Hey guys this is Mark Osegueda from Death Angel.
This is What's in My Bag. My bag.
What's my first selection? We're going random.
I have vinyl and I have CDs. I don't want to offend any vinyl collectors.
First one: David Bowie 'Hunky Dory'
A masterful record.
David Bowie was such an inspiration to me.
The album that just grabbed me, grabbed me as a little kid was 'Hunky Dory' and I think it's just phenomenal.
His band, spectacular.
Let's get a CD. PJ Harvey 'Dry.'
Her debut record. I had just moved back from New York
I moved to New York in '91, got back in '93
and picked this record up
because I read about it, and when I put it on, the production just blew me away
the songwriting, the drums and the bass, everything was just, to me, just stellar.
Janis was always my girl, Janis Joplin.
I'm a fan of women in music, have been for years, but she was the one that I became mega fan with.
Phenomenal record. Go back to vinyl.
Kiss 'Love Gun'
This was my first Kiss record that my parents bought me
and it came with the little paper gun that popped out.
Y'know they've gotten slack from a lot of people over the years but
you can't deny their influence on most rock bands younger than them
and they're definitely a main influence on me I think
Paul Stanley is one of the greatest frontmen ever.
My very first concert was Kiss 1979 at the Cow Palace on the Dynasty Tour.
I was 10. And 4/5 of Death Angel, we all went together.
Our drummer was 7 at the time.
It was our first concert because, on the way there, we went in full Kiss makeup.
I'm a Ace guy.
Y'know Paul Stanley's my guy, frontman, but
y'know I went dressed as Ace and
as soon as the lights went down, when we wanted to yell our thing we realized
oh, I guess it's never gonna be quiet for Kiss to hear us
that's how you could tell was our first concert y'know
and it blew my mind, and I knew ten minutes into the show
that's what I want to be when I grow up.
That's been my goal and I'm still, y'know, working on it. Thanks to Kiss.
We'll go back to a CD.
AC/DC 'Let There Be Rock'
I'm a Bon Scott guy, through and through, and all my friends know that.
The whole Bon Scott era I love. 'Powerage' is actually my favorite one, is my favorite AC/DC record.
Very underrated. 'Next To The Moon' is my favorite AC/DC song.
Very underrated song and obscure
but this was my first record by AC/DC
and when I heard 'Let There Be Rock,' it just blew my mind.
It blew my mind, it's like they were speaking to me, and I was like, yep.
Alright, back to vinyl. Black Sabbath 'Sabotage.'
I obviously love Black Sabbath. Mach 1 & 2.
but I'll always be an original Sabbath guy.
People love the early stuff, I love all the early stuff, I love y'know that catalog.
You have your people, everyone... there's 'Master of Reality' people
and there's definitely a majority are 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' people
I, myself, 'Sabotage' guy, to the core. This record
blew my mind, and I was already way into Sabbath
and I heard this in my friend's car, first time I heard... yeah.
First time I heard Ozzy do that, I was like, whoa, I've never heard him do anything like that in my mind.
This album was it.
And also the song 'The Writ,' the last song, is my favorite Black Sabbath song there is
and I think this is Ozzy's peak vocal performance, this record and that song particularly
'The Writ.' The way I feel is the way I am.
When I heard that, ah. And then as soon as I heard the line
'A poisoned father who's just poisoned his son, that's you' and I was like perfect y'know
perfect for a teenage rebellious kid to cling on to that line.
You're against your family, you're against your parents. Of course I love my parents now.
This is my Sabbath record. Star on top of the Christmas tree.
Alright, back to CDs. Judas Priest 'Unleashed in the East'
Absolutely love Judas Priest. To this day, I can't just listen to a song
I need to listen to the whole CD through. It's spectacular.
They're just peaking, peaking with this.
Oh yeah, we played with Priest, quite a few festivals.
It was two summers ago we played with them in Mexico City.
Got to hang out with Rob after and get some photos with him
It was funny because y'know I got photos next to him, doing the metal thing and I also got a photo of
me kissing Rob Halford on the cheek. And to me it's like, yes I kissed Halford on the cheek.
He's, I mean, undeniably one of my favorite vocalists of all time.
and I don't think you have to be into metal to realize that he's spectacular
and he still can belt it to this day, which is very rare for y'know a metal singer
and he's defied the odds. Amazing.
Back to vinyl.
Whoa, hey, I was talking about this earlier. Led Zeppelin II.
This is always my go-to record
of course I love the whole catalog but this takes me to a special place.
My experimental years when I was a teenager I mean, I used to experience...
teenager... also early twenties
experiment with psychedelics often
without fail, actually, whenever we'd be at the house that we were tripping at
I would always leave at one point and leave the room and go into a room by myself
sit by a speaker and put on Led Zeppelin II and just be in heaven
and I'd just sit there in my own head and y'know inevitably
friends of mine would come in, Hey man, are you ok? Are you having a bad trip?
No, no, this is actually the best part of my trip and you're ruining it
just just leave me alone with Led Zeppelin II, right between the two speakers
and, to this day, whenever I hear it it just takes me
y'know, makes me feel something special.
I have two tattoos of bands on my body
and that would be Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
The two bands right there.
I have the Sabbath devil on one shoulder and the Swan Song guy on the other shoulder.
Bam bam. Those are my bands.
CD. Elton John, 'Madman Across the Water.'
I love Elton John. 70's Elton John, some of the greatest things ever ever ever. Produced by Gus Dudgeon
This record, of course, gets a lot of attention because of 'Tiny Dancer.' Sure it is a great song, it's popular
that's not my reason for the record, I do love it
but the final song on it, the last song is called 'Goodbye' and it's my favorite Elton John song
and since our debut album 'The Ultraviolence' came out in '87
part of my warm-up and ritual before I go on stage every time is to sing the song 'Goodbye.'
It's been a ritual since '87
y'know, I love that song, I love this man and
I have a Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy enamel belt buckle still.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 'Murder Ballads'
I love Nick Cave, he's
someone that came along, again when I moved back from New York
and I kind of slowed down at that point listening to metal for a bit
just 'cause I needed to just cleanse my head for a moment, of just chaos
and when I discovered Nick Cave, it was just like nothing I'd ever heard.
It's hard for me to pick a favorite record of his, because they're just spectacular but
'Murder Ballads,' the beauty and the darkness behind it is just
and the irony is wonderful. It's produced amazingly well.
To me, one of the greatest living lyricists that we have at this point
he'll remain one of the greatest lyricists ever, but one of the greatest living ones we have right now.
Down to CDs. Queen 'Sheer Heart Attack.'
Queen, one of my favorite bands of all time, Freddie Mercury, one of my favorite vocalists of all time.
Again, I was lucky enough... my father had this record
and the cover just blew me away and when I put it on
I mean, vocals spectacular, by all of them
Roger Taylor has a phenomenal voice, Brian May has a phenomenal voice. Freddie Mercury is The Voice.
I love it. Again this is one of those ones that I have to listen to all the way through
because it's just how all the songs flow together is just...
the dubbing they were doing back then, that was unheard of
y'know Brian May was just doing this metal dubbing, so to speak, on the guitar
but ironically my favorite song on it is just Freddie and a piano, a song called 'Lily of the Valley'
'I am forever searching...'
my voice is thrashed 'cause I was just screaming metal but I can usually sing that song
I couldn't play it on piano though, but I love Freddie Mercury I love Queen.
Alright, and last but not least, Rainbow 'Long Live Rock n Roll.'
This is the first one I had. Ronnie James Dio
vocally, stage persona, everything. I love all the stuff he did with Sabbath.
I love all the stuff he did with Rainbow, I love his, y'know, his solo years
just powerful, dark, beautiful, beautiful
I know, I've read about, y'know they weren't tight as a unit apparently when recording this
but the songs changed my life, just spectacular, spectacular. 'Rainbow Eyes'
This was my first introduction and you never forget your first introduction.
I love Ronnie James Dio and I miss him. And I met him and he was a sweetheart of a man.
I carry his spirit with me, kind of, every time I walk onstage, absolutely.
People say... I'm like, yeah, I'm flagrant about how I want to rip off Dio
If you don't, you're doing it wrong.
And that's, I believe, everything that's in my bag.
Thank you for your time. I love all music, again
It's hard to shop in such a small amount of time and not leave with everything
Awesome.
It was beautiful.
Thank you so much, Mark.
Absolutely. Thank you guys. Got it!