shoes on y'know. People see us and they know we're heavy rockers"
I love that guy! \m/
Heavy Rock!
When he says disco what does it mean? northern soul ?
It's fascinating to see what the scene looked like back in the pre-thrash days. It all had to come from somewhere!
Better if you would have been there! OG Soundhouse regular here and I could write a book about it there are so many stories to tell...
can't stop watching this. I do wish us metalheads was as eccentric as we once was.
Speak for Yerself Mate! 😉😱🤭🤙
Too much hipsters concerned to be considered serious and more refined, mature, like craving validation from other parts of society and tell them "hey! We make protest lyrics and look serious in our pics, give us approval"
Eccentric, outrageous and strong personalities are less and less in rock derivated genres, and that's causing stagnation. Being serious doesn't call anybody's attention.
London accents in London - those were the days!
Ha ha so true, I shouldn't laugh its bloody tragic what it's become
What does that mean?
most kids my age listen to rap or pop. I'm hooked on metal \m/ and NWOBHM is the greatest there is. Saxon, tank, ironmaiden, motorhead, ethel the frog, tygers of pan tang, grim reaper, crucifixtion, nightimeflyer...the good stuff
11 here 😂
I wish I grew up in this era, I would be going to the clubs to see all of these NWOBHM bands
I was there, and I did, and it was a blast!!
In the late 70s and 1980s Heavy Metal was a movement among young people. These days there are no "Rock" clubs kids can go to.
+MarvelDcImage true
@@bubbadee19 or very few
The Exit in Chicago
You're insane. THere's so many underground local punk scenes all over the world. I go to DIY punk shows 3 or 4 nights a week
@@Drakoak - Im sure he means hard rock / metal non punk stuff
"it's suppost to look like a guitar, but not like a real giutar", classic.
2:17 - 2:26 FUUUCK YEEAHH!!
Check out all the RUSH jackets and patches!!! Props to some of the masters!
\m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/
i loved this, watched it again & again 7 again Hell yea!
Tygers of Pan Tang and Fist where a big part of my life in the early eighties...Whitley Bay..South Shields..
nwobhm did influence thrash metal in the US.
no shit.
So did punk
I was there the first time iron maiden played. Right up front.tiny venue massise speakers.
I couldn't hear the TV over the ringing in my ears for four days after the gig.
I never could afford a cardboard guitar .mine was imaginary
this is why i fuckin love nwobhm...there´s always a song you can identifiy with your own live situation!
i love metal and i love that beardy bloke with the fake guitars!!!! its like spinal tap but funnier!!
Still a lot better than all this shit we are bombarded with in today's music media.
Ironic, I was there at the Soundhouse, crying 😢in my 🍺 beer with a friend, how this was the last Rock refuge in the Free World as Disco and Punk had taken over the scene 35 years ago, much like your lamenting today....
Your just closed minded and too lazy to get into your genres new content.
@@dragonbodyevo you know NOTHING about me, but what do you suggest?
We have two Rush fans in the bar
Really sad to see the scene die due to the glam bands and a generation of people thinking that's metal thankfully thrash and death metal continued the legacy of the real metal bands
Metal still thrives, it is just not that visible Mainstream...I am a Neil Kay Heavy Metal Soundhouse OG back in the day....
The real roots of real fucking METAL!!! Thanks for the upload.
I was there, American Navy. Kay, Loonhouse & the gang knew me as 'Captain Kirk', due to my signature black Greek fisherman cap. I was the bloke that gave Loonhouse the advice on the Air Guitar prop, having made mine from a replica Scottish Claymore Broadsword....The American Gang hung out with Mick & the Brits on the right side of the stage, adjacent to the convient Fire Exit....
I could write a book on those beginning😉!
ps did you know his buddy Alan Dunn? (Allan Doug?) he actually commented here some years back. Meanwhile in the USA I was making my own cardboard guitars as well never knew anyone else was doing so...mine was explorer style with stripes like Matthias Jabs
That's true, crafting your own entertainment in any form has to be better. More creative spirit there.
Funniest thing I've watched in ages. I love that bloke with the plywood guitar. This is amazing!
I remember buying the Kerrang! In the eighties when it had proper metal dudes on the cover, now it has teenagers with hair parted on the side, wtf happened!? RIP old days
It's funny how the documentary says that women aren't really into Metal(at that time), and how guys are into it mostly, but around 2;29, you can only see ONE girl in that crowd, that's how rare metal head chicks were in the early 80s until more started liking it in the mid 80s.
But the girls they had were tuff as nails back then...I know, I am OG NWOBM from the Heavy Metal SoundHouse days....that was my place and this was my tribe!
@@ouicb Well said Chris...It was all rather perfect till the H.A. + Rats started coming in + leaving a big black cloud over everything...I used to occasionally take over on the lights. One day we had a tip off that the safety inspector was coming to pay a visit + all the lighting rig had to come down as if we didn't have any till they'd gone. If they'd have seen what we were working with, they'd have shut us down in a flash (or a strobe)...🤣 One girl actually used to put the earth wire between her teeth...lol...I used to just wrap it round my finger...😌 It was more than sad the day the Soundhouse ended...People who missed out on it, just don't understand, it was a way of life...(SIGH...!)
good stuff cheers to those who put this together !!
"Before Kay turned it into the Heavy Metal Soundhouse, the Bandwagon featured disco music five nights a week"...err - wrong! The Bandwagon had been running a "Rock Night" on Wednesdays and Sundays for some time before Neal ever set foot in the place. Neal, and his pal Ray, first appeared one Saturday night when the DJ's were having a charity evening where you made a donation to have your track of choice played. We got chatting and I later introduced him to the DJs there...the rest is history.
I remember the Thursday rock night, but not the Wednesday. The original Sunday rock night was my favourite. Used to hear Roxy Music, Dr. Feelgood, (probably) Bowie. When Neal Kay launched the HM Soundhouse, everything he played sounded bass heavy to me. Eventually the more popular HM nights became more popular than the disco nights. I saw Maiden play there for 70pence.
@@TheAudiostud Hey! I was there in the Seventies, the first American who brought all his military mates there....we hung out right side of the stage at the fire exit with 'Long Scarf' Mick and his tribe...Neil gave me the Captain Kirk handle, plus I will NEVER EVER ride on a motorcycle with him again😉...tell Neil that Captain Kirk says "Hi" next time you see him and I wonder how Loonhouse 🤔 is doing these days.....thanks for the memories 😀
@@ouicb sorry to break it to you dude. Most of these dudes are dead and you sound kinda delusional
@@dragonbodyevo maybe I am, but I survived it all then and it was a blast! I feel bad for all you young dudes, you will never have the adventures we did, & live to tell about em....😉
Ironic that Kay, Maiden, & host was still kicken last I checked...maybe it is YOU that is the dead geezer in all this😱🤣😂🤣😂❗
@@ouicb 😯🤔sounds like the old brits could party harder then metallica. To each they own 🤘😈
Neil Kay was really the sole person who started the NWOBHM era as he was a DJ with the Heavy Metal Soundhouse radio show! He put together the first compilation album called "Metal for Muthas" in 1979 with Iron Maiden, Samson, etc. The Soundhouse Tapes with Iron Maiden and Praying Mantis' first releases were also done by him and the label was named after his radio show!!
I used to know him when he worked at Samurai studios in London, he was alright, had his Iron Maiden gold disc on his office wall
I had that album...If I remember correctly it had Sledgehammer on it as well..lol
@@Lyngypsy2112 First time I ever heard Angel Witch which for me is a milestone as they were really the first band to introduce the Doom Metal of the 80's (or as I called it back then Death Rock)!
@@classicartfoundation639 That whole album was killer from start to finish except for maybe Toad The Wet Sprocket (though I do like their single)!
@@marshall8408 I knew Neal very well...The trouble with Neal was he was always late...When he was doing The Clay Pigeon in Eastcote it was supposed to be from 8ish - 11pm but he would turn up after 9.30pm + then expect to do a sound check, so the punters were lucky if they got an hour in the back bar...We even suggested to him that he took the equipment there at lunchtime, we would set up during our own lunch break before going back to work + as he didn't want to drive back to Maidenhead twice I gave him my keys to stay there til the evening...He was still late + I only lived a couple of miles from the venue. We gave up in the end. My partner at the time was the sound engineer (John) who's sadly passed away now + I used to do the lights occasionally to give John a break. John bought into the Soundhouse in the end to do the reunion gigs but Neal was up to his old tricks + after only a few, he quit, leaving John with nothing to show for his money...I miss those days so much...I met Neal 1st time when he was doing a usual gig at The White Hart in Acton around 1980, we were very different people back then but all good things have to come to an end sometime...😢
@gyroe182 Do you even know what drop D is? It's a tuning that only changes the top E string down to a D note. Which makes power chords easier. And, you can't deny that power chords were dominant in a lot of metal and punk music before it was a staple to go to drop D. Of course rock and metal music has changed plenty throughout the years, but that's why the classics still hold power after so many years.
Great to see this. Thanks for posting.
BTW, I understand everything they're saying and I'm from the States.
NO MUNDO SOMOS UMA LEGIÃO DE *HEADBANGER* PRÁ SEMPRE 🇧🇷
\m/
Classic!
I used to go to the bandwagon every weekend, I was only 16 and had a fake ID.
I remember Rob and Alan. Good times
this is on iron maiden's early days dvd
Is there a version with English subtitles?
Hahaha, 9 fucking years before someone like me got your joke!
@myrtia That´s Hell Bent for Leather by Judas Priest.
SHIT YEAH!
@MirkoMetal88 haha no problem, thank you... i knew it was a priest song but couldn't remember which one :P
very nice documentary
@rockaholick37 he ran a label for a little bit, and now owns a pub in london i think.
Incredible!
I wonder if those guys could watch this now...
:-o
Imagine how these guys are doing nowadays, especially Rob Loonhouse, I wonder if he ever got into any metal later on in the 80s.
without the nwobhm there would be no thrash metal as we know it
Cardboard guitars!!!
I didn't receive a cardboard guitar with ANY album I bought in those days, suppose they did that in Great Britain only. :-(
Also, where can I get the full version of this?
EternityInValhalla this full documentary is feachered on the DVD called iron maiden the early days.. If you can find a copy it is on there on the second disc
5:13-5:21 Jeff Barton's prophetic words for late 80's Sunset strip bands in Los Angeles.
+Mitzi73 In the late 70s and 1980s Heavy Metal was a movement among young people. These days there are no "Rock" clubs kids can go to. The record companies killed it it seems.
While NWOBHM was going on, the band at 5:04 was the IT band on the other side of the Atlantic.
Pretty great find.
what's the name of the song at 3:04??
Exciter, Judas Priest 78......
i meant that was when i was in high school. i was born in 1980.
who is the man at 3:20.... April Wine???
That's my friend, Rob Loonhouse, Air Gutarist Extraordinaire & a pretty cool photographer too...🤙
How's this documentary called?
Great stuff....Is it Danny Baker narrating?
Oh memories.
Funny punk got pushed away and NWOBHM took over...its like they went back to early 1975...amazing
If he had a £1 for everytime he saw iron maiden he'd be rich?
well stop seeing iron maiden and save ur ticket money instead!
that guy with "lemmy mustage" was on iron maiden's early days dvd
That would be DJ Extraordinaire Neil Kay, the Master of the Heavy Metal Soundhouse and progenitor of Iron Maiden's 'Soundhouse Tapes' fame....
@@ouicb Does he still have that old white vintage jag...?? I bet he'd have to have that surgically removed by now...😁
There are plenty of women at metal shows nowadays. Good looking women at that.
legendas seria bom
I can’t understand a word in first 40 seconds
"New Wave Of British Heavy Metal" what a load of bollocks. I have never ever heard anybody say new wave. It either heavy rock or heavy metal. And I should no Iv been a head banger since the 70's
I get it....I am an American who was there during Neil Kay's Soundhouse Days...OG for sure, and you are correct, I never heard the term bandied about 'New Wave' and you wouldn't say that to diehard OG Metalheads without a swift reaction because that was known to be Punk slang, and antiethical, abhorrent and offensive to Headbangers back then....The big draw for us young American males there was the Soundhouse was very receptive to our rock vinyl which us serviceman brought to the scene, and played the closet genre of music that closely resembled American FM radio deep cuts that were accustomed to....you have to remember no internet so word of mouth advertising was big and there is a definite American influence on the Soundhouse top 20 playlists that was complied weekly by Neil Kay, published by Melody Maker internationally, and played with input requests every Sunday night back in the day...that was how the business was run then....I know, I helped Neil set up a concert Glenn Miller style at one of the aircraft hangers at the USAF base at Lakenheath for Ted Nugent. My advice is NEVER EVER ride on a motorcycle with Neil Kay unless you like 100+ MPH thrills as I experienced the first time we left London to go to Lakenheath AFB to set up the concert up the M1!🤙
@progjazzfusion priest were pretty influenced in som ways by classical music thats probably were most of their ideas for harmonizing dual guitars came from
at 2:01 that guy looks like Brian Poshen
I have seen this before! - But I still can't take it seriously! IRob Loonhouse eminds me of Peter cook talking to Dudley Moore in Derek & Clive! hahahahahahha. Love how he thinks it's alright to make a cardboard guitar to headbang with, but drawing frets on the neck is taking the piss!
Is cardboard guitar not putting 'air guitarists ' out of business?
Lol...I remember Rob from all those years ago. He was actually a really nice guy. It was more of a meeting place for us really + of course somewhere you could go to let your hair down...lol I met Neal back in 1981 when he used to do a slot at The White Hart in Acton among other places. I started going to the Sound house around 1984ish + became a member. By then it was the Clay Pigeon, Eastcote on a Friday, The Queens Arms, Harrow on a Saturday for Oldies night + back there on Sunday for the usual mainstream rock. It was a great time + very sad when it all ended as it was the only place around that brought everyone together + most lost touch after that, apart from a few yearly reunions years later.. I miss it..😞
♥
ROB LOONHOUSE IS A LEGEND !!!!
He was a close friend of mine. Last I heard was he went Ghost and off the Grid😔...I miss him and wish him well🤙
@@ouicb What do you mean dude? Is Rob missing? How can this be possible, it's so sad, I hope everything is fine ...
@@grevennazg1204 read the article written by CherryBomb dated 07.05.2019 entitled "THE STORY OF ROB LOONHOUSE: AIR-GUITAR PIONEER & THE UNDISPUTED KING OF CARDBOARD GUITARS" at The Dangerous Minds website...Sadly, early Kancel Kulture was not kind to Loony and it tells of the sad withdrawal from society the fallout caused...🤙
@@ouicb That's so sad...So many of the old crowd have vanished off the face of the earth, or so it seems...😟
this is a maiden documentry!
Neal Kay gurú forever👊👊👊
That depends how you look at it...lol..😉
These cardboard guitar blokes are funny. Wonder if this practice still exists.
I'm from Brazil, all my life I watch, listen and read english stuffs. But these guys speak really really strange, I just understand 20% I guess, hahahaha
I WANT PORTUGUESE SUBTITULES!!!
This is english english my friend, you gotta practice more listening, we are used to the pussified and bastardized version of "american" english.
@@condor7430 at least us Yanks know how to spell 'color' and 'tire' correctly and with brevity that you commonly mistake for 'bastardization'...say, do you have any grey poupon? 🍯😱🦧
James Cameron Guitars air?????
Card board guitars... Guitar Hero, anyone??
boy, lotta guys with Rush T-Shirts, patches. Rush was metal in Britain? who knew!
What about the bloke with "Genesis" on his jacket? LOL
@@imaouima Some of the older early 70s genesis w/ peter gabriel was heavier, Steve Harris cites them in that era as a big influence on maiden. Check out the genesis songs "The Knife", and "Return of the Giant Hogweed" among others. There is even finger tapping guitar solos and riffs before van halen did it (by steve hackett). Lots of odd timings and complex drumming...early genesis was big influence on maiden and heavy prog, which eventually turned into prog metal. But the overall reason is people were more diverse and open minded and "rock" and "heavy rock" was pretty much treated all the same, you can see he has a Styx patch too, so nwobhm fit in well with the album rock fan type of music of that era, people werent concerned with fitting in or looking cool the most obscure bands or most heavy bands etc, just be diverse, that was the 70s...such a diverse open time
@@RocknJazzer plus at the HM Soundhouse us Americans with our favorite Southern Rock vinyl were always welcome to be played on Sunday nights plus I was there when Nugent was promoting 'Paralyzer' & he dropped in the Soundhouse signing people's arses🤙
@@RocknJazzer The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was always my favourite, but I have loads of favourites.. Lol
Ive got an inverted V..."LOL
Dinossaurus do Metal - SP 1980
Cept these Dino's are not ALL extinct yet!🤙
240 Rush, the best band on galaxy
@MirkoMetal88 no way dude... it can't be breaking the law...
I feel the urge to make a hard board guitar.
Just buy a Harley Benton from Thomann. It is almost as cheap as one made of hardboard.
23!!!The guy looks about 43.
@myrtia dah sorry, i thought "hell bent for leather" and i wrote "breaking the law" haha, that's the song, for sure ;)
I honestly don't even know what you're saying anymore.
Iron Maiden is amazing!!!!!
Practiced those chords? A power chord is literally two notes. Three if you're feeling adventurous. It's not a lack of skill for someone to tune to drop D, that's just silly of you to even suggest that.
@myrtia Judas Priest - Breaking the law
well it was an underground scene
No it wasn't, it was wide open like the Wild West, hence the old time western look inside the pub....I know. I was there...where were you?
@@ouicb It wasn't Madonna mainstream
@@ouicb unlike thrash metal in both North and South America
Like what you like, dislike what you dislike. All this "I only listen to metal type A and never type C" makes you all sound like the pop music lemmings we are trying to get away from.
"Heavy Metal Discos" lol!
Yeah, tho the term was used generically going back to the 60s short for the term discotheque, meaning a club that played records, regardless of style, far before disco music even existed
you know
"Deep Purple", "Black Sabbath", "Led Zeppelin", "Uriah Heep", "Whitesnake" = OWOBHW? .-)
What does OWOBHW stand for?
Also, Zeppelin isn't really Heavy Metal in my opinion.
@@metalheadgamer80 - I think he means OWOBHM = old wave of british heavy metal. I love that stuff too but would call that hard rock not metal tho.
Yeah The NWOBHM gained momentum in the late seventies and early 80's but there were a few bands right before them who made it possible such as Judas Priest, UFO, Budgie, Motorhead etc. Yes even RUSH to some degree. Listen to Hemishpheres. That's the blueprint for prog metal right there. Not Genesis though. Prog yes metal no.
I saw Rush at the Hammersmith Odeon on their 78 Hemispheres Tour...Awesome🤙
6:12 Rob Loonhouse's is the worst attitude you can have in life!
Lol....that 'I am 23' was a running joke back in the day......my wife at that time was 26 and still being carded, I was 25, and I was cracking up while a friend of Loonhouse was describing to her about how terrible it was being married to an over-the-hill geezer like me! You should have seen the jaw drop of the dude complaining about age when she told him how old she really was cause she looked around 16 years at the time!
I sure miss those days, the HM Soundhouse and the gang😔
@@ouicb Loonhouse was a looser I assume - or incel as they say now a days. And loosers tend to feel they are too old even when they are 15. But your story was hilarious! :D
And yeah, I also miss old times even if my "old times" are only in the 2000s...
@@balazsszomor5964 I think the colloquial term you are looking for is "Tosser" vice looser, but what Brit MetalHead worth his salt was not?🤔
If you knew him, he WAS opinionated, but also a very gregarious and extremely funny chap, a fun guy to be around, and we ALL loved him for it. No pretentious airs with him. If you spent any time around him, you couldn't help but love the guy's zest for life back then...with his shortimer attitude, the good thing about that was he was full throttle, I suppose thinking he was not long for this life.....
Glad you enjoyed the story as your comment brought back some good memories. I am not sure, but I fuzzily remember Nugent visited the Bandwagon & signed people's arses, and it Loonhouse's butt that got signed first as it was his brill idea😉!
its funny how punks and metal heads didnt like each other by the time it was all shitney and punks and metalheads hung out to save rock from preppies he he,
True!
FUKIN STICKY TAPE HA HA
you could keep the same monologue and use this video for today's metal scene....its pathetic
The only thing pathetic is your supercilious comment....
Blue Cheer, an American band, INVENTED heavy metal. LOL
But seriously, somebody put up some subtitles, what the HELL are these people saying? LOL!!
It is East London seventies street slang of the working man....
Summertime Blues any one...?? 😜