Pyrus said:
My perspective (because obviously no topic means anything until I've input what I think):
Of course, as I've been reminded, "I wasn't there." And it's true; when DE was doing coke on the balconies with Kirk Hammet and OfficerNice was drunkenly setting himself up for neck surgery, I was non-existent, a fetus, or at best, a wrinkly pink turd-dropping potato with a certain resemblance to Winston Churchill. Yet I feel and promote a strong loyalty to the "scene." Some people may call me a poseur for this.
"I wasn't there" .....
This is true for all of us. I was too young for the best part of the scene,
the part that DE was there for. How I would have loved to have been
a few years older and witness the Bay Area scene in the early 80's.
That would have been priceless, IMO. I don't see how you could be
called a poser. You're the next generation, a defender of the scene
for the future generation to walk in your footsteps. What you help
to preserve now enables those who come after you to enjoy and
contribute and respect the bay area and the significant contributions Bay Area Metal has made to the world of Heavy Metal and the legacy
Bay Area has already established. IMO, that's pretty damn cool.
I'll be damned to an eternity of Opeth and Rhapsody if I'm going to sit here and age without doing something to help keep it alive.
I dont think anyone should be damned to an eternity of Opeth and
Rhapsody. Gruesome and Painful,IMO. (Sorry Opeth and Rhapsody fans)
As for the whole "rivalry" thing and dissing other music, no offense Karen, but you seem to me mixing up cause and effect. You're implying that people don't like other stuff because they're BATs, whereas it's more likely that people gravitate towards the scene because they prefer it to other stuff.
After being a metalhead for as many years as I have (not as many as
DE though) It's my opinion that there's no other scene in Metal History
that's as awesome as the Bay Area. That's my opinion and if I'm the only
one who thinks so, that's fine by me. It's awesome that the Bay Area
is my hometown and that's my metal scene. I wouldnt have any other way.
The Bay Area invented Thrash Metal and nobody will ever do it better.
I don't care if I look narrow minded, I think being discriminating is a sign
of intelligence and taste. I won't settle for something that's less than
the best. IMO, the Bay Area is better than the L.A. Scene, the Texas
Scene, the Florida Scene, or the NY Scene (Nuclear Assault an exception)
That's my opinion. If others disagree, that's fine. I don't shittalk other
bands or tell people they're wrong for liking what they do. I have friends
who like Dream Theater and some prog-metal that I think is just cheesy.
But if that's what makes them happy, fine. I've had girlfriends who thought
good metal was Poison and stuff. That's what they liked and I liked them
for who they were and standing for what they liked and believing in that.
There's only 3 kinds of metal for me- speed,thrash and traditional.
We all have different tastes that's what democracy and freedom in music
and in America are about. The common factor is that it's all metal and it's
all good and it all brings us together. Unity.
Officer - dig the story about how you were metallized. For me, it was the natural progression of my musical tastes - things got slowly more and more aggresive, until I one day went out to the backyard with my Limp Bizkit CDs, a baseball bat, and a lighter. Then I came back and put on Kill 'Em All. It was decided.
Thanks. My progression was being a Van Halen fan since I was 8, and then
going from there to Black Sabbath (Mob Rules) and Dio (Holy Diver) and
Ozzy (Blizzard and Diary and Ultimate Sin) into Bay Area when I was 14.
Destroying those LB cd's in such fashion was the right thing to do.
Friends don't let friends wear red Yankee caps.
I don't know if it was a reaction to anything in my life - feelings of isolation, maybe; I was pretty frustrated at the time (13-14).
Me too.
Maybe that's it...there's a feeling of permanence to this place and the people here. They were drawn together by their common experiences - bonded by blood - and it shaped their lives. They're not going to forget it, and they're not going to let anybody else forget. So as long as veterans like the ones on this board are still living metal and still adding new disciples like me and Stun to their ranks, the Stone, the Hit the Lights demo, and Paul motherfucking Baloff will live on. It's comforting to know that.
Precisely. Hit the nail with the hammer. You're a disciple thru and thru.
Oh Pyrus, Yesterday you asked about the OFFICER NICE BOOT CAMP.
I'm afraid you're already overqualified and you could teach it.
I tried repping you but I've repped you lately and couldnt do it.
OFFICER FRIENDLY.
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