Last month, for the first time, I did something I'd long and often thought about -- but never actually decided to do -- to write a fan letter. Or, really, since it's on a relatively small card, I suppose one could call it a fan note. To many metalheads -- even among those who know me well -- it might appear a rather odd gesture, not so much in its origins or its expression, but rather in its object.
I wrote what is in effect a kind of note of appreciation -- on the same embossed "Dr. Gregory B. Sadler" stationary that I normally reserve for expressions of gratitude or friendship, confined primarily to academic and institutional recipients -- and I mailed it off back in October to a Mr. Ian Hill, Bassist, of Judas Priest.
