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Were you a metalhead in high school?

#82
More or less, Yah, I am.

I chill with the metalheads, I rock out in the halls or the court with buddy deej pumping some slayer or whatever he has in the stereo, I have long hair, I have some jean jackets, I have a leather jacket, though I dun wear it around school (motorcycle jacket, I ride) err....No studs though, I'm lacking those.

Yep, I like to think I'm pretty metal, Gnar.
 
#84
My first year of high school, and im going on my 2nd year of metaldom

Slayer, JFAC (new stuff), Necrophagist, Brain Drill, Death, Megadeth, Sodom, In Flames. pretty much every kind of metal (except anything ending in core)
 
#92
hbarcat said:
I loved cruising around in my rusty Camaro with the Pioneer "SuperTuner" even though most of the silver paint had long since flaked off the car and there was a hole in the passenger side floorboard large enough to drop empty beer cans through. :D
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Camaro floors are nice and solid- salt free car.

Super tuner and Jensen 6x9's are still there 23 years later, only difference is today the 477 bigblock under the hood drowns them both out. :bassist:
 
#95
Was metalhead in elementary, Highschool, and still am now as a student. Started with Maiden at the age of 7! Still my favourite band to this day, and S. Harris is the first bass player I saw and was schocked at how cool he was on the stage, and thats how I decided to start playing bass :) I tend to lean towards more extreme stuff, like Nile, Death, Morbid Angel, Testament, In Flames, but also bands like Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin...
Heck, I'm listening to Necrophagist right now :bassist:

Interestingly though, I usually don't like the dirty, aggresive sound needed to cut through most metal gigs.. I prefer smothy, modern jazzy sounds of Roscoes, Elricks, etc.:D But I really like the sound of Jason Newsted with his Sadowskys, or John Myung on Images & Words (Spector, I believe)
 
#97
I got big into thrash in 86. Always hated the Motley Crue's and such of the world. That is hard rock for morons. Sixx once said he didn't understand Metallica's music. Lets see, dark side of drugs, antiwar, TV evangelists, suicide, death penalty vs girls. Maybe you don't understand it because you don't have the brain capacity to.

I never associated much with people in school. NOt too many metalheads in chemistry, physics, trig, science olympiad.
 
#98
tZer said:
'82 - '86 were my high school years. I spent them as a freak/anti-preppy/band/orchestra dude who felt that occasionally attendance was optional in lieu of a nice day-trip to a local park for some therapeutic frisbee, cigarettes and other things mom and dad warned me never to do.

I was a metal head by proxy. I personally listened to Rush, Zep, Yes, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Cure, The Femmes, Steely Dan as well as Weather Report and Stanley Clarke's many recordings - and more - A rather non-metal list. I never owned a single metal album and when I had control over the set list or the radio dial, it was always rock, fusion or alt.

But all my musician friends were metal heads and since I wanted to be in bands with them, I ended up getting a full-on education in triplets from Mr. Harris as well as a dose of "hang on for your life" riffs from the likes of Queensryche, Anthrax and Megadeath - even Flotsam and Jetsam. While it was not my cup of tea, I wouldn't have traded that intense immersion in pure stamina-based music for all the tea in China. Talk about a great way to build finger strength and learn scales and arpeggios!

Loved playing it - wasn't much of a fan of listening to it.
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That pretty much nails it for me too. :D Graduated in 84.

Although I didn't skip much the only time I got caught I was trying to get tickets to a Van Halen concert. I got home and dad ask me how school was that day. He never really took that much immediate interest in how my day went. I knew I was busted. :D

I strayed from metal when the hair got too big and they had more makeup than my girlfriend. I started exploring different types of music at that time and was picking up on Stanley too. Rocks, Pebbles & Sand was the first album I got by Stanley. Brecker Bros also had a big impression. Weather Report, fagetaboutit. :)

Anyway, I went from wearing a jean jacket with a big Jimi Hendrix patch on the back to a Jazz-fusion fan. Then a band like Living Colour would come along and change me again.
 

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