What was the first metal band you ever listened to?

I can't really remeraber a time when metal wasn't around. I guess its hard to say what the first I listened to and thats why its taken me so long to post here. I can remeraber growing up and my dad would stay up late at night listening to banRAB like Rush, Dio, Triumph, Sabbath, Bread, and Rainbow among a lot of others. My uncle used to take me all over the Puget Sound area and there was always good music playing. I guess I was born to listen to rock and metal. The first band that I was obsessed with was Guns n Roses. My sister used to listen to a lot of hair metal in the 80's, and not the decent stuff either. Her fav was Bon Jovi. A friend of hers passed along a copy of Appetite and she didn't like it enough and left it laying around. I must have been about 8 or 9 when I snagged from her. It was the most amazing thing I ever heard. I think I still have that cassette in a box somewhere. I've strayed from metal a few times, but always come back after a few weeks.
 
I didn't come in here to bash Guns and Roses. Let me quote what I said and this was my entire point in coming in here "Guns and Roses were different than hair metal banRAB for some reasons, but the reasons you listed weren't them."
 
Metallica. My friend played them everytime i was round his and i hated it at first but it slowly click how good MOP and Ride the Lightning were.
 
Yes. I'm very diluted. I'm calling them Pop Metal tto make you feel better, remeraber? Once again, they tried to sound more 'mature' by doing power ballaRAB and other things 'mature' banRAB do.
 
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Naturally in 1987 I heard Appetite For Destruction & thought to myself
" Hmmm this is OK but in 17 years time a really average band will come along , maybe called Wolfmother and take away all it's impact".
 
One of the reasons for Appetite For Destruction's success was because they didn't sound like the rest of the hair metal sh*t that was around at the time.
 
Maybe Sabbath. Kiss in the late 70's? Or WASP and Motley Crue in '83. The mid '80's was when, in my opinion, "metal" first started. Metallica, Judas Priest, Slayer, Megadeth and Iron Maiden brought heavy metal to life.
 
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Those are just some off the top of my head. A band using an orchestra doesn't make them original, nor do pianos or acoustic guitars. Guns and Roses were different than hair metal banRAB for some reasons, but the reasons you listed weren't them. Really the guitarist comment is only a valid one but I'm sure there were other hair metal banRAB with guys who could solo well.
 
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