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Heavy Metal Anyone?

In my opinion, the best musicians are heavy metal musicians. Jazz is easy, ine note at a time, doomboombooppettiboop, but, can any of thos jazz dudes do what the heavy metal bassist do, or guitarists, or drummers? And , it's easy to test a system using jazz with simple vocal tracks, test systems with Heavy Metal. If it works with metal, it will work well in general. 

Anyone agrees with me? 

Note, no disrespect to jazz, classical lovers . I listen to a lot of jazz, blues, classical and especially early music. 
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danvignau
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As someone who has identified as a musician, I beg to differ.  Heavy metal is full of fast triplets to hide a lack of prowess.   I do listen to some, but I never heard a HM drummer who compares in technique to Buddy Rich or Terry Bozzio, nor a guitarist who holds a candle to Nita Strauss or Steve Vai.  Not to mention the electric bass of Flea  (OK, he might be heavy metal), and the acoustic bass of Ron Carter.  And don't even ask me about the best guitarist I ever saw, Segovia.  I do agree about jazz guitarists.  The are usually pretty lame, and yes, i do know listen to Herb Ellis.  Piano: Oscar!    Trumpet and Sax: ignored in HM. 
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danvignau
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Is your source on Mark Knopfler, Roy Clark, or Chet Atkins the same as your source on Djanggo Reinhardt, who died in 1953, just a bit before the introduction of Heavy Metal?
Don't worry though. I used to believe what I heard, especially when it coincided with what might likd to believe.  It is an easy habit to break. 

GOOGLE!
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danvignau
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millercarbon:  There is something new yuou should try.  It is called google.  If you google "heavy metal" and "Django Reinhardt", you would discover that heavy metal is believed to have begun no sooner than the late 1960s and reached a mass audience in the 1970"s.  Django died in 1953.
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