Nov 27, 2007

Metal Health

Growing up in the sticks made a youngster inventive in ways of entertainment and I was no different. One evening proved to be frightfully dull as my friend Shawn and I were struggling to come up with something to do. We had exhausted all other options of playing football, video games, and shining a flashlight on our bare asses as cars drove by.

Mischief wasn't on the menu that evening so Shawn decided we needed to become rock stars. We pulled out some cardboard and made guitars and a mic. Shawn draped sheets over the lamps and instantly we formed our own concert hall. His little brother Bryan put Metallica's 'Ride the Lightning' into the stereo. Instantly we were rock stars.

Yes I was James Hetfield and Shawn transformed himself into Kirk Hammett. We rocked the living room jumping off of couches and and twirling our makeshift instruments. That evening we were gods pretending a packed crowd of stoned concert goers were cheering us on.

The evening went on and the bands varied from Guns n Roses to AC/DC. Fun was had by all as the three of us were strumming the night away until I saw Shawn suddenly freeze. I looked over at the window that his eyeballs were fixated on and saw his parents staring at us. Oh hell they came home early. Their eyes were wide open and half grins were clenched to control mass hysterical laughter. Shawn, Bryan, and I couldn't move a muscle.

That ended our night of pretend stardom. Oh and there may or may not be a video of the incident.

"Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums." - Jason Newsted

Yes we were actually at this show:

5 comments:

Miss Ash said...

Umm did you sport the same hairdo as James is the bigger question??

(and I would have thrown my panties at you)

Mattbear said...

Awesomeness. I would love to see video of that.

I never bothered with anything like cutting out cardboard guitars. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to air-guitar.

Grace said...

Sounds like fun to me! Post the video!!! Come on, you've got to now that you've told us the story.

Anonymous said...

Stuff like that would never happen these days. And that's too bad. Guitar Hero video games have rid children of the innocence and fun of air-playing their favourite songs on cardboard guitars or tennis rackets.

Scott said...

You still do this don't you? The video is of you last week right?