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Gerald Rattlehead is best known for hosting Powerchord on Citr with Metal Ron from 1985. He's seen over a thousand shows and is Vancouver's biggest rock and roll fan, period. Over the years, venues have closed, scenes change, but Gerald's always been there. And he's doing it all for the love of it, which is why Vancouver's lucky to have him. |
You've actually got a pretty broad range of music tastes, it's not just metal right?
Of course.
What was your first record?
Beatles Revolver, I think I was 11, back then it was hard to distinguish one type of music to another, you just listened to whatever. That, and Guess Who American Woman, and the first Partridge Family album.
What about first concert?
Crosby Stills Nash and Young, which still to this day was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.
Cool, O.K. what do you we have here? This is a Queen record yeah?
Yeah, this one’s a really weird story, they are one of my all time favourite bands too. This album was released on CD, but I got the limitied edition picture vinyl which is an entirely different mix of the album. This was a promo thing only so they only pressed a few of them, it’s very rare. So in 2006…once again, I figured out where they were staying, when they were in town. I hung around until they were about to go to soundcheck. I see Brian May, but he’s up on this hill, like this rock wall thing and the only way I’m going to see him is if I climb up. I had no choice but to climb up the thing carrying this record. So I get up there and motion him to roll down the window. I’m sure he was wondering how I got up there, I came out of nowhere but, he rolled down the window signed it. I said ‘thank you very much Brian’ and I climbed back down. But that wasn’t it, I went and then waited from the drummer, he was literally just going to jump into a vehicle and I said, ‘Hey Roger, when’s the last time you’ve seen one of these?’ and he stopped, looks at it and says, ‘is that what I think it is?’ He starts walking towards me and says, ‘you have one of those?’, he signed it and a few things for my friends too. Then he jumped into the car and he was gone. Sometimes, what you have makes a difference.
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