Hello Rob!
I must say, I’m worse than you, hehe.. I mainly listen to Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny and Chick Corea. And the band Ephel Duath – they combine experimental jazz progressive metal.. a little weird.
Anyway, I listen to those guys because my friend’s dad told me to try them out, so I did. But I didn’t do it just to tell him “ok I listened”, I was actaully interested. And in my opinion, this is important.
I think that you don’t have to like everything, you just gotta be open-minded for suggestions. It worked for me – I found some great musicians I didn’t know about.
The problem is that when you tell a metalhead to try some jazz, he’ll probably won’t even try that. I think that this is becuase people reach metal after many “music-phases” and for them it is an important point, because metalheads usually have a set opinion about the mainstream music industry and they are usually not so open-minded.
I hope you guys will forgive me for my tendency to get carried away..
Edit: It took me so long to write this message so I didn’t even see Mike’s message! Well thanks Mike, as I said I will try to drain (cool word, isn’t it?) the most out of the free section.
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