If I'm right. They were a band from San Antonio Texas called Slayer too. So once Slayer became popular, the Texas Slayer were referred to as SA-Slayer (or San Antonio Slayer)
The gig they played with Slayer was their last ever gig (according to Kerry King) and their Drummer was Machine Head skinsman Dave McClain
Araya: We played a place up in Seattle and there was like 1500 kids there. That was the biggest show that we’d done up till that point. I think that was actually with Metal Church. And then in Texas, we played with the San Antonio Slayer. Their record came out at the same time as ours, and they were also named Slayer.
slayerdiabolus wrote: If I'm right. They were a band from San Antonio Texas called Slayer too. So once Slayer became popular, the Texas Slayer were referred to as SA-Slayer (or San Antonio Slayer)
The gig they played with Slayer was their last ever gig (according to Kerry King) and their Drummer was Machine Head skinsman Dave McClain
I'm reading "The Bloody Reign Of Slayer" at the moment, fucking fantastic book. According to that the Slayer from San Antonio had the rights to the name Slayer and could have forced the Slayer from LA to change their names. However having played with LA Slayer, SA Slayer realised these boys were going to be massive and they were not so they gave up their rights to the name.
Theres a vortex in the fridge,
The food flies about
Throttled by sausages
I cannot get out!
slayerdiabolus wrote: I've tried to find that book over here in Bookstores but no luck. Will probably have a look when I'm over in the UK this weekend.
I've also been in contact with the author of the book Joel McIver about posting excerpts from his Metallica book in the forums here....
Watch this space
I've not read his Metallica book yet, but in his intro to the Slayer book he is very anti-Metallica/pro-slayer. And that comes across in the early chapters when comparing slayer and metallica too.
Theres a vortex in the fridge,
The food flies about
Throttled by sausages
I cannot get out!
