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| Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
Retrospective 2
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As it should come to no surprise to anyone by now I am a huge Heavy Metal fan and have been since the tender age of 12 or so. It started with bands like Journey and J.Giles band ect ect and then graduated to
AC-DC, Motley Crue and the like. Then something amazing happened.
While I was in Military school ( yeah I was a pretty fucked up kid to deserve Military School) a friend of mine named Thomas Monroe was reciting the lyrics to a song called the Trooper. I had no idea that this would be the foundation to something really heavy.
I can still remember him singing the lyrics " you take my life but I'll take yours too you fire a musket but I'll run you through" pretty powerful shit. And when he told me that it was a song based in the First world war I was hooked ( I happen to be a huge history buff as well) So when I had gathered enough cash I went out and bought my first Iron Maiden Album yes it was on vinyl most people under the age of 20 won't know what the hell that it but it is the precursor to CD's and cassette tapes oh just forget it it was a non recordable storage medium you fucking morons.
Anyway as the the tracks rolled on and I read the lyrics I was becoming a changed person in terms of my musical tastes. From then on if it wasn't heavy it wasn't music.
As I look back on these events it makes me smile as I sit here and listen to Iron Maiden's Power Slave and can remember the first time that I put it on my record player ahhh the memories. I still like my music heavy and fast and loud but I have slowed down a bit just a notch or too but it's always nice to remember the origins of things as I get older.
Wired Wizard.
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