Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!

Oh, not burn!

It's kind of like when you're listening to Metalop your podcast.

And I'm Ethan Luckin.

This is episode 280,

and we're going to take a brief right turn off the Middleapy podcast highway.

We're going to dip in to what we are calling

Hot Summer Nights, Part 1. Well, I played the song Hot Summer Nights on an episode with Brad

Blazick, and we got a lot of response to people wanting to check that out. It was a hit.

It was a hit. It was a big hit with the Metal Pure Podcast community. And so we've got a busy

couple of weeks coming up. We thought this would be fun.

We're going to do all the housekeeping, all the tangent cities.

But we're going to listen to part one of what we were calling hot summer nights, even though it was called rejected demos or bad demos.

By the way, welcome to the podcast.

If you're joining us for the first time, we ordinarily always talk about Metallica or Metallica

adjacent stuff.

Ethan and I are two professional touring musicians.

Metallica is our favorite band. But yeah, I'm excited about this. So what this is real quick is what era, what circa year was this getting passed around?

I mean, for me it was 2007-ish. Okay. For me, it would have been about 2001 or two. Okay. So these been going on for a while. You can tell it's from either like people from country record labels or Christian record labels that get like back in the day, people would literally make a demo tape and send it to labels. And so they somebody compiled all these really bad rejected demos and just put it together and people started burning CDs and passed them around like the tape

trading world, right? And so I got, someone burned me a CD to just said bad demos. Yeah. And we

laughed our asses off at this thing. Yeah, this was like pretty, this was like constant rotation in

the van. Oh yeah. It's funny, we were just talking about Bill Hicks before we started rolling,

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