Bring on the Flaming, why doesnt anyone like CC?

[Badseed]

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Lat night i went to see Cinderella and Ratt.That was killer and it brought back a time of Fun and good times.Its all that music was meant to be. There was hot tail all over the place, as well as some who shouldnt wear skimpy stuff anymore no matter how drunk they are.Didnt bother me though, im a tit man .I have the ability to focus on that one body part and enjoy the view.I call it a gift.lol.

Poison shows were and always will be just an excuse to party.They know it and revel in it.I heard the other day that Bobbby Dahl doesnt even touch his bass unless they are touring.He has to go back and re-learn the songs.Its nothing but a good time.

SAN DIMAS HIGH FOOTBALL RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sully]

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This is a great thread. Everybody here has made terrific points, and been respectful of each other's opinions.

I would post, but Sully's last post was everything I wanted to say!

I began playing professionally while still in high school (1979), and rode that lucky streak right through to 1992. A pretty good run. So, as you can imagine, I had to be on the front edge of all the trends through the eighties, and was. I too lived the life, slept in the gutters, did the drugs, banged the groupies, and when I hear people put that era down as marketing, well, I get a little defensive. Guys like me were living this stuff...it's pretty far from marketing!

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so true!

when i was 15, i sold my midnight blue bc rich nj warlock for the money to hop a plane to california. yep. 15. stupid? oh hell yeah! thankfully, things fell through and i didn't wind up there just then. i started playing in bars (all ages shows) when i was 14, and that's when bands like poison, cinderella, etc were new. granted, i was of the perfect age for that stuff, and i gravitated to it b/c it had style, was fun to listen to and play, and most importantly....chicks dug it. alot. i don't care what anyone says, that's a HUGE motivator. being a teenager is rough enough, and if you've tapped into something that you enjoy AND gets you laid, i think you'd see things a litle differently. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] i'm sorry, but it was cool being a sophomore in high school and playing gigs. chicks dug it, and i was 100% sure that i would rule the earth from a tour bus.

i definitely lived the life, and moved to hollywood in 1990 (just as things started to die down, sadly). and you cannot tell me that all of that music was nothing but manufactured crap. i'd make ketchup soup, spaghetti-o sandwiches, stealing groceries from the rock and roll ralph's on sunset, and lived off of a bag of potatoes for three weeks; all in the name of paying dues and struggling for something i wanted so desperately. many a night would be spent on the strip, passing out flyers to shows that we'd have to pay to get, and hoping to meet some stripper or some chick from the valley who wanted to take home some hollywood street trash for a couple of nights. yeah, it was fun sometimes, but other times, it was scary as hell.

wow, i'm off topic here, but i can vividly remember thinking that the lyrics to poison's "cry tough" was a good outline to how my life was going at the time. cheesy or not, it's what i (and many others that i knew) believed to be the truth. granted, i'm not a card carrying member of the poison fan club, but you can't dismiss something as crap simply because you don't relate to it.

sully

[MBreinin]

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Of course, Sully, by their own admission...Poison didn't really have to struggle much. They made it almost immediately. However, plenty of other bands had to struggle. I still think one of the saddest movies I have ever seen, and a true commentary on the era was 1988's "The Decline of Western Civilization Pt. II, the Metal Years". That about nailed it all..the good, the great, the bad, the ugly and the depressing.

Mike

[sully]

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wow noodles, i hear what you're saying. that said, go grab shout at the devil; it ain't happy. some of it's a bit goofy, sure, but knock 'em dead kid and bastard were some pissed off tunes. wildside from girls, girls, girls was another one that i loved. of course i also listened to the sex pistols and social distortion, (two of some of the most pissed off bands i could think of) and i was a very angry young man until i was about 27.

stuff like megadeth and slayer and metallica seemed to me, to be about killing dragons and war and stuff like that. all things that i didn't relate to whatsoever. i've also learned that i respond to songs that have hooks or a good groove going; things that thrash did not have at all. again, it's what you relate to when it all comes down to it.

sully

[sully]

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Of course, Sully, by their own admission...Poison didn't really have to struggle much.

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that's not true at all, nor have i ever heard any of those guys say so. poison was one of the most hardest working bands on the strip; they were at it for a few years before they got signed, i believe. those guys busted their asses.

totally with ya on the decline movie; the fucked up thing about that was after i saw it, it cemented all of my beliefs that moving to hollywood was what i needed to do. fucked up, eh? it's like watching someone suffer, only to decide that you needed to do that as well. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

hey, i never said i was a genius!

[MBreinin]

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Of course, Sully, by their own admission...Poison didn't really have to struggle much.

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that's not true at all, nor have i ever heard any of those guys say so. poison was one of the most hardest working bands on the strip; they were at it for a few years before they got signed, i believe. those guys busted their asses.

totally with ya on the decline movie; the fucked up thing about that was after i saw it, it cemented all of my beliefs that moving to hollywood was what i needed to do. fucked up, eh? it's like watching someone suffer, only to decide that you needed to do that as well. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

hey, i never said i was a genius!

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Well, I thought I remembered an interview with them where they said they made it pretty quickly after coming out to Hollywood. Perhaps I am mistaken? Wouldn't be the first time. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Damn, you saw that movie and then went out there? I saw it in the theatre when it came out...I was a college Freshman. It was about as removed from my reality as I could imagine.

Sully, you are hardcore!!! [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

Mike

[Endrik]

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Anyway the biggest reason I play guitar is that chicks dig it. And chciks like more happier music, and I play what chicks like to get laid. But I'm not cheap either, I've practiced sweep picking and stuff many hours in every day. I've always taught that music should be fun but there must be some good techical level to make the music sound better.

[sully]

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Damn, you saw that movie and then went out there? I saw it in the theatre when it came out...I was a college Freshman. It was about as removed from my reality as I could imagine.

Sully, you are hardcore!!! [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

Mike

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well, you saw it with a different set of eyes than i did. that came out in, what 86? 87? i would've been 16, tops. where it was more removed from your reality, it was what i was kinda gearing up for. some of that stuff was pretty chilling (chris holmes), sure, but the scenes with odin and london? oh hell yeah, sign me up for that shit! i'll happily get loaded and hang out in hot tubs with metal floozies all day long! bill gazzari was a hero of mine when i saw that flick, and getting to meet him was cool, in a way. he was kinda like hefner; old as hell, but still having barbies on his arm. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

sully

[MBreinin]

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It came out in 1988, I was 18...I think we are the same age. I lead a very sheltered, pampered life growing up as kid. I grew up in Potomac, MD. I was an only child. Montgomery County was the most affluent county in the nation when I was growing up. Sugar Ray Leonard lived around the corner from me....a 4500 SF house was small...etc. It was a very nice, if delusional, upbringing.

However, I went all the way to New Orleans...about as far as my parents would let me go to see a new world. And I grew up..took me a while but I did certainly grow up. I lived in places that I would have pissed my pants if I visited when I was a H.S. kid in Maryland. It is all a matter of perspective, I guess.

yeah, the Chris Holmes stuff was horrible. The Faster Pussycat, Ricky Rachman, Odin stuff..definitely cool!!!

Mike

[sully]

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ah, okay. 88, which would've made me 16-17 (bday is late). agreed on the pussycat part, too. they were another favorite of mine.

i lived in decent neighborhoods, but was from one of them broken families that you hear about on the news sometimes. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] i was a sad little kid, and used to listen to my kiss records and wish they'd come over to my house and play with me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Endrik]

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I never liked Faster Pussycat, they were too sleazy, I didn't liked their songs and the guitar sound.

[Badseed]

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Id love to see a folow up with the skunk guy, half white, half black steve stevens looking hairdo.How about the 300lb chicks saying they get it three times a day.Then again, didnt sully say they hoped some chicks sould take them home?lol. Dave Mustaine had the best quote about the overwieght groupies, the fat ones like to eat,so you were certainly not going hungry as long as you put out.I think the term was :"humping for food", gotta love it.

[sully]

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I never liked Faster Pussycat, they were too sleazy

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yeah, that's what i loved about them! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[sully]

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very true, davey! i had 1/2 red and 1/2 black hair, and once did this chick who had a butterface for a pair of stretch jeans and a lip service jacket! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[MBreinin]

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I just looked for the movie, you can only get it on VHS, which I don't even have anymore, and it is almost $50 used from Amazon!!

It is a must have though....

Mike