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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
What I got from Bruce Dickinson was that Punk was popular and Heavy Metal was totally underground and "pure" i.e. free from performance artistry. But that isn't really true, didn't matter if you embraced Poison or not. Thrash was on college radio - yeah, but Heavy Metal was on commercial radio and MTV. He's complaining about Punk being embraced by the "art establishment" - cry me a river Bruce. 
But he forgets that Metal was embraced by mainstream media, so what's his point? |
First of all, he had like four sentences published in that article. So, maybe he's being a prick, maybe he's being railroaded, maybe it's a bit of both. I don't know. But I don't think it's fair to assume you know exactly what he was saying.
Secondly, again, aside from a very few bands metal was by and large completely under the radar. You can't just say "heavy metal was on commercial radio and MTV", cause you're talking about a genre of heavy metal that was divorced, in its fans, in its artists, in its sound, from just about any other part of metal.