Master of Puppets is late night roller hockey in the recycling center parking lot behind my childhood house.  Lighting stuff on fire.  Doing sweet ass trick jumps into the pool, dead of summer heat, Kool-Aid with extra sugar, Cool Ranch Doritos, and cold hotdogs straight up from the pack.  This was a consistent soundtrack that played on a boom box while me and my trashy friends did these things.

And on this day especially I’m reflective on them good ole days as I find myself one year older.  Wiser?  Uncertain.  “Hold my beer, watch this…” is my love language and I’ve never met a Cool Ranch Dorito I didn’t like. An endearment for both may be more misguided than anything.

It’s appropriate this would fit a long-overdue and promised Insta collab with @thrashmaniac_yt, who I’ve gotten to know through the Metalverse and truly appreciate his spirit, knowledge, and passion for all things metal. You’ll know this if you’re familiar with his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@thrashmaniac99. He puts up with my trash opinions and slow come around to trying new shit, which is why our common ground is a record from 1986-ish.

I’m also fitting it in with @analogwavelength’s #aprilairwavesvinylchallenge theme on friends and in honor of all the little shits I used to run the streets on banana seats with. 

@siliconeandvinyl