J-Dubya 777
It NEVER ends
Good ol' VVX! The problem I had with that station was it was mono. It was an FM station, but was mono. Still a great place to pick up on new stuff.That, and Kerrang magazine! Ahhh the good ol' days!
The most important band to you, musically?
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Good ol' VVX! The problem I had with that station was it was mono. It was an FM station, but was mono. Still a great place to pick up on new stuff.That, and Kerrang magazine! Ahhh the good ol' days!
Jasonic
Doom On!
Yep, and the READER and ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER as well.
Used to also buy Hit Parader, Circus, RIP!, Cream Metal, Metal Hammer, Kerrang, etc, etc.
Used to also buy Hit Parader, Circus, RIP!, Cream Metal, Metal Hammer, Kerrang, etc, etc.
General Zod
Ruler of Australia
Motley Crue. I wasn't a fan of music until I heard Shout at the Devil. I played that cassette from the moment I got up in the morning, until I went to be at night. I must have worn through three copies before finally owning it on CD.
Up&Away
A member nonetheless
Dream Theater. I was deep into Queensryche...complex, lyrical content, and the metal edge had me hooked. But, I was always leaning toward the more technical spectrum and that was always guitar players, Van Halen, Malmsteen, etc. Then I heard I&W and that was exactly what I had been looking for. Heavy, extreme technicality from all instruments, even more complex, lyrically appealing. DT had it all and they still do.
cslebn
The Duck of Doom
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Nice to see another person who appreciates musicals here.I sang a song from Jekyll & Hyde one year for a vocal contest when I was in high school. I sang "Someone Like You." I think this was not long after I'd seen a touring cast come through my city. The actor who played Jekyll/Hyde had at one time been a college football player. The dude was huge, and did an amazing job.
I've just always seen a direct link between musicals and Power. I'm kind of surprised that there are so few that make that connection it seems. A lot of the responses here do seem to have been more targeted at heavier or more technical sides of metal. That's pretty freaking sweet you sang that at a contest though. It really is a magnificent play.
OrbWeaver
BECAUSE FALCONER
I've been making that connection since I got into metal. Musicals and concept albums aren't much different, either. A concept album is merely a musical that hasn't been staged yet.
zinescene
Member
Justin G
Member
I feel like such a pussy for this, but...
Stryper
(sigh)
Look, I was 12 and my father was a Baptist minister. Stryper was the only band I was allowed to like, at least openly. Now, my folks couldn't tell by listening whether I was playing Stryper or Dokken, so I got to sneak some contraband rock that way, but Stryper was my band, and I was a fierce fan. I mean, write a fan letter to Oz Fox kind of fan. The sad thing is, as much as I still love 80's hair metal (I just spent 12 hours outdoors at the M3 fest with the likes of Bang Tango and Nelson), I can't listen to Stryper at all. They just sound horrible to me. Oh well, that's the extent of my 80's angst.
Now, some albums that changed my musical mindset and still resonate with me today:
Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time - My first real metal album, and my favorite Maiden album.
Metallica: And Justice For All - My second real metal album, and the first one I'd consider aggressive.
Faith No More: The Real Thing - This just blew me away with its unpredictability.
Mother Love Bone: s/t - You can keep your Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This one was like a discovery from an alien planet.
Dream Theater: Images and Words - I can't even begin to explain what this album did to me. It totally changed the way I thought about music, and nothing has really measured up since then.
Then, for the longest time, nothing. I relied on radio and MTV for new music, and most of it sucked. Oh, I bought some CDs - Soundgarden, Tool, Rage Against the Machine - but nothing really set my world on fire. Then I met Jeremy (Heaven & Hell Records), who clued me into the fact that real metal still existed if you knew where to look. He handed me Fifth Angel: s/t, Crimson Glory: Transcendence, Black Sabbath: Tyr, Helstar: A Distant Thunder and Helloween: Keeper Part II. Old stuff, to be sure, but just what I needed. After that I went searching like a maniac for new metal, and between Jeremy's suggestions and the internet, I found it in the form of Angra, Savatage, Vanden Plas, Iced Earth and damn near every other band to grace a PPUSA stage. I know he can rub people the wrong way sometimes, but Jeremy's mission in life is to bring metal to the masses. If I hadn't met him I'd probably be listening to goddamned Nickelback or Creed right now.
Anyhow, back to those key albums. After a major prog and power binge (and subsequent minor purge), I branched out a bit
In Flames: Whoracle and Amorphis: Elegy - These were my first death metal albums, and my first idea that death could also share traits with other genres. They kicked open the door for so many other "extreme" bands.
Opeth: Blackwater Park - This proved just how far progressive metal could go. It still gives me chills.
Pink Cream 69: Electrified - This is the album that reignited my passion for 80s style melodic rock, which is probably my favorite type of music, at least so far.
This feels like a biography now, so I'm calling it quits. There are a lot more albums that made an impact on me, but these seem like the highlights.
Stryper
(sigh)
Look, I was 12 and my father was a Baptist minister. Stryper was the only band I was allowed to like, at least openly. Now, my folks couldn't tell by listening whether I was playing Stryper or Dokken, so I got to sneak some contraband rock that way, but Stryper was my band, and I was a fierce fan. I mean, write a fan letter to Oz Fox kind of fan. The sad thing is, as much as I still love 80's hair metal (I just spent 12 hours outdoors at the M3 fest with the likes of Bang Tango and Nelson), I can't listen to Stryper at all. They just sound horrible to me. Oh well, that's the extent of my 80's angst.
Now, some albums that changed my musical mindset and still resonate with me today:
Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time - My first real metal album, and my favorite Maiden album.
Metallica: And Justice For All - My second real metal album, and the first one I'd consider aggressive.
Faith No More: The Real Thing - This just blew me away with its unpredictability.
Mother Love Bone: s/t - You can keep your Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This one was like a discovery from an alien planet.
Dream Theater: Images and Words - I can't even begin to explain what this album did to me. It totally changed the way I thought about music, and nothing has really measured up since then.
Then, for the longest time, nothing. I relied on radio and MTV for new music, and most of it sucked. Oh, I bought some CDs - Soundgarden, Tool, Rage Against the Machine - but nothing really set my world on fire. Then I met Jeremy (Heaven & Hell Records), who clued me into the fact that real metal still existed if you knew where to look. He handed me Fifth Angel: s/t, Crimson Glory: Transcendence, Black Sabbath: Tyr, Helstar: A Distant Thunder and Helloween: Keeper Part II. Old stuff, to be sure, but just what I needed. After that I went searching like a maniac for new metal, and between Jeremy's suggestions and the internet, I found it in the form of Angra, Savatage, Vanden Plas, Iced Earth and damn near every other band to grace a PPUSA stage. I know he can rub people the wrong way sometimes, but Jeremy's mission in life is to bring metal to the masses. If I hadn't met him I'd probably be listening to goddamned Nickelback or Creed right now.
Anyhow, back to those key albums. After a major prog and power binge (and subsequent minor purge), I branched out a bit
In Flames: Whoracle and Amorphis: Elegy - These were my first death metal albums, and my first idea that death could also share traits with other genres. They kicked open the door for so many other "extreme" bands.
Opeth: Blackwater Park - This proved just how far progressive metal could go. It still gives me chills.
Pink Cream 69: Electrified - This is the album that reignited my passion for 80s style melodic rock, which is probably my favorite type of music, at least so far.
This feels like a biography now, so I'm calling it quits. There are a lot more albums that made an impact on me, but these seem like the highlights.
SavaVIDude
Savatage Fanatic
I'm right there wit ya, J-Man!!! I can't BELIEVE you saw the Soft Machine!!!
For me it was the Moody Blues, until December 30, 1994, when a friend made me listen to a song called "Chance"...by a little-know band (in the USA), named...
Chris
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
Wow I dont think I could ever narrow it down to just one. HAHA It has been a long road that I dont regret walking.
There was that night seeing Alice Cooper on the Muppet Show.
My first two albums in order of purchase were Michael Jackson Thriller and Culture Clib Color By Numbers. Around the same time was Duran Duran and a little band called Journey. I use to have posters on my wall of Journey and Duran Duran that came out of boxes of Captain Crunch.
After that I acquired Genesis (Gabriel) and Yes cassettes. Later my uncle gave me Zeppelin 4 and that album started me on my way. Then there was that song that the Road Warriors came running to the ring to, that song was so damn heavy and I needed to find that tune. So a buddy had Ozzys Speak of the Devil and he traded it to me for a Mountain Dew. O know had a version of Iron Man and would soon after go by Paranoid
From seeing the dawning of MTV (I actually saw the rocket launch) and the local video station before that I remember everything from Souixie to Van Halen. And my mom would buy tapes for herself that would end up being given to me like Rick Springfield Business hasnt Spoiled Me Yet. She would also tell me about bands and artist all the time from Plasmatics and Adam Ant and the Ants to King Crimson and Uriah Heep. For year I could not find crimson and Heep albums, never actually heard them until middle school but I knew who they were. As for the band Quicksilver Messager Service she told me about well I could not really get into that it was to hippish.
Now in third grade when I got the Ozzy, that same kid I started skating with and with stating (skateboard) usually comes punk rock. Black Flag, DK, Circle Jerks, Terry actual gave me my first circle Jerks and Flag tapes along with; Molly Hatchet Flirting, Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell and Aerosmith Toys in the Attic. He hooked me up with some cool stuff but it was his dads collection that probably influenced me the most has far as taste and the collecting side of things. Terry did not seem to appreciate the hundreds of albums his dad had but I could not get enough of them. I would stay over at his house just to go through all those albums. This was where I would come across bands like Angel, Starz, Triumphant, Cheap Trick, BOC, and the list goes on.
The summer between 4th and 5th grade I went to summer camp where a consoler would give me my first Iron Maiden album Somewhere in Time along with a cassette of The Doors and a band called Sanctuary. Also kissed my first girl at that camp and had my first cigarette.
Whitesnake would soon after come into my life. I love that band. They would end up being my first concert a few years later on the next album tour with Bad English opening.
Then I discovered Headbangers Ball and Grim Reaper, oh my god. That was another important moment that was. That became a ritual. After the ball then would I hunt for any movie on cable that might show boobs. I liked staying at my cousins on Saturdays because his dad had Debbie Does Dallas. I stayed loyal to the Ball on up through high school but know we watched it by then at our heavy metal vomit parties and Slayer seemed to have more of an appeal than Keel and Helix.
There I did find Queensryche and Helloween. Especially Queensryche would just take me over.
Somewhere around the time that my friends were getting into Metallic right when Cliff had died my first thrash band would be Possessed. Possessed would lead me down an entirely different road that my peers who were into Metallica. I never felt right about Metallica and I know they have always been a gateway for a lot of people, but most people I knew who started with Metallica got out of rock and metal eventually Much like Metallica themselves would do.
Then I started drumming in a band, not long after I was singing in bands and forever stay in tune with just music in general.
There was that night seeing Alice Cooper on the Muppet Show.
My first two albums in order of purchase were Michael Jackson Thriller and Culture Clib Color By Numbers. Around the same time was Duran Duran and a little band called Journey. I use to have posters on my wall of Journey and Duran Duran that came out of boxes of Captain Crunch.
After that I acquired Genesis (Gabriel) and Yes cassettes. Later my uncle gave me Zeppelin 4 and that album started me on my way. Then there was that song that the Road Warriors came running to the ring to, that song was so damn heavy and I needed to find that tune. So a buddy had Ozzys Speak of the Devil and he traded it to me for a Mountain Dew. O know had a version of Iron Man and would soon after go by Paranoid
From seeing the dawning of MTV (I actually saw the rocket launch) and the local video station before that I remember everything from Souixie to Van Halen. And my mom would buy tapes for herself that would end up being given to me like Rick Springfield Business hasnt Spoiled Me Yet. She would also tell me about bands and artist all the time from Plasmatics and Adam Ant and the Ants to King Crimson and Uriah Heep. For year I could not find crimson and Heep albums, never actually heard them until middle school but I knew who they were. As for the band Quicksilver Messager Service she told me about well I could not really get into that it was to hippish.
Now in third grade when I got the Ozzy, that same kid I started skating with and with stating (skateboard) usually comes punk rock. Black Flag, DK, Circle Jerks, Terry actual gave me my first circle Jerks and Flag tapes along with; Molly Hatchet Flirting, Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell and Aerosmith Toys in the Attic. He hooked me up with some cool stuff but it was his dads collection that probably influenced me the most has far as taste and the collecting side of things. Terry did not seem to appreciate the hundreds of albums his dad had but I could not get enough of them. I would stay over at his house just to go through all those albums. This was where I would come across bands like Angel, Starz, Triumphant, Cheap Trick, BOC, and the list goes on.
The summer between 4th and 5th grade I went to summer camp where a consoler would give me my first Iron Maiden album Somewhere in Time along with a cassette of The Doors and a band called Sanctuary. Also kissed my first girl at that camp and had my first cigarette.
Whitesnake would soon after come into my life. I love that band. They would end up being my first concert a few years later on the next album tour with Bad English opening.
Then I discovered Headbangers Ball and Grim Reaper, oh my god. That was another important moment that was. That became a ritual. After the ball then would I hunt for any movie on cable that might show boobs. I liked staying at my cousins on Saturdays because his dad had Debbie Does Dallas. I stayed loyal to the Ball on up through high school but know we watched it by then at our heavy metal vomit parties and Slayer seemed to have more of an appeal than Keel and Helix.
There I did find Queensryche and Helloween. Especially Queensryche would just take me over.
Somewhere around the time that my friends were getting into Metallic right when Cliff had died my first thrash band would be Possessed. Possessed would lead me down an entirely different road that my peers who were into Metallica. I never felt right about Metallica and I know they have always been a gateway for a lot of people, but most people I knew who started with Metallica got out of rock and metal eventually Much like Metallica themselves would do.
Then I started drumming in a band, not long after I was singing in bands and forever stay in tune with just music in general.
