44 Minutes

Shifty

Shifty

O.G.
I was just listening to the album 'Endgame' by Megadeth when one song brought me back to shocking events that unfolded in Los Angeles, California in 1997.

Over a span of 44 minutes, 2 masked & heavily armed gunmen left 18 innocent people (11 police officers and 7 civilians) wounded and paved a path of destruction following a foiled bank robbery in North Hollywood.

Both perpetrators were ******.

On the morning of Feb. 28, 1997, after months of preparation, including extensive reconnoitering of their intended target—the Bank of America branch on Laurel_Canyon_Boulevard - Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu loaded five rifles and approximately 3,300 rounds of ammunition in box and drum magazines into the trunk of their vehicle: two modified Romanian AIM assault rifles, an AK-47 style rifle, and one modified Norinco Type 56 S-1, a semi automatic HK91 and a modified Bushmaster XM15 E2S. Phillips carried one 9mm Beretta Model 92F INOX. They wore their 18 kilogram full-suit body armor, as well as metal trauma plates to protect vital organs, and they took the barbiturate phenobarbital to calm their nerves.

Phillips and Mătăsăreanu were confronted by dozens of LAPD officers when they exited the bank.

Total chaos ensued.



Baptized in a firefight
Hot ***** running cold as ice
44 minutes of target practice
All hell's breaking loose
Outgunned, watching "The *****" come to a firefight with a pocketknife
getting schooled until they shot Achilles' heel
and brought down the *****.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
 

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lurkingdirk

I'm not a fan of this band, but I do like the song, and I really like it when songs are really grounded in events like this.

Thanks for sharing.
 
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lurkingdirk

Shifty said:
I find the intro quite brilliant. :2 cents:
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I'll not quite say brilliant, but it is good. When the singing starts, it falls apart. Even though I dig the lyrics and all the sentiment, I just can't get past the vocal styling or the melodic writing.

(which is, of course, just my opinion, and I'm a total fucking idiot)
 
Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Here Zombie, Zombie, Zombie...
I remember watching that when it happened on the news. That was when the news actually had balls and showed everything. Now they pull back whenever a car chase bolts through a intersection, "just in case". The media is to blame for 50% of the world's problems.
Personally, I prefer Metallica. But I do appreciate some of Megadeth's work. Mostly their early stuff. I think they should find Justin Beiber and slam him with their guitars and rid the world of him before he breeds.
 
Shifty

Shifty

O.G.
He's not known for his vocals. As a listener, I tend to focus more on the music.

And IMO, he does have the tendency to make sacrifices lyrically.

In this song, I think it works. After all, it is a gritty, raw and ugly story. :2 cents:
 
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lurkingdirk

Shifty said:
He's not known for his vocals. As a listener, I tend to focus more on the music.

And IMO, he does have the tendency to make sacrifices lyrically.

In this song, I think it works. After all, it is a gritty, raw and ugly story. :2 cents:
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Fairy 'nuff.

I do like gritty vocals (a la Tom Waits), but he makes too many compromises in his melodic content to make the gritty lyrics vocals work. :2 cents:

We should probably let others get in on this discussion now....jump in any time, folks.
 
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biomech

Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit
I remember watching this unfold, talk about crazy.
 
Ravenholm

Ravenholm

The pictures of the two perps in the first post, the one on the left reminds me of an actor and it is driving me mad trying to think who it is. I can see the actor in question in my mind but the name escapes me... FUUUCK!.


*EDIT*

Robb Wells - Ricky from Trailer Park Boys.

It's the hair and beard that does it.
 
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