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First they were not glam!!!! Second they were not metal !!!!! They were/ are just a blues based Rock N Roll band!!!! Stop saying the crap that the media labels things as fact !!!!
It is really too bad that Cinderella didn't really achieve the same success as some of their contemporaries. In my opinion Keifer was by far one of the best pure vocalists to come out of the glam metal era.
Tom is also a great songwriter as well. Many of his songs are great stories rather than the typical rock n roll clap-trap with a course that catches on.
For me Cinderella “Night Songs” was the right band for the right album at the right time in history. The most underrated group and album ever. The song captures the pure essence of what inspired it.
Been a fan since their debut album. No one ever said these guys didn't have talent. They were so good live that many top bands didn't want them opening because it would make the headliner look bad. Cinderella rocked! R.I.P Jeff Labar. 🤟
I had the honor of getting to meet Jeff LaBar and Eric Brittingham when they were playing with the band the Naked Beggars. Such amazing down to earth people. I even told Jeff I was covering the Cinderella song "Gypsy Road". So he pulled me onto stage after the show and showed me how he played the parts and BS'ed with me about music. A truly inspirational big hearted guy.
I'm a huge Cinderella fan from album one. The talent for writing songs that Tom has is brilliant. Really helped to get through some rough times. Thanks guys. RIP Jeff.
Multi-instrumentalist. Saw them open for Judas Priest and Bon Jovi, then headline. Saw them every single time they came through Dallas or OK City. Even at the Canyon Club, a small venue at the Bronco Bowl. Watched Tom play sax, 12-string guitar, piano, etc.
In 1988, AC/DC recruited Cinderella to open for their Blow Up Your Video tour. My college roommate was a HUGE Cinderella fan, I was pretty indifferent to them. They tore the place apart the night of the show we attended. Unbelievable energy. I became a fan that night, and was fortunate enough to have seen them several times after that. I'll go as far as to say that the only band on the planet that could have followed Cinderella that night was AC/DC.
I also saw Cinderella open for AC/DC on that tour..Great show, and have told others many times, Cinderella did a better show. I would add, Cinderella is surely in my top 5 list of great Musicians.
I saw AC/DC in Hannover on the same tour (still got the t shirt) but The Cult were supporting them then , they blew the place apart too , fucking amazing,
I saw that tour! There was an interview done with Brian Johnson and Angus Young in which the interviewer asked them what it was like to tour with Cinderella. They said, "Cinderella brings something to our shows that we've never had before." The interviewer asked what that was, and they replied, "Girls! They're everywhere! All we get at AC/DC shows is blokes!"
I remember when Cinderella headlined the WVU Mountaineer Coliseum in Morgantown, WV in… I think it was 1989, which meant I would have been 11 years old. I didn’t go to the show, but it was in the local news that they played WAY over the legal decibel limit AND played 30 minutes past curfew. Everyone got their money’s worth that night. As for Cinderella… they were issued all kinds of fines, from violating city noise ordinance, to breaking curfew, AND were issued a lifetime ban from playing the coliseum. Rumor has it that there’s this large fault line crack in the basement concrete of the coliseum, and that “supposedly” Cinderella was THAT loud they caused the foundation to crack… I think settling is more so the culprit than mega low frequencies at high decibels
The guitar solo Tom pulls off in Don't Know What You Got is pure blues perfection. The phrasing and restraint make it drip with emotion. All the shredders doing these 1,000 note, bumble bee in a glass crap and here old Tom come along and lays this beauty down, making them all look like dopes.
Not only that.. but when I hear tom play.. it makes me think of what randy rhoads was leaning into when he passed...learning classical guitar and more blues... Sure metal shreads... but that's just scratching the surface of what a guitar can do... Tom's play reminds me how much more diverse good hard rock blues can be in the right hands
I saw them in Atlanta Georgia as well as in Charlotte North Carolina this year. I can tell you he sounds as good now as he ever has. I know he can't fully reach some other notes that he hit in the same key as he did back in those days. His voice sounds smoother today and sometimes just a tiny bit of pitchiness I would say. Not that it's bad and it's just his sound and his voice. Hands down the best bluesy sound that has ever shown up on stage. I also saw them in 89 on the long cold Winters in Charlotte North Carolina. My friends and I got booted out during Long Cold Winters for a fight one of the guys started it was a brawl in the second and third row lol. He was being let down from above playing a baby grand and my buddy had to be an idiot. Still ranks as one of the best concerts I've ever seen as much as I saw of it. I have seen Aerosmith kiss poison David Lee Roth and others. Cinderella by far put it to all of them
Grossly underrated band keifer has a brilliant voice, is a killer blues guitarist and super nice guy. Watch the Moscow performance - with zero staging they crushed it, just great rock and roll and the interplay between guitar (rip Jeff) and bass is fantastic. People never gave them a fair shake (me) after hair metal faded. A shame.
When I discovered Cinderella in middle school around 2009, I was blown away. I am a guitar player and I 100% owe everything I know to Tom keifer. There were no UA-cam videos showing how to play their music. So I watched the music videos and live concerts available and sat down and learned how to play every single song from every single album. I cannot say enough that Cinderella is my favorite band. Still climbing and heartbreak station are my favorite albums. Sadly I never got the chance to see them live and still haven’t seen Tom live… my senior quote was “I just wanna be free. Free like the wind. And if the wind fills my sails then I’m never coming back again.” RIP Jeff.
Cinderella came out in 1986 and made that summer the rest of the year that much better. Right away I was learning their hits as best I could. Great times
Long Cold Winter and Heartbreaker Station were such great albums, imo. Very experimental and emotional... Tom is a great songwriter and sings like his heart is broken, and he wants you to feel it too.
I knew Keifer well starting in 5th grade through High School I went to West Chester a couple years, he was in the work study when I got back. Point is he was always serious as hell about music. Good guy, fun to debate music styles with. By High School he had a keyboard and lawsuit era black Ibanez Les Paul copy in the basement where the band practiced. Got to see Cinderella at the Crystal Palace the night before going into Navy before a record deal was signed. Later while serving on a submarine, got to treat the local sea creatures at about 300 ft below to his music. Everyone was happy for his success, he earned it. Don't honestly know what the sea creatures thought of him. He is still touring solo and the music is better more Blues, great stuff WOW the hotdog place is on McDade, now buying and selling gold/silver. Funny to me and probably no one else
Hotdogs have gone out of style, gold and silver are coming back in. How in the world did you survive serving on a submarine? I guess Cinderella were part of that story. Thanks for sharing your personal insights.
my mom waited on someone while bartending that dated tom while in high school! i don’t live too far from west chester - about 20 minutes, if that, and about 40 minutes from springfield. great story!
Got to see Cinderella in their prime and also seen Keifer in 2022 and 2023....Cinderella and the Tom Keifer band ABSOLUTELY brings the energy and still rocks. Keep it going
Tom is just about the biggest influence for me to learn guitar. I always loved the band and the fact that their music was constantly changing and you never knew what you would get.
I feel like Cinderella is a step heavier than hair metal. If you put them next to Poison, you'd feel it's darker, heavier, and the vocals are actually pretty brutal. Almost ACDC like. Closer to Lemmy than Bon Jovi.
@derkeheath5172 ya but a great many of the hair metal bands were actually quite good musically not putting twisted sister, motly crue, or poison in that group of great musicians. Now Cinerella also not the best musician but Tom keiffer is pretty good on the guitar and songwriting
They will always be one of my favorite bands. Long Cold Winter is a masterpiece. All of their albums have been in rotation in my collection for decades.
You did Cinderella justice w/ this video, young man. Bravo once again! I saw the band 3 times - opening for AC/DC is Oct. '88, headlining their own tour in '89, & then on one of Poison's packaged tours in the early 2000's. I thought they were excellent live back in the 80's, but they had actually gotten BETTER by the time I saw them w/ Poison, lol. Great band, great music. RIP, Jeff.
Cinderella was one of the bands I listened to faithfully as a teen in the 90s. Shelter me is my all time fav song and helped me though some really really rough times. I'm glad they played and gave us the chance to hear what they had to say!
Great video! I grew up with Cinderella---14 years old when they debuted in '86. Yet still didn't know a lot of these details. Good work! I saw Cinderella in their heyday in 1989 and they were incredible! And just got to see Keifer live 2 months ago. He sounded fantastic, and played an hour and a half of Cinderella songs.
Im so glad I grew up with this incredible music!! MTV was everything then and Headbangers Ball was the absolute best!! I still listen to this music daily. They don't make music like that anymore. I love seeing so many still making great music!! Mike Tramp from White Lion is still making great music!!
Never being much of a "hair band" fan I really grew to like Cinderella, they wrote good music and always liked Tom Kiefer, good guitar player song writer and vocalist. Always been especially fond of "Long Cold Winter" a shame things didn't go better for them, RIP Jeff
@@Schneids71 😆 really? How old are you 12? There was nothing negative, "DEROGATORY" about anything I said. If you don't understand people's comments you should probably ask someone with the ability to do so to help you figure it out before you go out of your way to leave "negative" responses to "obvious to anyone with the ability to read" positive comments?! HAIR BAND DEFINITION: A BAND THAT PLAYS HARD ROCK OR HEAVY METAL MUSIC THAT HAS LONG TEASED HAIR if you find that term "derogatory " you should probably take it up with whomever came up with the term "hair band" They had " long teased hair" and were/are classified as a HAIR BAND!!
Great band. I hung out with those guys for about a year in the 90s as I was dating their drum tech. Traveled with them. Toms a really nice guy. Jeff teased me a lot. He was really funny.
Long Cold Winter was HUGE with everyone at my high school when it came out. All the the rockers, metal heads and even the country music fans seemed to love it.
Fantastic band, I saw them open at Monsters of Rock (UK) in 1987 and was instantly hooked. I guess I helped with the sales as I bought the first two albums twice on both cassette, CD, and MP3.
I consider myself so lucky to have seen them, front row center, in Toronto in 2002. I go to concerts like Toronto Maple Leaf fans go to games. I've seen them all and honestly, Cinderella is in my top 5 that I've seen live. And I can say that honestly, I've seen Boston before Brad Delp died, Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour (and 13 more times since), Mötley Crüe's "final" show in 2015 (Crüe Years Eve) in LA. Countless shows, and Cinderella is right up there!
Wow that gave me more in depth insight behind the scenes of the music of Cinderella and what they went through, in which I had no idea about even though I've been listening to them for over 23 years, since I was 19 in 2000, their tunes are really catchy and melodic.
Got to see Cinderella on their “Long Cold Winter” tour with both the Bullet Boys and Winger opening for them wayyyy back in the day. Great band and the show was awesome of course, good times!🎉
I really love cinderella. I remember going on a vinyl festival just looking for any of their albums and having my parents help me look. Bought a lot of bon jovi, prince, aerosmith, and david bowie records and on the last day finding night songs.
I really liked Cinderella, and was lucky enough to meet and hang with the band, my cousin worked with them at the time, I thought they were pretty down to earth people, long live 80’s rock!
Tom re-learned how to sing in a less damaging way and sounds better than ever now. He has managed to switch to a REALLY cool , small venue type production that , in my opinion , suits the music better. You can find plenty of clips on YT.
From time to time I have an 80's metal/rock night. I put on the headphones, have a bunch of drinks, and listens to the old tunes. Of all the bands, I play more Cinderella songs than any other. I LOVED them, and still do to this very day! The song lyrics, vocals, and tasty guitar of Tom Keifer still take me back! I should add, that while one or two of the songs that I listen are hits, some of the non-hits are awesome too. I had some great memories when the songs were in their prime and I'm happy to say that I still have the same appreciation now, as I did then. Thanks Tom!
Definitely one of my favorite bands of the 80's metal era. They had a more bluesy edge than most of their peers. Tom Keifer was and still is such an amazing talent -- vocals, guitar, slide guitar, piano, saxophone, and God knows what else. Was also surprised to see how multi-talented Fred Coury was when I saw the band in summer of 2000 and Fred played violin during Heartbreak Station. It also broke my heart into a million pieces when Jeff LaBar died. If we never hear from Cinderella again, at least we have their amazing catalog of music they left behind.
Saw them a few times live and they were proper. Two notable moments, we saw them in Manchester, U.K. with Slaughter supporting them, that day it had been announced that Steve Clark, guitarist for Def Leppard, had passed away a couple of days earlier, that gig was a weird one, there was just a feeling of both celebration and sadness about it, live music was needed, the crowd needed something to pick us up. Sadly Slaughter didn’t provide it but Cinderella smashed it. The other notable moment was Tom’s white grand piano, we’d seen it lowered from the rafters onto the stage, a grand entrance, all about the show. Impressive. Sadly we were at the stage door whilst all the kit was been loaded onto the trucks, out rolls the grand piano, roadie lifts the keyboard out of the shell and puts it into a case, illusion smashed ☹️ the young me was gutted! I’m not entirely sure how I thought a rock band would transport a REAL grand piano around cheaply and safely but there you go, you live and learn eh? FWIW I still have a place in my heart for Long Cold Winter and Still Climbing is way better than the reception it got.
I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Keifer back in June when his band played the Palladium in NYC. His voice sounds amazing. He puts his heart and soul into his singing performance!
I never considered Cinderella an 80's glam band. To me they were a great blues rock band with real talent. Someone did an isolated track on Tom Keifer on you tube and it really showcased how strong his voice once was. Its a shame when these guys are young they never take care of their voices and assume it will always be there....just part of the invincibility of being young.
It seems to me that Sammy Hagar never really took great care of his voice, always pushing it to the limit...so it seems really incredible that only recently has his voice started to decline noticeably...and it still ain't bad for a 75 year old dude....
A sad story, but I saw Cinderella many times, and they always killed it. Top performances, rocked super hard and a clean polished sound. Tom Keifer playing multiple instruments, clearly the heart of Cinderella. The didn't record as much material as other bands, but what they did record, wow, amazing.
Thanks for doing this! Huge Cinderella fan since way back. I remember buying the Moscow peace festival vhs set and Cinderella just blew me away! Their set was incredible!! RIP Jeff!!
Im 42 and grew u0 in va beach and iur house was the loud party house. Cinderella was always my favorite od tge bands my dad played his was great white and Cinderella!! Iv been waiting for something like this to appear on youtube. My dad meet keifer a few times and he said tom was super down to earth cool as shit!!! Rip Dad i love and miss you. Great video
Cinderella released Night Songs when I was 17. I really loved their sound. A mix of blues/hard rock . I went to see them during the Long Cold Winter tour and they killed it. One thing I figured out quick was how amazing Tom Is. Amazing guitarist.
Heartbreak Station is one my favourite albums of all time and Cinderella at the (then named) Hammersmith Odeon in January 1991 was hands down one the best gigs I've ever been to. I do think Keifer's voice was an acquired taste that hampered their success on a huge mainstream scale but there is no questioning the quality of the songs and the musicianship.
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First they were not glam!!!! Second they were not metal !!!!! They were/ are just a blues based Rock N Roll band!!!! Stop saying the crap that the media labels things as fact !!!!
Only videos got played on M TV not all were singles...
Named my daughter after Britny Fox. 🤘🏻
Lol
I dedicated a song from Cinderella , “ she cry’s to the Angels” , when she was Murdered in Fairfield in 2012 , that was the first charting song,in
It is really too bad that Cinderella didn't really achieve the same success as some of their contemporaries. In my opinion Keifer was by far one of the best pure vocalists to come out of the glam metal era.
Yeah manager made it seem like because they were normal dudes who didn’t love an extravagant life
Tom is also a great songwriter as well. Many of his songs are great stories rather than the typical rock n roll clap-trap with a course that catches on.
Not even close.
@@WesmancanFucking brutal😂
@@mjs28s chorus
For me Cinderella “Night Songs” was the right band for the right album at the right time in history. The most underrated group and album ever. The song captures the pure essence of what inspired it.
NOPE, the most underrated bands are UFO, Nazareth, Trapeze & Fastway !!!
@@stevenslane3074 Well… I’ll give you UFO: Strangers in the Night & Nazareth: Hair of the Dog
Mama this is about Cinderella’s time sheesh
How many days riding around in a 73 Z-28 with the cassette playing over and over.
I always liked "Save Me".
....and that shit you ate for breakfast, it will only give cancer...
Awesome verse!!
I never viewed Cinderella as a hair metal band, but as a bluesy hard rock band with some hairspray and makeup added in. These guys kicked ass.
I always said the same thing. They're a blues band with a metal edge.
Same great white and white snake.
Exactly. Their blues edge is underrated
Couldn't agree more
They get lumped in do to the era
Tom Keifer is one of the best frontmen and hard rock songwriters - this band should be in the Hall of Fame one day!
agreed
Yep
Amen
I was at 2-15-87 st Petersburg 😂I was in their motorhome with bonjov😢
If they don't get in to the hall of fame then it's a giant crock of shit!
Been a fan since their debut album. No one ever said these guys didn't have talent. They were so good live that many top bands didn't want them opening because it would make the headliner look bad. Cinderella rocked! R.I.P
Jeff Labar. 🤟
I had the honor of getting to meet Jeff LaBar and Eric Brittingham when they were playing with the band the Naked Beggars. Such amazing down to earth people. I even told Jeff I was covering the Cinderella song "Gypsy Road". So he pulled me onto stage after the show and showed me how he played the parts and BS'ed with me about music. A truly inspirational big hearted guy.
Fact
Yeah, I saw em during the long cold winter tour. Still one of the best shows I've ever seen
@@davidw4812I saw them open for Bon Jovi, they blew Bon Jovi off the stage...amazing live!
Saw them open for Judas Priest. One of my favorite concerts.
Cinderella is still one of my favorite bands. Time wont change that.
Cinderella will always be one of my favorite bands from the 80s. Great band to see live as well. RIP Jeff
I'm a huge Cinderella fan from album one. The talent for writing songs that Tom has is brilliant. Really helped to get through some rough times. Thanks guys. RIP Jeff.
Agree, me too
Multi-instrumentalist. Saw them open for Judas Priest and Bon Jovi, then headline. Saw them every single time they came through Dallas or OK City. Even at the Canyon Club, a small venue at the Bronco Bowl. Watched Tom play sax, 12-string guitar, piano, etc.
They are the gold standard of the 80s glam/hair metal. Bluesy, talented and one of the best vocalist ever, Tom Kiefer.
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Keefer's voice is amazing! The guy is also a fantastic musician!
I love Cinderella RIP Jeff LaBar
I second that 😢.
When did Jeff die? And how?
@@BIGLON-cf1ul He died in 2022 from alcohol poisoning.
@@lorettasearcy1471 that sux! So sad!
@@lorettasearcy1471 was he the one that did the guitar spin?
This is the deepest Cinderella dive I've ever watched, great job.
In 1988, AC/DC recruited Cinderella to open for their Blow Up Your Video tour. My college roommate was a HUGE Cinderella fan, I was pretty indifferent to them. They tore the place apart the night of the show we attended. Unbelievable energy. I became a fan that night, and was fortunate enough to have seen them several times after that. I'll go as far as to say that the only band on the planet that could have followed Cinderella that night was AC/DC.
I also saw Cinderella open for AC/DC on that tour..Great show, and have told others many times, Cinderella did a better show.
I would add, Cinderella is surely in my top 5 list of great Musicians.
I saw AC/DC in Hannover on the same tour (still got the t shirt) but The Cult were supporting them then , they blew the place apart too , fucking amazing,
Hannover in West Germany at the time I mean
I saw that tour! There was an interview done with Brian Johnson and Angus Young in which the interviewer asked them what it was like to tour with Cinderella. They said, "Cinderella brings something to our shows that we've never had before." The interviewer asked what that was, and they replied, "Girls! They're everywhere! All we get at AC/DC shows is blokes!"
I remember when Cinderella headlined the WVU Mountaineer Coliseum in Morgantown, WV in… I think it was 1989, which meant I would have been 11 years old. I didn’t go to the show, but it was in the local news that they played WAY over the legal decibel limit AND played 30 minutes past curfew. Everyone got their money’s worth that night. As for Cinderella… they were issued all kinds of fines, from violating city noise ordinance, to breaking curfew, AND were issued a lifetime ban from playing the coliseum. Rumor has it that there’s this large fault line crack in the basement concrete of the coliseum, and that “supposedly” Cinderella was THAT loud they caused the foundation to crack… I think settling is more so the culprit than mega low frequencies at high decibels
The guitar solo Tom pulls off in Don't Know What You Got is pure blues perfection. The phrasing and restraint make it drip with emotion. All the shredders doing these 1,000 note, bumble bee in a glass crap and here old Tom come along and lays this beauty down, making them all look like dopes.
You’re on point my friend, very underrated
Not only that.. but when I hear tom play.. it makes me think of what randy rhoads was leaning into when he passed...learning classical guitar and more blues...
Sure metal shreads... but that's just scratching the surface of what a guitar can do... Tom's play reminds me how much more diverse good hard rock blues can be in the right hands
I went to 2 concerts that Cinderella did and was never disappointed great band glad to hear Tom's voice is back. Rock In Peace Jeff 😢
I saw them in Atlanta Georgia as well as in Charlotte North Carolina this year. I can tell you he sounds as good now as he ever has. I know he can't fully reach some other notes that he hit in the same key as he did back in those days. His voice sounds smoother today and sometimes just a tiny bit of pitchiness I would say. Not that it's bad and it's just his sound and his voice. Hands down the best bluesy sound that has ever shown up on stage. I also saw them in 89 on the long cold Winters in Charlotte North Carolina. My friends and I got booted out during Long Cold Winters for a fight one of the guys started it was a brawl in the second and third row lol. He was being let down from above playing a baby grand and my buddy had to be an idiot. Still ranks as one of the best concerts I've ever seen as much as I saw of it. I have seen Aerosmith kiss poison David Lee Roth and others. Cinderella by far put it to all of them
To me Cinderella and April Wine has never gotten the recognition these bands worked so hard for ❤ All these guys have my Love and respect ❤
April Wine slays!
April Wine is way better 🎸
April Wine was well known when I was in High School in the 70's. Cinderella was the sound of the 80's, right up there with Van Halen!
April wine rocked.
I agree
Long Cold Winter is a masterpiece.
Saw Tom Keifer this summer. Great show. He had a tough time signing the entire show, but we were more than happy to help them out.
Grossly underrated band keifer has a brilliant voice, is a killer blues guitarist and super nice guy. Watch the Moscow performance - with zero staging they crushed it, just great rock and roll and the interplay between guitar (rip Jeff) and bass is fantastic. People never gave them a fair shake (me) after hair metal faded. A shame.
maybe the name held them back
15 million plus albums sold!!!!!
When I discovered Cinderella in middle school around 2009, I was blown away. I am a guitar player and I 100% owe everything I know to Tom keifer. There were no UA-cam videos showing how to play their music. So I watched the music videos and live concerts available and sat down and learned how to play every single song from every single album. I cannot say enough that Cinderella is my favorite band. Still climbing and heartbreak station are my favorite albums. Sadly I never got the chance to see them live and still haven’t seen Tom live… my senior quote was “I just wanna be free. Free like the wind. And if the wind fills my sails then I’m never coming back again.” RIP Jeff.
Cinderella came out in 1986 and made that summer the rest of the year that much better. Right away I was learning their hits as best I could. Great times
Long Cold Winter and Heartbreaker Station were such great albums, imo. Very experimental and emotional... Tom is a great songwriter and sings like his heart is broken, and he wants you to feel it too.
Long Cold Winter is one of my favorite albums. Toms bluesy, soulful voice always gave me chills!!!
I knew Keifer well starting in 5th grade through High School I went to West Chester a couple years, he was in the work study when I got back.
Point is he was always serious as hell about music. Good guy, fun to debate music styles with. By High School he had a keyboard and lawsuit era black Ibanez Les Paul copy in the basement where the band practiced. Got to see Cinderella at the Crystal Palace the night before going into Navy before a record deal was signed. Later while serving on a submarine, got to treat the local sea creatures at about 300 ft below to his music. Everyone was happy for his success, he earned it. Don't honestly know what the sea creatures thought of him.
He is still touring solo and the music is better more Blues, great stuff WOW the hotdog place is on McDade, now buying and selling gold/silver. Funny to me and probably no one else
Good story !
Hotdogs have gone out of style, gold and silver are coming back in. How in the world did you survive serving on a submarine? I guess Cinderella were part of that story. Thanks for sharing your personal insights.
my mom waited on someone while bartending that dated tom while in high school! i don’t live too far from west chester - about 20 minutes, if that, and about 40 minutes from springfield. great story!
When I went to West Chester for 2 years, our house was on Harmony Hill rd. Site of the the monster story, interesting times . @@tattooed666
Did you follow Teeze too?
Got to see Cinderella in their prime and also seen Keifer in 2022 and 2023....Cinderella and the Tom Keifer band ABSOLUTELY brings the energy and still rocks.
Keep it going
I was alive for Cinderellas' debut...& I'm all the better for it! 🤘🤟 I love this band!
Love your name. Anything to do with Fungo Mungo by any chance?
Tom is just about the biggest influence for me to learn guitar. I always loved the band and the fact that their music was constantly changing and you never knew what you would get.
I'm not a hair band fan at all - but - Coming Home is a spectacular song! The song structure and the vocals! The vocals give me chills.
Same, but Gypsy Road is the one for me.
Yeah...one of only a couple of hair bands that I had real musical respect for.
they are more of a blues band imo
I feel like Cinderella is a step heavier than hair metal. If you put them next to Poison, you'd feel it's darker, heavier, and the vocals are actually pretty brutal. Almost ACDC like. Closer to Lemmy than Bon Jovi.
@derkeheath5172 ya but a great many of the hair metal bands were actually quite good musically not putting twisted sister, motly crue, or poison in that group of great musicians. Now Cinerella also not the best musician but Tom keiffer is pretty good on the guitar and songwriting
They will always be one of my favorite bands. Long Cold Winter is a masterpiece. All of their albums have been in rotation in my collection for decades.
You did Cinderella justice w/ this video, young man. Bravo once again! I saw the band 3 times - opening for AC/DC is Oct. '88, headlining their own tour in '89, & then on one of Poison's packaged tours in the early 2000's. I thought they were excellent live back in the 80's, but they had actually gotten BETTER by the time I saw them w/ Poison, lol. Great band, great music. RIP, Jeff.
That was killer. Tour with poison.
Cpuhgt it at Hunter mountain. Kick ass. Day.
They all got better. And rikkis drum solo was Epic.
Thanks
Yeah! Opening for ACDC's For Those About To Rock tour was Fkn awesome! They did a great powerhouse show!
Cinderella was one of the bands I listened to faithfully as a teen in the 90s. Shelter me is my all time fav song and helped me though some really really rough times. I'm glad they played and gave us the chance to hear what they had to say!
Great video! I grew up with Cinderella---14 years old when they debuted in '86. Yet still didn't know a lot of these details. Good work! I saw Cinderella in their heyday in 1989 and they were incredible! And just got to see Keifer live 2 months ago. He sounded fantastic, and played an hour and a half of Cinderella songs.
One of my life’s soundtracks .. these guys rocked. Fond memories
Im so glad I grew up with this incredible music!! MTV was everything then and Headbangers Ball was the absolute best!! I still listen to this music daily. They don't make music like that anymore. I love seeing so many still making great music!! Mike Tramp from White Lion is still making great music!!
Keifer's voice is very unique and just pure🔥!!!!
Never being much of a "hair band" fan I really grew to like Cinderella, they wrote good music and always liked Tom Kiefer, good guitar player song writer and vocalist. Always been especially fond of "Long Cold Winter" a shame things didn't go better for them, RIP Jeff
Yes, you aren’t a fan of the music when you use a derogatory term to describe it.
2nd time yoive wrote this comment. What are you on about? @guidorrmc7618
@@Schneids71 😆 really? How old are you 12?
There was nothing negative, "DEROGATORY" about anything I said. If you don't understand people's comments you should probably ask someone with the ability to do so to help you figure it out before you go out of your way to leave "negative" responses to "obvious to anyone with the ability to read" positive comments?!
HAIR BAND DEFINITION: A BAND THAT PLAYS HARD ROCK OR HEAVY METAL MUSIC THAT HAS LONG TEASED HAIR if you find that term "derogatory " you should probably take it up with whomever came up with the term "hair band" They had " long teased hair" and were/are classified as a HAIR BAND!!
Cinderella was the best band to come out of the 80s in my opinion. Keifer is an unbelievably talented musician and songwriter.
Great band. I hung out with those guys for about a year in the 90s as I was dating their drum tech. Traveled with them. Toms a really nice guy. Jeff teased me a lot. He was really funny.
Rock on, dear ! 👍👍🌹😘
Are you a groupie ?
I love Cinderella since my teens and seeing them was just amazing. Definitely underrated. Tom's voice just hits you like a truck
Agreed!!
Cinderella was a killer band!! Long cold winter was an amazing album!!!
Long Cold Winter was HUGE with everyone at my high school when it came out. All the the rockers, metal heads and even the country music fans seemed to love it.
It wasn't the fans that turned their back on 80's bands, it was MTV and the record labels
Literally one of the best bands. Rom Keifer has a beautiful voice
Fantastic band, I saw them open at Monsters of Rock (UK) in 1987 and was instantly hooked. I guess I helped with the sales as I bought the first two albums twice on both cassette, CD, and MP3.
I consider myself so lucky to have seen them, front row center, in Toronto in 2002. I go to concerts like Toronto Maple Leaf fans go to games. I've seen them all and honestly, Cinderella is in my top 5 that I've seen live. And I can say that honestly, I've seen Boston before Brad Delp died, Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour (and 13 more times since), Mötley Crüe's "final" show in 2015 (Crüe Years Eve) in LA. Countless shows, and Cinderella is right up there!
Ton Keifer has one of the BEST voices in rock! Great band!!!
Long cold winter was one of the first Rock tapes I ever bought. 6/7th grade 1988 give or take. Still love this band. Great video!
Wow that gave me more in depth insight behind the scenes of the music of Cinderella and what they went through, in which I had no idea about even though I've been listening to them for over 23 years, since I was 19 in 2000, their tunes are really catchy and melodic.
thanks
@@rnrtruestories Oh no problem at all, really loved it.
I'm a Philly girl and loved these guys!
Got to see Cinderella on their “Long Cold Winter” tour with both the Bullet Boys and Winger opening for them wayyyy back in the day.
Great band and the show was awesome of course, good times!🎉
Cinderella deserves more credit for writing music. Very under rated band. Tom's got a great voice. And the songs are cool
I was always a big fan of Cinderella. Just great music!
Tom Keifer voice is amazing!!! ❤️
Cinderella is a great band. Bad Seamstress Blues is my favorite song of theirs.
Great song
Cinderella is one of the greats that voice is amazing I still listen to them today ❤️
Very underrated band. 🤘
Thanks!
Thanks
I really love cinderella. I remember going on a vinyl festival just looking for any of their albums and having my parents help me look. Bought a lot of bon jovi, prince, aerosmith, and david bowie records and on the last day finding night songs.
I really liked Cinderella, and was lucky enough to meet and hang with the band, my cousin worked with them at the time, I thought they were pretty down to earth people, long live 80’s rock!
Love your videos. Such great in-depth behind-the-scenes information. Loved Cinderella's song "Nobody's Fool" along with other tracks. Epic.
Thanks! Much appreciated! We have some “different” type of stuff coming later this week.
@@rnrtruestoriesBon Jovi discovered them.
Tom has one of the greatest Rock n Roll voices ever!
They were something special coming out of the 80’s and the blues influenced second album. Reminds more of Tesla than the the hair band scene.
Loved this band when I was growing up. And still enjoy their songs today.
Those first 3 albums are pure gold 🏆 Good kick A$$ Rock N Roll! PLAY LOUD
They really should have became a hit in my opinion, love these guys
Tom re-learned how to sing in a less damaging way and sounds better than ever now. He has managed to switch to a REALLY cool , small venue type production that , in my opinion , suits the music better. You can find plenty of clips on YT.
must check it
From time to time I have an 80's metal/rock night. I put on the headphones, have a bunch of drinks, and listens to the old tunes. Of all the bands, I play more Cinderella songs than any other. I LOVED them, and still do to this very day! The song lyrics, vocals, and tasty guitar of Tom Keifer still take me back! I should add, that while one or two of the songs that I listen are hits, some of the non-hits are awesome too. I had some great memories when the songs were in their prime and I'm happy to say that I still have the same appreciation now, as I did then. Thanks Tom!
Tom Keifer is a great blues man. Highly underrated. Coming Home is my favorite. Gypsy Road is jamming too.
Definitely one of my favorite bands of the 80's metal era. They had a more bluesy edge than most of their peers. Tom Keifer was and still is such an amazing talent -- vocals, guitar, slide guitar, piano, saxophone, and God knows what else. Was also surprised to see how multi-talented Fred Coury was when I saw the band in summer of 2000 and Fred played violin during Heartbreak Station. It also broke my heart into a million pieces when Jeff LaBar died. If we never hear from Cinderella again, at least we have their amazing catalog of music they left behind.
That song Heartbreak station is one of the most beautiful rock ballads
That is literally one of my top 20 favorite songs of all time. Beautiful!
Three of their tunes are still part of my playlist today. 🤘
Which 3?
Saw them a few times live and they were proper.
Two notable moments, we saw them in Manchester, U.K. with Slaughter supporting them, that day it had been announced that Steve Clark, guitarist for Def Leppard, had passed away a couple of days earlier, that gig was a weird one, there was just a feeling of both celebration and sadness about it, live music was needed, the crowd needed something to pick us up. Sadly Slaughter didn’t provide it but Cinderella smashed it.
The other notable moment was Tom’s white grand piano, we’d seen it lowered from the rafters onto the stage, a grand entrance, all about the show. Impressive. Sadly we were at the stage door whilst all the kit was been loaded onto the trucks, out rolls the grand piano, roadie lifts the keyboard out of the shell and puts it into a case, illusion smashed ☹️ the young me was gutted! I’m not entirely sure how I thought a rock band would transport a REAL grand piano around cheaply and safely but there you go, you live and learn eh?
FWIW I still have a place in my heart for Long Cold Winter and Still Climbing is way better than the reception it got.
I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Keifer back in June when his band played the Palladium in NYC. His voice sounds amazing. He puts his heart and soul into his singing performance!
I love Cinderella! They are really talented and a great band! RIP Jeff LeBar!
I've seen Tom play a couple of small clubs in Nashville over the past few years. Still f-ing amazing to see live!
One of my all-time favorite bands! Thanks for covering them!
No problem!
Tom is Cinderella and I love their music.
Tom is fantastic on tour. I've seen him 6 times. He puts everything into his performances every single time.
Night songs is in my car stereo as I'm writing this ❤ RIP Jeff Labar 🙏
Great song
One hell of a band, dudes tore it up. Rock and Roll 👊
I never considered Cinderella an 80's glam band. To me they were a great blues rock band with real talent. Someone did an isolated track on Tom Keifer on you tube and it really showcased how strong his voice once was. Its a shame when these guys are young they never take care of their voices and assume it will always be there....just part of the invincibility of being young.
It seems to me that Sammy Hagar never really took great care of his voice, always pushing it to the limit...so it seems really incredible that only recently has his voice started to decline noticeably...and it still ain't bad for a 75 year old dude....
Both Sammy Hagar and Tommy Shaw have aged very well. Both still look and sound great.
@@dyer2cycleTom isn't 75 yet😅😂
@@powoodworker1751Sammy Hagar looks horrible!
A sad story, but I saw Cinderella many times, and they always killed it. Top performances, rocked super hard and a clean polished sound. Tom Keifer playing multiple instruments, clearly the heart of Cinderella. The didn't record as much material as other bands, but what they did record, wow, amazing.
These Rock and Roll history segments are awesome. Keep them coming, theres so many bands to choose from. Good Job👍
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Cinderella was the 80s for some of us was just perfect....awesome band
Thank you for the story
Thanks for doing this! Huge Cinderella fan since way back. I remember buying the Moscow peace festival vhs set and Cinderella just blew me away! Their set was incredible!! RIP Jeff!!
Im 42 and grew u0 in va beach and iur house was the loud party house. Cinderella was always my favorite od tge bands my dad played his was great white and Cinderella!! Iv been waiting for something like this to appear on youtube. My dad meet keifer a few times and he said tom was super down to earth cool as shit!!! Rip Dad i love and miss you. Great video
This band is so good live. I love these guys. Great songs great songwriting still stands up today.
"Still Climbing" is an EXCELLENT album. It's a perfect blend of the 1st and 2nd albums. I love it.
I been jamming out alot of Cinderella lately. They are bad ass and Toms vocals are top notch!
Great band...great voice...Cinderella had it all !!!
Tom can still hold his own , Hes still out there hustling .
I saw the Tom Keifer Band in August this year. Awesome show!!!
Yes! I saw him 3 times and the dude keeps kicking ass
Cinderella released Night Songs when I was 17. I really loved their sound. A mix of blues/hard rock . I went to see them during the Long Cold Winter tour and they killed it. One thing I figured out quick was how amazing Tom Is. Amazing guitarist.
Cinderella rocks! R.I.P. Jeff LaBar.
Heartbreak Station is one my favourite albums of all time and Cinderella at the (then named) Hammersmith Odeon in January 1991 was hands down one the best gigs I've ever been to. I do think Keifer's voice was an acquired taste that hampered their success on a huge mainstream scale but there is no questioning the quality of the songs and the musicianship.
The Still Climbing record is hugely underrated.
One of my all time favorite bands. Saw them at the Galaxy in NJ more times than I can count. Always brought down the house.
Love Cinderella always and forever Been a fan of their music since Cinderella came out love the guys always R.I.P Jeff Labar
I’ve always loved these guys!! Delta blues and harder rock combined! Great combination!
Great band, very underrated
Cinderella is one of my top 5 bands !! I still rock out to them and I’m 50 and my kids do too.