first to say cool idea for a thread. or at least fun to read. my dad is in heavy metal stuff mostly, but he also introduced me to bands like pink floyd, rush, black sabbath and nirvana. nirvana itself got me out of the doors/60's shit cycle to the higher stage of punk. actually it was very good for me to listen to all my dad's 80's hair metal records. i just listened what i had at home when i was kid, so i was switchin between fucking judas priest and my mom's beatles tapes. the beatles appear to have been huge influence for my mother when she was a teenager, but by far her taste in music starts and ends with kansas' dust in the wind when she is on half bottle of white wine. she asking me to play/sing this song with my crappy acoustic- it was a fucking torture!
when i started to get into so called grunge and punk rock there were these constant conflicts between me and my metalhead father. actually i became very good of a speaker back in these days, so usually he had to admit "circle jerks are a good band" or "kurt cobain can play the guitar" or "manowar is a gay gym team in furs". now i think it was all good to have listened tons of heavy metal, glamorous 70's hair rock dudes or retarded hippie stuff, people (especially older than me) are sometimes shocked I know some godforgotten metal band and shamefully lots of facts about them. also i got some taste in metal music. like, napalm death
^^ damn what a huge post.