General => Lounge => Topic started by: birdman7 on June 12, 2010, 04:56:38 AM
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: birdman7 on June 12, 2010, 04:56:38 AM
hi guys! man i feel old. went cd shopping today, stood around dumbfounded looking at all this new music! being a 46 year old bald guy i figured lets get back to when the car was cranking out tunes. so, i picked up greatest hits for dokken, ratt, and def lepard. cranked up my stereo and watched the reaction... my wife wont ride with me... my daughters embaressed...but in true fashion... I ROCKED!!!!!:flip:
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: Dansbirds on June 12, 2010, 06:53:52 AM
I hear you, if I turn on HairNation on Sirius my kids(18 & 15) nearly climb out of the car
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: MacProCpo on June 12, 2010, 07:42:31 AM
I graduated HS in 89 and I'm still a headbanger. If it wasn't for the Navy, I'd still have hair down to my a**. I'm also a big fan of HairNation on Sirius. You know, the M3 Rock Festival is next weekend in Maryland. I'll be going up to my parents in NY next weekend and will be hitting the Festival on the way up.
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Post by: MacProCpo on June 12, 2010, 07:46:02 AM
By the way, my 3 y/o loves when I rock out in the car to the old tunes. I've even got her doing the "Ronnie James Dio Horned fingers in the Air thing" going on from here Car Seat. It's absolutely hilarious!!!
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Post by: irv on June 12, 2010, 09:53:45 AM
ill be 62 this month and i think the kick a-- groups of the eighties were the best. i was the dad who went ot the concerts and chaperoned. my wife hates the music. two Christmases ago my daughter got tickets for her and i to poison and sebastin bach.seen motley crew 5 times.--irv
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Post by: RunninWild on June 12, 2010, 10:02:06 AM
Idk if you knew this, but Ratt just released a new album that actually went Billboard.
Dokken just recently released one also, and Def leppard is still rocking.
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: birdman7 on June 12, 2010, 10:57:10 AM
youve got to love this music. classic guitar licks, real solos, and lyrics you can hear WORDS!! no some dude screaming his lungs out until his eyes pop out of socket! its nice to see 80's bands still releasing. theres really only one new band out there thats got the same sound, along with speed metal licks and thats dragonforce!! check them out!
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Post by: TurboCoupe50 on June 12, 2010, 10:58:17 AM
Quote from: birdman7;325090
hi guys! man i feel old. went cd shopping today, stood around dumbfounded looking at all this new music! being a 46 year old bald guy i figured lets get back to when the car was cranking out tunes. so, i picked up greatest hits for dokken, ratt, and def lepard. cranked up my stereo and watched the reaction... my wife wont ride with me... my daughters embaressed...but in true fashion... I ROCKED!!!!!:flip:
You're feeling old?????????????????
Other than Def Leopard, I've never heard of any of the groups you mentioned, but then I quit listening to rock stations back in the '80s...
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: birdman7 on June 12, 2010, 11:08:43 AM
you know whats really cool is when i drive my tuner 94 dodge stealth r/t up to a parking lot full of honda civics cranking judus priest , stop, and out pops ole bald grand dad here!! the looks are priceless!! tell ya the truth i like all cars and music as long as its FAST!!
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Post by: hypostang on June 12, 2010, 12:46:11 PM
I graduated high school in 85 and I have a pretty good collection of hair band music :D
My kids LOVE Tom Keifer from Cinderella ;)
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Post by: lakenheath24 on June 12, 2010, 03:29:37 PM
funny you mention that cuz I just went to see Brett Micheals(pf POISON fame) last nite....awesome show.
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Post by: daminc on June 12, 2010, 05:24:52 PM
I crank Styx in the vert..... Seems only right. The German power metal will be coming out of my 87 though
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Post by: 88turbo on June 12, 2010, 07:34:42 PM
Quote from: hypostang;325139
I graduated high school in 85 and I have a pretty good collection of hair band music :D
My kids LOVE Tom Keifer from Cinderella ;)
I just recently saw Cinderella live, me not really knowing who they are I was very impressed :D :headbang:
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Post by: HAVI on June 12, 2010, 07:49:21 PM
What are hair bands? :mullet: (http://images.ford-trucks.com/forums/images/smilies2/party0007.gif) :roxor::headbang:
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Post by: birdman7 on June 12, 2010, 09:52:12 PM
dime a dozen bands from the 80's. long hair, kinda dressed like your mom! but.. the stepping stones of metal today. awesome music:nkhk:
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Post by: 1 BADBIRD on June 13, 2010, 05:20:46 AM
I am an old metal head myself , I still crank all the hairbands and my kids think Im nuts !! LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL !! RIP DIO
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Post by: 1Bad88tbird on June 13, 2010, 07:38:49 AM
I'm right there with you guys! 80's metal was the best. I've been mainly listening to country since the 90's but lately I've been getting back into listening to rock. Nickel Back and Hinder are awsome! They would fit right in with the 80's music.
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Post by: birdman7 on June 13, 2010, 08:34:41 AM
ya never to old to rock and roll!!:nkhk:
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Post by: 84TBirdTurbo42 on June 13, 2010, 11:50:06 AM
ratts new album kicks ass. love dokken, queensryche. slaughter, firehouse, cinderella, def lep, kix, l.a. guns, loudness, skid row, all them hair bands, i love Hair Nation, and ya im only 20!
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Post by: Larry Whitaker on June 13, 2010, 04:33:10 PM
Never really cared for the hard rock, except maybe some Ted Nugent stuff, but don't like his politics, the little I know about it anyway. Used to like Van Halen, until all my tapes were stolen except the one VH tape that was under the seat. It's all I could listen to and I got sick of them. David Lee Roth seemed like an a$$ every time I saw him on MTV back when MTV had music. I think my biggest problem is I got old. Sort of out grew that kind of music. I will never be too old to like The Tubes. My favorite band of all time, except maybe The Beatles. Even though I dislike that kind of music, I'd LOVE to be in one of those bands and have all sorts of shagy groupies to chose from.
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: Beau on June 14, 2010, 01:13:04 AM
I won't say that I quit listening to the hair rock, but I did open my ears to new stuff as well.
Saw Def Lepp twice, would love to go to a Cinderella show.
Motley Crue. Wish I had a time machine...would love to go back to about 1987 to see them live when they were the ass-kickers. GnR too....
:bowdown: Heavy 80's music. :bowdown:
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Post by: 87tbirdmanjwg on June 14, 2010, 01:27:41 AM
My band plays some hair metal covers! 80's Van Halen, night ranger, and the scorpions to name a few...I'm all about metalcore and neo-classical as a personal preferance.
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Post by: mcb82gt on June 14, 2010, 11:09:17 AM
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ratts new album kicks ass. love dokken, queensryche. slaughter, firehouse, cinderella, def lep, kix, l.a. guns, loudness, skid row, all them hair bands, i love Hair Nation, and ya im only 20!
You got most of them, Junkyard, Winger, a few more.
I have all the Ratt albums and saw them years ago with la guns and poison.
80's music rules :mullet:
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Post by: birdman7 on June 14, 2010, 12:00:51 PM
anybody go to the "monsters of rock tour" in the late 80's? i saw it in hamburg n.y. best line up ever. van halen, metallica, scorpions, dokken, and kingdom com. dont get me wrong, i listen to alot of new metal today(big korn fan) .
Title: any hair band fans still out there?
Post by: oldraven on June 14, 2010, 06:32:15 PM
I'm more of a Psychedelic Rock kind of guy (Zeppelin, Allman Bros., Hendrix), but a lot of those guys did have big hair. Newer stuff I listen to is still a bit retro, like Jet, Kula Shaker, and Wolfmother. Riff based rock.