spacehamster wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 11:42 am
When did people start referring to this stuff as "Hair Metal", anyway? Near as I can tell this is one of those stupid retroactive internet things. From what I remember, we called it Glam Rock before we had cellphones.
i always called it cock rock but i have no idea how i picked up that term
spacehamster wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 11:42 am
When did people start referring to this stuff as "Hair Metal", anyway? Near as I can tell this is one of those stupid retroactive internet things. From what I remember, we called it Glam Rock before we had cellphones.
i always called it cock rock but i have no idea how i picked up that term
Re: SCHOOL ME ON HAIR METAL
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:26 pm
by Stink Pig
Ratt - s/t ep/ Out Of The Cellar/ Invasion Of Your Privacy
Dokken - Back For The Attack
Firehouse - Don’t Treat Me Bad
Shout At The Cunting Devil has the best intro ever
But seriously Ratt painted with the colors of the wind or whatever, fuckin owns
Re: SCHOOL ME ON HAIR METAL
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:01 am
by Warpsmasher
Headless Children fuck yeah. WASP outlasted glam by way far. Saw them with Motorhead before that tour combination failed (Lemmy was quite vocal about Blackie being a total dickhead rockstar).
My older sister was big into crue/ratt/def leppard/vh etc. She took me to VH on the 5150 tour for my first show in 86. Dancing Undercover was the soundtrack tape for smokin up with big sis. Saw DLR & Cinderella with my high school metalhead friends who introduced me to Metallica, Maiden and Slayer right after that, then Ratt & Poison. Stryper & Loudness was the last show we saw back east, in early 87; went to high school in Vermont and had to drive to Worcester/Boston/New Haven for shows. We would stop at record stores and buy tapes of bands like Hurricane and Diamond Rexx.
Soon as I graduated HS (87) and moved to California (Aptos to be exact), I met my now wife, and we saw Def Leppard and Tesla, who was still so new they didn't even have a video out yet, in San fran. Then Monsters of Rock at Candlestick Park 88, (Kingdom Come, Dokken, Metallica, Scorpions, Van Halen). I saw Guns n Roses open for Iron Maiden on the Seventh Son tour, at the shoreline in SF; I think it had to have been one of the last shows GnR ever played as an opening act. We also saw Megadeth open for Dio at a club in Oakland (in support of so far so good so what & sacred heart). Also saw whitesnake and aerosmith sometime while in cali, but those years are a blurry nebula of sex/coke/acid/music. Then Crue on the Girls tour was pretty much the last glammy show we went to besides WASP. Although...I did have to indulge her on TSO last year, but that's just too cheesy and dickless to even count as glam/hair/whatever. They did have the drummer from Slaughter though...who was actually a pretty elite hair/glam outfit, especially after dumping Vinnie Vincent. I do like both of those Vinnie Vincent Invasion albums though, and they are very closely associated with wifey and I's fond backseat memories. Vinnie was a dick and a sloppy soloist, but that shit had the cocaine fire that all the glam xasthur fans strove for back in those days.
Also still love Tooth and Nail, best Dokken album. Something about that shitty room reverb sound, just gives it the essence.
Also. This song is 10x better than any of their other songs: