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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5162268" data-attributes="member: 34175">Hey Shredheads!  The headmaster is back (for a moment anyway as my main computer is down and I have to use this pukey netbook (which I actually like BTW)).To settle some arguments, metal school was founded by Danny and more or less taken over by me due to my incredible lack of a life dabbling in the professional music scene.  Every band listed by Danny is instrumental in the establishment of metal.  While many people feel that hair bands, hair metal, or hairspray rock, is not true metal, please remember that without their mainstream exposure, the fringe bands would still be in a garage because a flood of heavy metal and hard rock acts were signed to major labels in the 80s due to this exposure, with labels hoping to grab the next big thing.Slayer, Metallica, Megadeath and Anthrax (they holy four of Thrash) would still be playing skate parks if not for record execs looking for the next wave in metal. And without them Sepultura, Hatebreed, Death, and such would never have been looked at either.  Hard Rock (thank you 70's) pushed rock n' roll out of bubble gum, bobby socks and folky hippie trash.  So bands like Kansas, Journey, Boston, Fastway, April Wine and Ted Nugent, are all VERY much an integral part of the lineage of metal.  As for Rush, anymore dissension and I'll call down the gods of metal (I have them on speed dial) to burn you to a cinder.  More bands that fly the metal flag cite them as early inspiration than almost any other band other than KISS (which they opened up for on their first American tour BTW)There is a documentary called "Heavy: The story of Metal" that is a must see if you are truly interested in an accurate and nearly exhaustive history of metal from its humble beginnings to its world wide movement today.  More importantly we need to stand as a united front as the vocal minority that we are.  You don't have to like everything (I personally don't like Nordic Black metal), but I know that it has its place and respect it for what it is.  Regardless of how much you may think Poison sucks (I know I do) I appreciate that they brought hundreds of thousands of screaming fans to shows in the 80s, which exposed them to all sorts of opening acts which were usually more heavy than they were.  (Def Leppard is another group that usually has some really good up and coming talent open for them.)  Basically, learn, that's what this forum is for.  Just like in school, you have your favorite subjects, I'm fine with that, but don't turn your nose up at anything, because it may have merit, if not on a listening level, if you are a musician, then a performance level.  Paganini, Bach and Beethoven aren't metal, but Malmsteen cites them as an influences and he definitely is... think about it.Thrash on my little metal heads, I shall be lurking...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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