Hard n Heavy (TV Show) anybody?

you know that TV show that was around 20 years ago. Any of you liked and watched it? I am also aware they were re-released on DVD under the name Rockthology. if so what are the best ones to get? I have got volume 7 half is good the other half meh

Yeah, I remember Hard-n-Heavy...if memory serves, though, it wasn't a TV show (at least not here in the U.S.) but a continuing series of "video magazines" which were released on VHS every other month or so. I forget how many volumes there were. I only had a few of those tapes, one was an "all Thrash edition" with Exodus, GWAR and a bunch of other bands on it.

The tapes were a mix of interviews with various bands, some live footage, and animated bits of "metal head" kids beating up on teachers and old ladies, setting stuff on fire, etc., etc. -- kinda like a precursor to the stuff "Beavis & Butt-Head" did on their show a few years later. Those 'toons were supposed to be funny but to me they only served to perpetuate the stereotype that metalheads were destructive idiots.

They reissued this one DVD a few years ago and I got them for $1 each, it was like 4 disc, it was ok but not really put together that well, and the cartoons in between sucked.

I'll have to look when I get home to be sure but I think I may still have one or two of those tapes in the closet somewhere. I picked 'em up at a garage sale a couple of years ago. I watched'em once, thought "yup, these were just as dumb as I remember" and I left'em to gather dust.

manny wrote:

the cartoons in between sucked.

the writers who wrote the scetches must of been stoned off their arses
awesomely bad I guess

Fat Freddy wrote:

I'll have to look when I get home to be sure but I think I may still have one or two of those tapes in the closet somewhere. I picked 'em up at a garage sale a couple of years ago. I watched'em once, thought "yup, these were just as dumb as I remember" and I left'em to gather dust.

I watched them once and are collecting dust in my music DVD collection, I guess I should try to dump them on some poor unsuspecting soul.

I had most of the episodes on VHS. Loaned them to a friend. Never saw them again.

ultmetal wrote:

I had most of the episodes on VHS. Loaned them to a friend. Never saw them again.

You should send your friend a thank you card.

They were OK but just a corporate attempt to capitalize on the mostly hair-metal trend of the day. The cartoons were filler because of lack of content.

I had a lot of these VHS tapes and to me the cartoons were part of the best part. You guys take things too serious sometimes. haha

Lurideath wrote:

I had a lot of these VHS tapes and to me the cartoons were part of the best part. You guys take things too serious sometimes. haha

Did you like Beavis and Butthead?

I have the whole thing on VHS.

The grindcore episode was my favorite.

I remember some cool interviews with Dio and Halford on these series. The Halford interview was in his home in Arizona. The Dio interview was in his home as well, though I don't recall where he lived. I thought they were fun. I wouldn't mind seeing some of this stuff incorporated into That Metal Show.

They should do a dvd boxset of the series. Maybe update the cartoons.

Troublezone wrote:

Maybe update the cartoons.

...or just leave them out entirely. (Sorry, I'm an animation snob. Those 'toons weren't funny and were crudely done to boot. I can't stand Beavis & Butthead for the same reason.)

Now that I think about it, there were several other series of those "Video Magazines" making the rounds at that time. I had the first volume of something called "MetalHead" that came out back then as well. The host (also called "MetalHead") was some dork who had a set of metal studs in a line across his forehead!!!!

After giving those video mags a couple of tries, I stuck with print magazines...

I am with Freddy not only where they crudely drawn but even worse they were not funny.

Troublezone wrote:

They should do a dvd boxset of the series.

That would be cool...

Used to have many of them on VHS. Would love to have the DVD's, so I could see all of them.

Yeah I am a huge Beavis and Butthead fan. One of the best cartoons made to me. I like that type of humor though.

Sounds interesting. So in the U.S. this was just a series of videos?

Yeah it was just a video series here.

You can buy them on DVD from Amazon they got reissued on DVD as Rockthology and are now out of print again:


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_6?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=rockthology&sprefix=rockth

LOL, I have a 3-video VHS set of Hard-n-Heavy I bought some 10 years ago. I still pull it out once in a while for laughs. Had some good interview stuff, though I dislike how the cut into the videos for interviews. Why they couldn't just play the whole video, then play the interview I have no idea...

Fat Freddy wrote:

Those 'toons were supposed to be funny but to me they only served to perpetuate the stereotype that metalheads were destructive idiots.

I love this comment. Watch the movie "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd". The clerk at a store wears Anthrax shirts, but it seems he's a total buffoon. Dumb and Dumber. Great series.

On the topic of Hard 'n' Heavy, I saw part of a clip with Testament and Exodus.