5) I couldn't believe how many people were overly interested in that eye rolling experience of those two girls making out. I couldn't believe he said that and I said, So? Who cares? 4) The audience were told Sam went to the hospital but I don't think anyone believed it at first. At one point this girl walked past us and she was walking all funny and he looked at her and said in a shocked voice I think she's on something. 3) I went with this guy I hadn't been going out with for very long. 2) Kid Rocks drummer was an African American woman with a big Afro. This is what I do remember 1) It seemed like there was a long wait before Kid Rock went on. On pages 199-200 Sam Rivers, Limp Bizkit.

I'm giving this five stars because I was at one of the concerts mentioned in the book. These are the stories of the parties, the tours, the rage, the joy.

Whether they were oddballs who didn’t fit in or angry kids from troubled backgrounds, metal gave them a sense of identity and became more than a form of music.įrom the author of the classic collection of Metal music-making tales Louder Than Hell comes a collection that goes behind the music with the lead singers, guitarists, bassists, drummers, stage hands, roadies, groupies, fans, and more. Even before they joined bands, the urge for metalheads to rebel and a seemingly contradictory need to belong was ingrained in their DNA. For many, vice has been virtue, and the opportunity to record albums and tour has been an invitation to push boundaries and open a Pandora ’s Box of wild experiences. The metal genre has always been populated by colorful individuals who have thwarted convention and lived by their own rules. The book contains the crazy, funny and sometimes horrifying anecdotes musicians have told about a lifestyle both invigorating and at times self-destructive. In his song “You Can’t Stop Rock and Roll” Ozzy Osbourne sings, “Rock and roll is my religion and my law.” And that’s why Raising Hell is a must-have for anyone who wants to read about the iconoclastic culture of headbangers and the wild lives they lead. From the author of the celebrated classic Louder Than Hell comes an oral history of the badass Heavy Metal lifestyle―the debauchery, demolition, and headbanging dedication―featuring metalhead musicians from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot to Disturbed, Megadeth, Throwdown and more.

Raising Hell by Jon Wiederhorn