rlr (01/10/83)
OK. I've received my share of abuse for my "tirade" on "Heavy Metal". Allow me to say that my news item was prompted out of sheer disgust at (mistakenly) being associated with the genre. Everyone is entitled to their own individual musical tastes. Everyone is also entitled to their opinions about music (and just about everything else, for that matter). Perhaps the net was not the proper venue for me to proffer my opinions on this topic. It should be said that the number of polite, simple "Bravo"s that I received equaled the number of impolite, boorish, insulting "You stink"s. I hope the tirades and counter-tirades on this subject have become a part of the past, at least on the net. Anyone wishing to discuss the subject of corporate control of music or the number of highway deaths attributable to heavy metal (by mail, and in a rational frame of mind) can find my address in the header of this news item. To those who called me closed-minded with a narrow range of musical tastes: if I receive enough requests I will post a list of the musical genres that I enjoy to net.sources (that's where the very long articles go, isn't it?) You might even find heavy metal in that list, or at least a small fraction of the heavy metal repertoire. By the way, how many of you "open-minded" listeners gave any thought at all to listening to the group I described in my article---Joy Division??? Rich