Morning Cup o’ Metal

Holy crap, how could I have let this series go on so long without including a Pantera song until now? Man I remember seeing these guys with Clutch and Nerosis during their Cowboys From Hell tour and they caught the audience by surprise. You know those lags that happen between groups that most people go outside to smoke or over to the concession area to grab a beer? Well, Pantera being sneaky bastards decided to put up a curtain so we couldnt see them setting up.

Instead of the 30-40 minutes it takes for the road crew to get things set up, they had it done like 10 minutes after the one band left. They didn’t even bother dropping the lights until this song was into its first couple of measures. I wish that I could express the amount of shock that was on everyone’s face when “Strength Beyond Strength” kicked in with its visceral guitars and gluttoral lyrics…it’s as if you had a Red-Bull mixed in a 20 oz cup of espresso, a serious kick to the face.

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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