#heavy rock

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Layne performing at an AIC concert circa 1990 - 1991

[sk4rlette8008]

Part 2 <3

Slash gets his own post idgaf he’s sooooo yummy

[itwasnotahamster]

Sugar E.P. - System Of A Down (SOAD) | May 26 *1999

[cannedbluesblog]

Led Zeppelin live by Heinrich Klaffs

[stargurle]

[mmondely]

Young Slash- aka. Saul Hudson

[another-little-hippie]

i love this photo. robert is literally SITTING on jonesy’s face… and he’s like, gently holding it!???

[whereifindsanity]

Five Finger Death Punch ~ A Little Bit Off

[metalsongoftheday]

Friday, April 12: Dio, "Breathless"

R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010), Jimmy Bain (1947-2016)

Ronnie James Dio sang with two major acts before striking out on his own, but the success of Holy Diver gave him license to fully unleash his id on The Last in Line.  And while the second Dio album was mostly a logical continuation of its predecessor, there was enough randomness generated by the man going all-in on his preoccupations and tics that something like “Breathless”, which began with a simultaneously bluesy and gnarled Vivian Campbell riff before Ronnie barged in with “No No No No No!!!”, stood out in all sorts of ways, not all of them good.  The track was a rocker driven by Vinny Appice’s blocky percussion and Jimmy Bain’s bass, with Campbell’s guitar more like window dressing (certainly a point of contention for the increasingly malcontent future Whitesnake and Def Leppard axeman), though of course there was no suppressing the power and passion of Ronnie’s growl, even if one was rarely sure about what he was really going on about.  “Breathless” was awesome and ridiculous in equal measure, and nobody would expect anything less from prime Dio.

[sunburnacoustic]

One song that really shows that [mystery] is on the second album, a song called “Space Dementia.” I always wanted to make a heavy rock song that could just have a piano without a guitar. I think we got there again on “Butterflies and Hurricanes” on the new album [Absolution]. I was trying to find a classical type of piano style that would be heavy and work with bass and drums. It had that sort of mechanical paradiddle thing all the way through, and then it breaks down into this kind of romantic, flowing weird bit in the middle.

Matt Bellamy on writing heavier, mysterious sounding rock songs on pianos rather than on guitars | "Innocence And Absolution", Keyboard Magazine, June 2005

[jarofalicesgrunge]

backstage after an alice in chains meet & greet, August 1991.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

fans kept asking Layne, "why did you cut your hair?!"

Credits to 🎥 and special thanks to @altCopperpot5 on yt

[metal-sludge]

SKID ROW (1986 - present) | ROCK POWER, June 1991.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

CUTTING THEIR TEETH ON THE UK CIRCUIT IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES -- THE DIRTIEST ROCK IN TOWN.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on bassist Mark Evans (behind) and lead guitarist Angus Young of Australian hard rock/blues rock band AC/DC, performing live during their first UK tour, the "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" Tour, c. 1976. 📸: Dick Barnatt.

PIC #2: Isolated shot of Angus Young from the same unnamed UK gig in '76.

Sources: www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/01/12/dirty-deeds-a-conversation-with-mark-evans & Getty Images.

[niknikkii]

paying tribute to kurt cobain (left) and layne staley (right).

kurt cobain || 1967 – 1994 (30 years since passing)

layne staley || 1967 – 2002 (22 years since passing)

rest in peace to these musical geniuses.

🕊💕

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

Proto Metal