Confession is good for the soul, they say.

I am, shall we say, rather /late/ coming to the rock scene at all.

I am - you may turn away in shock and hide your eyes, now - a Folkie.

I grew up on Gordon Bok, Pete Seeger, Tommy Makem, Peter Paul & Mary, Ian & Sylvia, and their ilk. My closest exposure to rock was Simon & Garfunkel. Which, well.

In college, I got into Filk - Heather Alexander, Leslie Fish, Mercedes Lackey, et al. Printed up the Black Book of Ioseph of Locksley. Anyone who's been a SCAdian knows what of I speak.

I also got into Celtica - Enya, Clannad, Loreena McKennit, etc. And some stuff that is technically classified as 'Folk Rock' - Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and so forth.

And I got introduced to the first metal band that made me give a damn, which was Warlock. It took 80's East German Death Metal to get me over the old "rock is just noise" phase, folks.

Even today, I only collect a tiny handful of bands. Iced Earth, Dragonforce, that's ... pretty much it, right now. I'll listen to other bands if they're on the radio, or if someone else is playing it.

But it just doesn't drive me the way it does some people.