Both kinds of music ... Rock AND Metal! Playing guitar (however badly!), acting, commentating and doing Jousting Shows with the Knights Of Royal England (check them out at www.knightsroyal.co.uk ), BUT, first and foremost, talking complete and utter wibble over a drink or 10 with friends. Nothing beats that... Nothing !! (so there :o)
I'd still like to sit down over a Macallan and have a chat with Neil Peart (Rush drummer...), Find out if Bruce Dickinson likes the Goon Show, play toy soldiers with John Schaffer, go flying with Steve Morse and find out if Steve Vai is human !! (for a start!)... But a lot of the people I would love to have met have "shuffled off": Richard Burton, Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Richard Harris, Jimmy Hendrix, Bon Scott, John Bonham (hmmm, strange how many of my heroes were incurable boozers !!)Balance of Power... British and sadly underrated!
This list would be too long... but I'll have a go: Rush, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Savatage, Malmsteen, Dream, Theater, Pagan's Mind, Evergrey, Threshold, Rhapsody, Nightwish, Stratovarius, Royal Hunt, TNT, Ayreon, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Thin Lizzy, Giant, Journey, Foreigner, Lynyrd Skynyrd, TOTO..... I'll leave it there but not without mentioning the mighty TEER !! ;o)
Star Wars (all), Monty Python Movies (All), The Omen, Seven, The Philadelphia Story, Tootsie, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Paint Your Waggon, The Good The Bad And The Ugly (All Clint movies really...), Where Eagles Dare, A Bridge Too Far, A Day At The Races, Le Mans, Platoon, all the Aliens movies, Outland, The Italian Job (The original please !!), Full Metal Jacket, Spinal Tap, The Last Boy Scout, As Good As It Gets, Slapshot, Zulu, A Fish Called Wanda, Bullitt ..........
24, Green Wing, Doctor Who, Spooks, Hustle, Lost, Scrubs, Frasier, House.
All the Flashman Books by George MacDonald Fraser. Steven King (especially IT), Tom Clancy, the joyous works of PG Wodehouse, the 13th Valley by John M Del Vecchio, Chickenhawk by Robert Mason, Ghost Rider and Travelling Music by Neil Peart. Stephen Coonts, Dale Brown, Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. The Dirt, Motley Crue w/ Neil Strauss.
Geddy, Alex and Neil from Rush. The fine gentlemen from Led Zeppelin. Eddie Van Halen, Spike Milligan, The Pythons, Rob Halford, Glen Tipton & KK Downing, Tony Hancock and the great acting triumvirate: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris... And my Son Lawrence ... just for existing.