Green Day is the band that started everything. Before I listened to them, I was just a pure mainstream fanatic, listening to NSync, Britney Spears, T-Pain, Soulja Boy, etc. I was stalking on Billboard Chart everyday, downloading all the new songs. My father, who was a rock/metal fan when he was young, gave me some Metallica, Pink Floyd, and Helloween. I was like, "It's too noisy, the singer is blah blah blah", you know the typical complaints from a mainstream guy.
It was so until American Idiot appeared in the billboard. It was a really fresh music. The whole distorted guitar, wild drumming, and catchy melody got me into this band almost instantly. American Idiot is the first rock album that I downloaded as a whole. Not track by track. I also started playing guitar back then. Billie Joe was my idol. I progressed pretty fast, playing Green Day songs in about 2 months. I remember when my guitar teacher brought his electric guitar. He went to the bathroom, and I tried playing his guitar like Billie Joe. As in, strumming really hard up and down. Well the result was a cut on my index finger
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Well eventually, Green Day wore down, and I found myself listening to Metallica. Thanks to their music, my guitar skill drastically improved. I was probably the only guitarist in my school who could finish One, including the solos(not bragging
). I tried getting all their albums, but my faith in them was taken away when I listened to Load, Reload and St. Anger. Death Magnetic is tolerable at best. As for my personal life at this point, I was getting close with the metalheads in my school, and farther from the majority of my classmates. It was great meeting people with similar musical taste. Then guess what my friend let me listen.
Overture 1928. It seemed like the Overture of the whole journey that was awaiting me. It was actually my first time to really give a listen to a keyboard-oriented rock/metal song. I loved the whole atmosphere this keyboard created, and now it's hard for me to listen to bands that do not use keyboard. So yeah. After Overture followed Metropolis, The Dance of Eternity, Constant Motion, The Glass Prison, Six Degrees, Images & Words, Awake, etc... until i had their entire discography. It was my first time to own such a big collection of music.
So by the time I finished Dream Theater, I only had a few friends to actually talk about my musical journey. Most of them were still into mainstream metal/rock, such as Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down, and Linkin Park. But among the entire population of my school, I was the "only" prog fan.
Now? The only place where I actually discuss about prog is DTF
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