(November 18, 2014 at 9:14 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ok, ABBA's band members were classically trained musicians. And so were Metallica.
I'm not sure how true the Metallica bit is here. Hammett studied with Satriani. Satriani studied with jazz musicians. Ulrich took up drums a few years after a famed trip to a Deep Purple concert. He came to the U.S. as a teen to pursue tennis. Hetfield is known to have taken piano lessons as a kid and his mother was some sort of singer, but I've never heard of him being classically trained. It's known that Cliff Burton was influenced by classical music as a kid, but I don't think he was classically trained.
