My Metal Journey: From Kiss to ZZ Top and Beyond | Exploring Music, Memories, and Influences

Hi guys, it's Patty. How are you? I hope 2024 is great for you so far. It's seven days in and hope everybody's doing well. It's a little cold here. This video is a little bit different. I wanted to share a little bit of myself and a little of the journey of how I eventually became to listen to metal music um a little history about me born originally in Thailand um I am a mixed uh I guess mixed ethnic person for to be exact um adopted my dad's uh retired military I've lived in uh Germany uh for for a while while he was stationed there by the way uh he was stationed in Zweibrücken and And he's, you know, the base is not there anymore. Then we went to Frankfurt and then eventually, you know, we came to the U.S. But there is two groups that helped me with this journey. The first one, I remember my brother, you know, bringing in a album and it was Kiss. You know, he's walking in with his album and, you know, I was like, OK, this is the weirdest thing ever. why are these you know older men have you know um paint on their uh you know on their face and this is ridiculous i can't believe you do that anyways he put the um album you know on you know back then they had like large albums you know not cds or digital anything like that and i fell for it i could not believe that this was great music keep in mind that i am you know from thailand you know i didn't really listen to anything and then when i was in germany i was still like a young kid so you know i didn't know what music was so this was great for me i was like okay what's that you know near near near you know i i remember asking my brother that he's like well that's the guitar and you know this is the drumming and you know and stuff like that so i fell in love with Kiss okay um if you don't know who Kiss is they're an amazing freaking iconic band um you know originally they formed in 1973 so you have Paul you have Gene you have Ace and then uh then you have Peter those were the original um Kiss members and the song that i truly truly liked was Deuce believe it or not um that is a freaking great song and you know what everybody wants to play or you know cover that song which is ridiculously amazing so um it came out in 1974 four um but obviously you know by then i was only four and i was still you know in Thailand so um you know i discovered them later in this song so this song was kind of cool because i did not know that um uh Lenny Kravitz um actually you know covered it too and uh i checked out that and i have to say he did a darn good uh job regarding that um you know Kiss was so different from me because i felt like you know i was lost and you know i can live vicariously through them you know so you have these guys with like you know the white paint face and you got you know the star it was just like crazy so i fell in love with uh with Kiss and the next uh group that i was introduced to you know even though this is like you know rock rock and roll i eventually you know you know move over into metal was ZZ Top now you're telling me they are so iconic and of course Legs Legs originally came out in 1983 i love the song you know how the video starts all you see is these beautiful gorgeous girls legs three members with beard and glasses i'm like this is it i am in heaven i love i love them i still listen to them you know and uh gosh uh we also have to remember uh Dusty Hill he passed away in 2021 but uh yeah they were formed ZZ Top uh was formed in 1969 in Houston Texas by the way my dad is from Houston Texas ooh um you know they have a different blend it's a little bit of blues and rock and you know it gets boogie it's just a different sound and they all play this unique guitar i saw i have to bring this up i saw that um Elwood Francis he played a gigantic 17 string bass okay i'm going to describe it to you okay by the way it's huge 17 strings it's yellow and that's uh that's phenomenal if you don't know who he is you uh you should look look him up okay but Legs changed me i couldn't listen to pop i couldn't listen to you know hip-hop but you know ZZ Top gave me that uniqueness of the sound of the rock and roll a little blend of you know uh jazz and blues amazing amazing amazing you know um when I you know when I found um ZZ Top I would go home and I could not wait I think it was uh MTV and what's I forgot the other show uh but I could not wait to um see ZZ Top every day because you knew you knew like I left you know for school at like I think seven o'clock and I knew by the time it came back because you know all they do is just kept you know playing the same video I knew ZZ Top it was either going to come like after like Twisted Sisters by the way that's another um great band love them or um Van Halen you know when you see those two you know ZZ Top legs was coming you know up and you know that song changed me drastically and you know I didn't want to play it I think I do have it yeah I I have it prompt I'm gonna actually play it here we go I love the song check this out but you know it was back then you had big hair and you know everybody was listening to you know like Madonna and I was really not into that i knew that zz top had such a um you know unique uh a sound and um i just i just really fell in love with you know Billy Gibbons and and and Frank um and by the way Legs topped the chart okay it was crazy it was like everywhere everywhere that you turn you know everybody was always playing uh this song um i think it hit number eight in the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and they did a dance mix and i think it was like number 13 and um yeah they i think yeah they won the MTV Video Music Awards for like best group so that song right there was was the thing for me between you know them and uh you know Kiss although in my high school you know I would play them constantly and um you know I think that you know it kind of drew me towards like heavy metal uh instead of like you know you know Madonna I'm not saying Madonna was bad because at the time everybody you know she was like so popular okay but I was really not into that I was really into you know the guitar the you know uh the bad you know with the with the the leather and just you know like the defiance and um but it's great it's not a bad defiance and um you know till this day i you know i i love ZZ Top it's on on my Spotify and uh you know in 2021 you know when Dusty passed I was like really you know I cried I you know I couldn't believe that because you know he was like you know one you know an iconic person that you grew up to that you love and you listen to and then he you know and then he passed away it was like you know I'm getting teary eyes it's like heartbreaking you know what I mean because you know it they influenced me so much of what i listened today and just seeing a great artist like that just pass away was just like oh my gosh you know please don't take the other two away please stay healthy you guys but yeah and then you know after i listened to them i you know i listened a little bit of uh Black Sabbath and then of course Metallica and then eventually i think the next video i'm gonna talk about you those two where i eventually you know uh spurred out to different countries of um you know my metal journey and you know my metal journey is still you know evolving you know i'm still learning you know more about Nightwish uh by the way which uh you know when i do deep dive and then of course uh you know all the other K-metal and and J-metal um so i'm really excited about this so it's like something different and i hope you like it um you know this is just me you know uh just sitting here um you know talking about you know the passion that i love and i know y'all love um you know metal too so do me a favor if you like this video hit the like hit the sub and don't forget hit the bell 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Who influenced you? Let me know. By the way, you have Roku TV. Please don't forget to download the OPN app. If you don't, there'll be a link below. You can go to getonpointtv.com. I want to hear your comments because if I am spilling the beans, I suggest y'all do the same also um i talked a little more about um you know like my journey on Spotify at MP Cafe so y'all should check that out new look is coming guys 2024 it's gonna be great and let's uh do this journey together other than that i'll see you next time