kytepunches wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:41 am The only rock band worse than Pearl Jam is U2. So Blind Melon is automatically better.

I’ll take U2 any day over PJ and Melon and I was never a big fan. U2 are like The Beatles by comparison

Tesla and its not even close. Mechanical is a perfect album and Great Radio is fairly close. Bit of a drop off on Pyschotic Supper for me (yeah, I know everyone else nutswings that album) but still good. Cinderella's Night Songs is great but the faux blues shit after that was lame. I always felt th...

dmbrocker wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:58 am Gotta go with Cinderella here.

Tesla is winning by a landslide but I agree. Great Radio was a huge let down for me. It’s only half good. I find Winter to be all killer.

Mister Freeze wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:43 am Paul is so disinterested, he can't even bother to do the foot thing.

That is seriously funny. Well done Freeze. Paul blows more than Ace out on a bender with Peter and Sweet Connie.

Found some. A couple of Extreme and a Couple of Cinderella. https://i.ibb.co/3Fmp04D/IMG-0094.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Z6F7yBY/IMG-0093.jpg https://i.ibb.co/pKrVYqn/IMG-0092.jpg https://i.ibb.co/YbMb6q8/IMG-0091.jpg Those are awesome!!!! Thank you for posting. I don’t get why bands have to play so loud...

I think the answer lies here. It was VH/Hagar vs Dave solo. VH won by a mile. F.U.C.K. went to #1, sold millions and had a number of big hits including Right Now that was a HUGE international/crossover hit. Plus they took Alice in Chains out with them which gave them even more crossover appeal. Plu...

Because Jani was a miserable drunk and addict chasing trends in hopes the masses would still accept him as hair metal’s John Lennon. Sadly this has some truth to it. I thought the classic 3 Warrant albums were natural progressions. Dog Eat Dog was an obvious attempt to be more mature but it still s...

Yep, they toured in support of the album. I saw that tour at Piere's in Ft. Wayne in '95. James Kottak just left the band and Bobby Borg was the new drummer. Great show. They played a few from the new album including Stronger Now. Don't remember much about the setlist otherwise. Band came out and h...

Piggybacking a bit on the DLR/Cinderella tour thread, warrant puts out the ultra phobic album in the mid-1990s. For a hair metal band this was very uncharted waters and obviously the draw was getting very late as far as attendance in ticket sales. Did the band tour this album heavy or was it an abb...

I just looked up this guy's credits on wiki, he's an absolute nobody/never was. How in the hell does he have 4 Million subscribers?!? Please someone explain why I should care about his opinion, I'm being serious. Clearly I've missed something. He knows his shit and people notice. Simple as that. Th...

Van Halen had a big album and tour, According to the RIAA, Cinderella went platinum in Feb 1991. DLR was gold by April. Extreme was either platinum or close to double platinum. They were certified double platinum by the end of 1992. A year in which hair metal was allegedly over. It makes no sense t...

Chip Z'Hoy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:39 pm

Tommy2Tone84 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:08 am Chip, are you okay? Are you taking drugs?

Yes. That's why I like Blind Melon.

Ok, thank you for clarifying. You’re so strong to admit it and own up to your addiction here on the boards. Mucho admiration, mi amigo. We are all here for you, Chip.

King’s X
Jellyfish
Kik Tracee
Big Head Todd
Living Colour

I remember being throughly bored with them and liking Ten better at the time. Now I don’t really like either

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:09 pm Was Jane's really a 90s band? They straddled the decade line, kinda like Living Colour.

You can say the same about Soundgarden. Nirvana, Chili Peppers and even Alice In Chains

Chip, are you okay? Are you taking drugs?

Had you said Collective Soul or Bang Tango I would’ve been all
“Right on my dude bro”

I found Blind Melon disappointing

In this recent video, Rick Beato and his guest point to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a catalyst to the Clear Channel takeover of radio. It seems like all the criticisms of Bill Clinton are weird, dumb shit and never stuff like RUINING ROCK MUSIC. Those two clowns act like everything was hu...

I was aware of and listened to a lot of older artists. I also sought them out or traded records with friends. I started getting into UFO in the late 80s. They were never very popular. my first time hearing metallica was ride the lightning...on a walkman a guy brought in to school...during lunch...i...

a lot of those albums aren't "hair metal"....while i agree most of those were solid releases you failed to mention a lot of the newer bands (b list? c list?) at the time like sleez beez, tiger tailz, etc that attempted to follow the hair metal blueprint...there was a lot of, shall we say,...

poor ticket sales forced the cancellation of Southern California performances by the bill of David Lee Roth and Cinderella, plus a Sisters of Mercy and Public Enemy pairing that failed to draw in several other cities as well. Sisters of Mercy and Public Enemy? :lol: Still, most are at a loss to exp...

I'm not sure exactly when hair metal peaked, but we were definitely past that peak in 1991. By then, most bands had released follow-ups to their biggest albums that weren't as good or successful. Unlike today, metal was driven by younger fans, and younger fans don't want to be a part of something t...

I agree that on paper, it's a summer package that should've worked. And neither DLR or Cinderella had toured in 2-3 years. Here's a list of dates. Lots of cancellations: https://www.vharchives.com/dlrtour1991 I think people were just ready for something different. It didn't help that the two headli...

I was aware of and listened to a lot of older artists. I also sought them out or traded records with friends. I started getting into UFO in the late 80s. They were never very popular.

a lot of those albums aren't "hair metal"....while i agree most of those were solid releases you failed to mention a lot of the newer bands (b list? c list?) at the time like sleez beez, tiger tailz, etc that attempted to follow the hair metal blueprint...there was a lot of, shall we say,...

I’ve never been able to figure out why this tour bombed. Especially with Extreme on the bill. They went platinum that year and had a #1 and #4 hit single with More Than Words and Hole Hearted. Nuno was also the new guitar hero at the time. Ok fine, David Lee Roth and even Cinderella might’ve looked ...

Paul looks repulsed in most of them. Gene doesn’t look happy either. I don’t feel sorry for either one of them

rick beato is cool in my book...and he's right on a few points...but every generation wants their "own music" and not what their parents listened to...did that law make things better or worse? not sure...but blaming it all on that is like blaming grunge for the death of hair metal which, ...

I thought Guns N Roses didn’t hang at Gazzarri’s

dmbrocker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:23 pm Warrant for me. Great White has some great songs, but overall their catalog doesn't come close to touching the 1-2-3 punch of DRFSR, Cherry Pie, and Dog Eat Dog.

Fixed it for you

Werman did Open Up. Fairbairn did Flesh & Blood, which was the one after. This place needs a new factchecker. a- serves me right for misquoting the greatest hits cd inlays rather than vinyl inserts. b- I honestly can't distinguish between Werman's work on Open.... against Fairbairn's work on Fl...