Hair Metal bands that actually ROCKED (opinion war starts NOW!)

[Mr. Vengeance]

I have seen Poison three times without wanting to see them. Once opening for the mighty DLR. Once I won tickets in a bar and once in a festival show where I wanted to see Faster Pussycat and Cinderella.

The show that I won tickets for, Tesla was the opening act....try following them. It was laughable. A teen girl was sitting next to me and after Tesla was done she asked me "who were those guys?" I told her Tesla, and she says, "Holy shit, they were good!"

[ELVIS]

Are you guys seriously talking about Poison?

Get real.

You really can't sink any lower.

Cheers! :bottle:

I keep thinking that about this whole thread...

"Hair Metal" is an oxymoron and hair bands suck...



But I did like a Cinderella song or two...

[Karma86]

the 80's hair bands were the shit! It holds a lot of great times for alot of us hair / metal heads lol. Some of them may not have had a lot of musical talent but they knew how to put on a show! Then you have the ones that have great talent musically and the voice dam some of these guys have a great unforgettable voice! That never got the reconition they deserve like Kip Winger Jannie Lane These guys are great Song writers. and then musically TNT was great although the synthesizers was a little much but the guitar rifs outta this world!

[Karma86]

Cinderell was great! loved those guys! Good live!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

heard a new solo effort by tom yesterday, sounded very cinderellay.

[binnie]

I'm pretty sure that even Jani Lane's mom doesn't think that he was a good songwriter......

[Coyote]

All that hair... But no Pretty Maids?

[Coyote]

TNT...

[sonrisa salvaje]

I always thought hair metal referred to the 87-89 era of hard rock music. That is why i don't consider Crue, Ratt, Dokken and QR as hair metal. I think of hair metal as Warrant, Winger, White Lion and Poison. I always thought Ratt and Dokken's music stayed true but the Crue's music evolved into hair metal by Dr. Feelgood. Without You makes me sick. I think most people that blindly throw a term like hair metal out would probably say that DLR was hair metal and that would equally be wrong.

[sonrisa salvaje]

Anyone remember a band called Tangier?

[vh rides again]

Anyone remember a band called Tangier?

Yeah, they sucked big time.

[sonrisa salvaje]

Yeah, they sucked big time.

I thought their first record was decent but they kicked the lead singer out going into their 2nd record which was horrible. I think they were from Mississippi so i didn't know if anyone really had heard of them. I saw them open for Cinderella on the Long Cold Winter tour.

[Terry]

I always thought hair metal referred to the 87-89 era of hard rock music. That is why i don't consider Crue, Ratt, Dokken and QR as hair metal. I think of hair metal as Warrant, Winger, White Lion and Poison. I always thought Ratt and Dokken's music stayed true but the Crue's music evolved into hair metal by Dr. Feelgood. Without You makes me sick. I think most people that blindly throw a term like hair metal out would probably say that DLR was hair metal and that would equally be wrong.

Early Crue (Too Fast For Love, Shout At The Devil) was good.

I like Ratt...pretty much liked Dokken only for what Lynch brought to the table: Don Dokken, Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown were fairly non-descript as players, and a lot of Dokken's tunes were kinda mundane, so it's really a testament to Lynch's abilities that I've listened to Dokken as much as I have.

Quiet Riot...yeah, I wouldn't quite put them in the hair metal genre, either...I'd tend to agree with you that the hair metal era is usually defined as 1987-1989...perhaps even 1986 to 1990. I mean, far as Quiet Riot, I think Metal Health was a solid hard rock album. Haven't listened to a ton of their stuff with RR, and post-Metal Health the output was weak.

Hey, at least they were better than Trixter...