If this is true, then I should be stabbing people in the street every 5 minutes. I showed up to my first day of college in an Iron Maiden T-shirt, a studded metal leather belt, black acid washed jeans, and a biker jacket. Yet I'm also an Eagle Scout, Kentucky Col. (Fuck yeah, I roll with Col. Sanders bitches), and volunteer at various charity and folk music organisations. I listen to metal because I like the energy behind it, the pure technical skill required to play it, the really cool oppurtunities for songwriting it presents, and the fact that the whole genre revolves around not giving a flying fuck about how other people view you. I have never drank, or done drugs, because I never felt like it. People think you're exactly what you listen to, but if this was true, everyone who listens to bluegrass has no shoes and drinks moonshine all day (lies), everyone who listens to rap are gangbangers who do driveby's all day (bigger lie) and everyone who listens to indie wear's flannel and uses apple products (actually that one might be true...)
This is regardless of whether you're a glam metal fan, a blackmetal dude, or listen to nothing but Man O War, its a style of music where you do whatever you feel like, and I think thats what makes it a great form of music. It's like Rock N Roll, but taken to its logical extreme.
That being said, it is crazy sometimes how much profiling you get when people learn you listen to metal (especially if that happens to be by having black sabbath playing in your car as you drive down the street of a small Kentucky town) but then again, if you havent learned to accept this by now, you havent been listening to enough metal. Just up the Irons, pop that Dio tape into you car stereo, and crank it to 11. If they dont like it they can go buy a good pair of earplugs for $5 at walmart.
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AD-Stu said:
shadow_Fox81 said:
LOLWUT?
I would've cited Iron Maiden fans as a prime example of the positive, fun-loving metalheads, it's certainly the case for all the Maiden fans I've met and it's been borne out every time I've seen them live. Unless you're Sharon Osbourne, of course...
I have to agree there. Some of Iron Maiden's stuff is just so rediculously over the top and awesome, you just cant be a dick and listen to them. At the very least, I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan, and I'm very friendly. So there's one exception to the rule there for you
FINAL EDIT: Any other musicians here extremely bothered when the article said "Trying to keep musicians in line and away from anything detrimental to the name of art, here are the top ten inappropriate uses of music." Music is about freedom, and I dont care whether youre a metal head or a classical musician, this should bug the hell out of you.
