Loving your story from Geelong, having to save the coins etc for weeks to make the City trip. I did same while living in Lilydale, often wagging school hahahaha Train from Lilydale to Flinders st &walk down, i still own everything i bought from them. Greta 😃 Thanks for an amazing shop, amazing memories and being here still to this very day.

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

Ай бұрын

Thanks mate 🤘awesome you still have everything from back then. It was a pleasure speaking with Greta and going down Metal memory lane🤘🤘

Great work Brendan. What a legend Greta is. From one of many who went through the formative experience of going there in the 80's and hanging at the steps. Thank you, both of you. cheers

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Your welcome!! And thanks for tuning in.

That was great Brendon to see Greta again that was my fav shop when i lived in Melbourne lots of great times i have Great on facebook

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Me also mate. It was a pleasure to chat with Greta and glad it brought you back some fond memories 🤘

She sounds like a true Ozzie metal legend! How many kids must have bought their first metal albums there eh! I fear we will never see the like again! Great video Von Doom, good job brother!🤘🏻

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

If I win the lotto you will probably see it’s like again. One of my fantasies 🤘Greta is definitely a metal legend of Melbourne!!

I remember the shop down the ramp at Prince's Bridge - The first time I saw the first Iron Maiden albums. My mates and I use to go to the bigger shop at the top of the ramp every Friday night. I wasn't a real fan of the new wave metal but Central Station was the only place to buy Yes, Tull, King Crimson or the BOC. I last saw Greta at the Black Sabbath show (with Ozzy a few years back) I was with my mate Dave who still keeps in touch with her. I gave him a dragon lamp that flashes lights and pumps out mist to give to her a couple of years back.

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome memories mate. Cheers

This was an awesome chat Brendan. Enjoyed the history of Metal for Melbourne. Cool to see how it was on the other side of the world. 🤘🤘🤘

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob. I was very nervous about it but it turned out great I think and Greta later told me it was the most comfortable interview she has ever done. That was what I was aiming for😊

@blackstarvinyl6375

3 жыл бұрын

@@bvdaussiemetalhead9338 woulda fooled me ya did a good Job!

Nice video, nice story about her life in metal that she started when metal was being made for the first time. Amazing. Nice you made this video Brendan. Would have loved to shop around back then.

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rene🤘Greta is a genuine metal head and maybe someday I can have my fantasy of owning a shop also😂

Great interview, very interesting "topic" and what a cool lady! Cheers!

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother 🤘I appreciate your feedback and thanks for watching

Cool chat mate, thanks for sharing, Greta certainly had some cool stories to tell

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Grey 🍺 amazing that it was Stryper that nearly caused a riot at the store and not Sepultura 😝 awesome stories!!

Cool video Brendan. Great job. That was an interesting watch

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother!! Had a blast getting it done.

I bought many a tape, posters and albums from there. Both at Central Station then at the other end of flinders. I remember Kathy Hughes working there

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

Жыл бұрын

Great memories 🤘

Wow! Nice video interview with such an awesome Metalhead lady. Sounds like an incredible music store back then. I would have been living in there if I lived around that place back then. 😂🙂\m/

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. If I had lived closer I would have been there at least once a week but I was a teenager living an hour train ride away and my parents wouldn’t take me so my older sister did. Great times!!

What a great idea for a video.Turned out great!

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mark🍺

I remember metal for Melbourne shop when I was 18 years old I'm now 52 years old

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

27 күн бұрын

Great shop from back then wish we still had something like that just dedicated to metal 🤘thanks for watching mate

Nice one Brendan. Great video. I remember Greta from the metal downunder film. Cool of her to do the interview and great memories for you guys from that neck of the woods. Can you try and organise a Kylie Minogue interview next lol.

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!! Glad you enjoyed it. I have Kylies personal number but it’s been busy so had to leave a message because you guys have given her another number 1 album in the UK again. 😝

@metalmickey

3 жыл бұрын

@@bvdaussiemetalhead9338 Actually plain Jane super brain was my fave lol

Im 52 and have so many memories of metal for melb ,meeting blackie lawless was my fav ,great interview m8 🤘🤘🤘

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out my channel Craig🤘I had a great time catching up with Greta.

This was a great interview! I never got to Metal for Melbourne being a Sydney lad but I found it very interesting anyway. Utopia was bought out by Garry in 2009 and is far better off for it.

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!! I’m glad it came across as interesting and a casual fun chat. That’s what I was aiming for. Greta was so easy to talk to🤘

Hell ya Brendan. I’ve watched about 5 minutes of this video so far. It definitely got me interested. I cant wait to kick back and watch it all. 🍻🍻

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brother 🤘lots of interesting stories and great memories.

Wicked brother. Awesome interview skills too. Really enjoyable video. I always used to see Metal For Melbourne advertised in Hot Metal Magazine. and great to hear her story and influences. I own the debut Angel album on vinyl thanks to the mighty Scott Waters turning me onto them about 5 years ago. I wish i could have visited the store in its hayday. Awesome job mate😀🤘

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro. It was a pleasure doing the chat with Greta, such an honest and down to earth person who has some incredible memories of running MFM during the amazing 80s era of metal 🤘

Great video

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Cheers 🍻 for watching.

That was a great interview. I can't recall visiting the Flinders Street store (the one near what is now Fed Square) many times, but I remember a small store with music blasting so loud that the speaker mounted near the ceiling had the woofer trying to jump out of the speaker box. I think I bought Helloween's 'Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II' that day. Would have been 1988. Here is some video of the Sepultura instore in 1992 Greta spoke about (I didn't film this) : kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKJnpc5xhNzJhZs.html

@bvdaussiemetalhead9338

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 🤘I’m glad it brought you back some great memories. Cheers for the footage link.

I think Greta got trolled by James. I remember when if you asked politely, they had two milk crates under the counter as you walked in full of nothing but Metallica bootlegs. I own a few, the best being a picture disc of Cliff's last gig. Awesome store and awesome memories.

@zodiac6968

Жыл бұрын

They got caught with them too.