LouisLeGros
Smash Journeyman
lol, I thought it was funny when I started to heard people refer to Van Halen as classic rock, now GnR & Motley Crue?I started listening to classic rock music before metal. Lots of stuff like GnR, Queen, Rush, Motley Crue.
I don't download any music due to my stone age equipment, so I only use CDs. But I did eventually discover some really great metal bands. Iron Maiden is great. I only have the greatest hits CD, but that's usually how it goes for me. I don't usually have to CDs from on band. The only one I do have more than one of is Rush, because they're my favourite band. Anyways, I also like Metallica, but only have a couple songs by them, while hearing some other stuff from friends. The same goes for Ozzy and Black Sabbath.
My favourite metal band is gonna have to be Judas Priest, though. I love Hellion/Electric Eye, Ram it Down, Metal Meltdown(of course lol) and I think my favourite guitar solo of all my songs is the one from You've Got Another Thing Coming. Does anyone else LOVE the solo from that song?
The rest of the bands I like are Def Leppard, Led zep, Styx and ACDC. I'm probably forgetting some, though.
I don't really like the term, it does a bad job at really describing the music. It usually seems to mean 60s-70s rock. BTW, Guns N' Roses & Motley Crue would both be metal (to the dismay to some metalheads). Most of us would like to forget atleast 95% of 80s pop metal.
Seems like pretty much a lot of mainstream stuff, but they are popular for a reason (I will just ignore Styx

Rush are awesome, I saw em last summer.