As a child I was generally bad and extremely rude. My parents were often invited to school to discuss my anti-social behaviour. The teacher advised sending me for some metallica guitar lessons for therapy. Point is, my parents forbade me to attend metallica guitar lessons. Heavy Metal, even a few lessons, was taboo in my redneck town. Country Music was the soup of the day, every day in my house, whether on cd, cassette or radio, my parents were in love with country songs. Me? I loved Rock, Punk, Metal and believe it or not Rap. Result was a big problem.I became more angry and more badasse, closing myself in my bedroom and listening to Metallica records as loud as I could. My parents could not stand it. They couldn't sleep or talk or watch TV. They definitely couldn't hear their country songs and that suited me fine.
I simply wanted to attend metallica guitar lessons again, because it was my dream to play guitar like my rock guitar heroes. They tried it all – switching off the electricity, mum was crying, dad was getting drunk. But I too got worse and worse, begging and forcing them to let me attend metallica guitar lessons. Finally, we all had enough of this strange and stressful situation. I was very bored, frustrated, angry and my exhausted parents grew tired, so we agreed that I would get money for the next set of private metallica guitar lessons, with the condition that my school grades and behaviour would get better, and, that I would stop making trouble in the classroom. Metallica guitar lessons were so important to me that I finally agreed. The possibility to play as a professional rock musician was so attractive to me, I was obsessed.
Pinched Harmonics, Speed Shredding, High Volume Distortion, 4-Handed Tapping, Playing Advanced Jazz Chords with your Feet, Filthy Detuned Power Chords, Sub Bass Earthquakes, Fun, Women, Girls, Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - it was all for me. I love it - the fast lane, the freedom of expression and above all, the ability to communicate to millions of people that war sucks, feed the starving etc.... Well how much Country Music can you take?
