His solo CD is amazing. Highly recommended. Depressing, but great.Originally Posted by lesfunk
His solo CD is amazing. Highly recommended. Depressing, but great.
Another guilty pleasure of mine at the time was TNT. I loved the Ronni Le Tekro sound and style. Was almost like Brian May on steroids. I even liked the singer, Tony Harnell. I listened to some of that stuff not to long ago though, and it did not hold up well over time.
Again, I don't really know that this stuff would be considered "hair" metal or not. Perhaps the thread could be re-named "late 80s bands that actually ROCKED".
Tesla, Great White & Dokken worked for me. There was some real music going on in their song's. I can tolerate some Poison & Ratt once in awhile. Uncle Toms Cabin was a great song ! I liked Vitto Bratta but not his singer. Lights & Thunder & All You Need Is Rock & Roll were cool songs. I remember Guitar world saying in a review or something that if the Sex Pistols wrote Talk Dirty to Me it would be considered brilliant ! I thought it was a good point. C.C. had a few cool riffs. I listen too whatever my ears like or they are in the mood for. If it's Sabbath or Tom T. Hall ! I LIKE BEER ! There was alot of great songs from the 80's. Shit, records were flyin' off the shelfs that decade for a reason. What's wrong with fun music ? It's only rock n' roll !
It was gay, dude. All of it was cloaked gayety for closet's like yourself.
Thank fuck grunge finally killed off the hair band.
Hey now, being thankful for grunge is a bit of a stretch, now isn't it?
I mean, they ushered in the douchebag lifestyle, where dating women is only done ironically.
So the gayness is still there, but with much worse "music".
Cheers! :bottle:
It would be your type of music ! Depressing & boring !
You wish. Oddly, 100% of the girls I've banged have had vaginas (unlike you, sport), sorry.
Whatever, hair-envy. If it was greasy, girls wouldn't play in it....yet they do...
So let's review: Krust is a dude masquerading as a $2 hooker, and Cadaversock is butt hurt because he'll never be part of the
MI0002161380-1.jpg
LOUDNESS
It hurts me too agree with you that it was out of control. I think the Cherry Pie video was the last nail in the coffin for 80's rock. Fuck even the guy that wrote it fucking hated it. I like some grunge. Alice & Soundgarden were cool. S.T.P. is a great band. But they were more rock too me. The best 90's band too me was Brother Cane.
Sad it impacted the good bands of the era as well, but being in L.A. in the nineties, I can tell you something had to change. Every unsigned band had matching white leather outfits ('cause Warrant did), and bullshit "choreography" shit going on (tandem kicks and knee-bends!), and image had become more important than the music. FAIL.
I shit you not, I went on a audition for a band featuring a guitarist who went on to play in an 80s band more recently I won't mention, but at the time they had SERIOUS management and a "development" deal with a major label. Before they even listened to my tape, they're like "Will you get hair extensions? And how come you don't have any tattoos - can you get some?"Didn't get the gig, and wasn't at all broken up about it. They were douchebags... they got kicked to the curb w/o getting signed.
Oh, another pre-grunge factoid: In the early 90s my band shared a North Hollywood rehearsal studio with Hurricane Alice, IIRC?
Granted something had to change, but I wish it had changed sooner, back when people weren't so desperate that they were willing to accept grunge.Sad it impacted the good bands of the era as well, but being in L.A. in the nineties, I can tell you something had to change. Every unsigned band had matching white leather outfits ('cause Warrant did), and bullshit "choreography" shit going on (tandem kicks and knee-bends!), and image had become more important than the music. FAIL.
I shit you not, I went on a audition for a band featuring a guitarist who went on to play in an 80s band more recently I won't mention, but at the time they had SERIOUS management and a "development" deal with a major label. Before they even listened to my tape, they're like "Will you get hair extensions? And how come you don't have any tattoos - can you get some?"
Oh, another pre-grunge factoid: In the early 90s my band shared a North Hollywood rehearsal studio with Hurricane Alice, IIRC?
But that story IS funny, that's exactly what Steel Panther are parodying. I've heard 'em talkin' EXACTLY like that in interviews, something along the lines of "It's not how well you play, it's how much make-up you wear".
Oh, and by the way, they weren't douchebags, they were faggots. Douchebags came afterwards.
Cheers! :bottle:
I do envy you. If my hair excreted half as much oil as yours I'd load up the truck and move to Beverly, Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars.
TacoHale was trying to wash his hair.
Kinfolk said Taco get away from there.
All that oil belongs in a refinery.
With the money you could get you could move to Beverly.
You can guess the rest.
Yeah I saw/met him a couple of years ago. Seemed like a nice guy and did a really good show.
I knew it existed, now i have proof.
So let's review: Krust is a dude masquerading as a $2 hooker, and Cadaversock is butt hurt because he'll never be part of the
Well, they sort of did..... That guitar riff is pretty much a ripoff of "God Save The Queen".
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
True. Sort of. lol.
haha!! some classic ac⚡dc threw a spanner in the works...
i thought they had cool hair.
Sad little man. I'd say don't quit your day job, but...
Fuck this, let's listen to some more of the Scream...
The cool thing about AC/DC Is the fact that they never gave a fuck about what was going on around them. EVER ! Even Metallica came out dressed like idiot's in the early grunge period. I refused to buy Load when it came out because of it. Glad I didn't. What a terrible album. Bon was the best. Wonder how he would have taken bands like Poision ?
Badlands ruled.
It was gay, dude. All of it was cloaked gayety for closet
How do you spell pretentious? S-A-M-M-Y H-A-G-A-R
Bon wasn't averse to a little commercialism himself...
The Badlands I still play to death is their second CD, Voodoo Highway. Jake was ripping it up. Ray's pipes, more soulful than ever and Jeff Martin! Holy sheeit! Who'da thunk the nutty lead singer from Racer X would also turn out to be a phenomenal jazz schooled drummer? That whole CD has such an awesome swampy aura about it. The follow up, Dusk, only had shades of Voodoo's mystique.
Where in the hell is Jake these days?? Last, I heard, he played on a couple of Enuff Z'Nuff tunes. He really needs to be out there doing something.
Last edited by DLR Bridge; 01-17-2013 at 10:23 PM.
Last I heard he was in Vegas playing the odd gig in bars.
The Webmaster of his website posted once a while ago asking where he was because he had disappeared for months.
Looks like nothing has been added there since 2008...
Last edited by Seshmeister; 01-17-2013 at 09:41 PM.
Dug them too! Damon Johnson is too talented to do the ol' band hoppin' routine. He needs to get the Cane back on it or do a solo CD. Is he really with Thin Lizzy now??
Jake?? Man, that sucks.
It's interesting too me how he went from writing for sort of late 60's hippie band's to just killing lyric wise in AC/DC. Like a spark up his ass ! He was one clever fucker. I listened too a few of them at work the other day and he had me rolling ! Soul Stripper must be about Kristy !Bon wasn't averse to a little commercialism himself...
love this tune.
i'm hearin ya 78/84... what a waste. he was a monster. 'touch too much' is a personal buried gem.
I think they asked him. They are doing a new album for sure with Gorham & that singer they already toured with. I don't like that idea at all. I was on his website last week. Not sure if he joined. He played with Alice Cooper for a few years. He had one of the best live guitar tone's I ever heard when I saw Brother Cane .Great player & singer.
Great song. I love it all. I think Powerage might be his best. And Dirty Deeds. SQUEALER !
I saw them at, of all things, a balloon festival around the time Wishpool came out. They would've been great if the other guitarist didn't have tech problems the whole way through. Pretty bizarre watching a band you like that 90% of the crowd never heard of with hot air balloons lifting off.
I saw them open for Skynyrd & Bad Co. for their first album. They blew them both away. And all 3 bands were great. I just remember that thick tone he had. Some cool slide also.
It seems they chipped away most of their southern twang by the 3rd cd. I always loved And Fools Shine On off of Seeds. Just as my band was running out of gas, we did a cover of Lie In The Bed I Make. Another great one.
I love all 3 albums. Wishpool might be the best.
Heard about him playing on the Enuff Z'Nuff record. Pretty sure the last thing I saw, besides him popping up at some friend's bar gig in Vegas and sitting in, was him selling the SG he played in the "Shot in the Dark" video. Oh, and Paul Shortino (also now living in Vegas) mentioned hanging out with him for the first time in 20+ years on FB recently.
Here's one I haven't heard in a long time. Their self-titled album is one rude, brilliant motherfucker...
I was almost going to get his CD with different singers doing old cover tunes, but the few samples I heard just didn't grab me. I have his solo instrumental CD and it sounds nothing like him.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
