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Growing up, I'd always preferred the hair metal bands to anything grunge. Since the hair metal wasn't cool, I pretty much didn't listen to any music at all.
Skip to college and a coworker who would give us all rides home. He loved to play "Shoots and Ladders" by Korn for us (because it was so bizarre). Rather than think he was weird, I enjoyed it, and over the summer, he sent me a tape that included everything from Korn to the Fugees to Screaming Trees and Rage Against the Machine. When we were working together in the fall, I'd mentioned a friend of mine was wearing this really cool Awake t-shirt and he suggested I ask to borrow my friend's Dream Theater CDs, which I did.
I listened to Dream Theater and then Helloween, on that friend's recommendation... and then the ytsejam list provided me with friendships and music recommendations. Korn was my gateway band?
-Sarah
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