Music:
Mainly Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues, 80's & 90's rock
Some of My Favorite Bands/Musicians: Guns n' Roses, Metallica, Dream Theater, Extreme, Mr. Big, The Beatles, Jeff Scott Soto, Queen, Skid Row, Megadeth, Faith No More, Fates Warning, Symphony X, Savatage, Godsmack, Disturbed, System of a Down, Van Halen, U2, Led Zeppelin, Tribe of Judah, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, A Perfect Circle, Great White, White Lion, Kiss, Rush, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Whitesnake, Scorpions, Queensryche, Prince, Rainbow, Journey, Stryper, Dio, Pantera, Eric Martin, Gary Cherone, Billy Sheehan, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson, Michael Romeo, Reb Beach, Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola, Carlos Santana, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Jimi Hendrix...
Guilty Pleasures: Mariah Carey (her earlier stuff), Christina Aguilera, Bee Gees, George Michael, Elton John, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Kitaro, Foo Fighters (their latest stuff), Nickelback, Maroon 5...
Some of My Favorite Songs: Don't Cry, Perfect Crime, Double Talkin' Jive (GN'R); One, ...And Justice for All (Metallica); Take the Time, A Change of Seasons, Fatal Tragedy (Dream Theater); I Believe, Cool #9 (Satriani); Hotel California (The Eagles); The Odyssey (Symphony X); too many song by JSS (but especially those from his Prism album); all of Mr. Big, Beatles, and Extreme songs.
It gives me chills when I listen to some of Queen's songs (i.e. One Year of Love, I Want it All, The Show Must Go On...).
Favorite album to sing along to: III Sides to Every Story. First cassette I ever bought: Pornograffitti. First CD I ever bought: III Sides to Every Story.
Favorite Singers: Jeff Scott Soto, Eric Martin, & Gary Cherone
Favorite Guitar Player: Joe Satriani
Favorite Bass Players: Stuart Hamm & Billy Sheehan
Favorite Drummers: Mike Portnoy & Virgil Donati
Favorite Keyboard Player: Jordan Rudess
Memorable Concerts: G'NR when I was 14; Metallica when I was 16 (I met James Hetfield that night); a Vai show (one of many) on Thanksgiving in '99 w/ Mike Mangini on drums (so much fun); all of the G3's (especially the one w/ John Petrucci/Mike Portnoy & Vai/Virgil Donati, w/ Satriani, of course); seeing Fates Warning perform the ENTIRE "A Pleasant Shade of Gray" album; the 3 times I saw Mr. Big; the Symphony X show at which they played "The Oddysey"; every one of the Dream Theater shows I've been to; watching on TV Extreme's performance during Freddie Mercury's Tribute in '92; seeing Extreme playing live on June/July 2006; & seeing my favorite vocalist, Jeff Scott Soto, performing in January (Anaheim, CA), September (Atlantic City, NJ), & November (Baltimore, MD) in 2006.
Jeff Scott Soto, "I'll Be Alright Without You" (Soundcheck)
Television:
The Soup, The Simpsons, SNL, Comedy Central, E!, Discovery & Discovery Health Channel, ESPN, CNN, Headbanger's Ball (the new one kinda sucks), The Late Night Show, MTV or VH1 (but I don't like hip hop/rap).
When I was little I used to love The Munsters, The Three Stooges, The Twilight Zone & a bunch of cartoons I listed on one of my blogs :)
