After 35 years Heavy Metal Teen Reflects On His Life

Heavy metal music. Metalheads. Headbangers. Very long hair and leather outfits with spikes and crosses around their next. Back in 1986 when I lived in Maine and had my film company there, this was a strange and new and to be honest, interesting. So when I sent a crew up to spend the day with a local band I did it in part because I wanted to understand more this new music and these "different" young guys. The guys turned out to be wonderful people. Souls. Outspoken. Articulate. Passionate. Confident. I save the old film (actually Betacam SP videotape) I got the chance, 35 years later, to connect with each of them again (one has passed on) so they could reflect on their lives and times back then and on how they see things now. Belfast Maine. 1986. Paul was one of the band members, the bass player. This is Paul in February 2021. Still thinking. Still articulate. Still his own man. Thank you Paul.