Part four with some more personal inside information about my friend and label colleque San Mujanovic from Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
-San, at what age you discovered Hard & Heavy music and what was the first band that drove you insane?
At 7/8 years old I already was listening to hard rock bands from ex-Yugoslavia in the car with my dad on the cassette player, but it got really heavy when I bought a tape of Metallica's Garage Inc. at 9 years old back in 1998, what further drove me "insane" as you would say was hearing Possessed's Seven Churches at 14 years old, it got me into the more extreme side of metal.
-Are your parents also in the Rock and or Metal and do you share the passion of music with them?
My mother is not into rock or metal, but my dad was always a (hard/prog)rock fan and avid record collector (he lost most of his collection when his parent's house was robbed in Bosnia/ex-Yugoslavia), nowadays in his old age he has mellowed down and listens a lot of radio with 70/80/90s hits which are not all per se rock-oriented, but that's fine! I remember the first vinyl I ever got was inherited from my dad's collection, it was Iron Maiden's Killers! He said I could have it!
-What was the first concert and or festival you have visit and how was it?
I was a latecomer to concert-going compared to some others who were already at gigs with their parents at 8 years old or so. I myself was around 14/15 years old and I saw Heavy Lord (a split-up sludge/doom band from Hellevoetsluis, with Wes Lee on guitar with whom I later formed The Nefarious Integration) and Sepiroth (a death metal band from Zuid-Holland area) at the Little Cave in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I must say that I enjoyed the vibes, I didn't even drink booze back then! I started drinking beer at 16 I think.
-You're an open-minded guy like myself. Good music is good music I always say. What are your favourite ten (non-Metal) or should I say guilty pleasure albums of all time?
10 albums that are non-metal and made a great impression on me and are not per-se "guilty" pleasures, but just good records, would be in alphabetical order:
The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Atomsko Sklonište - Ne Cvikaj Generacijo
Bong-Ra - Grindkrusher
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Enduser - Calling The Vultures
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Kraftwerk - Computer World
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Night Fever - New Blood
Warcollapse - Defy!
There are more for sure, but those are 10 really great ones that I actually own on CD or vinyl, I've heard plenty of other good music that is non-metal in my youth and later years that I don't actually own in my physical collection.
-Stay tuned for part 5, the final chapter!
-Patchman Marco-
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