DAVID (O) AND CONQUER
No sooner had I finished my last monthly curse of MTV for its lack of video variety, than those same clever market researchers tossed me and all the metal fans a crumb of sorts. MTV’s Metal Mania show was a whole hour of nothing but metal vids, hosted by Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, one of the champion electronic fish callers of our time.
DAVID (O) AND CONQUER
Richard Riegel
No sooner had I finished my last monthly curse of MTV for its lack of video variety, than those same clever market researchers tossed me and all the metal fans a crumb of sorts. MTV’s Metal Mania show was a whole hour of nothing but metal vids, hosted by Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, one of the champion electronic fish callers of our time.
Big Dee slung out one metal vid after another, in an energy rotation heavier than the usual entire evening of MTV programming. Some of the videos were fairly recent items—Def Leppard, Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan, etc.—which nevertheless seemed like “oldies” because they’d been absent from the tube for so long. And then there were some truly classic moments of metal videodromeing, from Motorhead’s “Iron Fist,” a Lemmy/Fast Eddie/Philthy Animal Taylor performance speedier than an acne chain on meth to a 1972 video of Alice Cooper’s anthemic “I’m Eighteen,” gorgeously antique in its psychedelic greens and purples.