A tradition in the Mad Oilman household is to avoid commercials. Give the multitude of channels on cable, this is fairly easy. The addition of digital cable and all of the (blessedly) commercial free music channels made this task quite easy. At the break to commercial, Mad Oilman goes straight to the Metal channel. Name that tune. Moving through the next multiple channels, this game goes on just past the 70' station into Solid Gold Oldies. After the run it's back to the main show. Since this game starts on the Metal channel, it is creatively called Metal.
Metal seems to fill the time of every comercial break perfectly. Each participant brings their own talents to the game. Beating them on their specialties is most gratifying.
This evening I was playing Metal with the Mrs. Doing pretty good. Nailed most of the rock stuff. Also nailed Spandau Ballet which is embarrasing. But not nearly as embarrassing as a major gaff by Mad Oilman. On the Retroactive channel, I heard hard low slow rock. Shouted 'Danzig' immediately. Mrs. Oilman, having already given up laughed out loud. Turns out it was Adam and the Ants. Seriously. And they sounded like Danzig. 1980 album and obviously a video never made. A direction discarded.
And before this moment I couldn't think of any way possible to include Adam and the Ants and Danzig in the same sentece. Well there you go.
