I bet Dimebag was more conservative than the author of this piece. From what his neighbors say, he was great to live next door to in the small town he lived in - helpful, courteous, respectful and considerate.
Can you imagine living next door to the author of this article? Ha! Probably a nightmare.
I'd suspect that the percentage of Republicans at the average Damage Plan show is higher than the percentage of Republicans at the average Opera at the Met......
Many conservatives do themselves a serious disservice by judging others they assume are not like them.
I am a metal head and as conservative as anyone. Most metal heads I know are hugely pro-America anti-communist and islmofacsist.
I get a kick of some of the hypocritical weekly churchgoers who act all holy during church but S%^& on people the rest of the week.
Dimebag was a hugh W supporter, I hear.
Imagine living next door to Mozart?
I prefer living next door to a snotty-liberal cultural elitist who plays Bach's profound compositions and chord schemes 24/7 at full volumn than to live next door to some one who plays any raucous rock band's metal guitar psycho-cacophony for minus one minute.
Afterall, ears are portals to the mind. I'm pretty sure that Hard Rock sandblasts the mind. I'm in NH and listen almost daily to Jay Severin on FM Talk Radio. Except for Jay's choice of playing musical interludes of HARD ROCK NOISE by his favorite Metal Guitarist, he is otherwise astute and articulate with an unswerving conservative/libertarian spirit, and amazingly he has no symptoms of having a sandblasted mind - yet.
Mozart's music is more aestheticly nurturing than *that* of, say, Ozzie Bat Biter.
Forgive, I'm just burning off excess energy from my elation - post-election Reds' elation as opposed to the mordant elite Blues'
(That is, if it isn't authentic acoustic Blues.)
I know...too much "vanity." Sorry...