Parker's EyesHow I've gotten here:
I've come a while since I joined Last FM in October 2006. I actually barely listened to any music at all before the summer of that year: I've never really been a big fan of popular music, and I guess I never realized just how much more was out there. But when a friend got me into Dragonforce that summer, my mind was opened to a whole new world. I listened to their three albums pretty much constantly for months (to the point where I had memorized all of Valley of the Damned and most of Sonic Firestorm, including the solos). I don't actually remember how I found Last FM, but I know that at that point they were finally starting to get sort of tiresome, and I was ready to branch out from there. The first band I checked out through Last FM was Rhapsody; next I moved to Blind Guardian, with whom I spent a pretty huge amount of time. Symphony X formed a sort-of bridge from power to progressive metal, although prog metal didn't click quite so quickly as power metal had; the…
I've come a while since I joined Last FM in October 2006. I actually barely listened to any music at all before the summer of that year: I've never really been a big fan of popular music, and I guess I never realized just how much more was out there. But when a friend got me into Dragonforce that summer, my mind was opened to a whole new world. I listened to their three albums pretty much constantly for months (to the point where I had memorized all of Valley of the Damned and most of Sonic Firestorm, including the solos). I don't actually remember how I found Last FM, but I know that at that point they were finally starting to get sort of tiresome, and I was ready to branch out from there. The first band I checked out through Last FM was Rhapsody; next I moved to Blind Guardian, with whom I spent a pretty huge amount of time. Symphony X formed a sort-of bridge from power to progressive metal, although prog metal didn't click quite so quickly as power metal had; the…
