guitar playing

Hi! I came along with this thing: post here your gateway bands to Heavy Metal, Rock or even guitar playing! My gateway Metal band would be Metallica, I heard Ride The Lightning when I was 8. And my gateway band who really wanted me to play guitar was Arch Enemy, especially Michael Amott.

ok, first, this is a serious thing, and is something sad to me, so, tell me your experiences, maybe I find I`m not the only one. Ok, I`m 21 years old, my girlfriend is 4 months younger than me, we are together since sep 2006 (3 years and 2 months) she never want to see me play guitar, and if...