Greetings fellow metal heads! In 1978 the first band I was a part of had Mark Briody , John Tetley, and Rick Hillyard in it. It then became Jag Panzer.I first desired to become a metal man when I heard Ronnie James Dio on HEAVEN AND HELL.I had been singing in choirs and solo since 1978 and had won several awards for classical solo performance.
I heard Dio and flipped. How can a person evoke so much power and emotion with such a fragile organ-instrument? Then the voice of Bruce Dickinson on NUMBER OF THE BEAST set precedence. And later Geoff Tate raised the bar even higher on MIND CRIME.
