A Little Taste of Screwed & Chopped to Metal Classics

Egbert James: 24th Apr 2006 - 12:37 GMT

I think screwed n' chopped is the perfect sound to bring the 1980's back with some of these metal classics.

jack: 24th Apr 2006 - 12:48 GMT

holy shit, you mean 1984 is now classic. i must be ancient. i still think of 1958 as the summer of my youth. the best of rock and roll was being played on the radio everyday. i was 16 and we were going down to the beach at coney island everyday that summer. i fell in love for the first time and used to hold her hand whilst we strolled under the moonlight. every saturday night there was a backyard party. avalon, dion, the platters, cook, drifters, everly brothers. and the easter rock and roll show with allen freed at the downtown brooklyn paramount theatre. yes, 1958 came and went like a blink, but for a short while there we were young and gay (happy).

DJ Flippy: 24th Apr 2006 - 12:51 GMT

Iv'e never thought of listening to Metallica's Master of Puppets in a hip-hop form. But will it draw the attention of hip-hop fans ?

EvilGentleman: 24th Apr 2006 - 14:47 GMT

jack, do not forget June 11, 1958. That was the immortal day when Eddie Cochran released Summertime Blues. The day the music died was still a year in the future, so Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were still rocking away. A little known fact is that even today, if a deejay is having a hard time getting people onto the dance floor, just add Summertime Blues into the mix. Even the headbangers will start moving. Hard to believe that song is 48 years old.

For myself, I remember a few of the concerts I attended in the 1980's, starting from when I was 14 or 15.
1984 - Billy Idol - Rebel Yell Tour, Halifax Metro Centre
1984 - Iron Maiden (w/Twisted Sister) - World Slavery Tour, Halifax Metro Centre
1986 - AC/DC - Who Made Who Tour - Montreal Forum
1988 - Nazareth - 20th Anniversary Tour - Misty Moon Cabaret, Halifax
1989 - Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels Tour - Olympic Stadium, Montreal

The Nazareth show was the best. It was in a showbar that seated 2000 and it cost a cover charge of $6.00 to get in, which allowed me to get a beer and walk up to front center stage, plunk my beer down on the stage, and enjoy the show. Specific memories include watching the lead singer, Dan McCafferty, try to break up a fight that broke out about 20 feet to my right, right in front of the stage. I saw him kneel on the stage to lean forward to quietly say something to one of the fighters. I dunno what the guy's response was, but suddenly Dan was kicking the guy's head from the stage, and continued doing so until security dragged the guy away. And later on, during "Hair of the Dog", Dan ran off the stage and came back with - bagpipes? I knew they were a Scottish band, but proto-metal bagpipes? Damn right! Freaked the heck out of me when I realized the bagpipe solo rocked harder than the guitars. I was definitely impressed, cuz if you can make a musical instrument that usually sounds like a lamb being slaughtered sound good while performing hard rock on stage, now that is talent! Mind you, I think Slade did it first...

Dj Wannabe: 24th Aug 2006 - 16:01 GMT

I think this is a disaster of metal classics. I grew up listening to alot of these songs and they don't deserve to be treated this way, it disgusts me. The Houston rap scene is at its height but they've crushed a part of me with their "CHOPPED N' SCREWD MOVEMENT".