Cinderella may very well be the most under rated band to come out of the hair metal scene. Still Climbing, their 1994 (and final) release, is a rock solid, ball busting, bluesy, guitar driven exercise in rock and roll. There is nothing “hair metally” about it. It’s crunchy blues rock done very, very, well.
2006 08 03
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In an unrelated coincidence, I was on the way home from Growler’s tonight and flipped through the radio station to hear “Metal Health” by Quiet Riot–a group that doesn’t have the same sort of effect this many years after. I suddenly felt like I was sneaking out drinking and smoking (actually, the cigar smell was all second hand).
Although I applaud your decidion to avoid flamy debates about the meaning of terms, I think you could swing that focus a little more towards 80′s punk if you wanted. Or is that my job?
Ha
I spent my high school years in some very small, remote towns that the whole punk scene totally missed. I can’t remember a single punker from high school.
Mark – do you remember anybody from Kwaj into the punk thing?
No one I remember. It was all a pop culture with a large heavy metal subculture, and a Van Halen Church in which you were probably the only nonmember in the entire school system.
It was simple algebra Mark.
If A = X, and B is not equal to X, then A can not equal B.
Thus, girls like Van Halen. Girls do not like Metal. Therefore VH was not metal.
Had we understood what kind of girls hung out at metal concerts, we all might have been much more in favor of girls in our metal sub culture
Point of order…I have caught a few the 80′s Hair/Metal Bands during thier tours in the late 90′s, early 00′s. Those same “girls” are still going to the shows, and they didn’t age well.
That’s a valid point.
By the time I jumped on the VH bandwagon Hagar was in the band. For the record, I saw them in concert twice, once with Whitesnake opening and once as the headline act for the original Monsters of Rock tour (VH / Scorpions / Dokken / Metallica / Fastway)
Yes, Metallica was below Dokken in the lineup – talk about a travesty of justice..
Travesty? I used to really like Dokken. But I consider Metallica the overrated morons who got the glory that should have gone to Iron Maiden.
On the other hand, the idea that Dokken and Metallica belong in the same… anything… is itself a travesty no matter who is put ahead.
Come on, Metallica’s first 3 albums were brilliant. Then it went to their heads. I was a big Dokken fan back in the day, but they are another one of those bands whose music really does not hold up well today. Master of Puppets still shreds.
That tour was summer of 88, And Justice for All had just come out. Dokken split up (for the first time anyway) immediately after that tour, IIRC.
Crunchy blues rock? Seriously? Who are you trying to convince? I’m not saying I don’t like them or that I’ve never owned a Cinderella cassette, but they’re no Faster Pussycat.