Metallica (Ride The Lightning)

Today I was at my bass lesson because I play bass. Hooray. Anyway, while I was there Ahmed (my bass teacher) and I were working on a bunch of Metallica songs for this Metallica tribute show I'm doing for School Of Rock, and we've been doing this for weeks just to really get prepared. Anywho, today we worked on Ride The Lightning, Creeping Death, and Fight Fire With Fire. All of which are from the Ride The Lightning album, which is awesome. I really dig it because it's heavy as shit, while at the same time being real complex and musical. (Thank you Cliff Burton.)
Here's Creeping Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWq3f01e2U

Roots of Rock

Yesterday in class, we listened to and talked about classic rock and roll artists from the 50's, such as Chuck Barry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly.
While I love all of these dudes, Little Richard stands out the most to me, and he always has been because I love his performance. That to me, is the real selling point to him. I love Jerry Lee Lewis for similar reasons, but he's more on the crazy side which is cool but he's also just freaking weird. At least I think so. I try not to judge one's music based on one's personal life, but the dude has been married 5 times, 3 of his wives he murdered, and one of the ones he didn't kill was his cousin which he married when she was 13, and divorced her 13 years later. Great guy.

My story

When I was around 10 years old or so, I picked up my first my first Iron Maiden record, Number of the Beast. I was young, didn't feel like I had much purpose in life or at least not yet, but ever since that day, I can say that I've probably listened to Iron Maiden nearly every single day of my life since then. I would stay in my room and sing along with the songs to try to sound just like Bruce Dickinson wanting to be just like him (I still do that, actually.)
It wasn't until I was maybe 12 or 13 when I decided that I wanted to seriously take music as a career, so I just happen to meet this dude who just so happens to be my best friend in the world now who needed a singer for a band he was fixing on starting, so I volunteered.
I try to listen and appreciate every genre whether it's country, pop, techno, you name it. I do like everything to a certain extent. But when it comes down to everything, heavy metal will always be my favorite mainly because of the attitude. To this day, Iron Maiden is still my favorite band, but I love The Beatles, The Who, Rush, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, King Crimson, etc.
Music is my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I refuse. I'd probably be dead without it. I don't wanna do anything else in my life but make and play music for people.