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my "gateway" bands/artists:
Stone Temple Pilots - pointed me towards other 90's rock (AIC, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Tripping Daisy, Hum, Tool, NIN, Radiohead, Shudder to Think, System, Incubus, etc) and classic rock (Zep, Aerosmith)
Metallica - a sizable portion of my record collection, but i can't claim they turned me onto metal any further than Megadeth. actually, i find that lots of people's metal tastes start and stop with Metallica
Led Zeppelin - obviously. steered me towards the blues and other classic rock (Sabbath, Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Hendrix, etc)... and veered away from Floyd and The Stones. Blasphemous? maybe, but... ugh
Killswitch Engage - their melding of melody with screaming/growling let my ears adapt to modern metal vocalists and appreciate a whole new generation of metal (Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, Mastodon, All That Remains, In Flames, Opeth, Unearth, God Forbid, Blood Has Been Shed). Plus I went back to check out Pantera \m/
Stevie Ray Vaughan - went crazy for the blues back in college (Roy Buchanan, Black Keys, John Mayall, Indigenous, Albert King)
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