Metallica is the best hard rock / metal band in the world!
Over the years I've seen many contests and shows (VH1), etc that have asked the question What is the best hard rock band in the world? It seems Led Zepplin is chosen 9 out of 10 times. I'm sorry, but MAYBE "rock" band, but definitely not HARD ROCK band!
Metallica deserves a massive amount of credit for the metal music scene. Granted, I didn't agree with their Napster controversy. Mostly because I own every album they've ever released, but some times find it difficult to find them when I want them! That and CD's are so easily damaged, should I have to buy a new one just because the dang thing gets a scratch? I went to a Metallica concert back in the 90's and it was awesome, but after attending their concert last night at the
Ford Center in Oklahoma City as part of their Madly in Anger With The World Tour with
Godsmack, I have to say they are now showing a maturity that I wish other bands could display. When James Hetfield really tried to get the audience to participate and sing along with all their old classic songs it gave a totally whole new feeling to their songs. I had never imagined so many of their songs turned into such Anthem like chants! It was incredible! I just wish the audience could have showed as much maturity and respect as the band did and sang along more and not leaving early. Ironically, half the moronic red necks gave more audience participation between the bands trying to get nasty ugly chics to raise up their shirts. Real mature people. (sar) Godsmack rocked as well! I have to say! Especially when Sully Erna played the drums along with their drummer Shannon Larkin on an extra drum set! Great show! Well worth every penny! I actually hope to go to one of the shows in Texas this Fall!
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.