S&D: Glam Metal/Hair Metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEIi46NAno

That was a weird time. No one could tell where Dizzy Dean ended and Tom Keifer began.

Annoying voice, great freaking song.

how dare u
he sounds like a dollar store Tom Keifer

(how dare u = as in how dare u say no one could tell the difference)

i have been watching a lot of Vevo’s “Hair and Heavy” and nothing makes me reach for the remote faster than Dangerous Toys. Truly dire Axl-mimicry

Firehouse are super boring and i think their Dad must own Vevo bc they have more videos on here than any band except maybe Kiss lol

So far not even one Kix video. I am furious.

Kix is for the people

Dangerous Toys was baffling given Jason McMaster's pedigree. I can't think of too many better examples of a guy jumping on a trend, forfeiting all of their cred in the process, a thing we used to call a "sellout" move. At least when Celtic Frost went glam, the results were listenable in a surreal outsider art kinda way

I will not listen to this slander of the authors of Demon Bell (The Ballad of Horace Pinker)*!

Television was my mom and dad
The six o'clock news told me how to be bad
And when you're really bad the ratings go up
That's why this damn country's getting really corrupt, yeaaaah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1bsYkAS02Q

*ballad not included

Breaking glam news: turns out the amazing "Two Heads Are Better Than One" song from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is by a prototype version of Nelson! Now that I never knew.

yes! and cowritten w Dweezil Zappa!

per wikipedia, “Since the band was in the process of being signed up to Geffen, (John) Kalodner recommended them not to use their names for the song, so they were billed as Power Tool instead”

xxpost lmao i forgot about that song

DEMON BELL
DEE MON BEEEEEELLL

Firehouse are super boring

it's insane how ubiquitous they were for a few months on chicago's 103.5 THE BLAZE, and they were so boring. they made Slaughter sound like Motorhead, Steelheart's "I'll Never Let You Go" sounded like "Stairway to Heaven" next to "Love of a Lifetime", etc

yeah they have like, five or six videos on vevo and i’m like, why were they ever pushing these guys, they blow!

they’re normcore looking dudes, not even a hot lead singer! their styling is just jeans and vests, like a bar band.
he can sing ok but no better or worse than anyone else who “Can Sing”?

i find them baffling

They're still around. Playing North Tonawanda, NY in two days.

Still Boring ‘24 tour

i think they were probably filling an empty space between big glam metal releases in 1990 perfectly somehow, like a movie getting released on an otherwise vacant weekend in a dead part of the year. plus they were jacking the style from others, for example they frequently sounded like Motley Crue at their most tepid -- love of a lifetime is sort of a home sweet home ripoff. i cannot believe that shit went double platinum tbh, i mean i don't like the Crue either but at least they had energy and momentum.

other topics of interest prompted by Vevo

Trixster “Don’t Treat Me Bad” literally look like the end of the line with their bare-chested flannel & Timotei Shampoo hair commercial shiny hair & & dirt bikes

Blue Murder “Jelly Roll”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmxK9CS3RV0

DISCUSS THIS ENTIRE VIDEO it is so hilarious and weird
if Sykes didn’t come up with the concept himself i’d be very surprised

Her hair - so straight and golden, right out of a shampoo commercial
His hair - gigantic and fluffy like a Muppet sheepdog

the ponytail! SO funny, i loled

wait til he sings in the rain

its like I Still Believe 2.0

also xposts to me i meant Trixster GIVE IT TO ME GOOD
not Dont Treat Me Bad
i have firehouse brainworms

The rain stuff is great but I also really like when they're arguing in the car and she opens the door and gets out but instead of opening his own door he climbs out for some reason.

i like that she forgives him seemingly because..(checks notes) he sang shirtless in the rain

that video is wild, so many glam dudes took their style cues from Cave Dwellers-era Miles O'Keeffe

loool totally

Some magnificent comments on that Blue Murder video. Damn.

Hi Fans of Blue Murder "JellyRoll". I'm the girl in the video. yes it's true. I skidded in late to the video shoot in my brand new whilte corvette, dust flying off the dirt road. The production assistant said I couldn't park there so I threw it into reverse and saw a crew member in my rear view window dive into the bushes out of my way. As for John, What a great guitarist, vocalist, song writer and kisser ; ) John if you listening, How about a sequel? xoxo, Meg Register

I can’t believe that after all the years since this song was released, I still remember every word of the song. That’s even after I almost died in a coma because my brain was swelling and the doctors didn’t know why. I have trouble with my short term memory, but I’ve gotten back my long term memory. ❤❤❤

A lot of the comments read as if they were ghostwritten by Sykes…!

Was it a Bon Jovi thing that started all the glam dudes playing acoustic guitars on the back porch in their videos? I'm sure Crue and Poison never used to do that, although feel free to supply evidence to the contrary.

every cowboy sings a sad, sad song

I remember being so excited for Blue Murder. Sykes was the man back then: a wicked NWOBHM shredder with Tygers of Pan Tang, he carried Thin Lizzy's Thunder & Lightning, and he literally saved David Coverdale's career. Then Jelly Roll came out, and we were, WTF JOHN?! What a disappointment. That video died as soon as it came out.

He is horribly abusing that 12-string to be right honest.

and then there’s “Valley of the Kings” which is a hard left turn into harem pants town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfsZ4EzSn80

Every hard rock band must have their piss-poor Kashmir ripoff number

otm

speaking of Kashmir ripoffs, two recurring videos on Vevo

Robert Plant “Heaven Knows”
i always kinda dug this song but the video is like an SNL parody of 80’s music videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Omu_QYb4Q

and then there’s this utter shite Coverdale Page “Take Me For A Little While
the song sucks so bad but the video is full of weird lols: lady who turns into a lizard! AND turns into a candle!
and Jimbo is playing some nonsensical looking harp-guitar like a stupid goblin twat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooOf_rih0

Five singles were released, all of which charted. The highest-charting singles were "Pride and Joy" and "Shake My Tree", which reached numbers one and three, respectively, on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart.[33] Music videos were produced for "Pride and Joy" and "Take Me for a Little While", both directed by Andy Morahan.[34][35] While "Pride and Joy" reportedly did well on MTV (also being featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head[36]), "Take Me for a Little While" received minimal airplay according to Coverdale, as the video was deemed too gothic by the channel.[37]

too gothic is how he remembers it orly looool

no it received minimal airplay because it SUCKED DOGS BALLS

i wish beavis & butthead had done this video, it was RIPE for it

anyway those videos kinda stray from the purview of this thread so i’ll bring it back on topic to say Vevo introduced me to a previously overlooked late -period Y&T track i hadn’t heard from 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7Bawrpb9Q

i’d always considered “Summertime Girls” to be the cutoff (1985) but this one is really good imo

then again Mr Veg is a big Y&T fan & he kinda hates this so ymmv lol