I’m starting to see the rock-n-roll devil sign \m/ emoticon show up here and there, and I wonder: did Matt and I actually start that, or were we late to the party?

Anyway. One summer back in Ohio, a buddy of mine and I were driving to Indiana. It was triple-digit heat, and we had all the windows rolled down and the tape deck was blasting Iron Maiden’s Piece Of Mind and we were singing and bellowing all the way through it and pounding the dashboard in time with Nikko’s drums. When the tape ended, my friend (a law student at that time) punched the eject button and then pumped a fist in the air, exclaiming, “oh god, I love Iron Maiden. I’m going to study really hard so I can be the best lawyer and make a ton of money so I can buy…a pirate ship.“

Iron Maiden: Motivating People to Excellence Since 1980!^TM

Must-have 80′s metal queued up for downloading into the iPod:

• Mötley Crüe – Shout At The Devil
• Mötley Crüe – Too Fast For Love
• Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind
• Iron Maiden – Powerslave
• Def Leppard – Pyromania (and nothing else)
• Quiet Riot – Metal Health
• Whitesnake – Whitesnake (John Sykes crushes all)
• Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime

What am I forgetting?

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