Wow ... did I just read an article in the New York Times about the parallels of Dee Dee Ramone and Robin Crosby of Ratt? Who would have guessed that when Metallica was bypassed for a Grammy that they so richly deserved in 1991 that over a decade later, the genre of heavy metal would get the grand treatment it so very much deserved in the paper of record?
The author of the peice, Chuck Klosterman, actually wrote a hell of a book: Fargo Rock City, which is basically the story of my sad adolescense and the importance of a variety of heavy metal bands.
Still, a great article that captures much of that which is good and bad (all at the same time) about heavy metal.
