theese are all the bands i used to love.....

guns n' roses
motley crue
faster pussycat
skid row
warrant
bon jovi
poison
cinderella

i could go on and on....i still listen to some of this stuff occasionally too.

I was.....


































Please don't hurt me.

When I was, like, in high school.

Well, see the thing is, I liked Hair Metal because that's what was popular back in the day. And when I was a little boy that was glued to MTV back then, that was what I was into. Sure, New Wave/Alternative was what I really loved, but back then I kinda put all forms of music on an equal pedestal. Whether it was Rock or Rap, or R&B, or Metal, or New Wave, etc.

Another thing is, my Mother was big into Rock and all that stuff then, so it kinda rubbed of on me. It was the same thing with her die-hard Prince fandom too. She likes Prince, and so do I.

Motley Crue was cool!!!

i guess i just loved all music of the 80's but towards the end of it, i went through a major big haired rock phase. everyone thought i was crazy.

Yeah, there weren't too many brothers and sisters who were into that too heavily.

But then again, didn't RUN DMC incorporate a lot or Metal in their sound?














"Round & round, what goes around comes around....."

[quote]Yeah, there weren't too many brothers and sisters who were into that too heavily.

But then again, didn't RUN DMC incorporate a lot or Metal in their sound




They most definitely did and they rocked harder than some of the rock bands of that time did.

I like a couple of songs by Motley Crue, a couple by Guns & one by Bon Jovi. That's about it of the groups mentioned...

I was never INTO hair metal, but if you were watching MTV in the late '80s and the first two years of the '90s you couldn't escape it. I never went any deeper than what was on MTV, so my list reflects that.

I did like...

Metallica - Unforgiven / Enter Sandman / Sad But True
Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
Van Halen - Panama / Jump / Hot For Teacher
ZZ Top - Legs
Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun / Dude (Looks Like A Lady) / Love In An Elevator

Then again, you could classify some of these groups as "hard rock" as opposed to simply hair metal.

JANFAN4L said:

If' Aerosmith & Metallica are hair metal, then yea I like a few more. Does AudioSlave count as hair metal too? Is it about a sound or just about the hair? Chris Cornell got a haircut years ago didn't he?

i guess it's about the look and sound. i don't think audioslave counts. i think they might be considered hard rock/alternative.

metallica could be considered hair metal because they all had lots of hair!

dancerella said:

[quote

I really liked Guns and Roses the most (too bad Axl can't get it together), Motley Crue, White Snake, and Def Leppard. I tend to like I alot of 70's Rockers more.....Aerosmith, Led Zepplin, Kiss, Black Sabbath (I love Ozzy's singing voice), and of course Pink Floyd and Hendrix. I liked AC/DC alot. I listen to classic Rock stations when I'm at work.

steelyd said:

How could I forget Van Halen

NWF said:

Ditto. Eventhough we have different gender, our expereinces with music are similar. Like yourself, I brought up to appreciate all music forms and I used to watch MTV back in the day.

Wasn't into the hair metal thing. My favorite bands were Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Korn, Stone Temple Pilots & Nirvana.
[Edited 10/11/04 18:43pm]

:bang:

Yeah, I was. I remember playing guitar in a music store in Virginia, behind this wall of amplifiers. I'd kicked into the "Sweet Child O' Mine" riff, when a white twentysomething peeked in on me.

When he saw this lanky young brotha playin' it, his eyes 'bout popped out of his head!


Ahhhh, the 1980s...

dancerella said:

[i]Fuck no! [i]
[Edited 10/12/04 3:54am]

Still listen to Guns n Roses, Van Halen, Crue. and some other stuff.
Gave away my 2nd rate stuff (in my opinion) like Warrant, Poisen, Cinderella etc

i like a little van halen, and guns n' roses, aerosmith too

but i was more into u2 and the police.

now i like audioslave, metallica, and velvet revolver..

I'm listening to Van Halen's "You Really Got Me" right now (it's on Vh1.com radio).

Bought "Appetite for Distruction" years ago, and almost saw Iron Maiden in concert, not that I was a fan, but my homeboy was.

Hey, who was it here that dubbed Mazerati "the Black Ratt?"

UptownDeb said:

LMAO!!!!!

i was pretty young(in my early teens) when i started going to shows and i never thought anything of it, but i wonder what the people at shows thought when they saw me and my black girlfriends at these gigs. we saw everyone. we met bret michaels from poison once while he in ny getting ready for one of his solo gigs and he was so cool to us, that he put us on the guest list! we met tons of rocks stars and everyone was cool to us! lenny kravitz was ok, not overly friendly.

yup.

raveon2tnek said:

When I first started gigging, I was a senior in high school. I played gigs at Gazzarri's on Sunset Strip, which in the 80's, that was the capitol of hair metal. Being black, I've always wore my hair long, to this day. So doing the "hair thing" was never a stretch to me. At that time, I was always the only brother in my band and it was very few brothers in that scene. But there were some. I remember seeing Slash when he worked at Tower Video before he got over in Guns and Roses. All of us who played in bands who lived in Southern California all saw Guns and Roses at clubs that we ourselves all played at. I always liked Guns, Van Halen, some Motley. Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads. It wasn't just MTV for me. I lived in that enviroment. But you're talking to a brother who listened to and played rock and grew up in that scene. And hair metal all came out of Hollywood.

[quote]When I first started gigging, I was a senior in high school. I played gigs at Gazzarri's on Sunset Strip, which in the 80's, that was the capitol of hair metal. Being black, I've always wore my hair long, to this day. So doing the "hair thing" was never a stretch to me. At that time, I was always the only brother in my band and it was very few brothers in that scene. But there were some. I remember seeing Slash when he worked at Tower Video before he got over in Guns and Roses. All of us who played in bands who lived in Southern California all saw Guns and Roses at clubs that we ourselves all played at. I always liked Guns, Van Halen, some Motley. Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads. It wasn't just MTV for me. I lived in that enviroment. But you're talking to a brother who listened to and played rock and grew up in that scene. And hair metal all came out of Hollywood



wow, that is cool! did people ever give you a hard time?

CalhounSq said:

I think Audioslave is "butt rock." So if we're still talking about hair...eww!

I had my share of hard times because, here you have this brother who's into Hair Metal and New Wave, and the other guys just weren't into it.

But funnily enough, I asked this one white kid about what kind of music he liked. I told him that I was into Motley Crue and Poison and stuff. But he said that he only liked Motley Crue, and everything else was either Hip-Hop or R&B. So what does that mean?

Another interesting thing I wanna point out is that I think some of the Black kids I knew dabbled into Hard Rock & Metal around the time Beavis & Butt-head came out. I guess that cartoon made Hard Rock appealing to the urban crowds because of the sucess of the show. But I could be wrong.

Anyways, No matter what color you are, if you look back at Hair Metal now, it's just downright embarrassing.
[Edited 10/18/04 14:53pm]

dancerella said:[quote]
I was fortunate. No, I never ran into that. No one ever hasseled me. And that's pretty amazing really, considering the girls that I dated! The only tripping that I ever got was from other brothers. And not too much from them either because I actually played instruments, so I think brothers always found a way to justify me liking the music I liked and me wearing KISS t-shirts and wearing my hair the way I did because I played.