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Y&T (Live)

October 18, 2025 Mick Burgess Leave a comment

There’s one sure fire sign that autumn is approaching. It’s not the chill in the air, the dark mornings or the leaves turning golden brown and falling from the trees, it is the return of …READ MORE

Encore Guest DJ Show Posted Online: DAVE MENIKETTI (Y&T) 2008

February 4, 2025 Stig G. Nordahl Leave a comment

Welcome to a special episode from the Metal Express Radio archives! In 2008, Y&T’s legendary frontman Dave Meniketti took over the Friday Guest DJ Show to share ten of his all-time favorite tracks that shaped …READ MORE

Y&T (Live)

November 2, 2024 Mick Burgess Leave a comment

Prior to Covid there was always something rather special about the first Friday night in November as pretty much every year for the previous decade or so, California’s Y&T, paid a visit to the town …READ MORE

Tales from a Metalhead

Tales from a Metalhead: Chapter 36: The Overture

February 8, 2024 Stig G. Nordahl Leave a comment

Overture! Many Hard Rock and Metal bands adopted the term from Classical music. However, over the years it’s become more typical for Hard Rock and Metal than any other genre I think. A fancy word, right?

Tales from a Metalhead

Tales from a Metalhead: Chapter 25: Go For the Throat!

November 23, 2020 Stig G. Nordahl Leave a comment

Y&T is one of those bands that has been around “Forever”. I knew a lot of their songs in the early early 80s, but for some strange reason I never took a deep dive into their back catalogue; not until the charity all-star album Hear ‘n Aid was released in 1985.

Tales from a Metalhead

Tales from a Metalhead: Chapter 4: “Blow Up My Camera!”

April 27, 2020 Stig G. Nordahl Leave a comment

I got to see AC/DC live for the first time on March 21, 1988. I missed them on their Fly on the Wall tour in 1986 (probably because I was saving money to see Twisted Sister a few weeks later on their Come Out and Play tour)