The best way to give a feel for my musical tastes is to give a rundown of a bunch of groups and artists that I listen to. I understand that this list motif is getting redundant, but, as all my English teachers will attest, my essay-writing skills are less-than-mind-bogglingly-phenomenal. Thus: a list. Ish. It's kind of a clump, in fact. Well, look, read on, you'll get the idea.
Bands/Artists I dig:
Pantera, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Billy Joel, His Holiness the Lord Ozzy Osbourne, The Anti-Nowhere League, Garth Brooks, Disturbed, Kitty, Sevendust (Seevendoost!), Hatebreed, Charlie Daniels, Beethoven, Queensrych, Quiet Riot, ZZ Top, White/Rob Zombie, Sean from WZ's Band (Sean, if you're out there, drop me a line!), B.B. King, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Pato Banton and the Regge Revolution, the Offspring, Stuck Mojo, Mozart, Primitive Radio Gods, Cypress Hill, Live, Sick of it All, Rimsky-Korsakov, Green Day, Exodus, Bach, Godsmack, Collective Soul, Riot, Savatage, Blues Traveler, Beastie Boys, and so on and so forth in an eclectic collection of virtually everything but rap, but mostly hardass motherflagging metal.
Note my use of a substitute word in the previous comment. This website is rated E for Everyone by the DWRB. So yeah, maybe some people might think I'm a softy because I listen to things like Collective Soul and Charlie Daniels and B.B. King, but they're just stupid, so nobody cares about their opinions here. This is my website, and if I say something's cool, that's just how it is. That said, my preference clearly lies with heavy music of varioius types. Especially heavy metal. But that's not to say that I don't like all types of rock, because I do. And I absolutely love concerts. Live rock is one of the greatest things on Earth, maybe the best. What could be better than partying with a couple other hundred people who are all there to see the same bands as you are? It's great. A whole huge chunck of humanity coming together to enjoy the same experience at the same time. Concerts fill a need for people to go out and be with lots of other people for no reason other than to have a good time. I've gone on about how much I love concerts before (to audiences willing and otherwise), and the reason for that is because I love them. The reason for that is that I love people. The human being is a domesticated animal, but an animal nonetheless, and some animal tendencies cannot be acted upon in normal society (shouting, running about, venting agression), but can neither be totally repressed. Rock concerts are outlets for all kinds of things like that, but also for creative energy and the sharing of ideas. They are the festivals, forums, and meeting days of our time. They are the true modern carnivals of spectacle, music, and humanity. And the best kind come with long hair and long guitar solos. And that's that.
The Lion-Man appologizes for this highly dodgy and sermonistic non-essay.