Heavy Metal Kid From HellIf you were to look at my high school pics (which by the way I will never be releasing to the public. lol.) you would probably never recognize me.
Imagine this, it's the mid to late 80's and a kid in a Megadeth t-shirt, ripped jeans, and snake skin boots is walking down the street with his guitar case. Mind you, my town has a population of under 2,000 and this is a very strange site for the neighbors.
Anyways, the kid walks up to a house and a little old lady greets him at the door with a violin and ask him to come inside. The door closes and neighbors stare out their windows in curiosity.
Yep, this kid was me and I wasn't always the level headed, clean cut fellow I am today. Heehee. I was a heavy metal kid.
When heavy metal came about a group of misfits and I decided we would start a band. They needed a guitar player and decided I would be it. I knew nothing about the guitar, but decided to learn. I bought an old electric model and began banging around on it, but didn't even know what a chord was. After some searching, I found a lady that lived in town who knew here music well. She was a member of the Arkansas Symphony Orchastra and could play several different insturments. She even has a son who is in a rock band, so she said she'd give me lessons at $7 a lesson. And let me tell ya, she was awsome.
I can remember scraping all my quarters and pennies together every week just to go and play along with her and her violin. I wasn't learning any heavy metal but I was definatly learing how to read the music as I picked out the classical songs on my guitar. But when the weekend came, I put away my Bethoven and it was all metallica, megadeth and Motley Crue.
My band never made it to the big time, or even to a big garage, but I definatly had a lot of fun the few years we played and I'll never forget the little old lady who taught me how to become a heavy metal kid from hell.