THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE: I LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC AND W.A. MOZART IS MY FAVORITE.
GROWING UP, I WAS OPENED TO DIFFERENT FORMS OF MUSIC, I DO HAVE AN OPEN MIND.
HERE'S HOW IT ALL BEGAN:
-MY UNCLE SCOTTY; WHEN I WAS A YOUNG PUP, GOT ME INTO HARD ROCK (WHICH IS CONSIDERED 'CLASSIC' THESE DAYS!) KISS WAS ON TOP OF THE GAME BACK IN THE MID-EARLY 70'S.
-MY DAD, GOT ME INTO THE BEACH BOYS, PINK FLOYD, BUT I COULDN'T HANG WITH THE COUNTRY STUFF NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED!!
-MY MOM WAS JUST A 'TOP 40 RADIO' PERSON (ALTHOUGH NOWADAYS SHE LISTENS TO EVERYTHING NOW - SHE ONCE TOLD ME SHE LIKED A SUBLIME SONG!! SUBLIME!!)
-ONCE I GOT TO JR. HIGH, I WAS INTRODCUCED TO REAL METAL: IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PREIST, OZZY OSBOURNE, AND THEN-LOCAL METAL BANDS: DARK ANGEL, METALLICA & SLAYER. ALL THE CHICKS WERE INTO THE 'HAIR-METAL BANDS'-(YOU KNOW WHO I'M REFFERING TO!) I WAS ALSO OPEN TO OTHER BANDS AT THE TIME, BUT BEING SURROUNDED BY 'TRUE-TO-THE-METAL" CROWD, I HAD TO SHUT UP ABOUT IT. (THESE DAYS, IT'S FUNNY HOW NOW IT'S CONSIDERED COOL TO THINK THAT 'THE POLICE' HAD GOOD SONGS, WHEN BACK THEN, IT WAS LIKE "DUDE, YOU LISTEN TO THE POLICE? THEY'RE NOT METAL!")
WHEN I GOT TO HIGH-SCHOOL, THE CROSSOVER SCENE WAS JUST STARTING TO HAPPEN, WITH BANDS LIKE D.R.I., CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER, EXCEL, ETC. AND THE PUNKS GOT ME INTO CRASS, EXPLOITED, SUBHUMANS, D.I., MISFITS, AND THE GERMS. I LOVED HAVING FRIENDS ON BOTH SIDES! I WAS A LOYAL SHOPPER AT ZED RECORDS IN LONG BEACH! I GOT SO MUCH STUFF FROM THAT PLACE. MY OLD BAND (A.O.D.) ACTUALLY HAD OUR DEMO SOLD THERE, WHICH WAS KIND OF STOKED FOR ME AT THE TIME, BECAUSE A KID BUYING PUNK/THRASH CD'S/VINYL, TO HAVING HIS OWN "DEMO" SOLD THERE WAS KIND OF A HONORARY THING! I MISS SEEING BIG FRANK BY THE REGISTER!
I ALSO CAME TO RESPECT THE STRAIGHT-EDGE MOVEMENT OF BANDS: GORILLA BUSCUITS, NO-FOR-AN-ANSWER, OLD UNIFORM CHOICE, THE BANDS WENT ON AND ON...
BY 1990, I WAS WORKING FOR SOME BANDS, AND WORKING IN AN ART STORE FULL-TIME. THIS ONE GIRL GOT ME INTO INDUSTRIAL MUSIC, DEATH ROCK, GOTH. I WAS GETTING EXPOSED TO A DIFFERENT SCENE, AND MUSIC IN GENERAL. I ALSO GOT INTO HARDCORE GRINDCORE!! (NAPALM DEATH, CARCASS, BRUTAL TRUTH) DAMN!! HOLY SHIT!! FAST, BRUTAL, 'CHEW-YOU-UP-AND-SPIT-YOU-OUT' MUSIC!! DAMN!
OVER THE YEARS, I'VE OPENED MY EARS TO EVERY KIND OF MUSIC (STILL COULDN'T TOUCH RED-NECKKK COUNTRY MUSIC) BUT THE POINT WAS THAT I WASN'T SO NARROW MINDED IN TERMS OF LISTENING PLEASURE. HELL! I EVEN DIG MEL TORME FOR PETE'S SAKE!!
BUT BACK TO THE GENIUS OF WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART. HIS MUSIC IS OF PURE GENIUS! EVERY SONG I'VE HEARD OF MOZART HAS HAD A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY MUSICAL SOUL SINCE I COULD REMEMBER.
CLASSICAL MUSIC IS SOMETHING I LOVE TO SIT BACK AND RELAX TO, BECAUSE IT CALMS MY SOUL AND SOOTHES MY AGGRESSION. IT'S ALSO A GOOD TOOL WHE I'M TRYING TO THINK OF AN IDEA IN TERMS OF ART OR WHEN I'M WRITING MY USUSAL POETRY.
AFTER ALL, WITHOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC; MUSIC TODAY MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN WHAT IT WAS.
(RAP STILL SUCKS THOUGH!!)
HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY HEIR MOZART!! YOUR MUSIC WILL LIVE FOREVER! :)
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