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Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Quotes

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Metal: A Headbanger's Journey ended its run in 1970.

It features Sam Dunn as producer.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is recorded in English and originally aired in Canada. Each episode of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is 96 minutes long. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is distributed by Seville Pictures.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Quotes

  • (Bruce Dickinson) "It gives them an alternative universe. It gives them a life of imagination through which they can view music and it usually inspires a lot of them to pick up a guitar and start playing."
  • (Dee Snider) "They wanted me to carry the flag into battle. Hell yeah. Braveheart baby. Braveheart wasn't even out. But that sort of mentality. Gimme the f***in' flag man. Let's go. I knew that they were, like everybody else, grossly underestimating me, I knew that they viewed me as just another dunderheaded rocker, and they would bring me in, make me look like a fool, and that I would help their cause. They didn't know that I could construct a sentence, and speak English fluently. And I'm there in my cutoff denim, my skin-tight jeans, my snakeskin boots, and a little bit of eye makeup left on underneath, and my big hair, and I ain't gettin' dressed up for nobody, I'm a dirtbag and I'm proud. And I'm playing these people. Like you know mentally I am setting these guys up for the kill. I've got my speech in my back pocket, which I have worked on for a few weeks, and honed and refined until it's a frickin' nuclear weapon, folded up like a gazillion times like a bad kid bringing his homework to school, and you know I'm opening it up and flattening it out on the table, really delivering, and these guys are going "Oh man this is a lamb being brought to the slaughter." And I started reading."
  • (Sam Dunn) "This music has millions of passionate fans worldwide, yet for 35 years, it's been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned."
  • (Dee Snider) "Songs allow a person to put their own imaginations, experiences and dreams into the lyrics. Uhh, people can interpret it many ways. Mrs Gore was looking for sadomasochism and bondage and she found it. Someone looking for surgical references would have found it as well."
  • (Dee Snider) "I said like you know, "I can't help it if Tipper Gore's got a dirty mind." And Al Gore, just, oh my God, he nearly jumped over the table."
  • (Alice Cooper) "Well, I mean, I was the poster boy for controversy. In some ways I think I invented it. Because, I mean, we were the first band to get banned in England. We got banned and nobody could figure out why they were banning us. We asked them in London; "What are we banned for?". And they couldn't name anything -- "Is there any nudity in our show?". "No". "Is there any bad language in our show?". "No". "So what are we being banned for?". "Well, there's blood in your show". Has anybody here ever seen 'Macbeth'? There's more blood in 'Macbeth' than in my show, and that's required reading in school. There was no real definitive rock vampire that was really the creature of the night and that's what Alice was supposed to be. If you say "Welcome to my nightmare", you don't just say it; you do it. Give them the nightmare. Show them the nightmare."
  • (Dee Snider) "I don't know how to explain it. I never questioned my sexuality at any point and I was up there in lingerie."
  • (Tom Araya) "I consider what we do art, and art can be a reflection of society. I guess, uh, we're picking up the dark reflections."
  • (Blasphemer) "Can you repeat the question?"
  • (Sam Dunn) "A lot of people we've talked to have said that --"
  • (Blasphemer) "What?"
  • (Sam Dunn) "-- have said that black metal is starting to lose touch with its roots --"
  • (Unnamed) "Who are they? Which ones? Who the f*** are you talking to? f*** THEM. Ya know --"
  • (Sam Dunn) "-- Do you have a comment on that?"
  • (Unnamed) "Yeah, I have a comment -- f*** YOU --. Ya know?"
  • (Alice Cooper) "I love going to Norway and Denmark, because I love picking up the black metal magazines. It's so 'Spinal Tap',"
  • (Alice Cooper) "'cause each band is trying to be more wicked and evil than any other band, you know. And I can't turn the page without going; "Look at this one, here are these guys and they're -- ""
  • (Alice Cooper) "You know, and they're -- And you know these guys, when you meet them in the mall they are;"
  • (Alice Cooper) ""Hello, Mr. Cooper. How are you? Nice to meet you. My mother is right over there, could she have your autograph?". And I say; "I thought you guys were like satanists or something?". You know, it's like; "Well yeah, we are, but -- "."
  • (Alice Cooper) "Very rarely do you meet anybody that's truly scary."
  • (James 'Munky' Shaffer) "Kids are bored, agitated, especially if they have problems at home; parents, drug addiction, alcoholism; it all contributes to the product of a young, angry musician."
  • (Malcolm Dome) "I still believe if Richard Wagner had actually been around today he'd probably be in Deep Purple. Beethoven probably would've been happy to have been in Led Zeppelin."
  • (Rob Zombie) "That's what I love about it is, it's so f***ing huge, and yet certain people don't even know it exists."
  • (Unnamed) "Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don't. If metal doesn't give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That's okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we're doing just fine without you."
  • (Tom Araya) "Regardless of whatever f***ing religion you believe in, whatever it is you feel is right, everybody knows what's wrong."
  • (Sam Dunn) "Metal confronts what we'd rather ignore. It celebrates what we often deny. It indulges in what we fear most. And that's why metal will always be a culture of outsiders."
  • (Rob Zombie) "It's like a lifestyle. Everything else seems like I like it for a week, I lose interest. But metal, metal fans love it forever."
  • (Corey Taylor) "Metal is probably the last bastion of real rebellion."
  • (Geddy Lee) "If you really wanna go back to the early metal bands, you have to look at Blue Cheer. Nobody talks about them very often because they were kind of a bloop on a screen. But they were, at one point, the loudest most metallic trio going."
  • (John Kay) "Heavy metal lies of course in the lyrics of 'Born to be Wild', which was written by a Canadian; Dennis Edmonton / Mars Bonfire. He was really talking about that whole experience of, you know, big bikes and roaring down the highway."
  • (Robert Ezrin) "For me, my awareness of it came with Led Zeppelin, it really did. As soon as those guys launched people started using the term 'heavy metal'. And I knew instantly that that sound was 'heavy something'."
  • (Lemmy) "As it is today, probably Deep Purple. You know, 'cause they were the first to have this great big f***-off PA -- And, uhm -- the first to have a lot of pyrotechnics really."
  • (Alice Cooper) "Actually, the first time 'heavy metal' was ever used was used about Alice Cooper in Rolling Stone magazine. Rolling Stone magazine was doing an interview with us. I think it was in '71, '72, '73, something like that. And there was this picture of this giant guy holding me up and it said; "Da-da-da-da-da-da -- It's heavy metal", in quotes."
  • (Alex Webster) "Every metal band owes a debt, musically, to Black Sabbath. They were the original."
  • (Randy Blythe) "Indeed, first metal band ever; Black Sabbath."
  • (Rob Zombie) "Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. Anything everyone else does is just basically ripping it off. Either you're playing it slightly different or fast or slow, but -- They did everything already."
  • (Sam Dunn) "For my money, Black Sabbath reigns as the first heavy metal band."
  • (Unnamed) "What is the primary ideologies or primary ideas that fuel Gorgoroth's music?"
  • (Gaahl) "SATAN --"
  • (Robert Walser) "Classical music is associated with university; with learning. Bach didn't go to college. Mozart didn't go to college. The virtuosic performers who were known as improvisers; that describes Bach as well as it describes Eddie Van Halen."
  • (Tom Morello) "It's a negation of the world as it's handed to you. It says, this daily existence of this boring-ass high school and this dead-end Dairy Queen job, just no. This is something that's mine and that I own, and f*** you; I won't do what you tell me."
  • (Rob Zombie) "It's outsider music and outsider subjects, and as a kid I was an outsider and the loner and I think that that's where it begins."
  • (Lemmy) "I love women, I think they should be naked backstage all the time. I love looking at them."

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