I was wondering if we have older metalheads here?
I’ve been educating myself on the history of metal, and that made me wonder if anyone here is much older than I am (early thirties here) and has seen some of that history.
How did you get into metal? How old were you?
Any interesting experience you’d like to share? Things that have changed?
How were metal and metalheads perceived where you lived?
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Forties.
Got into metal around 20 years ago. Always was a hip-hop head, but a night out to a rock club in Manchester had me loving metal. Might have been the ecstasy, but I kept coming back to the music.
I still love hip-hop but regularly go back to some SOAD. I also like classical now too to round it all off.
I’m 58. And I’m a Motorhead, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden era metalhead. I lived through the first generation of speed metal (e.g. Exciter) and seem to have come through all the head banging without long-term repercussions. And seem to have come through all the head banging without long-term repercussions.
I got into it through friends who played and were in bands. I was stunning them and other bands in the early 80s. I actually recall hearing the guitar from La Grange at about 11 or 12 and realing that a guitar could move me.
I can’t play. I ran sound and did pyrotechnics for my friends. I love it loud. I still do.
In college, in Toledo, OH, there was a great band scene in the late 80s and early 90s. I saw bands like Axel Brice, Exciter, Accept, and more on the bars like Kip’s and Roxanne’s. There were great shows at the Sports Arena. I fell asleep at a Judas Priest/ Megadeath show after a full day of student teaching.
Now, I listen to Halestorm and a lot of the guitar players- Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen, Orianthi.
In high school, I was within range of KNAC, the Los Angeles hard rock and metal station. I’d say for about a quarter of the students, this was their preferred station (over KROQ or KIIS FM). Lots of metal heads with long hair and attire to match. It was just one clique among many.
Less than a month from 50. Metal was the first music I fell in love with… specifically Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time. I was gifted a ghetto blaster and three cassettes and it was instant love.
Metal was fairly popular where I lived and most kids I knew were into it. Lots of bangers with their jean jackets covered in patches and I he big hair.
I guess older would be old enough to remember Cliff Burton.
My Metallica bassist is Newsted. Which means I’m not young, not old.
People who only knew Trujillo are the young bucks.
Dude the bass line on Orion is fucking amazing
