The Elvis phase

Purchase of I Got Lucky

2. Kiss (I was/am a comic book nerd who could not resist their bubble gum charms)

3. The R&B radio days with Rick James/Prince/The System/the unknown DJ of Boogie 93 who introduced me to rap

Bought parachute pants/army trench coat

4. The hard rockin' years Ozzy/Rush

Thought Motley Crue was the second coming of an improved Kiss but they put out Theater of Pain and ruined themselves

5. The metal years

Who is better - Metallica or Slayer (a once important debate that I no longer care about)

6. Janes Addiction/Sonic Youth years

My cousin bought XXX records comp with Pigs in Zen from XXX live record

Forced Exposure magazine introduced me to Lydia Lunch/Diamanda Galas/Pussy Galore(Jon Spencer and Royal Trux)

7. The Grunge/Deee-Lite/Cypress Hill days

Mail ordered Mudhoney and Soundgarden music from Sup Pop

Saw Mudhoney at The End. Asked Mark Arm who I should get into

8. The Allman Brothers phase (coping with my h.o.r.d.e. friends)

I went hard into them for about a year

9. The stoner rock days

Got the head shop/record store in M'boro to order Sleep’s Holy Mountain

Saw High on Fire at the Exit/In(about 5 people there. Several times I've stood right in front of Matt Pike as he blasted me with metal, once in Paris, France! Sonique Music Festival)

Kyuss put out Green Machine

From here on out, my tastes became more catholic and my music nazism has subsided somewhat.

Significant concerts

Ratt - first arena show Municipal Auditorium, Nashville

Mudhoney at the End, Nashville

Cypress Hill at Piedmont Park, Atlanta

Metallica opening for Ozzy ( the only time I saw them) Municipal Auditorium Nashville

Bauhaus at the Tabernacle in Atlanta/Love and Rockets at 328, Nashville

Greg Allman at 328

First Lollalpalooza w Janes in Atlanta

The Creatures at the Exit/In Nashville

Lydia Lunch at Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY

Royal Trux at Cropped Out, Louisville KY

High on Fire at the Exit/In Nashville

Black Sabbath at Ozzfest Nashville

HR at Vandy Springfest, Nashville

X at free concert Music City Match (maybe misremembering the defunct paper’s name)

Patti Smith Music City Match free concert

Beastie Boys/Henry Rollins Band/Da Lench Mob in Indianapolis

The house reggae band at a hotel in Ocho Rios, Jamaica(bass player turned me into a reggae fan)

Dance not Destroy at the Cannery. This was a fest of local Nashville bands. Once we got old enough to drive, me and my friends started going to punk and metal shows in Nashville and Huntsville Alabama. We had our own band who's biggest claim to fame was opening for Intruder, a Metal Blade Records act