I can't imagine a world without music, well except for hip-hop, that would be great but anyways.....music has been most important to me since I can remember. As a child my Dad would play 50's music on the record player every Saturday morning while cleaning up the house and I would play air guitar to Buddy Holly, Elvis, Ritchie Valens, and others while singing along. Thats where I got my "Rock" roots and thats why I'm a rocker at heart.
Around 8 years old I heard "Rock and Roll all night" on the radio and thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever heard because I'd never heard any kind of hard rock. I asked my Dad who that was?...he told me and for my Birthday he bought me the Kiss "Dressed to Kill" album.
Soon after wearing out that album and getting other Kiss albums I stumbled upon a Judas Priest "Sad Wings of Destiny" 8 track tape at a flea market. I didn't know who they were but it looked cool and so my Dad bought it for me (I have the coolest Dad on the planet) and I was blown away. From there the Judas Priest obsession started and I soon owned every Priest album prior to British Steel. As I entered junior high school, it was around the time alot of British hard rock bands were invading the US and I also became fascinated with British and other European Metal. The Priest obsession grew stronger as the 80's albums emerged. I was a Van Halen nut too of course...
I was a loner except for a couple close friends who also shared the same love of metal music and this music was my life in the 80's. Glenn Tipton inspired me to learn guitar and so I would practice learning Priest songs mostly as well as AC/DC, Def Leppard, Metallica, for hours on an
acoustic guitar at first then got my first
electric guitar (BC Rich Warlock) and amp which was my first taste at playing with distortion/reverb. I went on to play in various Metal bands. The rest is history.
Music is still and always will be very important to me and my sanity. I don't listen early in the morning or all evening but I do listen alot and it means alot to me.
I firmly believe that musical taste comes from what you were exposed to early on in your life and it sticks with you forever.
Hybrid Mode
