THE STORY OF ECT (EPISODE 9) – LIVE HEAVY METAL ON CHANNEL 4
It’s
been a while, but I’m back with episode 9 of (to date) Channel 4’s only ever
Heavy Metal TV series!
This
was the penultimate week of the show and it featured some great bands.
First
up, DUMPY’S RUSTY NUTS. It doesn’t matter what kind of rock and metal fan you
were in the 80s (oh, we had divisions in the genre even then), everyone loved
DUMPY. His mix of humour with biker mythology entertained everyone, especially
those of us within ‘hog riding’ (Dumpy joke there for the initiated) distance
of London.
Here’s
the Dumpster!
Next
up and a bizarre inclusion for the heavy rocker crowd were glam goth hippy
chart botherers DOCTOR AND THE MEDICS.
No
footage of their ECT performance on YouTube so enjoy a suitable batty
performance of Abba’s ‘Waterloo’ featuring Roy Wood!
Back
to Heavy Metal rock’n’roll with ROCK GODDESS. Ah, all us testosterone filled
metalheads had a soft spot for at least one of them! They were actually a good
credible hard rock band and made a couple of decent albums.
And
last up on of my favourites from that era, Scotsmen HEAVY PETTIN’. While many
disliked their poodle perms and posing and called them a poor man’s DEF
LEPPARD, I always loved the Petts and these two songs of their terrific ‘Rock
Ain’t Dead’ album are both classics. Just don’t mention ‘A Song For Europe’……
Sorry, can't embed it - but the link below takes you to HEAVY PETTIN' on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ohcAwEcPk
