Diamond Head @ 2016 Metal Brew (part 3)
Brian Tatler of Diamond Head (July 30, 2016)
I first heard Diamond Head in the early 80s. They weren’t regularly played on the radio in the USA, but a DJ was trying to be cute and played Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell, Heaven and Hell, and To Heaven from Hell in that order. I remember this thirty-something years later because I was taping the radio and listened to those four songs dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the next few years on cassette.
A few years later Metallica covered not one, but four, Diamond Head songs. They also ripped off several Diamond Head riffs in songs that were Metallica “originals”. Once Metallica stopped covering Diamond Head in about 1987 Metallica turned into crap.
Anyway, I purchased Diamond Head’s “Borrowed Time” in Japan on CD in 1988, and have listened to it regularly ever since. I never dreamed I’d be seeing them from the front row in England three decades later. What a great time!
Diamond Head setlist @ 2016 Metal Brew