{"id":15759,"date":"2016-08-01T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:14:03","slug":"diamond-head-2016-metal-brew-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/diamond-head-2016-metal-brew-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Head @ 2016 Metal Brew (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15760\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/28670583206\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Brian Tatler of Diamond Head at 2016 Metal Brew\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15760\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/28670583206_d3c3ca8eb2_h.jpg\" width=\"1024\" alt=\"Brian Tatler of Diamond Head at 2016 Metal Brew\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> Brian Tatler of Diamond Head (July 30, 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I first heard <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/diamond-head\/>Diamond Head<\/a> in the early 80s. They weren&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;originals&#8221;. Once Metallica stopped covering Diamond Head in about 1987 Metallica turned into crap.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I purchased Diamond Head&#8217;s &#8220;Borrowed Time&#8221; in Japan on CD in 1988, and have listened to it regularly ever since. I never dreamed I&#8217;d be seeing them from the front row in England three decades later. What a great time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15761\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/167_6878-DNG-metal-brew-diamond-head.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15761\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/167_6878-DNG-metal-brew-diamond-head.jpg\" alt=\"metal brew diamond head\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Head setlist @ 2016 Metal Brew<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard Diamond Head in the early 80s. They weren&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[612],"tags":[413,614,134,613,447,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15759"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31852,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions\/31852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}