Fontaines DC just had one of the biggest albums of last year that sent them to arena level and higher in Europe. I’m not sure of their stature in the US. In London they just headlined Finsbury Park. They’re certainly the biggest rock act to come from Ireland since U2. Also look at Idles and more rec...

Signs is so strange. When I was younger I would have played it on repeat. It oddly inspired my so much when listening to that acoustical jam album


Now I think it might be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard

This is it. If you crack open ‘Hair Metal’, the genre we all love so much, this is what you find - this is the pure essence and nucleus of what it REALLY is. Not Van Halen, not Hanoi Rocks. Like it or not, it’s the truth. There is no through line from David Johannsen to Bret Michaels. If you don’t ...

Chip Z'Hoy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 5:08 pmMen who look like women (who are also cowboys).

Also, thank you for wasting as much time on this debate as is required. Others could learn from you. Welcome to the correct side of history

Not to the layman on the street. They don’t know about all that above. Sure, we all do. But they hear the term ‘hair metal’ they aren’t thinking of how it began with Quiet Riots number one album or whatever the f*ck. They imagine something like the video I posted. They know it to be lame. That’s why...

Chip Z'Hoy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:10 pm that heavy part. (Heavy for a Warrant power ballad.)

DangerZone wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:57 pm so then ‘hair metal’ was just a small slice of relatively unknown bands at the tail end of 80s hard rock?

If you can’t defend this in a pub to your mate who despises the genre, which we’ve all done, then you don’t deserve the title of ‘fan’.

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:36 pm A D-level band?

D for ‘Defining’

This is what it is. Like it or not. Accept it.

It’s ok.

This is it. If you crack open ‘Hair Metal’, the genre we all love so much, this is what you find - this is the pure essence and nucleus of what it REALLY is. Not Van Halen, not Hanoi Rocks. Like it or not, it’s the truth. There is no through line from David Johannsen to Bret Michaels. If you don’t l...

Really cool man! Refreshing to hear someone praise their current state of affairs also… seems to be rare so kudos. Do you mind me asking about your music career? From the board I guess I saw you were roadieing for Poison at one point and then tour managing, I guess? Again, really cool. Are you stil...

The CEO realises what this site is, right?

There’s also not a chance Crue would have accepted this spot on the GNR bill in 2006, just coming off the reunion and Guns seemingly spinning in some kind of post buckethead , pre CD inertia. Ya, pretty much this. I saw this tour with Bach and Danko Jones. Was fun, but Axl was still showing up late...

I actually got the two of you mixed up my bad. Yeah from reading this thread it’s Neon who doesn’t get it, to be clear.

PF must be the luckiest guy in rock.

It’s a shame though. I liked the couple of singles they released at the time of the reunion!

First I’ve seen it. From this thread alone

I’m team Neon. The Acre guy doesn’t seem to grasp it

He isn’t in on the joke, so to speak.

Fair enough. Cost them their living.

There’s also not a chance Crue would have accepted this spot on the GNR bill in 2006, just coming off the reunion and Guns seemingly spinning in some kind of post buckethead , pre CD inertia. I bet Nikki tried hard to make the GNR/Crue stadium show happen a couple of years back as a co headline and ...

Looks like summer of '90 I was out with L.A. Guns doing a run of club shows that were the last gigs of a year-long tour supporting Cocked and Loaded. Looking at setlist.fm, I actually remember some of those shows. Doing a club run with a band that was pretty big was more fun than arenas, as you got...

Well, almost. https://i.postimg.cc/d1qF3xDy/IMG-2050.jpg I remember seeing this in the newspaper at the time and instantly thinking ‘not happening’ Turns out the radio and print ads that featured Motley as support were very quickly pulled by the promoter. Apparently Motley ‘had no idea’ about it or ...

Didn't see them in 1991, but caught them a year later right when Dog Eat Dog came out. This was before the album tanked, playing a 5,000-seat radio festival ahead of what was expected to be a big tour. They were great. Super polished. Arena-ready. Saigon Kick opened and had a lot of buzz (and felt ...

I saw a recent instagram post from him this year noting ‘24 years sober’ which denotes 2001.

Brides of Destruction formed in 2002… wasn’t he high during this run?

If I’m mistaken let me know. Either way. Good on him

Always wondered if Motley’s people ever had an issue with this being called cruefest? Or did they let the trademark run out. What’s the story?

Lars Ulrich is an Olympic level athlete

Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:35 am The band sounds great, and the setlist is damn nearly perfect.

Yeah you can tell they really prepared. Compare this to The Stadium Tour and it’s embarrassing

I was wondering if they would see each other at this.

Wild to see it.

Or Paul Tobias?

I take the point above about the falling out but also in Sorum’s book he explicitly recounts confirming with Axl that Paul would be replacing Izzy, but Axl corrected him and said that it was to replace Slash.

By all accounts they really brought the signature Oasis pure wall of sound back, with both Liam’s voice and Noel’s playing on point. Noel back to playing all leads as well like it’s pre 2000. The three guitars absolutely works with these songs with a band that always overdid it in the studio. Crowd ...

As a genuine fan of the Post-2000 circus that was Nu-GNR, following Axl and all the leak drama on the forums for those few years, I have to say… Contraband. CD got neutered way early on. It could have been good once upon a time. By the time it came out in 2008 - forget it. We all know why. Contraban...

Who says they were looking for someone that played like Adler? Axl had a wildly different vision for the band by the time UYI came around. He was listening to Nine Inch Nails and Ministry and shit. The reason Slash's Snakepit came to be was that Axl basically didn't want to do anything that sounded...

Why did Slash and Duff work with him in Velvet Revolver if he's such a dick? At that time, you were either Team Axl or Team Not Axl. And in the entire book he basically fawns over Axl and completely trashes Slash and Duff, Slash especially. I have always wondered was there another side to the Axl/S...