Who was a metalhead in high school?

[xmas74]

I am watching My Coolest Years on VH1. Tonight is about the metalheads.

[autorank]

1. Does Lead Belly count?

[sasquatch]

3. "Irene, Goodnight!"

:hi:

[autorank]

17. Oh yeah!

Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown

(The Master, LB)

:toast:


(We are the senior metal faction, or at least I am)

[xmas74]

4. whatever you want.

I think that, in high school,metal was more a way of life than just music.
According to their descriptions, I was a metalhead (and i didn't even know it).

[BBradley]

2. I liked more metal than most people....

Couldn't stand the stereo-typical greasy haired fans though.

[xmas74]

7. I was just the pothead

who always had to stare at the guys in auto shop. I still love those guys.

[mark414]

5. "all my best friends were metalheads"

though no...i'm not a less than jake fan.

i was never a metal kid, i like a little bit here and there, but ALL my friends were hardcore/metal kids

[texas1928]

6. YEAH!!! PARTY!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Play some Aldo Nova.

[Swede]

8. Keggers and metal.

Way back in the day.

[xmas74]

10. $2 keggers were the best!

I just loved the hair on the men. They were the main people that I wanted to date.

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Depends on what you consider "metal"

Actually, I wasn't confined to labels. I could go from Black Sabbath to Black Flag without thinking twice about it. I was always less concerned with what was "punk" vs what was "metal" than I was with what was good compared to what was crap.

And since it's a VH1 special, I'm guessing they focus on a lot of the crap (Poison, BonJovi, Slaughter, etc.)

[xmas74]

12. Actually,

they are focusing on actors, musicians, etc. that claim that they were metalheads in high school.
Tom Morello, Dave Narvarro, Jim Breur.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. I was a closet metalhead

Because I grew up in rural freepertopia, I was groomed like all the other kids to obey, not think for myself, you know the drill.

Didn't stop me from listening to metal! The harder the better back then. I have lightened up a little since then, but man, I couldn't get enough of it!

[xmas74]

13. I grew up in freeperville and

we just had parties in cornfields. One of my party buddies became a roadie.

[AwakeAtLast]

16. Yeah, I did that and *other* things in cornfields

Ah, youth! :D

[xmas74]

19. lot's of other things,

I'm with ya on that one!

[realisticphish]

14. 3 years ago

yeah, i was a metalhead. still am :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

15. It's more than music-it's a way of life!

[Spacemom]

18. Guilty

I still remember the first time I heard AC/DC. It was a religious moment for me. :)

[xmas74]

20. AC/DC, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath

all religious.

[autorank]

21. xmas74, I think that this was the first metal band (no kidding)

CA, late '60's, wall of sound (I mean big loud wall).

Who pre-dated them?

[xmas74]

22. Not sure

Where did you find that?

[autorank]

30. just did a search for 'images' of 'blue cheer'.

i saw them at the avalon ballroom in sf in 1970, i think or maybe earlier. they had three pieces, lead, base guitars and drums. wall, i mean big wall of sound. it was metal, no mistaking that. i actually do remember the 60's and i can't think of a band like these guys. they were unique.

Try this:

http://www.bluecheer.info/

The classic sone is "Summertime Blues"

[xmas74]

31. Thanks!

I will definitly look at that!:)

[xmas74]

23. It's time to go to work

Have a good night!

[Bok_Tukalo]

24. Sorry. I was the anti-metal.

The lone punker in my class of 26. That's right. My graduating class was 26.

[xmas74]

27. That's still cool!

[NomoBreaks]

25. Rob Reiner....oh, sorry, MEAThead...

[xmas74]

28. I liked Meathead.

[opiate69]

26. Was??? Still am!

[xmas74]

29. I didn't even realize I was

until they started explaining what one was. I just thought that I was "diversified"-I had many different interests. But it sounds like I leaned more towards the metalheads than anything.

[drumwolf]

32. I was a metalhead as a high school kid in the mid-'80s.

Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Kiss, Aerosmith, and Metallica all ruled my world back then.

I got into punk rock later on during my college years and continued to be a punk/indie/alt-rock fan all throughout the '90s, and now I'm mostly into techno/electronica, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for '80s metal.

Newer metal is a different matter, though... I can't stand the shit.

[xmas74]

33. I prefer it classic-like what I heard in high school.

[orleans]

34. i'm a black sabbath girl

[xmas74]

37. Who wasn't?!

[CanuckAmok]

35. I was a punk/goth/new romantic...depending on what day it was.

But growing up in a small town, all the "fringe" elements---the punks, the stoners, the metalheads---once we saw past each others' visual differences, tended to party together. It was kind of what you had to do to not get swarmed by jocks.

[xmas74]

38. My town was similiar.

If you weren't a jock or a cheerleader you usually partied together.

[Borgnine]

36. I was.

Even though I'm now a Beatles fanatic. Go figure.

[xmas74]

39. The show I was talking about

made the comment that some of the most intellegent students in school were metalheads and that it took many hours of reading to really understand what some of the bands were referring to.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with adding something to your repetoire.

[Zhade]

40. Yo.

My mom once told me she was concerned about me.

"All of your albums have the word 'death' in them."

"No, mom. See? That one says 'kill', that one says 'extinction'..."

:D

[xmas74]

41. Now that just made me laugh.