Leaving Heavy MetalHere's a
very interesting post on a heavy metal superstar finding Jesus, by R.F. Burn.
Getting away from thrash wasn’t like kicking heroin or any thing, but it was not easy having been literally the biggest part of my life for so many years. I can imagine it was even harder for a person who lived that life and was a major to star and influence to millions of others because he lived that life.Yep. When I was a teenager, the Vietnam War and the youth movement was the big deal, and it was very hard to move on, to accept that there was going to be no "revolution", that "Power to the People" was just a fatheaded slogan, that Abbie Hoffman was a showman first and foremost, and that the Weather Underground were nothing but thugs and hooligans. Which may explain why the Irish in America have had a hard time divorcing themselves from the notion of the IRA as a force for good.
Great post, very thoughtful.
