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[Manifestor_of_Light]

55. I'm not much into heavy metal.

The old AC/DC and stuff I heard on the radio is good circa 1980. Angus Young plays amazingly complex leads that are interesting. Never got into Iron Maiden. I'm more into 70s and 80s rock. I didn't particularly like Rush or Journey or Van Halen. As far as 60s rock, I like the Kinks and The Who for their bad attitude. Ray Davies is a much better songwriter than Pete Townshend. Ray Davies has written much better rock operas than Pete.

I was into prog rock like Yes and ELP. As a piano player, I wanted to be Rick Wakeman when I grew up. I gave up on rock when The Police broke up in 1983 right after they were on top of the world with the Synchronicity tour. Their stuff was complex enough to be interesting to me. Andy Summers is into classical and jazz. It doesn't surprise me.

I started out taking classical lessons and classical is my first love. Then comes chamber music, opera, jazz and rock.

There was still some decent stuff coming out in the 80s but I REALLY gave up when grunge hit. Blech!!!!

I've watched some of the testimony by Frank Zappa and Dee Snider. Those stuffed shirts in DC were amazed that rock stars could be articulate and concerned about their children's music consumption. I was proud of Zappa for calling Tipper Gore a "cultural terrorist". The suits on the committee misinterpreted a lot of lyrics and they were put in their place.

They were probably freaked out by AC/DC as well, but they weren't American. I think the devil horns were a joke.