Music may not have been my first love, but it certainly is one of my deepest. In highschool I was the nerd, but the rockers were pretty much my crowd. We had a cantina in the basement, where the music played during breaks was mostly rock. That gave me the taste for Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and other bands, but in the music store I soon found Hawkwind.
My first concert was Dio in Rotterdam, and the lead in was a then relatively unknown band named Queensryche. Listening to them from one of the first rows in the audience changed my life as Roads to Madness hit my eardrums. Only later would I found out that was a warning o where I'd be going a few years later...