Ouch, @bdp24 ! I loved heavy rock as a kid, and dig it even more now, though it's not mainstream stuff, the more obscure the better sometimes- proto metal, early prog, post psych stuff. Not flowers in your hair, but still stoner music. I've sort of regressed- I listened to and collected lot's of classical (still have most of it), jazz standards (ditto, though never bought the original Blue Notes), and lot's of other stuff that was floating around in the audiophile community over the decades, from soundtracks to pop to the usual warhorses.
But, at a certain point, I just wanted to hear heavier rock -- not classic rock-- which is as tired and overplayed as anything else, but stuff that was dark, dynamic, and mixed lyrical passages with deep bass and other instruments.
I'm kind of all over the place taste wise, from the UK folk movement to some of the stuff Opeth and Steve Wilson do, mixing in spiritual jazz like some of those records on Strata East with manic Jap Rock like that Satori album.
I know by the time I'm at the nursing home, i'll be into Slim Whitman.
