Heart - a hair band?

[Cosmic Harmony]

Make what cut?? Hair Metal cut??

Cut their hair perhaps?

 

[METALPRIEST]

 

[troggy]

Did any one here tease their hair during the 80's? Did you highlite your hair..Did you hemp your hair... did you perm your hair.. Did you grow it long? Well.. You lived the rock star life of the 80's..
If you didn't.. You were not in your 20's.

Yeah I was, I was just bald.

 

[Foxhound]

I'd say Heart had a real classy look during this period...very victorian take on the whole image.

Now a female band that fits the "hair metal" genre? Or a bit more inside the ball park??

How about their music though? Does that fit?

 

[Magic]

You tell us, Foxhound, you're the leading expert these days.

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

.I hereby dub MusicMistress METALPRIESTESS



She knows her stuff.

 

[METALPRIEST]

 

[Foxhound]

You tell us, Foxhound, you're the leading expert these days.

Don't know. That's why I asked.

What made me wonder, however, is that Lord Grendel's high praise for Heart had made me consider the band. Then pictures such as the first one here reminded me of this second one:





Then I remembered that Runtfan had once posted that Heart started out as a Led Zeppelin cover band - and so many of the hair bands of the eighties have always struck me as Zep imitators without the requisite grounding in the blues. And Heart's music seems to fit that mold. I don't detect blues influence in Heart's music but I could see their tunes popping up in the power ballad thread.

So what's your thinking?

 

[METALPRIEST]

What made me wonder, however, is that Lord Grendel's high praise for Heart had made me consider the band. Then pictures such as the first one here reminded me of this second one:

I don't see a connection. Sorry. JMO.

 

[Magic]

Don't know. That's why I asked.

What made me wonder, however, is that Lord Grendel's high praise for Heart had made me consider the band. Then pictures such as the first one here reminded me of this second one:





Then I remembered that Runtfan had once posted that Heart started out as a Led Zeppelin cover band - and so many of the hair bands of the eighties have always struck me as Zep imitators without the requisite grounding in the blues. And Heart's music seems to fit that mold. I don't detect blues influence in Heart's music but I could see their tunes popping up in the power ballad thread.

So what's your thinking?

I am not sure I am following you, Foxhound. If the music doesn't have a blues influence then they are classified as a hair band? Not all bands of the 80's took on the glam look and not all of them had blues influences either. A good example would be Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen even made a few awesome ballads, check out "Steets of Philadelphia"

The second picture you posted is definitely glam. Poison were guys with the androgynous look, which was very typical of glam. In the Heart picture, the guys just have longer well styled hair, which also was a very 80's look. I dont see the androgyny in Heart's male members.