{"id":32129,"date":"2025-10-03T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=32129"},"modified":"2025-10-05T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:11:32","slug":"45-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/45-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"45 years ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32130\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/167_6877-DNG-diamond-head-setlist-metal-brew-festival-standard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32130\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/167_6877-DNG-diamond-head-setlist-metal-brew-festival-standard.jpg\" alt=\"diamond head setlist metal brew festival\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Head setlist @ 2016 Metal Brew Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; one of the greatest (and influential) albums of all time was released&#8211;Diamond Head&#8217;s &#8220;Lightning to the Nations&#8221;. 12 year old me recorded it onto cassette off the radio. There probably aren&#8217;t that many other fans of Diamond Head who knew about them before Metallica. Speaking of influential&#8230; Have you ever listened to Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Ron McGovney&#8217;s &#8217;82 Garage demo&#8221;? Every song is either a Diamond Head cover or a new Metallica song that sounds more like Diamond Head than it does like Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Kill &#8216;Em All&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager I listened to Diamond Head a lot, but they didn&#8217;t tour anywhere near me. So it wasn&#8217;t until more than 35 years later that I saw them live for the first time, in the UK of all places. And on that night they played six of the seven tracks on &#8220;Lightning to the Nations&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; one of the greatest (and influential) albums of all time was released&#8211;Diamond Head&#8217;s &#8220;Lightning to the Nations&#8221;. 12 year old me recorded it onto cassette off the radio. There probably aren&#8217;t that many other fans of Diamond Head who knew about them before Metallica. Speaking of influential&#8230; Have you ever listened to Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[413,614,134,613,447,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129"}],"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=32129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32133,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129\/revisions\/32133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}