Savage Distortion

METAL NITE

Andy Rock's Vinyl Nite died it's untimely death when I took my records back, but Thursday night at Olive's still rocks. Andy has introduced an open mic night dedicated to METAL. When Andy, Chris 'Formerly The Guy' Peters, and I took the stage, I gave the house a Roots of METAL set, which opened with the prerequisite Andy/Jackson rocking out of Lou's 'Sweet Jane' a la 'Rock and Roll Animal', then Andy suggested some Zeppelin. Well I've never done a Zeppelin song in all my twenty years of performing, until last night. We did 'Immigrant Song' and 'Good Times, Bad Times'. Now, I do not have the pipes required to sing a reverential version, so I gave both tunes a Johnny Rotten feel, and y'know.....it worked. And what's more, it was fun. We then turned the night over to endless riffage of thrash, and I played pool.