How'd you get into metal? - Page 3

Pellaz · May 15th, 2008, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Diamond45

1983 - I WANT MY MTV!

2008 - YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DAMN MTV!

I remember when my cable system upgraded and added MTV. I was addicted. Like you, a lot of good stuff was coming out about that time. But since about 1991 or so (when they started that reality TV crap), I quit watching. Now all they have are those crappy reality shows!

If I want to watch music videos - I go to YouTube.

You and the rest of the world.

I still remember when onetime MTV "veejay" Adam Curry quit the network because they had gone way into reality TV and other shows, and turned their backs on music (specifically metal, which A.C. liked). They didn't air his on-camera resignation, but the studio people preserved it. Priceless.

I know this because at the time, Adam ran a computer BBS out of his house in NJ and I was a regular caller.
Very cool chap he was, and well ahead of the digital curve: he was the original owner of mtv.com; they had to acquire it from him.

DoomsdayZach · May 16th, 2008, 10:56 AM

I'll chime in. Pretty much got into metal... well, I'll start by saying i'm 23 now. Back when i was in middle and high school (so what... 12/13?) Nu Metal was the big thing. I remember just being in love with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Tool (yeah, i know... different thing), RATM, even caught Papa Roach right at the end of that whole thing. Then when I was in high school I acquired a shitload of stolen cds (don't worry, I gave them back once I found out they were stolen and who's they were). One of the albums was Metallica's Black Album. of course i'd heard Enter Sandman before, but never really thought a lot about it, but actually listening to that album just made me go apeshit. I went out and bought my own copy of that album along with pretty much every metallica album I could find at the time and became obsessive about them. I knew every lyric, every riff, everything there was to know about the band at the time within a month or two. Then i got curious about Garage Inc, especially the satanic lyrics of the Mercyful Fate medley. Something about it drew me to them.

Of course, upon hearing the real Mercyful Fate songs, I thought "jesus, what's with this dude's voice?" Still, it was intriguing and like nothing I'd ever heard before, so I bought Mercyful Fate's "The Beginning" and King Diamond's "The Graveyard" (the only two albums with King on them that my local cd store had) and spun the fuck outta them. From there I started exploring the Metal Blade website and got into everything from God Dethroned to Symphony X, found a site with some tracks in real player format (jesus, remember that?) and downloaded Hammerfall, Kamelot, and tons of others that I'm sure I don't remember. Also bought Iced Earth's "Horror Show" on the day it came out due to a good review in Guitar World of all things. From there on, it was all blind buys until I became familliar with the stuff. A few of my buddies were cool and listened to this "new" shit i was showing them, but most thought i was retarded. I'm not friends with those people anymore (no joke... I literally dont' talk to most people from school who didn't understand and appreciate why I was into this stuff).

That's about it.

Berek2000 · May 23rd, 2008, 08:24 AM

My older brother and I shared a room as kids. He used to wake up and throw on 2112 or Moving Pictures. My interest grew from there. Once I became a garage musician, I grew away from the mainstream music and looked for complicated music and lyrics that spoke to me. I found all I needed in bands like early Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Rush, Fates Warning and Dream Theater. Not hearing this stuff on the radio made me like it even more. It felt more personal. And now with Progpower, it still is a personal as ever. Thanks again Glen.

ConnieOH · May 27th, 2008, 07:38 PM

I remember it well...I was a junior in high school and someone loaned me a few record albums. When my dad found them in my room, he told me to get that "trash" out of the house. I did, but I still listened to them and was hooked. I remember one of them was AC/DC Back in Black.

By the next year, I remember listening to Van Halen 1984, then on to Dio Holy Diver, Queensryche O:M, Scorpions, Kiss, Whitesnake, etc.

When grunge hit, I mostly listened to all my old music, though I did find a website that sold AOR/Melodic Rock and got into some of that (91 Suite, JSS, Jaded Heart) and I still like that stuff. Then I discovered internet radio via Live 365 and was ecstatic to find that good music WAS still being made - it was just all in other countries! So I started buying my CD's online and life has been great ever since.

Great thread!

yardleybates · May 28th, 2008, 02:34 PM

Metal? Yippee did it to me - started with Queensryche when we started dating.

My parents, unlike Yip's are VERY into music. I grew up around a LOT of music. My Dad is a guitar player and writer of his own songs. I grew up totally hooked on the 50's and 60's tunes (Solid Gold Saturday night every week) and my Dad was always into great 70's rock music (Styx, etc) and he's a HUGE Pink Floyd Fan. We went to summerfest every single year in Milwaukee saw Moody Blues and Beach Boys 300 times - Rod Stewart, etc etc etc

My Dad worked in a music shop when I was little. He always had top of the line stereo equipment. I remember in their last house, he was the first person any of my friends knew with speakers wired into the walls of the house so we could have the stereo playing in every room

Oh wait, what was the question again? Metal, oh yeah, Yippee did it. I think the first Iron Maiden concert he took me to really turned me.

Wyvern · May 30th, 2008, 04:16 PM

I wasn't into metal on highschool until one day I saw in a friend's house (he had cable) the video of 'Flight Of Icarus' and I love it. Still I wasn't into metal. Another day listen to National Radio (kind of Government PBS) they were showing music from around the world and they played 'The Trooper' which also hooked on me. But I wasn't yet into metal.

Until one day I was looking for the single of 'Stairway to Heaven' (I like the song from the radio) but only I found the album, also I saw the domestic tape version of "Piece Of Mind" (I still have it) and bought it blindly. Going all the way home banging my head because I was sure I wouldn't like it and was a money waste....in the end I loved the tape, after that was Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Saxon, Judas Priest, an so on.

25 years afterward I'm still into metal, 'Flight Of icarus' is still my favorite Maiden tune... and never got into Led Zeppelin

yardleybates · June 3rd, 2008, 11:56 AM

Thanks for starting this thread guys! Too cool to read this !

Diamond45 · June 3rd, 2008, 07:32 PM

How'd I get into metal? Only very recently. Though I'm an "old fart", I only seriously got in to metal about three years ago.

SkiBumMSP (Steve) did it. He found it by discovering Stratovarius on Music Choice on DirecTV (they have since switched to XM radio). He then found out the world of power and progressive metal.

He was telling me of all these bands he was listening to, and about how Strato was going to play at ProgPower USA VI in 2005. He invited me to go with him. So I started to listen to the bands that were playing that year - and it grew from there. Had a blast at the last three ProgPower USA shows and already have the tickets to the upcoming one.

Lots of metal out there to listen to. Still playing catch up!

May 16th, 2008, 10:56 AM	#52 (permalink)
DoomsdayZach Bass of Tyranny Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Olympia, WA Posts: 5,810	I'll chime in. Pretty much got into metal... well, I'll start by saying i'm 23 now. Back when i was in middle and high school (so what... 12/13?) Nu Metal was the big thing. I remember just being in love with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Tool (yeah, i know... different thing), RATM, even caught Papa Roach right at the end of that whole thing. Then when I was in high school I acquired a shitload of stolen cds (don't worry, I gave them back once I found out they were stolen and who's they were). One of the albums was Metallica's Black Album. of course i'd heard Enter Sandman before, but never really thought a lot about it, but actually listening to that album just made me go apeshit. I went out and bought my own copy of that album along with pretty much every metallica album I could find at the time and became obsessive about them. I knew every lyric, every riff, everything there was to know about the band at the time within a month or two. Then i got curious about Garage Inc, especially the satanic lyrics of the Mercyful Fate medley. Something about it drew me to them. Of course, upon hearing the real Mercyful Fate songs, I thought "jesus, what's with this dude's voice?" Still, it was intriguing and like nothing I'd ever heard before, so I bought Mercyful Fate's "The Beginning" and King Diamond's "The Graveyard" (the only two albums with King on them that my local cd store had) and spun the fuck outta them. From there I started exploring the Metal Blade website and got into everything from God Dethroned to Symphony X, found a site with some tracks in real player format (jesus, remember that?) and downloaded Hammerfall, Kamelot, and tons of others that I'm sure I don't remember. Also bought Iced Earth's "Horror Show" on the day it came out due to a good review in Guitar World of all things. From there on, it was all blind buys until I became familliar with the stuff. A few of my buddies were cool and listened to this "new" shit i was showing them, but most thought i was retarded. I'm not friends with those people anymore (no joke... I literally dont' talk to most people from school who didn't understand and appreciate why I was into this stuff). That's about it. __________________ Skelator / Metal on Metal Records

May 23rd, 2008, 08:24 AM	#53 (permalink)
Berek2000 Say no more. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 57	My older brother and I shared a room as kids. He used to wake up and throw on 2112 or Moving Pictures. My interest grew from there. Once I became a garage musician, I grew away from the mainstream music and looked for complicated music and lyrics that spoke to me. I found all I needed in bands like early Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Rush, Fates Warning and Dream Theater. Not hearing this stuff on the radio made me like it even more. It felt more personal. And now with Progpower, it still is a personal as ever. Thanks again Glen. __________________ Berek2000 http://www.myspace.com/kamelotfan2112 "Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch."

May 27th, 2008, 07:38 PM	#54 (permalink)
ConnieOH Metal Lover in Ohio Join Date: May 2006 Location: Toledo, Ohio Posts: 293	I remember it well...I was a junior in high school and someone loaned me a few record albums. When my dad found them in my room, he told me to get that "trash" out of the house. I did, but I still listened to them and was hooked. I remember one of them was AC/DC Back in Black. By the next year, I remember listening to Van Halen 1984, then on to Dio Holy Diver, Queensryche O:M, Scorpions, Kiss, Whitesnake, etc. When grunge hit, I mostly listened to all my old music, though I did find a website that sold AOR/Melodic Rock and got into some of that (91 Suite, JSS, Jaded Heart) and I still like that stuff. Then I discovered internet radio via Live 365 and was ecstatic to find that good music WAS still being made - it was just all in other countries! So I started buying my CD's online and life has been great ever since. Great thread! __________________ RECENT TRACKS & TOP ARTISTS Heaven's closed, Hell's sold out, so I walk on earth.

May 30th, 2008, 04:16 PM	#56 (permalink)
Wyvern Master of Disaster Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Curridabat, Costa Rica Posts: 9,734	I wasn't into metal on highschool until one day I saw in a friend's house (he had cable) the video of 'Flight Of Icarus' and I love it. Still I wasn't into metal. Another day listen to National Radio (kind of Government PBS) they were showing music from around the world and they played 'The Trooper' which also hooked on me. But I wasn't yet into metal. Until one day I was looking for the single of 'Stairway to Heaven' (I like the song from the radio) but only I found the album, also I saw the domestic tape version of "Piece Of Mind" (I still have it) and bought it blindly. Going all the way home banging my head because I was sure I wouldn't like it and was a money waste....in the end I loved the tape, after that was Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Saxon, Judas Priest, an so on. 25 years afterward I'm still into metal, 'Flight Of icarus' is still my favorite Maiden tune... and never got into Led Zeppelin __________________ May God protect us from those who would speak in His name.

June 3rd, 2008, 07:32 PM	#58 (permalink)
Diamond45 Bite worse than my bark Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Fredericksburg, VA USA Posts: 657	How'd I get into metal? Only very recently. Though I'm an "old fart", I only seriously got in to metal about three years ago. SkiBumMSP (Steve) did it. He found it by discovering Stratovarius on Music Choice on DirecTV (they have since switched to XM radio). He then found out the world of power and progressive metal. He was telling me of all these bands he was listening to, and about how Strato was going to play at ProgPower USA VI in 2005. He invited me to go with him. So I started to listen to the bands that were playing that year - and it grew from there. Had a blast at the last three ProgPower USA shows and already have the tickets to the upcoming one. Lots of metal out there to listen to. Still playing catch up! __________________ "Diamond Dave" You can't spell CRAP without RAP. Got METAL? :-) http://www.dmine.com

May 28th, 2008, 02:34 PM	#55 (permalink)
yardleybates I get to kiss hot chicks! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Elgin, IL - NW Chicago burb Posts: 774	Metal? Yippee did it to me - started with Queensryche when we started dating. My parents, unlike Yip's are VERY into music. I grew up around a LOT of music. My Dad is a guitar player and writer of his own songs. I grew up totally hooked on the 50's and 60's tunes (Solid Gold Saturday night every week) and my Dad was always into great 70's rock music (Styx, etc) and he's a HUGE Pink Floyd Fan. We went to summerfest every single year in Milwaukee saw Moody Blues and Beach Boys 300 times - Rod Stewart, etc etc etc My Dad worked in a music shop when I was little. He always had top of the line stereo equipment. I remember in their last house, he was the first person any of my friends knew with speakers wired into the walls of the house so we could have the stereo playing in every room Oh wait, what was the question again? Metal, oh yeah, Yippee did it. I think the first Iron Maiden concert he took me to really turned me.

June 3rd, 2008, 11:56 AM	#57 (permalink)
yardleybates I get to kiss hot chicks! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Elgin, IL - NW Chicago burb Posts: 774	Thanks for starting this thread guys! Too cool to read this !