Mustang Cobra: Ambassadors of Metal

Where were you when you first heard metal?

 

For me, it was the living room of a babysitter’s house in 1989, watching Metallica’s first video, “One,” on MTV. It gave me nightmares. At the age of eight, I was not yet ready to appreciate what I’d seen and heard. It was too intense, too raw, and too graphic for my unformed, sheltered perceptions. My parents were pacifistic hippies and I had never in my life been exposed to something so unabashedly aggressive (and consequently, they never hired that babysitter again).

Almost twenty years later, sitting on one of the speakers that line the front of the stage at the Living Room, I drink in a forty-five minute set by Mustang Cobra, and I appreciate it fully.
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