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Originally Posted by alucard0941
Yeah ... what exacly is it...
I know a couple of bands that are considered Hair Metal like Twisted Sister, Poison, Guns n' Roses, ect.
But what do those bands have in common???  |
Well first off Guns n roses are not hair metal, they are heavy metal.
Since it's called
hair metal, you've probably already found
out one thing they all have in common.
Hair metal is basically glam rock and heavy metal mixed together,
with heavy makeup, long curly hair, over-the-top clothing, heavily distorted
guitars and melodic screaming vocals.
The clothing was sort of New York Dolls, but the music was still heavy metal,
and so the mainstream crowd discovered the hair bands, many through MTV
which sadly has taken a turn for the worse (Usher, Sisqo, 50 cent etc).
The songs were mainly about the rock & roll excess, their fabulous lives,
sort of like modern hip-hop/pop-songs.
With all that hair hanging in your face, who would'nt be cranky?
The leading hair-metal bands were was Poison, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot,
Skid Row, Warrant, Great White, Bon Jovi, Rainbow and their likes.
But hairbands soon became one with the 80's heavy metal; Ratt, Ozzy,
GNR, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, White Lion etc.
As we all know hair-and heavy metal bands are a thing of the past, since
most hair- and heavy metal bands died in the late 80's, as the interest in them
faded, although GNR made it through the first years of the 90's.
But then drugs, alcohol and heavy metal's worst case of "asshole syndrome" since
Sebastian Bach (Axl Rose of course) brought them down as well.
Not to forget their racist song "One in a million" which gave their mainstream
crowd a final reason not to go to their shows.
And so the grunge had no problem taking opver the rock-scene.
Today many heavy and hair-metal bands has returned from the grave,
but it's pretty much just sad and tragic.
Practically every member of every band hate each other, some people
form a new band but keep the old once so loved name;
At one time there were 3-4 "Ratt"'s, 2 "Poison"'s, 2 "GNR"'s and god knows what else.
Ratt 1, 2, 3 or 4?
Most of them re-records the same old 80's metal, and claim they're back and
better than ever, which everybody including themselves of course know
they're not. But they still sell out shows and sell records because despite
the fact that the 80's are long gone, there will always be some people who
refuses to accept that. I am one of them I guess.
I hope I've answered your question!
/Marcus the Hair-junkie
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