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Topic: 80´s Hair Metal
Posted By: Dr Know
Subject: 80´s Hair Metal
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 10:34
Of all the 80´s band listed, which was your favorite at the time?



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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 11:54
Bon Jovi used to be my favourite band and I wasn't even born until 1987.


Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 12:12
2 Bon Jovi options ... and none for Guns'N'Roses, Def Leppard and Whitesnake eh?


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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 12:50
The Crue.

And I always got into the obscure hair metal bands like Bulletboys,Jetboy,Black n Blue,Fastway,etc.


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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 12:50
what's "Hair Metal" anyway?

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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 13:01
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?


The music that the above bands(and bands like them),made in the 80's.

Back then it was just "metal",but they call it "hair metal" now.That name alludes to the mile-high hair and tons of hairspray these guys wore.

It could have just as easily been called "spandex metal".
 

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Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 13:40

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?

80s version of Nu Metal,



Posted By: Aspiring hope
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 14:32
Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?

80s version of Nu Metal,



Not quite...or not at all. The Progtologist's view seems to be more accurate, but actually hair metal pretty much falls in what one would label "80s metal", since that was the mainstream source, baring an axiomatic appearance of tresses' almost-disturbing length.


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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 14:57
Cinderella Loved "Long Cold Winter"

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Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 15:00


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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 15:42
Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.

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Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 18:57
Originally posted by Aspiring hope Aspiring hope wrote:

Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?

80s version of Nu Metal,



Not quite...or not at all. The Progtologist's view seems to be more accurate, but actually hair metal pretty much falls in what one would label "80s metal", since that was the mainstream source, baring an axiomatic appearance of tresses' almost-disturbing length.

trendy radio friendly rock that the mainstream attempts to pass off as Metal? oh yeah, they're the same alright,



Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 19:00

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.

I like the Laibach version better!



Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 19:02
Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by Aspiring hope Aspiring hope wrote:

Originally posted by mithrandir mithrandir wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?

80s version of Nu Metal,



Not quite...or not at all. The Progtologist's view seems to be more accurate, but actually hair metal pretty much falls in what one would label "80s metal", since that was the mainstream source, baring an axiomatic appearance of tresses' almost-disturbing length.

trendy radio friendly rock that the mainstream attempts to pass off as Metal? oh yeah, they're the same alright,



I edited a vulgar word from this post.

Watch your language please.
 

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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 19:02
poison has a couple sweet tunes, I like Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet" album its really good.  Livin' On a Prayer is a good song.  Guns and Roses could probably be called hair metal, I like a couple of their songs.

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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 19:08
Probably KINGDOM COME.

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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 19:16
Originally posted by daz2112 daz2112 wrote:

Cinderella Loved "Long Cold Winter"


I admit that is a damn good album.

Me and my wife saw them on that tour with Winger and Bulletboys opening and they put on a great show.
 

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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: April 16 2006 at 19:33
Mr. Big, Mr. Big and Mr. Big

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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 08:26

I thought, even then that they were all dreadful!

Although, I did see Bon Jovi live once, in the 80's and they were very good..



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Posted By: ProgFan
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 12:58
Where is Guns N' Roses and Whitesnake?


Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 13:08

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.

Crue- Scorps- and Whitesnake



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Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 18:22


Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: April 17 2006 at 18:51
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

what's "Hair Metal" anyway?


You don't want to know.


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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 02:40
All quite horrible!


Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:45
my favorite ones are brighton rock and white lion

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 15:50
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 16:02

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

The Crue.

And I always got into the obscure hair metal bands like Bulletboys,Jetboy,Black n Blue,Fastway,etc.

Bon Jovi for me (Slippery and New Jersey are brilliant!), with Motley Crüe a close second.

BTW: I also really liked the Bulletboys - and of course their blueprint band (the MIGHTY Van Halen, which would have won this poll if they had been an option). 



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Posted By: Zenith
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 17:14

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.



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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 17:15
Originally posted by Zenith Zenith wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.



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Posted By: Antennas
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 17:20

Ehm... I personally believe it was that whole 80's Hair Band-trend that gave metal the bad name it still seems to have in certain circles... so:

  



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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:24
Originally posted by Zenith Zenith wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.



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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:59
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

The Crue.

And I always got into the obscure hair metal bands like Bulletboys,Jetboy,Black n Blue,Fastway,etc.

Bon Jovi for me (Slippery and New Jersey are brilliant!), with Motley Cr�e a close second.

BTW: I also really liked the Bulletboys - and of course their blueprint band (the MIGHTY Van Halen, which would have won this poll if they had been an option). 



Did you know that the Bulletboys were actually the band King Cobra with a different singer?

And I don't know if they were considered hair metal but did anyone like Jackyl?They kicked some serious ass and Jesse James Dupree had a great rock n roll voice.
 

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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 03:57

of all types of metal, the Air metal (second part of the 80's and mainly LA based but US in general including Guns And Roses , the big absent from this list and maybe the better one of those groups - therefore my choice ) is the emptiest and noisiest, crappiest , hollowest form of metal music.

Don't get me wrong, generally I am not a fan of metal (but I was a metalhead once) , but Airmetal (due to the fact that this was for airheads girls also) was more about make-up and vile attitude than about music.

A bit like the 80's were in general



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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 04:55

I never heard the term "Air Metal" ...  and I don't think that even the worst hair metal bands (Poison are a prime example here IMO) were worse than the typical pop/rock stuff of that time. And albums like Appetite for Destruction, 1984 or Slippery When Wet are simply congenius. These are not really hair metal for me ... that term really just applies to the really "hollow" bands. You can't blame musicians for their haircut!



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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 05:51
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

I never heard the term "Air Metal" ...  and I don't think that even the worst hair metal bands (Poison are a prime example here IMO) were worse than the typical pop/rock stuff of that time. And albums like Appetite for Destruction, 1984 or Slippery When Wet are simply congenius. These are not really hair metal for me ... that term really just applies to the really "hollow" bands. You can't blame musicians for their haircut!

hairmetal was quite a fine descrption for these bands as they were of the vacuous and scratching the surface type of group more concerned with their looks (this was very important to get female airheads to their concert and other types of groupîes)

therefore since airheads were getting damp (wet) about the looks, us jealous males into intelligent music got a ridiculous revenge by re-naming it air-metal - which also made reference to the vacuousness of this type of music.

One tries to get even in whatever manner he can



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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 06:51
I was the first to vote for Ratt. Congratulations for including them. They normally get overlooked.

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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 08:49
Am I the only one who likes Mr. Big  here????

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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 08:56
Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

Originally posted by Zenith Zenith wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.





Ever since we performed an arrangement of that song in 7th grade concert band at school, i've just had a special place in my heart for it.  (My trumpet section got to carry that intense melody, and it was awesome.)

but of course my previous statement is not to be taken seriously


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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 15:08
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 04:22
An Italian band called ELEKTRADRIVE and this masterpiece DUE
 
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 11:40
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 19:43
Well i have to say if there is 1 music style i realy hate its Hair metal.
 
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:40
Though not a huge fan I have been known to like Def Leppard; Guns n Roses; Skid Row; Extreme; Aerosmith; Motley Crue, Bon Jovi and Van Halen EmbarrassedSmile

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:39
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 16:25
Skid Row were awesome.



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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:00
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Skid Row were awesome.

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Posted By: Time-Machinist
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:01
Yep, Skid Row is my favourite on this genre...


Posted By: jonathan_0311
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 19:34
I voted other for Scorpions


Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 21:40

All crapola, to me.Thumbs Down

Cartoonish, WWF-type musick. Dead

Sorry!


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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 21:57
Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Come on!  Everyone knows "Final Countdown" by Europe is probably the greatest song ever composed.  hands down.

I will agree with you there... that song is so epic... art rock anyone?Wink


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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 22:01

Hey, Peter, and "Twisted Sister"? Dee Snider, band's singer/leader/whatever could be the symbol of the 80's Hair Metal. Evil Smile

BTW, Bon Jovi seems to be very popular... he appears twice in the poll! Dead



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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 08:27
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Skid Row were awesome.



I agree,their debut was good but Slave to the Grind was even better.


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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 08:37
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Skid Row were awesome.

I agree,their debut was good but Slave to the Grind was even better.


My favorite Skid Row album! I had it as vinyl ... but I never got around to buying it as CD after my vinyl collection had been destroyed. I'll look it up on Napster.

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 15:20
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 03:28
Slave to The Grind is a brilliant metal album - absolutely pure metal, kinda like the debut but turned up to 11 on all counts.

Their more recent stuff has been surprising me - it's not as immediate as the first two, but the quality is still there.

Just yesterday I bought "Thick Skin", and I'm surprised it didn't make more of a splash when it was released - it's a bit experimental in places, but I guess it still has too much of the "old" sound for modern metal fans, and their new tendency to head towards dischordant sounds is probably not to most people's tastes.

They also seem to have "absorbed" sound from other bands - I hear echoes of GunsNRoses, Creed and Foo Fighters that makes this album sound somewhat generic in places.

It's still a good album - but Slave... is their best.


I agree on the Scorpions - they went through so many changes that it's a bit unfair to label them a "hair metal" band - espeically as none of them ever looked particularly "glamourous".

From the beginning they mixed up hard rockin tracks with slower ballad-like numbers, so I see a kind of natural progression in their discography, unlike either Whitesnake or Def Leppard, who obviously made the move to ride the wave. I think Whitesnake were more excusable (apart from those perms) simply because of "Saints and Sinners" which is a classic album, and "1987" which has Steve Vai on and is therefore brilliant.

My favourite Scorps album is either "Love Drive" or "Animal Magnetism", neither of which have that "Hair Metal" sound at all. "Blackout" has a much better production - and it's a very, very close 3rd. Great album!

Yeah... I prefer the Scorps without Uli, even though he was amazingly inventive.

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 15:32

I found all the early Whitesnake albums, bar 'Saints And Sinners', funnily enough, to be very inconsistent. That album shone out as being by far the best of the early era to me, but I've heard it described by many as being their weakest...Whatever, I only own '1987', probably the best album they ever made, and a compilation of the early albums called 'The Early Years'. I thought it was John Sykes of Tygers of Pan Tang/Thin Lizzy (he is brilliant on the 'Thunder and Lightning' album songs I know), not Steve Vai on '1987' though.

 



Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 16:12
Originally posted by salmacis salmacis wrote:

I found all the early Whitesnake albums, bar 'Saints And Sinners', funnily enough, to be very inconsistent. That album shone out as being by far the best of the early era to me, but I've heard it described by many as being their weakest...Whatever, I only own '1987', probably the best album they ever made, and a compilation of the early albums called 'The Early Years'. I thought it was John Sykes of Tygers of Pan Tang/Thin Lizzy (he is brilliant on the 'Thunder and Lightning' album songs I know), not Steve Vai on '1987' though.

 

 
Steve Vai has no real connection to Whitesnake - It was John Sykes on 1987 (absolutely great album BTW). Steve Vai played on the following album (Slip of the Tongue) but he wasn't really involved in the songwriting - he just stepped in for Adrian Vandenberg. But he surely played the tracks in his own, instantly recognizable way.


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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 02 2006 at 17:28
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by salmacis salmacis wrote:


I found all the early Whitesnake albums, bar 'Saints And Sinners', funnily enough, to be very inconsistent. That album shone out as being by far the best of the early era to me, but I've heard it described by many as being their weakest...Whatever, I only own '1987', probably the best album they ever made, and a compilation of the early albums called 'The Early Years'. I thought it was John Sykes of Tygers of Pan Tang/Thin Lizzy (he is brilliant on the 'Thunder and Lightning' album songs I know), not Steve Vai on '1987' though.


 


 

Steve Vai has no real connection to Whitesnake - It was John Sykes on 1987 (absolutely great album BTW). Steve Vai played on the following album (Slip of the Tongue) but he wasn't really involved in the songwriting - he just stepped in for Adrian Vandenberg. But he surely played the tracks in his own, instantly recognizable way.


Since Vai played on "Slip..." and gets equal credits with Vandenberg, I guess that makes it a pretty real connection, songwriting or not. Playing in "his own (...) way" would indicate that he wrote some of the music.



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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 02 2006 at 17:43
^ actually it says in the liner notes that Vai played all the guitars on the album, but wrote nothing for it. That's also consistent with his comments on his own website:
 
http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/disconotes_slipofthetongue.html - http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/disconotes_slipofthetongue.html
 
Just like you once told me (if I remember correctly) that you recognized Vai's playing on Zappa's albums (where he didn't write any music either), I recognize his style on that album. It's the way he plays, the precise rhythm parts, use of vibrato bar etc.Smile


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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 11:45
Whitesnake


Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 12:55
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ actually it says in the liner notes that Vai played all the guitars on the album, but wrote nothing for it. That's also consistent with his comments on his own website:
 
http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/disconotes_slipofthetongue.html - http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/disconotes_slipofthetongue.html
 
Just like you once told me (if I remember correctly) that you recognized Vai's playing on Zappa's albums (where he didn't write any music either), I recognize his style on that album. It's the way he plays, the precise rhythm parts, use of vibrato bar etc.Smile


Didn't he play on that album as a replacement for Adrian Vandenburg,who if I remember correctly had some kind of problem that hampered his ability to play guitar?


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Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 12:59
Def Leppard Thumbs Up

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Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 13:07
Europe for me Thumbs Up

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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 13:33
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Def Leppard Thumbs Up


I love their debut album On Through the Night.Elliott's vocals aren't up to snuff on that one,but the music is fantastic.

Especially for a bunch of teenagers.


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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 13:52
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ actually it says in the liner notes that Vai played all the guitars on the album, but wrote nothing for it. That's also consistent with his comments on his own website:
 
http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/disconotes_slipofthetongue.html - http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/disconotes_slipofthetongue.html
 
Just like you once told me (if I remember correctly) that you recognized Vai's playing on Zappa's albums (where he didn't write any music either), I recognize his style on that album. It's the way he plays, the precise rhythm parts, use of vibrato bar etc.Smile


Didn't he play on that album as a replacement for Adrian Vandenburg,who if I remember correctly had some kind of problem that hampered his ability to play guitar?
 
Yes. The music (including the guitar parts) had already been written, then Vandenberg broke his wrist before they entered the studio to record the tracks. So Vai stepped in and played all the guitar parts (in his own style, but within the boundaries of what had been written for him) and also toured with the band (like he explains on his website).
 
 


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Posted By: Rapataz
Date Posted: May 04 2006 at 07:01
Can´t I vote the band i hate mostLOL

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Posted By: Angeldust
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 03:04
Crimson Glory was a commercial band with a huge hit (lonely) and judging purely their image you can say they're 80s hair metal..But they're more prog i have to admit musically.Anyway..can i choose them ?Tongue 

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Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 08:19
The Psychedelic Furs Clown

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Date Posted: May 26 2006 at 01:39
Originally posted by Gog/Magog Gog/Magog wrote:

The Psychedelic Furs


Thank You! My vote would have be along the same lines

   I couldn't stand any of this. I had a friend who used to try to push it on me. Because I was into prog he would say, "Well, you should at least be able to appreciate the musicianship." Uh ...the what?
   Because of the lack of prog, I got into alternative bands.
    
    

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Posted By: Catholic Flame
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 12:58
Angel -- They were the original hair metal band.

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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:49

Hair Metal = Dead

But I like Def Leppard


Posted By: horza
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:53
2 Bon Jovi's ?? Pre and post haircuts ??


I'll go for Europe then Def Lappard

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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 14:02
Oh gosh, I loathe Hair Metal...Dead BTW, Twisted Sister were quite a different kettle of fish - much more ironic, and lots of fun to watch live! If I had to vote for a hair metal band, though, I'd vote for Whitesnake, though I very much prefer their pre- "1987" output.


Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 14:21
Since Glover's long dreadlocks qualify them as a "hair metal" band I vote for Living Colour.  "Cult of Personality" is still one of the best songs to blow your speakers with from the 80s.  Def Leppard gets an honorable mention for the incredible guitar sounds they were able to record.

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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 17:28
Great White, man, Great White.


Posted By: Kord
Date Posted: June 04 2006 at 13:59
I hate Bon Jovi.....what about Iron Maiden???


Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 10:16
Originally posted by Kord Kord wrote:

I hate Bon Jovi.....what about Iron Maiden???
 
Iron Maiden is NOT hair metal.Confused


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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 11:13
I know the bassist for Poison, and he thinks I like his music when I think it's terrible. His son used to go to school with me. He was kinda stupid. Big smile

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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 12:15
Dream Theater.
 
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Posted By: Salviaal
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 04:19
The only hair metal band I love is Extreme, but not ironically, my fave album is their last one, and that one is more grunge than hair metal.


Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 04:23
Angel!
 
JUST A LI-YITE! FROM A TOW-OO-AR!!!


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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 04:25
Leppard (though they didn't have much hair) and Night Ranger






Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 05:32
other: WHITE LION
Great melodic taste, amazing guitars (Vito Bratta ruled!!!) and the gut to sing about social and political issues ("San Salvador", "Little Fighter" - dedicated to Greenpeace - and the classical ballad "When the children cry").


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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 13:51
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Originally posted by Kord Kord wrote:

I hate Bon Jovi.....what about Iron Maiden???
 
Iron Maiden is NOT hair metal.Confused
 
Just like Def Leppard... Def Leppard AREN'T Hair Metal... They may have helped but if you see, they were never a hair metal band... they started as an honest heavy-rock band with On Through the Night and High N'Dry, and then turned intoa kind of pop-metal band (probably the best ever) with Pyromania and specially the over-produced-but-nevertheless-excellent Hysteria... You can see that they don't have "hair attitudes" or "hair looks" (except for Savage's hair... Clarck's hair was more like Duff's from Guns N' Roses) or "hair lyrics".... That was (IS) a serious pop-metal band... What differentiates pop-metal from hair metal in my view is that the latter depends on looks and videos and non-musical factors much more than it does on musical factors, whereas pop metal is still music-first, maybe poppy, but music first. Don't compare this band to Poison, Cinderella, or all of that semi-crap (I say SEMI because maybe there are a few good songs lost in the rubble)....
 
Just as Whitesnake started almost as a buelsy hard rock band and had a couple "hairy" hits, Def Leppard is NOT a hair metal band.


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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 13:56

Actually, many other bands fall in the pop metal category more than in the hair metal category... I think the latter term should be used only to those really no-talent bands that survivied only because of looks, like Poison, Cinderella, Loverboy, Nelson, etc.... Don't spit too hard, some people put Van HAlen into the hair category (that is incredibly stupid but that's the misconception: every rock band with a couple members with long, sprayed-tall ultra-blonde hair is hair metal.....)

And whoever said Iron Maiden is hair metal.... well, Censored

 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 13:59
Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Angel!
 
JUST A LI-YITE! FROM A TOW-OO-AR!!!
 
BURNING ON FROM DUSK TO DAWN!
 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 14:19

It looks like this was an old poll re-revisited.  The nostalgic days of the 1980's.  The Hair Metal was definitely the music of my youth, and the music that began my music collection days.  My vote went for Europe, however, all of the bands listed had there good and bad points.  My first two "real" LPs were Def Leppard's Pyromania and Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head.  I received them both as a Christmas present so many years ago.  My collection has grown quite alot since then.  The day I bought my first CD player, I also bought OU812 from Van Halen and Long Cold Winter from Cinderella, so both of those CDs have a special memory for me.



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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 14:59
Back when I actually liked hair metal, I loved Judas Priest the most, but was also a huge fan of Yngwie Malmsteen (though that's not exactly hair metal, he had a lot of hair).


Posted By: fungusucantkill
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:06

Ratt. Overkill. Crue. Wasp. Slaughter. you know, the usual



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Posted By: fungusucantkill
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:07
and best of all...
 
DIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thumbs%20Up


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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:12
I know they belong more to the late 1970s than the 1980s, but what about the RUNAWAYS???
 


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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:14
hmmm....



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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 15:17
Originally posted by paolo.beenees paolo.beenees wrote:

I know they belong more to the late 1970s than the 1980s, but what about the RUNAWAYS???
 



hah!  Not enough HAIR!!!! 





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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 17:16
all the bands listed are completely beyond the pale for me... they sum up just about everything in metal that I hate.... but I've gone 'other' for Def Leppard, who I used to enjoy....but wouldn't listen to now...

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Posted By: Minimalist777
Date Posted: August 11 2007 at 17:09
haha, Stryper. How can you not love a song like "To Hell With The Devil" ?!?
oh those power ballads were atrocious though, ugh


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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: August 11 2007 at 20:34
The hair metal is more hard rock than metal ,is the very melodic and very hard rock of california,more strong than aor but less in general terms than heavy metal,in hair metal the singers and musicians smile,employ lyrics about sex,car,,party,etc,with dress colorfull,..in heavy metal they are serious,dont jump(except Bruce Dickinson etc) they use black leather like judas priest etc..The guitars sounds very strong but with lower tone


Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 02:22
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

The Crue.

And I always got into the obscure hair metal bands like Bulletboys,Jetboy,Black n Blue,Fastway,etc.
 
Oh man, Fastway, never thought i'd here that name again. I used to play that guitar riff in the back of 10th grade guitar class from that song that I can't think of. You know which one I'm talking about. The one Fastway riff that everybody who has heard of Fastway thinks of when they here the name Fastway.


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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 17:30
QUIET f**kING RIOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT


Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 21:56
Europe. Hats off.

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Posted By: Last Nezoke
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 22:09
europe great band



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