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Off Subject: Heavy Metal

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Tue Mar 30 19:28:40 PST 2004

Bryan Newell wrote:

> Metallica's power to cross genre's is awe inspiring... my dad, the
> devout Christian who destroyed all my heavy metal tapes when I was 17
> because they were "satanic", _loves_ "Nothing Else Matters", although
> it took him years to admit it.

My son is a big Metallica fan, I'm an old fogie.

But I have a kid sister who was in high school when I moved to Colorado with
my family.  It was my birthday so she bought me a tape - I like classical
music and she bought me "hooked on classics" which I had and hated.   She
got a feeling about it and offered to exchange it, so we walked to the store
where she bought it and I bought a replacement for my worn out _Dark Side of
the Moon_.   She was amazed that I knew music of her era, and I had to
enlighten her that it was a couple of decades old.   This was in 1980.

My son has two Pink Floyd laser disks.  And two sons.

Speaking of albums:   I have one tape and one CD with the title _A Rose for
Iconoclastes_.   I would love to have more by that artist.