My name is Patricia and I've lived in Seattle my whole life (isn't that kind of sad, LOL!!!). My first Metal Experience was in 1980 when my cousin Mark gave my Dad an 8-track of AC/DC's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. This was such an improvement to his usual favs (Beach Boys, Kingston Trio, etc.) me, my brother and sister would beg him to play this. In fact, he would tell us if our soccer team won, he'd play this and buy Jeno's pizza. It was similiar to one of his other fathering techniques: he always said when he tried to quit drinking again, if I drink a beer, I'll buy you kids Jeno's pizza, potato chips and pop. Of course we'd beg him to start drinking again. He was much nicer under the influence anyways. Ah childhood.
Once we got cable we would tape Headbanger's Ball on the Betamax and my brother would steal money from my dad to buy Slayer, Megadeth, Metalicca, Metal Church, etc. tapes. We watched the Iron Maiden videos for the artwork. This was back in the eighties when the record labels put a lot of money into metal. Because of this, we had to sit through the real crappy videos too: Poison, Bon Jovi, most of the other stuff I have blocked out of my memory forever. *shudders*
Around 1992 everything turned to grunge so I started studying Classical Music, specifically voice (I still listened to metal and also grunge). I recieved a B.A. in Music in 1999 and then a Master's Degree in Librarian Science in 2001 to pay the bills (it actually worked!!!). A month after I graduated my sister played Cannibal Corpse's Live Cannibalism and I immediately started spending my time talking to the corpseheads on this old message board www.cc1.com. They told me all about death and black metal, and so I started going to the shows and now I can't stop spending my money on tix and the bar. You've seen me there, I pretty much go to everything.
The local Seattle bands fucking rule, a few of my favorites are: Vulgarizer, Waking Hour, Scorched Earth, Ceremonial Castings (Battle Ground, WA), In Memorium. If I forgot you, sorry I'm blond. Anyways, I'll be watching from the front row and head banging at the next show.
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