Helmgar50

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

Slayer - The Ritz, NY (1986)
0:24 Raining Blood
2:48 Angel of Death
8:27 Die by the Sword
12:40 Praise of Death
16:19 Criminally Insane
20:04 Necrophiliac
24:40 Necrophobic
27:39 Captor of Sin
32:40 Black Magic
37:16 Reborn
40:37 Postmortem
44:30 Epidemic
48:00 Hell Awaits

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Primus and a clown perform Dio’s ‘Holy Diver’. Yeah, you read that right.

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Over 7 minutes of ‘Die Young’ from ‘Heaven And Hell’, live, unedited & in full. Dio Black Sabbath!!! 🤘🤘🤘

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Wicked Vid! Audioslave, ‘Show Me How To Live’! The way they splice in scenes from the movie ‘Vanishing Point’, is spectacular. Bonus: Axl Rose speaks dialogue from this movie’s announcer, DJ Super Soul, in the Guns N’ Roses ‘Use Your Illusion II’ song ‘Breakdown’. Enjoy!

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

THE LAST TIME 🔥

Led Zeppelin tearing through “Kashmir” at the O2 Arena in 2007 — one of the most legendary reunions in rock history.

Over 20 million people entered a global lottery for just 18,000 tickets. The show was a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, and after 27 years, Zeppelin delivered.

Jason Bonham stepped into his father’s shoes and absolutely crushed it. Robert Plant was electric, Jimmy Page was on fire, and John Paul Jones held it all down with thunderous groove.

The band sounded massive.
Recorded in 1974 at Headley Grange and immortalized on Physical Graffiti, “Kashmir” remains one of their undisputed masterpieces.

That hypnotic riff (born from Jimmy’s DADGAD tuning experiments) still hits like nothing else.
Pure magic. Enjoy!

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

Early Queensryche had an edge people forget about.

"Queen of the Reich" is sharp, fast, and fully committed.

[All Rock Music @allrockmusic]

Thin Lizzy tearing through “Jailbreak” live in 1977 is pure rock charisma. Phil Lynott had the story, the swagger, and the soul, while the band made every riff feel larger than life. This is Thin Lizzy at their coolest.

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

The album Back in Black was recorded a few days after the funeral of Bon Scott. Brian Johnson took over vocals for the first time in the band and wrote all the lyrics (the band decided not to use anything that Bon had left ready so as not to look like they were profiting from his death). The all-black cover was a tribute of mourning, and the album became one of the best-selling albums in music history, with more than 50 million copies worldwide.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

Ronnie James Dio was the greatest pure rock vocalist ever produced.

Hammersmith ’93 is the proof.

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Lemmy covering Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ just hits differently. Wait and watch for Lemmy and the band footage to coming up! Enjoy!

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

To be at Ozzy Osbourne’s final performance with Black Sabath was a moment of high emotion & pure respect to the master of metal!

‘N.I.B.’ in Birmingham, July, 2025.

In HD. In Full. Unedited.

Ozzy & Black Sabbath gave us the ultimate farewell.

I, we, will never forget him❤️🤘

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

On the anniversary of the release of Black Sabbath’s ‘Heaven And Hell’ album, here is the title track, live, with Dio carving it up as their new main vocalist. One of the great albums & line-ups!🤘

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Random Song of the Day

Neon Knights
Black Sabbath
live -1980 (ny)

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Random Song of the Day

Fall to Pieces
Velvet Revolver
live -2007(germany)

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

🎸 Ozzy Osbourne – “I Don’t Know” 🔥

Peak Blizzard of Ozz era. Randy Rhoads on absolute fire, Ozzy in full madman mode, and that killer riff still sounding fresh 45 years later. Pure early-80s metal magic.

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Random Song of the Day

I Don’t Know
Ozzy Osbourne
live -1981 (rochester)

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Origins of Purple Rain,

Purple Rain' was originally written as a country song, and was intended to be a collaboration with Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks.

According to Nicks, she received a 10-minute instrumental version of the song from Prince, with a request to write the lyrics, but she felt overwhelmed by the task.

She later said: "I listened to it and I just got scared. I called him back and said, 'I can't do it. I wish I could. It's too much for me.'"

Prince then asked his backing band to try the song: "I want to try something before we go home. It's mellow."

According to Lisa Coleman, Prince changed the song dramatically after Wendy Melvoin started playing the guitar to accompany the song: "He was excited to hear it voiced differently. It took it out of that country feeling.

"Then we all started playing it a bit harder and taking it more seriously. We played it for six hours straight and by the end of that day we had it mostly written and arranged."

Prince's explanation on the meaning of 'Purple Rain':

"When there's blood in the sky – red and blue = purple... purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith/god guide you through the purple rain."

After recording the song, Prince phoned Journey member Jonathan Cain, to ask him to listen to it.

Prince was concerned that it might be too similar to Journey's 'Faithfully', a song composed by Cain which had recently been in the US charts.

However, Cain reassured Prince by saying that the songs only shared the same four chords.

"I thought it was an amazing tune," Cain said. "I told him, 'Man, I'm just super-flattered that you even called. It shows you're that classy of a guy. Good luck with the song. I know it's gonna be a hit.'"

Ladies and gentlemen,
Prince performing a special and an absolute classic song, Purple Rain, live at Paisley Park, in 1999.

Credits for the background information: @SmoothRadio

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

The older you get, the more this makes sense

[J.A. @Cigaro556]

IRON MAIDEN ~ WASTED YEARS