I think I've seen more crap bands in my 30s and 40s than in my youth. At least the bands tried to be entertaining, instead of facing their Traynor half-stacks while stomping on a variety of headache-inducing pedals, thinking about their shitty relationship with their nerd-girlfriends and what sort of vegan casserole they're going to make tomorrow night after practice and what sort of shit-hop beats they need to make for their "alternative hip-hop" side-project and what sort of wheel they need to buy for their fixed-gear mode of transportation and whether they should buy that TB-500 on eBay or get a custom-built Electrical Guitar with 7 strings, P-90s and stereo outputs and how they really wanted to play ATP but weren't asked but should have been asked and it would have been so awesome but maybe SXSW would be a better idea anyways.

Nina wrote: I saw Motley Crue at a backyard party in Azusa CA when they were called Rock Candy. Fact. Sad, but fact.

No you didn't. You saw Vince Neil singing for Rock Candy before Motley Crue stole him away from that band. Which, by the way, AWESOME.

zom-zom wrote:It makes perfect sense. You just don't get it.

Well, then, prease to exprain. In my head, it works like this:

KISS--lots of crap filler bullshit songs, but the ones that are really good are so fucking goddamn awesome that it's easy to overlook the bad shit. One "Detroit Rock City" forgives about 16 "(You Make Me) Rock Hards."

Motley Crue--Two kickass early records that are good enough to forgive the mediocre later records, although "Home Sweet Home" is fucking awesome and the singles from Girls, Girls, Girls are pretty kickass too. I mean, shit, "Wild Side?" A hair metal song with no guitar solo! Revolutionary!

I can't see how you can say

zom-zom wrote:Of course it's stupid and simplistic rock. That's the best kind when you're a teen

and then say Motley Crue are horrible. Take the teenage you and transplant him to 1985. Motley Crue were the KISS of the 1980s.

Look, i loved Warrant and Winger back then too, but i came to my senses relatively quickly. Yet, i still dig KISS and the Crue. In my book, that puts the Crue on another level than the hair-metal pablum that came in their wake.

(I was never fooled by fIREHOUSE, though. I had to endure them live once so i could see Tesla, and they were horrendously bad. The drummer kept throwing his sticks into the air and they'd fall three feet in front of his kit. I'm pretty sure at one point i made eye contact with him and just shook my head.)

zom-zom wrote:I think I've seen more crap bands in my 30s and 40s than in my youth. At least the bands tried to be entertaining, instead of facing their Traynor half-stacks while stomping on a variety of headache-inducing pedals, thinking about their shitty relationship with their nerd-girlfriends and what sort of vegan casserole they're going to make tomorrow night after practice and what sort of shit-hop beats they need to make for their "alternative hip-hop" side-project and what sort of wheel they need to buy for their fixed-gear mode of transportation and whether they should buy that TB-500 on eBay or get a custom-built Electrical Guitar with 7 strings, P-90s and stereo outputs and how they really wanted to play ATP but weren't asked but should have been asked and it would have been so awesome but maybe SXSW would be a better idea anyways.

Whoa! That rant seemed to flow out of you pretty easily! A little close to home?

So, what kind of casserole did you decide on? Fuck ATP, it's overrated..

DrAwkward wrote:

Nina wrote: I saw Motley Crue at a backyard party in Azusa CA when they were called Rock Candy. Fact. Sad, but fact.

No you didn't.

I didn't? Thank God! I can mark that one off my list of odd regrets of my youth!
Next, will be my first big stadium concert. Rush. Moving pictures tour.
Having older brothers really could have warped my good sense in music.

DrAwkward wrote:
Look, i loved Warrant and Winger back then too, but i came to my senses relatively quickly. Yet, i still dig KISS and the Crue. In my book, that puts the Crue on another level than the hair-metal pablum that came in their wake.

(I was never fooled by fIREHOUSE, though. I had to endure them live once so i could see Tesla, and they were horrendously bad. The drummer kept throwing his sticks into the air and they'd fall three feet in front of his kit. I'm pretty sure at one point i made eye contact with him and just shook my head.)

It excites me that someone else here will fess up to liking hair band crap.

There is not one hair-metal band that I can think of that I was not fooled by for at least one record.

Peripatetic wrote:There is not one hair-metal band that I can think of that I was not fooled by for at least one record.

Enuff Z'Nuff? Seriously? Even when i was cranking Winger II: In the Heart of the Young i thought Enuff Z'Nuff were fucking hippies.

DrAwkward wrote:

Peripatetic wrote:There is not one hair-metal band that I can think of that I was not fooled by for at least one record.

Enuff Z'Nuff? Seriously? Even when i was cranking Winger II: In the Heart of the Young i thought Enuff Z'Nuff were fucking hippies.

I loved the first record. I bought Strength the week it came out. (I remember the review saying they were going to be the next Beatles on the "Strength" of that one), and I had the next one after that, Animals with Human Intelligence.

Try again.

Peri, next time my band plays Minneapolis/St. Paul you have to promise to come out and get loaded on Blatz with me and talk hair metal.

DrAwkward wrote:Peri, next time my band plays Minneapolis/St. Paul you have to promise to come out and get loaded on Blatz with me and talk hair metal.

Promise.

That would be awesome.

Peripatetic wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:Peri, next time my band plays Minneapolis/St. Paul you have to promise to come out and get loaded on Blatz with me and talk hair metal.

Promise.

That would be awesome.

I hate to be rude, but I wanna crash/join this party.