Directors Your Favorite 80's Hair Bands (1 Viewer)

[Brad_W]

Elizabeth,
Remember the Eighties was the epitome of superficial and the focus on image from "hair" bands was no exception.
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[Elizabeth S]

Brian, I hadn't realized "Here I Go Again" was the 2nd time they'd done it when they had the Tawny video. Certainly one of those videos that stick in your mind. . .
True, Brad, about the image reflecting the superficiality of the 80's. But looking back, it was a great decade for rock, and I miss it. I still listen to more of that music than the current stuff. Visuals aside, the 80's music stands on it's own.

 

[Brad_W]

Elizabeth,
I agree with you about the Eighties being a great decade of rock. I think most of mainstream music today is pretty bad. The underground scene is much better. What happened to rock being good and mainstream?
I love:
Machine Head (I don't consider them mainstream, but they do have a video or two. Their version of "Message in a Bottle" is awesome. Plus, I got to hang out with them after a show -cool!!)
Slipknot (I got to meet them without their masks)
Stuck Mojo (I got to hang out with them and do bad things with them after a show)
Dream Theater (My all-time fave. Got to meet them before a show and ask them silly questions)
Deftones (some them and got to meet everyone BUT Chino)
Coal Chamber Same tour with Slipknot and Machine Head.
Whoops! I am starting to name all the bands I enjoy. I couldn't possibly continue. Another time another thread. Sorry.
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[AdrianJ]

Whitesnake -- Perhaps borderline "hair band", but their early albums had great stuff like "Slide it In" and "Love Ain't No Stranger" before they went a little soft with songs like "Here I Go Again".

I guess I am the only one that likes Whitesnake in this era. Maybe it is because I'm a huge Steve Vai fan and even though Adrian Vandeberg got most of the credit is was Vai playing the killer solos.
Too often bands that are more serious heavy metal such as Queensryche and Metallica get lumped into hair metal because they had the obligatory big hair, but hair metal stole the look of these heavy metal bands and gave it a different sound.
For a more obscure hair metal band check out the one album from Steve Steven's Atomic Playboys.
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[Elizabeth S]

Reminded by the mention of Adrian Vandenberg, Vandenberg's "Burning Heart" was a really good song. And Helix's "Deep Cuts the Knife" and Giuffria's "Call to the Heart". Hurricane had one song I really liked (from "Over the Edge"), and I even saw them as an opening act for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I think. My memory is really terrible!

 

[Clark Rozier]

Flock of Segals!
...and I rannnn, I ran so far awaaaaaaaay!
Mister Mister!
...so take, these broken wings and learn to flyyyyyy again, learn to live so free...
Man, I loved the 80's

Clark

 

[Jeff_A]

I guess I am the only one that likes Whitesnake in this era.

Not at all, Adrian. I have always considered David Coverdale's band an extension of his DEEP PURPLE days. In other words, he has always surrounded himself with talented musicians. I dare anyone to tell me the song Still of the Night doesn't display talent simply because it was recorded in the so-called Big Hair era. What generalized BULLSHIT!
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Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)?

 

[Trevor H]

[david_spade_voice]Sure I liked Whitesnake... when they were called Led Zeppelin[/david_spade_voice]
Just kidding, I will also admit that I like Whitesnake (and not just for their videos either)
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[JohanK]

Hurricane had one song I really liked (from "Over the Edge")...

It's probably 'I'm On to You'.
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[Elizabeth S]

That's it! Thanks, JohanK! I actually have that on LP!

 

[Jim_C]

Sean and Jon,
Count me as another Accept fan. I saw them with Iron Maiden on the Powerslave tour. It was my first concert ever and I was hooked. I don't listen to Accept much anymore but Maiden is still in regular rotation.
Other bands that I saw live that fit this topic:
Loudness (Japanese Hair Band. Saw them with AC/DC)
Dokken
Twisted Sister
Stryper
Mass
White Lion
Bon Jovi
Whitesnake
Cinderella
The following four were playing together at an all day festival:
Motley Crue (theater of pain tour)
Helix
Accept
Y & T
Many others but they don't fall under the hair band heading.
BTW, I saw Anthrax on the Among the Living tour at a club in Boston the night before my high school prom. Going from the mosh pit to the prom was quite funny.
Oops, I almost forgot Rogue Male and Metal Church.
Oh lord the hair....
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[Sean Conklin]

I was very happy to see Iron Maiden, Halford, and Queensryche in Sept. 2000 at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Irvine Ca.
Also I saw the Somewhere in time tour in '86 with Vinnie Vincent Invasion also at Irvine Meadows.
quote: I guess I am the only one that likes Whitesnake in this era.[/quote] Naw, I kinda liked them too.
Jim: I also like Helix, Loudness, and Metal Church.
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[John Besse]

Damn Yankees - High Enough
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Alice Cooper - Poison
Poison - Life Goes On
Warrant - Sometimes She Cries
Winger - Headed For a Heartbreak
Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got, Till It's Gone
Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory
Skid Row - In a Darkened Room
Motley Crue - Wild Side
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
Ratt - Way Cool Jr.
Def Leppard - Photograph
Dokken - Don't Close You Eyes
Van Halen - Poundcake
David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
Whitesnake - Slide it In
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
White Lion - When the Children Cry
Faith No More - Epic
Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel the Noise
Queensryche - Empire
Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star (instrumental)
Saigon Kick - Love is on the Way
Europe - The Final Countdown
Slaughter - Shout it Out
Tesla - Signs
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Vixen - I Want You to Rock Me
Scorpions - Big City Nights
That's all I can think of for now

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[BryanS]

I'm only going to say this one time...
GUNS N' ROSES IS NOT A HAIR BAND!

 

[Trevor H]

BryanS,
I agree with you totally, although Axel did have quite the hair-doo in the Welcome To The Jungle Video, some others that I wouldn't call "hair-bands" are Jackyl, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Tesla, and The Four Horsemen, sure they had long hair but that does not make them a "hair-band"
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[Matt Birchall]

I'm only going to say this one time...
GUNS N' ROSES IS NOT A HAIR BAND!

Thank you! I was going to post the same thing until I saw yours. Actually, they kind of were a big hair/glam band from 1985-1988, until the Sweet Child single/video broke.
I've actually got some photos of Slash from '85 or '86 with his hair semi-tricked out and wearing lipstick.

Once Sweet Child broke in '88 they were just a bunch'a foul-mouthed, long-haired, rockin' bunch'a guys. . . No make-up.

-mwb-
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[BryanS]

If GNf'nR is considered a hair band than by this defintion the only band that can be considered a non-hair band is Right Said Fred.

 

[Rob P S]

My faves:

Winger

Poison

Whitesnake

Night Ranger

Cinderella

Europe

Bon Jovi

Mr. Big

Great White

Damn Yankees

Trixter

L.A. Guns

Scorpions

Saigon Kick

Tesla

Steelheart

Firehouse

Skid Row

Slaughter

White Lion

Queensryche

Quiet Riot

Def Leppard

 

[Matt_Smith]

Def leppard

 

[Matt_Smith]

motley crue