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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 3385906" data-attributes="member: 1515">I'm not really a metalhead, though my music collection has a fair amount of hard rock and metal in it (Led Zep, some AC/DC, some Scorpions, some Def Leppard, some Judas Priest).  That said, my favorite bands include ELO and Yes, which is probably enough to make the hardcore metalheads here cringe. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />My only metal "brag" is that my hearing loss is directly attributable to a heavy metal moment.  Motorhead concert, December 1985, Madison Wisconsin.  They played at "Turner Hall", which was fundamentally a gymnasium.  My friend Mark and I stood about 25 feet away from the amps.  I couldn't hear a thing for 2 days afterward, and, after that, I went from having very good hearing to being unable to hear a conversation in a noisy room.</blockquote>