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Things that are Metal...and things that aren't

The delicious dead animals he serves up daily IS pretty metal. But....

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I stand by my word. This is NOT metal. :D

Errr, I take it back. You are right, Dave is about as far from metal as you can get.

But I still stand by Taco Bell = Metal.
Barfing coors beer & Taco Bell tacos in the back alley of the club you are about to play while your girlfriend loads in your bass gear? Now THATS metal.
 
Metal:

Satan
Bears
BBQ
Booze
Pointy Guitars
Combat/Work Boots
Arm Wrestling
Dead People/Undead People
Skulls
Fire
Swords
Motorcycles
Graveyards
Amp Stacks
Pontiac Firebirds
Chevy Cameros
Taco Bell
Vikings
Camo Pants
Double Bass 20 piece Drumkits
Component Stereos
Rambo
Tight Jeans
White High Tops
Tinnitus
Comic Books
Wizards
Lord Of The Rings
Drugs
Calling People Posers
Being KVLT
Blood Pudding
Lack of Abs
Naked Chicks
Long Hair
Facial Hair
Mythbusters
Zombies

Not Metal:

Basketball
Bras
Shower Caps
Snuggies
Mittens
Tanning
Texting
Muslims
Sporks
Dancing With The Stars
Vampires
Werewolves
Hor Dourves
Hybrid Vehicles
Thong Sandals
Hip Hop Music
Cornrows
 
Making ambient music in prison.
Do you mean Varg Vikernes? Heheheh ;)

Metal:
Mahogany guitars
7-string guitars
Baritone guitars
Dropped tuning - the more you can drop it - the better
Extremely thick bass strings in electric guitars
Distortion
NOISE!
As many drums and cymbals as you can put in the drum set
PLAY LOUD!
Humbuckers

Things that are not metal:
Fender Telecaster (unless it is Jim Root signature)
Peace & love
Everything Metallica have made past "Kill 'Em All" ;)
 

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