My FIRST show was actually not metal, It Was Chaka Khan, Midnight Star, and I want to say Morris Day was there too? I'm a decade older though so maybe that's a huge part of it..by the time you were a teen The Sun had set on the Sunset Metal scene. I was also into punk quite a bit both early 80's (but I was just a lil guy), and then later in 90's when second wave of punk came about Offspring etc. I think Punk and Metal continually cross over one another...like is Coup-de-ta a Punk album or a Metal album? Plasmatics were clearly a punk band...but it kinda was inspirational to many Metal Thrash groups etc. It immediately sorta gave birth to SOD, and Anthrax etc... Heck just as this all is nostalgia for 80's I still love my Funk that reminds me of being a preteen and rollerskating too.
I have no real interest in seeing aging hair bands now. But I have so many fond memories of first going to parties and breaking out as a teen When Motley Crue to GNR etc were blowing things up. Even then I would have said Metal Church, and Metallica were what I considered "true" Metal....but I loved teh hair metal music too....it was fun, and teh music you could listen too and have the girls there. Where as Metallica and Metal Church, Children of Bodom etc etc etc that was what dudes listened to with other dudes and alone. That changed by 90's and yous tarted to see more chicks into Metallica etc, but in the 80's there were not many girls in that scene, but there were TONS into hair metal, and thus why that was the party music. Then the Punk/metal was the skate music, and the thrash was the drive your car/bike, workout, do your hobby music. Hell I still loved bluegrass, and blues too...never felt like limiting myself to genres because of what some other dick had decided was or wasn't cool. That to me was very uncool. Heck I still like 40's Big Band in terms of jive, and boogie woogie. Rockabilly, Psychobilly etc.... and If I really just want to hear great guitar I tend to fall back to the Blues, Skydog remains my favorite GOAT. Duane just has touch.
IK TLDR... DNFC
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