Hot on the heals of seeing Van Halen at the Nassau Coliseum, a heavy metal band of a different stripe came to town. I wish I could say I have any recollection of Iron Maiden opening for Judas Priest this night in 1981 but I do not. I have seen Judas Priest perform enough times that the shows tend to blend together in my mind at this point. I believe this may have been the Priest concert that my future bride had it in her head that she wanted to drink a Sloe Gin Fizz from a neighborhood bar more suited to serving bottled beer and small tap beers with a shot. The cocktail was presented blood red in color and, with neither of us quite sure what it should have looked like in a perfect world, she drank it like a pro resulting in her feeling not so great for the rest of the evening’s festivities. A rookie mistake but everyone survived and the heavy metal music played on.

Diamonds and Rust

Rock on,

GQ