joker1961
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which 80`s L A Glam Metal Bands would you choice as number one...
80`s L A Bands
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For me It would have to be Quiet Riot.. Sure there were other glam bands in that era But if you look
back Quiet Riot paved the way for the rest of them.
The first wave:
So now i'll get technical here . So 1983 was the breakout year for glam metal. Quiet Riots metal health was the first glam metal album, and arguably the first heavy metal album, to reach number one in the Billboard charts, It helped for mainstream success by subsequent metal bands.
Second Wave:
1986 was a significant year for glam metal music as one of the most commercially significant releases of the era was put out by Bon Jovi with Slippery When Wet which mixed hard rock with a pop sensibility, and spent a total of eight weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, selling over 12 million copies in the United States. It became the first hard rock album to spawn three top ten singles The others followed Stryper, Poison and Cinderella. There are others.
The Decline:
The 1988 film The Decline of western civilization captured the Los Angeles scene of successful and aspiring bands. It also highlighted the excesses of glam metal, particularly the scene in which W.A.S.P guitarist Chris Holmes was interviewed while drinking vodka on a floating chair in a swimming pool as his mother watched. As a result, it has been seen as helping to create a backlash against the genre. In the early 1990s glam metal's popularity rapidly declined after nearly a decade of success. Successful bands lost members that were key to their songwriting and/or live performances, such as Motley Crue's frontman Vince Neil, Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille, Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark and Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin. Several music writers and musicians began to deride glam metal acts as "hair farmers, hinting at the soon-to-be-popularized term "hair metal". Another reason for the decline in popularity of the style may have been the declining popularity of the power balleds. While its use, especially after a hard-rocking anthem, was initially a successful formula, in the late 1980s and early 1990s audiences lost interest in this approach
So being long winded Ill go with Quiet Riot
back Quiet Riot paved the way for the rest of them.
The first wave:
So now i'll get technical here . So 1983 was the breakout year for glam metal. Quiet Riots metal health was the first glam metal album, and arguably the first heavy metal album, to reach number one in the Billboard charts, It helped for mainstream success by subsequent metal bands.
Second Wave:
1986 was a significant year for glam metal music as one of the most commercially significant releases of the era was put out by Bon Jovi with Slippery When Wet which mixed hard rock with a pop sensibility, and spent a total of eight weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, selling over 12 million copies in the United States. It became the first hard rock album to spawn three top ten singles The others followed Stryper, Poison and Cinderella. There are others.
The Decline:
The 1988 film The Decline of western civilization captured the Los Angeles scene of successful and aspiring bands. It also highlighted the excesses of glam metal, particularly the scene in which W.A.S.P guitarist Chris Holmes was interviewed while drinking vodka on a floating chair in a swimming pool as his mother watched. As a result, it has been seen as helping to create a backlash against the genre. In the early 1990s glam metal's popularity rapidly declined after nearly a decade of success. Successful bands lost members that were key to their songwriting and/or live performances, such as Motley Crue's frontman Vince Neil, Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille, Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark and Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin. Several music writers and musicians began to deride glam metal acts as "hair farmers, hinting at the soon-to-be-popularized term "hair metal". Another reason for the decline in popularity of the style may have been the declining popularity of the power balleds. While its use, especially after a hard-rocking anthem, was initially a successful formula, in the late 1980s and early 1990s audiences lost interest in this approach
So being long winded Ill go with Quiet Riot
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When I think of the LA metal of the 1980s, the bands that immediately come to mind for me would be:
Motley Crue
Ratt
Dokken
W.A.S.P.
Lita Ford
Keel
Quiet Riot
Great White
Y&T
Stryper
Black 'n' Blue
Later in the 80's:
Guns N' Roses
Poison
Rough Cutt
LA Guns
Faster Pussycat
Warrant
Mr Big
Bang Tango
Pretty Boy Floyd
I'm sure there are others that I'm completely forgetting. I'm looking specifically at the local LA rock scene in the 1980s. There are plenty of other bands from other locations around the country (and world) that would fall into that "genre" of music, but I'm staying away from those.
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I don't know if I could say which one is "the best" as that is such a subjective term. In terms of success, I don't think anyone could argue that Motley Crue was the most successful of them all, especially of the early 80's, Sunset Strip scene. A lof of these bands were perennial opening acts, or were headliners on smaller venue tours, even in their hey days. Of the early list, Ratt was the only other that continually were a headline act at least in the mid-80's through the early 90's.
Guns n' Roses had the potential to be the single biggest hard rock LA band of all time, but they imploded in the early 90's. Even with that implosion, they still made one of the biggest impacts. Poison was a headliner for a few short years. Warrant had the potential to ride on Poison's coattails, but with the fall of glam metal in the early 90's, they only got 2 really successful albums, and then kind of disappeared along with many others on the list.
So, I probably haven't answered the question, and at this point, I'm not sure that I can.
My favorite: Dokken. In my opinion, probably the most talented musicians in the entire bunch, and vastly underrated and under appreciated.
Most successful: Motley Crue
Motley Crue
Ratt
Dokken
W.A.S.P.
Lita Ford
Keel
Quiet Riot
Great White
Y&T
Stryper
Black 'n' Blue
Later in the 80's:
Guns N' Roses
Poison
Rough Cutt
LA Guns
Faster Pussycat
Warrant
Mr Big
Bang Tango
Pretty Boy Floyd
I'm sure there are others that I'm completely forgetting. I'm looking specifically at the local LA rock scene in the 1980s. There are plenty of other bands from other locations around the country (and world) that would fall into that "genre" of music, but I'm staying away from those.
--
I don't know if I could say which one is "the best" as that is such a subjective term. In terms of success, I don't think anyone could argue that Motley Crue was the most successful of them all, especially of the early 80's, Sunset Strip scene. A lof of these bands were perennial opening acts, or were headliners on smaller venue tours, even in their hey days. Of the early list, Ratt was the only other that continually were a headline act at least in the mid-80's through the early 90's.
Guns n' Roses had the potential to be the single biggest hard rock LA band of all time, but they imploded in the early 90's. Even with that implosion, they still made one of the biggest impacts. Poison was a headliner for a few short years. Warrant had the potential to ride on Poison's coattails, but with the fall of glam metal in the early 90's, they only got 2 really successful albums, and then kind of disappeared along with many others on the list.
So, I probably haven't answered the question, and at this point, I'm not sure that I can.
My favorite: Dokken. In my opinion, probably the most talented musicians in the entire bunch, and vastly underrated and under appreciated.
Most successful: Motley Crue
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Little known but way ahead of their time.
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