What killed Hair Metal?

[Newc]

I don't know exactly what killed Hair Metal, but whatever it was, I thank God for it everyday.


and a pink bikini holding up a nice rack doesn't look half as cool as the unrestrained/uncovered rack.

[VitaminG]

:ROTF: Your'e out of you mind, You were one of those guys who wasn't comfortable with his own masculinity and would probably send your girl to the show without you cause you were too cool.:ROTF: while you were at home bashing our lipstick and eyeliner wearing asses we were giving your girl the banging you couldn't backstage or on the bus:ROTF: If you have any of the old passes she had see if they say DNK? :ROTF:

so sexual insecurity was the reason I didn't want to poof up my hair with mousse & wear fishnets & eyeliner?

I never felt compelled to dress like any of the bands whose music I enjoyed. T-shirt & jeans was all I needed to go to a show. Iron Maiden wore a bit of spandex, but no mousse or makeup. Judas Priest wore the leather & studs, but I didn't dress up like that either. Wearing a costume to a show always seemed stupid to me, whether it was spandex & lipgloss, leather & spikes, or kabuki makeup.

But if all you guys putting on your mum's best polyester suit jacket & tights before raiding her cosmetics cabinet on the way to the hair salon managed to pull a lot of tail back in the day, then good on you. I bet you had a lot of fun dressing up in your waistcoat with your manbag back in your disco days too. Did the girls you were dating ever feel threatened because you looked prettier than they did? And what was it like for them when they looked up and saw what looked like one of their girlfriends pounding into them after a show?

[horns666]

I thought it was just me. See, you guys get all GAY without me!!!

Cool!

[horns666]

lerxstcat brings up a good point. Back then, you didn't like Poison and Slayer. It was one or the other. God I hated Hair Metal back then. I was into Slayer and all those guys. We hated posers. Fuckin' hated them...

It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that I went back and checked out a lot of the music that I wouldn't be caught dead listening to back then. Some is good, some still sucks. But the same can be said for thrash...

But some bands kind of crossed those borders around here. Guns and Roses was one of them, even though I didn't like them. Strange enough the Bulletboys was another. I think it was because they were like old Van Halen and nobody talked shit about Van Halen back then. Well, the Roth era Van Halen. But get caught saying you liked Winger and it was over man...

Yep, what he said!

[Bengal]

lerxstcat brings up a good point. Back then, you didn't like Poison and Slayer. It was one or the other. God I hated Hair Metal back then. I was into Slayer and all those guys. We hated posers. Fuckin' hated them...

It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that I went back and checked out a lot of the music that I wouldn't be caught dead listening to back then. Some is good, some still sucks. But the same can be said for thrash...

But some bands kind of crossed those borders around here. Guns and Roses was one of them, even though I didn't like them. Strange enough the Bulletboys was another. I think it was because they were like old Van Halen and nobody talked shit about Van Halen back then. Well, the Roth era Van Halen. But get caught saying you liked Winger and it was over man...

[Cygnus X1]

:ROTF: Your'e out of you mind, You were one of those guys who wasn't comfortable with his own masculinity and would probably send your girl to the show without you cause you were too cool.:ROTF: while you were at home bashing our lipstick and eyeliner wearing asses we were giving your girl the banging you couldn't backstage or on the bus:ROTF: If you have any of the old passes she had see if they say DNK? :ROTF:

WOW! Who woke this guy up?:ROTF:
Go get 'em, Marc!

[lerxstcat]

Did I mention Unskinny Bop yet?

I liked that little riff better when Skynyrd called it "I Know a Little". Then again I liked "Talk Dirty To Me" better when Cheap Trick called it "She's Tight" too!

Hair metal died of complications of diabetes when it got too corny and sappy to live! Bands like Britny Fox - a shitty copy of Cinderella who were a shiity copy of Aerosmith - just bled it out to the point that it was bled dry of talent and originality. Firehouse and Trixter fall into that category too, though Bill Leverty is a pretty good guitarist. But they got too sappy and it was all copies of copies of copies.

And not to contradict Sonicsamurai, but in the 80s there was already the split between glam and thrash. Thrash bands considered glam bands as talentless posers as far back as the early 80s, while the glam guys considered the thrashers as greasy thugs who couldn't write melodies or pull chicks to their shows. SOME people liked music across those lines, but to most you were either a poser or a hesher, not both.

Nirvana delivered the coup de grace to a genre that was already rotten from the inside. It was tired as a whole, though there were still a lot of good individual bands.

[toejam]

[nor]

Nu-Mullett music

[thetroy]

You dare me, eh?

I bet a lot of people on this board did that back in the day - I'm not into it to the same extremes as some of the guys in the 80's were but it IS fun to get dressed up for a show. I'm way too lazy to wear makeup every day, but I've certainly done eyeliner, nail polish, snakeskin pants, huge boots, brigh pink/orange shirts, etc. either on stage or going out to certain events. It's only the insecure males who ever have a problem with it (and maybe ultra-conservative women but they won't be at those shows/clubs/parties to begin with).

Hell I walk around almost every day wearing women's jeans.

Calling other dudes "homos" definitely won't score you any points with women either so what's the point? Tim has already shown how it makes ya look.

[hippietim]

Every time you reply you encourage it. Thanks for taking the bait though.

[xenophobe]

hahaha

Fuck you.



I'm not encouraging shit. He's the one who said pink bikini's were cool and he said since dressing up like a girl is fine that he should prove that he talks the talk and can walk the walk.

[hippietim]

If you want to put on your foundation and mascara, wear pink leggings and spike and feather your hair go for it. However, I will point and laugh at you and call you a homo.


I dare you... buy that and wear it on stage.




Oh, and just because you think it's cute that your girlfriend loves Pukka or Hello Kitty doesn't mean you should wear a pukka shirt.

So, let's see here, you live in the bay area, post pictures of men in makeup, encourage other men to dress in women's clothing...

...but you're not the gay one.

Mmmm...sure...right...the mock homophobia cover isn't working...just come out of the closet...

:ROTF:

[xenophobe]

I'm guessing you have very narrow traditional views on gender roles and the like. The idea that guys all have to dress and act a certain way or else be labeled "gay" is ridiculous.

If you want to put on your foundation and mascara, wear pink leggings and spike and feather your hair go for it. However, I will point and laugh at you and call you a homo.


I dare you... buy that and wear it on stage.

Indeed. Pink happens to be a cool color

Oh, and just because you think it's cute that your girlfriend loves Pukka or Hello Kitty doesn't mean you should wear a pukka shirt.

[thetroy]

Or use certain colored font...right?

Indeed. Pink happens to be a cool color