Can you please tell me why I so well recognize the hair, beard and glasses on the wall behind you? It's starting to bug me. I seen it there more than once, and I know that I know what it is, but I can't think of the damn name at ALL. I'm sure you know where I'm coming from, because we all been there.
I used to do sound for live bands in my area, I had a 1600 watt PA mixer with 4 dual 15" JBL speakers. That was also my home stereo between gigs. That was the perfect amount of loud for this song.
Just in case nobody has mentioned it yet, the term "hair metal" is a term which was coined after the era had passed, and was intended to be derogatory. Back at the time this genre was popular it was referred to as "glam metal". It is something that evolved over time and drew from a lot of early influences, but I think the 3 bands that basically perfected it first and hit it really big were Motley Crue, Poison, and Ratt. They were of course followed by a lot of other bands they made contributions to the genre, but in terms of the first to define and had the most influence I'd say it was those 3.
@@johngreen5837 Yeah, the 60s and 70s are earlier eras that contributed to the glam metal genre, but it came into its own in the early to mid 80s, and the people that were into the genre at the time were actually calling it "glam metal" to distinguish it from the earlier glam rock
As someone who grew up in during this time, this description is pretty much spot on, with the exception that we didn't really call it glam metal, just glam (or poser metal as a derogatory term). There were lots of 70s influences to the genre - Alice Cooper, KISS, New York Dolls, David Bowie, and Gary Glitter, to name a few. Because of the plethora of bands on the Sunset Strip and around LA at the time they needed a way to set themselves apart, and dressing up in wild costumes, using makeup, and having outrageous sets was the way they did it.
The 80s, bar none, will NEVER BE DUPLICATED! Best and funnest times EVER! ALL OF IT! Music, movies, soundtracks, concerts, hair, clothes(altho some would be considered 'questionable' lol!)The girls dressed to impress at all times, at the clubs and concerts, for me and my friends anyway, getting ready and dressed for the clubs or concerts, was part of the fun and whole going out process lol! Those days were just outright INCOMPARABLE! So glad I was there! I actually feel bad for people who didn't live that 80s experience! I'll NEVER FORGET IT!🤘❤️
Definitely. Saw some of it in the 70's and then later the 80's. Hollywood boulevard was insane in both era's. Whyskie a-go-go and a bunch of other clubs that introduced bands forever and ever it seems.
They tried to be the bad boys, but not really so much as some other bands. They are lot's of bad boy bands back in the 80's it kind of was a thing back then 🤷♂️ Today no more bad boys, just soy kids at home playing video games 🤦♂️
In my opinion this is the best song they ever did. It entirely represents the band's career in one song as well as being the watermark for Sixx's songwriting.
@@jvidalw Kickstart My Heart is absolutely hardcore amazing and it's probably my second fave, but Wildside is my absolute favorite! Everything about it just rocks hard and is so catchy! From Tommy Lee's kick-ass drum-skills(total appreciation here)and the bass, guitar and lead vocals.... Everything is on point! It's hard not to love it best, just IMO! Kickstart is a very close second, but this one just does it, for me anyway!
Agreed! It very well represents Crue as well as the Genre overall. This song is to Glam Metal as Tom Sawyer to Prog, Stairway to Heaven is to Classic Rock, or Freebird is to Horsecrap. (I would rather slowly pull my Penis out by its roots than listen to Skynyrd but I recognize what they accomplished.) Cheers!
180° FIRST! (THIS tour!). ...THEN 360° (the Dr. Squealgood tour -I am pretty sure. -That was their shittiest album. But it had the title-banger starting it off and it went to the upper echelon of the album charts, making them the money they're, still, spending, today! 😜😛😉😲👍👍) Tommy was the best musician in this band. (And: apparently, the best athlete, too!!!! 😛😛 💜🤘🤘)
@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra Yes true, I was speaking about his epic spin in general. I bet the practicing was fun. I sure as shit would never be able to pull it off.
@@midnightsuns1000rr I figured. ...I needed to give the specification, because: some people don't, actually, know and others don't care (BOTH of which are, just, WRONG! 😜😛👍👍). 😁 -You know that he needed oxygen (had breathing apparatus up there with him) to make it through, right?? -No. It SOUNDS great! (and it LOOKED great! 💜💜🤘🤘) ...but staying upside-down AND doing something which requires the physical exertion of playing a drum-kit is NOT for "amateurs" (although: Tommy, when he started-out, in fact WAS an amateur! -Not at DRUMMING, of course! 😛😜 ...but: at playing/being upside-down! Yeah! 😜😂). There are a number of stories of him nearly passing out, too! -Craziness! (The thing most people PAY to see from Mötley Crüe! 😜😛🤘🤘) [This period was, also, the HEIGHT of Nikki's heroin addiction (actually: the "height" was, probably: the WRITING of this album! [That's, really, the period that "The Sixx A.M. Diaries" are from...] ...He had made a SLIGHT "turn-around" by this point... (Far from 'complete,' however!). Totally nuts.]
I love his live performance, but as a drummer, even I can play every single Motley Crue song note for note and I suck. I did get to meet him and he was cool as shit. Gave me an autograph, too.
@@B-a-t-m-a-n I hear you, man. As a guitarist ...I think every "dedicated instrumentalist," really "wants to be," secretly, ...something else. 😛😜🤷♂️ ...I know that: for a lot of guitarists & bassists, that's (for WHATEVER reason!): a drummer. 😜😛👍👍 ...Anyway, so: back-in-the-day ...there were a few guys I played and hung w/who would show me shit & let me work on stuff on their kits (or a shitty set of back-up pieces! 😂🤣🤔😜). First song I ever learned on drums??: "Live Wire" Hardly Miles Davis 😜😛👍 ...but FUN to play! -Just to reiterate: Sometimes it's not, so much, WHAT you play, but HOW you play! True! 🤘🤘
Fun fact! Around the 3:38 mark, you'll see future frontman of Blind Melon, Shannon Hoon in the crowd! This video was filmed at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis and Shannon grew up about 60 miles north of Indy.
Hair Metal evolved out of New York the glam scene at CBGB, bands like The New York Dolls. You should look at Twisted Sister, they are a direct evolution of that scene.
Then when it hit LA it spawned 20% legit acts AND 80% copycat/hanger on acts that kind of ruined it in terms of oversaturaion... to the point of self parody.
Good point on The New York Dolls. More “NY Punk-ish” imho in terms of sound however that could be a solid foundation for what was to come pretty soon. Big influence for many bands no doubt
I agree with everything that you said, but I do have to say the majority of the LA bands of the eighties were way better musicians than Twisted Sister.
Fun fact. I was at this concert in 1987 at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. They played the song twice, once at the beginning, then at the end, and informed the crowd the footage would be included in a video. If you pay close attention you can see when they're playing early in the show, not sweating, then later they are all in full sweat. It was probably the best concert I've ever seen.
Who else? The Crue. I was 8 in 1984. Too Young Too Fall in Love melted my brain and changed my life. Now Im more into Doom or extreme metal but MC will be my favorite band evar!
you have to find the interview where they were talking about some of the crazy shit. someone snorted a line of ants in a parking lot, then i think it was tommy, pissed on the ground and ozzy pushed him out of the way to lick it up, or some crazy shit like that. just some crazy drunken madness.
I've had people who want to call him the greatest of all time, which is insane, but he is underrated....especially as a show man. How many drummers are equally as popular, if not more, than the rest of their band....and this goes back before Pam Anderson
NY Dolls, T-rex, Sweet, Aerosmith, and Van Halen influenced the look of the "hair bands" way more than KISS save for the Shout era crue, Crue and WASP were the only hair bands I even recall coming close to the KISS look.
Absolutely. The '70s spawned "theatrical rock" in many genres. ...This was " '70s theatrical" SOUND, just, w/o all the "special effects." (...or: o.k. ...I MEANT to imply: There weren't puppets and shit on stage. ...and there wasn't, literal, "costuming" [We can argue that, per se, if you want! 😜😛🤘🤘😉👍] ...however: There was " an accepted set of standards" (Including: spandex, leather gear, make-up, "big hair" (usually thanks to your current gf & her gallon of Aqua Net" 😜😛😉🤘🤘 😂😂), custom-designed guitars, explosives/fire ...loud, melodic, rock 'n' roll with tons of bombast, usually "fun," but, also, not entirely "averse" to discussing "the darker, dingier aspects" (etc.)👍👊🤘🤘....) -I think you can see what I'm saying. 👍👍)
@@shaunasimpson7689 Well, we've got a expert on the subject now..... Please share you're subjective opinions as if they were hard facts. Are you not going to"allow" me to consider Kiss a "HAIR METAL" band....??
I was actually at that very concert that "Wild Side" was filmed for MTV July 18th 1987 @ Market Square Arena Indianapolis,Indiana Motley Crue has and always will be my #☝️band all-time. Thank you for playing it and keeping that time era of music alive 🤘💀🤘
These bands, motley crue, guns n rose's, skid row, Cinderella, many many other all played the clubs on sunset strip and knew each other, must have been a great time, I was a teenager in the 80's and would never change it...
The 80's were awesome. Chicks loved hair metal, and the times were wild. Glam was the gateway to hair bands. Groups like Sweet, etc. Started in the 70's.
I grew up in Miami during the 80's... Saw these guys 4 times and it was an amazing experience every time. Probably the best live shows I ever saw. Thank you for keeping great music alive and bringing back memories for us.
There's nothing like being there at a Motley Crue concert. You can feel the guitar feedback. Tommy Lee's drum roller coaster is one of a kind. I've seen them play this one at least 5 times. The Crue still have it, same with KISS.
KISS picked it up from New York Dolls. I'm a huge KISS fan, BTW, but they would be the first one to tell ya this. They also will tell you that they perfected the form (up for discussion), but they didn't create it.
Agreed. They may not have been the first hair metal band, but they were the first to have success, which led to the explosion of the genre from the Sunset Strip.
I would say the band “Kiss” was the first major rock band that influenced all the kids that grew up in the 70s that turned into the hair bands of the 80s...Motley Crue was one of the first ones in the early 80s along with quiet riot, night ranger, Def Leppard, Ratt and Twisted Sister and than it seems to have exploded in the mid 80s with Bon Jovi who took beautiful hair to a new level...Dokken , Poison, Guns N Roses, Cinderella were mid 80s and than in late 80s Warrant, slaughter, winger, white lion, white snake, firehouse, skid row ended the decade.....
Totally agree! Kiss' stage show was a huge influence on the hair metal explosion in the 80's. I'd say Quiet Riot probably came first... They were actually around in the late 70s. The other bands you mentioned perfected the sound... Poion, Warrant, and the Crue are who most people remember as being 'hair bands' - LOL
The problem with the question is the hair metal has never had a proper definition. It was just a label that music snobs and rock critics (but it repeat myself) used to deride music they didn't like without having to support their arguments that it wasn't good music. Some have suggested hair metal as putting more priority into the look of the band than the music. Ok, well, what about New York Dolls, then? Why isn't NYD a hair metal band instead of a punk band? If hair metal is just bands with long hair then why aren't the Beatles a hair band? The truth is that hair metal is a meaningless fucking term that we use a lot because others use it and really no one knows what it means.
Jamal, you had all kinds of rock musicians floating around everywhere. Motley Crue, Ratt, Gun-n-Roses, Quiet Riot, Poison, Toto, and many more. And not just rock, you had punk and New wave acts too, like Black Flagg, the GoGo's The Bangles, ...all came from L.A.. It was was a awesome time.
The first examples of this fusion began appearing in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene. Early glam metal bands include Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Stryper, Bon Jovi, and Dokken.
The first examples of this fusion began appearing in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene, pioneered by bands such as Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Stryper, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and Dokken.
First hair metal band is a tough one. I don’t even know who formed first, first one to put out an album was probably Motley Crue, but a bunch of other bands were right behind them. First hair metal band to get super popular is probably Quiet Riot.
A lot of oldsters attribute a band called Hanoi Rocks to be the first hair metal band. Interestingly enough, their drummer Razzle was killed in an accident as a passenger in Motley Crue’s singer Vince Neil’s car. Vince Neil had to stand trial and almost went to jail for it.
Motley Crue is definitely a pioneer of the genre, but Dokken formed before them in 78. You should definitely check them out. George Lynch is a beast at the guitar.
Hanoi Rocks was one of the first real glam metal bands. You definitely should check them out, because they've got many hits like Million Miles Away or Boulevard of broken dreams
Quiet Riot was the “first” hair metal band to make it with the song Cum on Feel the Noize which was actually a remake of the Slade song and then the style exploded. I don’t remember if you checked out Quiet Riot yet or not but Cum on Feel the Noize and Metal Health are two of their best songs
You could argue that Motley Crue was the first and most successful "hair metal" band, but the "Glam Rock" bands came before them which paved the way for this style. I am sure people will argue this point all day long. Many heavy metal bands since the late 60s did the long hair thing, but glam rock bands added in the make up.
I'd agree with your statement, the glam bands of the '70's (Bowie, T-Tex etc.) and the theatrics to Kiss and the heaviness of Sabbath and the party of Van Halen kind of lead to the Crue and hair metal. Then you had the hair metal adjacent bands, Scorpions, Maiden, etc. Interesting to think about for sure.
Tommy Lee was known for doing insane drum solos, not because of the playing but because of what he would have his kit do. Theater of Pain tour: Kit went on a 90 degree angle so the top was facing the audience GIrls Girls Girls tour: Did a 360 rotation like you saw in the video Dr. Feelgood Tour: Lee went to a separate kit that went above the audience Then there were the stunts that he did in latter tours 2011-2012 (or so): Kit was on a loop that went upside down, and Lee would even have a fan join him 2014-2015: The "Roller coaster" kit that went on a track over the audience, rotating. Just insane.
@@MichaelSmith-wb1es same here! Saw them on this tour, Girls! Girls! Girls! Blew my mind & everyone else’s when that drum kit came out & started turning!
@@2869may The album before, Tooth and Nail, was my favorite. Senior in high school, living on the wild side, making memories before university. Good times. I will say this, I think their music appealed to girls with a love for power ballads.
@@lajeannehall8875 Right, There not "power" ballads But Alice Cooper's ballads are his best work! If you don't already know them they're worth checking out! I suggest "I Never Cry", "You And Me" and "Only Women Bleed"
Man it is so fun to watch this stuff. This was the prime of my life absolutely love these guys LOL. I don't think mildly is categorizes glam metal anymore. They were the only ones that really made it through all the phases. Because they adapted. Sorry to keep adding to my comment LOL but you have no idea how much fun this day in age was. It was just fun. It wasn't like today. We knew how to have a really good time. And everybody got along
Robert Boyer I know what you mean. I always thought that I would get killed in my 1971 Trans Am. That was the fastest car I ever had it had a 455 with a four speed transmission in it. The engine was bored out and had a big cam two and a half inch headers going into six inch collectors then the stock mufflers so it wasn't loud unless you punched it and the tires broke loose and started screaming even though it had 60 series tires on all four wheels. The speedometer went to 165 mph and once I had it close to being pegged but had to let off it because the front end of the car got really light and it felt almost like it was floating. It ended up getting hit by an older woman (66 years old) that ran a stop sign and hit me at my passenger side back wheel and twisted the body so bad that on the drivers side rear roof piller was wrinkled up. I was unhurt but by neck felt like maybe my neck muscles got a bit stretched a bit so I spent the night in the hospital for observation. That was the only time I was in a hospital until about three weeks ago when I spent 13 days in the hospital for spine fusion surgery and a tumor removed as much as they could because the tumor was wrapped around all those nerves that come around your tailbone. Unfortunately the tumor turned out to be stage 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma both my kidneys have tumors as does my right lung and what is left on my lower spine. At least since my surgery I don't have the part of the tumor that was pressing against my sciatic nerve. For a little over three months I had the worst pain I've ever felt in my life staring in my tailbone then it would go over to my right butt cheek and down my hamstring. My back is healing well now. I probably don't have very many years left but I'm 63 years old and have had a good life and had a lot of good times. If fact there are a lot of my memories from the 70s and 80s that are a bit fuzzy if you know what I mean. Lol. So I'm just going live the rest of my life to the fullest. And not worry about things that I have no control over. The 70s and 80s rocked!
Weekends in the 80s, speaking from experience, was basically going to concerts every Friday or Saturday night and sometimes both. This was in Utah no less I can’t even imagine what it would’ve been like in LA. The 80s were slammin when it came to rock ‘n’ roll and going to concerts. I miss the 80s and those fantastic concerts!!!
And this video right here is when my love of Mötley Crüe and Nikki Sixx started! I’ve seen them in concert twice and they put on a great show. Don’t get me wrong, I knew who they were and I liked their music going back to shout at the devil but this song sealed the deal.
Twisted sister came way after motley Crue. Motley Crue was one of the first hair bands/glam metal. I digress, Twisted Sister was playing music since 72, I was probably thinking they came later because I saw them in concert LONG after Motley Crue.
The first recognized band in the hair metal genre to score a top 10 hit in America would have been Quiet Riot their big songs would have been come on feel the noise and Metal Health you should definitely check out both of those videos
I would say “hair metal” started somewhere between Motley Crue and Def Leppard. Two bands I can get originality from where, most “hair metal” bands from that era I feel sound like copycats. Just my humble opinion though. Would love to hear others thoughts on where hair metal all started!
Touching on your thoughts of being there in the 80s, on the Sunset Strip... you're right. The sheer amount of talent in the room at any given time was phenomenal. And it was a party every night. Living in LA, you hear all the stories and get to relive a bit of it when you hit up some of the venues that made that time period what it was. Myself, I am also 40 going on 41. So I have seen my share of shows from alot of these bands. Motley Crue I have seen about 10 times. Best was 2011 at the famous Sunset Strip Music Festival. They literally shutdown a couple block section of the Strip for the show. Motley Crue came on right after Bush. Sun was setting. Flanked by legendary bars & venues: Rainbow Bar and Grill, The Roxy, The Whiskey, The Viper Room, The Key Club (at the time). Right down the street from the Crue's old apartment. It was a surreal moment. Almost like the ghosts of that decade of decadence came back to life to witness Motley Crue rock the Strip. A night I will never forget. And afterward, it was a madhouse. You had members of some of those bands partying with people, lines of people up and down the Strip waiting to get into places. Music everywhere. Tommy was in The Whiskey raising hell. It was a wild night. I remember running into this guy that said he hasn't seen the Strip that alive since 1989. Pretty cool. They were basically the most notorious band on the Strip at that time. If you get a chance, watch a video on here called "When Metal Ruled the World". It was an old VH1 documentary that talked about the debauchery of these bands during that time. Very interesting.
I saw them on that tour in 1987 Whitesnake opened for them and Dude, one of the best rock concerts Ive seen. I love those days and the music. These days we're in now, is an embarrassment, music, the way things are with everything! Pathetic. Im honored to have grown up and lived in the 70s and 80s. So cool, so nice.
The Dictators and New York Dolls introduced hair metal. but W.A.S.P. and the Crue really brought what 80's dark glam metal presented us. VanHalen genuinely brought it.
I was 21, living in LA when this album came out. It was wild! Part of that was just being young but LA was :Rock Clubs, Strip Clubs, Concerts, Fast Cars and some drugs and alcohol. Damn, what a party!
I saw a LOT of concerts back then and this one was one of the BEST!!!!! The Crue put on an awesome concert!!! This was back when you could see 2 or 3 bands for $20-$30, and GOOD bands too!!! To see true “glam metal” as it started, see Motley Crue “Shout At The Devil”
Most memorable Crue experience was this tour and tommy solo and that kit going up in the air, spinning around as he jammed to zeppelin songs....that was awesome.
Hanoi Rocks of Finland is credited for starting the Hair Metal image. Early groups in America were Motley Crue, Blondie and the theatrical king and godfather of metal Alice Cooper.
A lot of the "hair metal" or "glam metal" bands like Motely reference the New York Dolls as an influence. They were part of the glam rock movement in the 70s.
In the LA scene..the first band to breakout and give the glam scene out there national recognition was Quite Riot. A lot of the influences came from NY Dolls, Bowie, T-Rex and KISS. People can make fun of the glam look...but there were many many amazing musicians at this time in music.
1987 was the year that it all came together. There were some bands that had been around prior to that year. But as time went on more and more bands came on the scene and became "hair metal". I don't know who started that phrase but it is misleading. "Hair metal" became a collective term for all band that were hard and or heavy. And to visualize the majority had long hair. Ultimately, there were 2 genre's being blended together. The first ones to start this genre up was, I believe, Def Leppard with their super album Pyromania in late December 1982/early January 1983. The others to follow are: Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Ratt, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Dokken, Lita Ford (true heavy metal: Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Accept were getting noticed as well). There where already established bands like Ozzy Osbourne, Motorhead, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were gaining popularity. MTV was playing a lot of videos back then and it was a visual form of discovering new bands. Back when MTV actually played music videos, it was a sure way of getting noticed back then. Somehow they all got lumped together. Probably because of the energy in the music and the shredding guitars along with the long hair. We had the best music in the 80's IMO. Andrew Awakened is right... in the 80's it was referred to as "glam metal" and "hair metal" is really a diss on the genre and the era. Poison were late players in the game. They came on the scene in 1987. Def Leppard's first release was the song Photograph. I was 13 and I remember it well. It broke new ground for musicians and set the bar higher in terms of production. Thanks in part to Mutt Lang who produced Pyromania and Hysteria.
I grew up in West Hollywood during the 80s and was around this scene as my parents were musicians. There was definitely early influence from The New York Dolls, Alice Cooper, David Bowie and Kiss from the 70s. But the scene on the sunset strip that I was a kid around in the early 80s is considered the birth of Hair Metal or Glam Metal. I've always considered Motley Crue the pioneering band with others like Ratt, WASP, and many that most have never heard of joining in.
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I was never a hair metal guy back in the 80’s but my little sister was- So my folks made me take her to see all these bands live in concert. 😂
I want to say one of the early hair metal bands I remember was RATT.
Can you please tell me why I so well recognize the hair, beard and glasses on the wall behind you? It's starting to bug me. I seen it there more than once, and I know that I know what it is, but I can't think of the damn name at ALL. I'm sure you know where I'm coming from, because we all been there.
Van Halen started Hair metal
No speaker goes up loud enough for this one.
Your f****** right
@@denisewhite11385 "These go to eleven" -Nigel Tufnel Still not enough
I used to do sound for live bands in my area, I had a 1600 watt PA mixer with 4 dual 15" JBL speakers. That was also my home stereo between gigs. That was the perfect amount of loud for this song.
True dat.
Or Dr. Feelgood.
Just in case nobody has mentioned it yet, the term "hair metal" is a term which was coined after the era had passed, and was intended to be derogatory. Back at the time this genre was popular it was referred to as "glam metal". It is something that evolved over time and drew from a lot of early influences, but I think the 3 bands that basically perfected it first and hit it really big were Motley Crue, Poison, and Ratt. They were of course followed by a lot of other bands they made contributions to the genre, but in terms of the first to define and had the most influence I'd say it was those 3.
I definitely agree that's the main 3
The late 60's and the 70's were considered acid rock, not hair metal, and it's glam rock. Not glam metal
@@johngreen5837 Yeah, the 60s and 70s are earlier eras that contributed to the glam metal genre, but it came into its own in the early to mid 80s, and the people that were into the genre at the time were actually calling it "glam metal" to distinguish it from the earlier glam rock
@@johngreen5837 I agree, this isn't metal. It is rock.
As someone who grew up in during this time, this description is pretty much spot on, with the exception that we didn't really call it glam metal, just glam (or poser metal as a derogatory term). There were lots of 70s influences to the genre - Alice Cooper, KISS, New York Dolls, David Bowie, and Gary Glitter, to name a few. Because of the plethora of bands on the Sunset Strip and around LA at the time they needed a way to set themselves apart, and dressing up in wild costumes, using makeup, and having outrageous sets was the way they did it.
Nothing but fun back then. Everyone happy. Everyone out for a good time. 80s were the best
Amen to that we will never see another decade of music like it ever again
I was a 1970's teenager but you are right--the party really began to roll in the 80's.
Just glad I survived, had way to much fun.
The 80s, bar none, will NEVER BE DUPLICATED! Best and funnest times EVER! ALL OF IT! Music, movies, soundtracks, concerts, hair, clothes(altho some would be considered 'questionable' lol!)The girls dressed to impress at all times, at the clubs and concerts, for me and my friends anyway, getting ready and dressed for the clubs or concerts, was part of the fun and whole going out process lol! Those days were just outright INCOMPARABLE! So glad I was there! I actually feel bad for people who didn't live that 80s experience! I'll NEVER FORGET IT!🤘❤️
Gotta check out the netlix movie "The Dirt." You''ll see how crazy it really was behind the scenes with Motley Crue in the 80"s.
Watch out for the water works 6 minutes into the movie
Great movie
I've watched it a couple times so far. It's equal parts rocking, hilarious and horrifying. The dude that played Mick Mars was a freaking riot.
@@AJ17_ Agreed. He stole the show imo.😂🤘🏽
@@AJ17_ For the Game of Thrones fans, he’s the same guy who played Ramsay Bolton.
This song is about the darker side of life in LA back then.
And the only person who has faced it is Vince Neil, the only original Compton L.A Man
Definitely. Saw some of it in the 70's and then later the 80's. Hollywood boulevard was insane in both era's. Whyskie a-go-go and a bunch of other clubs that introduced bands forever and ever it seems.
The Bad Boys of Rock 😎🔥
Vince, Tommy, Nikki, & Mick
Legendary 👊💥💯
I know ! a group of good lookin young men...
... and Mick...
They tried to be the bad boys, but not really so much as some other bands. They are lot's of bad boy bands back in the 80's it kind of was a thing back then 🤷♂️ Today no more bad boys, just soy kids at home playing video games 🤦♂️
Evet seen Tommy Lee drive a boat? Interesting
@@wolfpack8643 Have you read, "The Dirt?" They were THE bad boys.
@@gopmomof2 From someone that lived it, all I can tell you is my statement stands true 🤷♂️
In my opinion this is the best song they ever did. It entirely represents the band's career in one song as well as being the watermark for Sixx's songwriting.
their best is probably "kickstart my heart"
@@jvidalw Kickstart My Heart is absolutely hardcore amazing and it's probably my second fave, but Wildside is my absolute favorite! Everything about it just rocks hard and is so catchy! From Tommy Lee's kick-ass drum-skills(total appreciation here)and the bass, guitar and lead vocals.... Everything is on point! It's hard not to love it best, just IMO! Kickstart is a very close second, but this one just does it, for me anyway!
Home Sweet Home is slightly better than Kick Start my Heart or on the same level.
Agreed! It very well represents Crue as well as the Genre overall. This song is to Glam Metal as Tom Sawyer to Prog, Stairway to Heaven is to Classic Rock, or Freebird is to Horsecrap. (I would rather slowly pull my Penis out by its roots than listen to Skynyrd but I recognize what they accomplished.) Cheers!
Thanks for the post I didn't know Nikki wrote this. Never thought to look it up
There was nothing better than seeing Crue live on stage. It was so great!
Tommy and his 360 drums, epic
180° FIRST!
(THIS tour!).
...THEN 360°
(the Dr. Squealgood tour -I am pretty sure.
-That was their shittiest album. But it had the title-banger starting it off and it went to the upper echelon of the album charts, making them the money they're, still, spending, today!
😜😛😉😲👍👍)
Tommy was the best musician in this band.
(And: apparently, the best athlete, too!!!! 😛😛 💜🤘🤘)
@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra Yes true, I was speaking about his epic spin in general. I bet the practicing was fun. I sure as shit would never be able to pull it off.
@@midnightsuns1000rr I figured.
...I needed to give the specification, because: some people don't, actually, know and others don't care (BOTH of which are, just, WRONG! 😜😛👍👍).
😁
-You know that he needed oxygen (had breathing apparatus up there with him) to make it through, right??
-No. It SOUNDS great! (and it LOOKED great! 💜💜🤘🤘)
...but staying upside-down AND doing something which requires the physical exertion of playing a drum-kit is NOT for "amateurs" (although: Tommy, when he started-out, in fact WAS an amateur! -Not at DRUMMING, of course! 😛😜 ...but: at playing/being upside-down! Yeah! 😜😂).
There are a number of stories of him nearly passing out, too!
-Craziness!
(The thing most people PAY to see from Mötley Crüe! 😜😛🤘🤘)
[This period was, also, the HEIGHT of Nikki's heroin addiction (actually: the "height" was, probably: the WRITING of this album! [That's, really, the period that "The Sixx A.M. Diaries" are from...] ...He had made a SLIGHT "turn-around" by this point...
(Far from 'complete,' however!).
Totally nuts.]
I love his live performance, but as a drummer, even I can play every single Motley Crue song note for note and I suck. I did get to meet him and he was cool as shit. Gave me an autograph, too.
@@B-a-t-m-a-n I hear you, man.
As a guitarist ...I think every "dedicated instrumentalist," really "wants to be," secretly, ...something else. 😛😜🤷♂️
...I know that: for a lot of guitarists & bassists, that's (for WHATEVER reason!): a drummer. 😜😛👍👍
...Anyway, so: back-in-the-day ...there were a few guys I played and hung w/who would show me shit & let me work on stuff on their kits (or a shitty set of back-up pieces! 😂🤣🤔😜).
First song I ever learned on drums??: "Live Wire"
Hardly Miles Davis 😜😛👍
...but FUN to play!
-Just to reiterate: Sometimes it's not, so much, WHAT you play, but HOW you play!
True!
🤘🤘
Real women miss this stuff. THE 80'S ROCKED. TODAYS MUSIC SUCKS
Amen!
Facts. Sirius xm always on Hair Music....
Real women miss men looking and dressing like women?? ok.
@@nielgregory108 then you weren't watching the right bands
I mean concerts were just more fun back then
Long live the Crue🤙🤘🤘 they sure did ride on the wild side🤘❤️
I saw them live in Germany. Skidrow opened for them. What a show.
Awesome!
Sick!
I saw them lat 80's with Warrent opening in Charlotte NC
Saw same tour in italy
Fun fact! Around the 3:38 mark, you'll see future frontman of Blind Melon, Shannon Hoon in the crowd! This video was filmed at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis and Shannon grew up about 60 miles north of Indy.
Hair Metal evolved out of New York the glam scene at CBGB, bands like The New York Dolls. You should look at Twisted Sister, they are a direct evolution of that scene.
Then when it hit LA it spawned 20% legit acts AND 80% copycat/hanger on acts that kind of ruined it in terms of oversaturaion... to the point of self parody.
@@purplebeard1526 the demise of any music movement is the parody of the parody.
New York Dolls would have been my answer too.
Good point on The New York Dolls. More “NY Punk-ish” imho in terms of sound however that could be a solid foundation for what was to come pretty soon. Big influence for many bands no doubt
I agree with everything that you said, but I do have to say the majority of the LA bands of the eighties were way better musicians than Twisted Sister.
One word, SLADE. Among the OG’s of Glam. Heavily influenced many later Glam bands and often covered. The New York Dolls were early Glam as well.
Yes and T-Rex
Fun fact. I was at this concert in 1987 at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. They played the song twice, once at the beginning, then at the end, and informed the crowd the footage would be included in a video. If you pay close attention you can see when they're playing early in the show, not sweating, then later they are all in full sweat.
It was probably the best concert I've ever seen.
Who else? The Crue. I was 8 in 1984. Too Young Too Fall in Love melted my brain and changed my life. Now Im more into Doom or extreme metal but MC will be my favorite band evar!
I was 11, Too Young to Fall in Love was my favorite too.
Primal Scream and Too Young To Fall in Love are two more awesome Crue songs
“Ya’all just partying” - that’s putting it mildly. The 80s. Lol
👍😂
Can you even imagine the epic after parties they had when they toured with Ozzy Osbourne
No one could remember after those parties, LOL
Imagine the women.....!
I saw the concert when they opened for Ozzy! It was FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!
you have to find the interview where they were talking about some of the crazy shit. someone snorted a line of ants in a parking lot, then i think it was tommy, pissed on the ground and ozzy pushed him out of the way to lick it up, or some crazy shit like that. just some crazy drunken madness.
There was no booze during the tour after Razzle Dazzle's death.
Mick Mars...so great
When I listen to Motley Crue so does the whole neighborhood!! The Crue were one of the top 80s Glam Bands !
I think Tommy Lee is a hugely underrated drummer. Hits em like he hates em
On HOOLIGANS HOLIDAY!! Wooooo !!! 🤘🏼very underrated!!
I've had people who want to call him the greatest of all time, which is insane, but he is underrated....especially as a show man. How many drummers are equally as popular, if not more, than the rest of their band....and this goes back before Pam Anderson
"Hits em like he hates em"... He practiced on women...
@@pensnut08 was that the artificial sound I heard when he got to Pam Anderson
Tommy Lee is the MAN, and always will be!!!
I thought you would have more to say about the spinning drum set.
I would have to say KISS was huge influence on the glam metal bands.
For sure..!
They’re live show sure did
I'd have to agree that KISS would be the first
NY Dolls, T-rex, Sweet, Aerosmith, and Van Halen influenced the look of the "hair bands" way more than KISS save for the Shout era crue, Crue and WASP were the only hair bands I even recall coming close to the KISS look.
Absolutely.
The '70s spawned "theatrical rock" in many genres.
...This was " '70s theatrical" SOUND, just, w/o all the "special effects."
(...or: o.k. ...I MEANT to imply: There weren't puppets and shit on stage. ...and there wasn't, literal, "costuming" [We can argue that, per se, if you want! 😜😛🤘🤘😉👍] ...however: There was " an accepted set of standards"
(Including: spandex, leather gear, make-up, "big hair" (usually thanks to your current gf & her gallon of Aqua Net" 😜😛😉🤘🤘
😂😂), custom-designed guitars, explosives/fire ...loud, melodic, rock 'n' roll with tons of bombast, usually "fun," but, also, not entirely "averse" to discussing "the darker, dingier aspects" (etc.)👍👊🤘🤘....)
-I think you can see what I'm saying. 👍👍)
new york dolls. boston were early glam (hair) metal. this is my era of rock. motley crue bein my favorite
Kiss
The dolls were so NOT HAIR METAL. rock n roll is not metal . KISS also NOT METAL
@@shaunasimpson7689 Well, we've got a expert on the subject now..... Please share you're subjective opinions as if they were hard facts. Are you not going to"allow" me to consider Kiss a "HAIR METAL" band....??
Boston wasn't a hair band. or Glam. The only thing they had was long hair which doesn't make them a "Hair " Band.
I was actually at that very concert that "Wild Side" was filmed for MTV July 18th 1987 @ Market Square Arena Indianapolis,Indiana Motley Crue has and always will be my #☝️band all-time. Thank you for playing it and keeping that time era of music alive 🤘💀🤘
These bands, motley crue, guns n rose's, skid row, Cinderella, many many other all played the clubs on sunset strip and knew each other, must have been a great time, I was a teenager in the 80's and would never change it...
The 80's were awesome. Chicks loved hair metal, and the times were wild.
Glam was the gateway to hair bands. Groups like Sweet, etc. Started in the 70's.
Ziggy started it all...and it just got crazier!!
@@CA-tz2sg Ahh..Ziggy..How could I forget? Thank you..
I'm only 44 but I cried in middle school when I found out that David Bowie was Ziggy...I loved them both!! 😂
I am 66 i would have to go back to the early 70's like Dobbie brothers, 3 dog night grand funk railroad even zztop they had long hair
❤ love Mick Mars. That tone! Those riffs! Hes so takented and criminally underrated! ❤
I grew up in Miami during the 80's...
Saw these guys 4 times and it was an amazing experience every time. Probably the best live shows I ever saw.
Thank you for keeping great music alive and bringing back memories for us.
There's nothing like being there at a Motley Crue concert. You can feel the guitar feedback. Tommy Lee's drum roller coaster is one of a kind. I've seen them play this one at least 5 times. The Crue still have it, same with KISS.
I would think maybe Kiss introduced the form of Hair metal
Agreed... They influenced pretty much the whole genre before joining it...
I would agree, for sure..!
KISS picked it up from New York Dolls. I'm a huge KISS fan, BTW, but they would be the first one to tell ya this. They also will tell you that they perfected the form (up for discussion), but they didn't create it.
@@Bad_Wolf_Media I've never heard of New York Dolls....lol
Van Halen influenced the hair metal bands the most directly as well as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Sex Pistols etc.
The LA rock scene took off after Quiet Riot got their record deal first. After that the sunset strip was the hot bed of all 80s metal bands.
Agreed. They may not have been the first hair metal band, but they were the first to have success, which led to the explosion of the genre from the Sunset Strip.
These 80s concerts are why I have to turn the speakers up to hear you on reactions!
I would say the band “Kiss” was the first major rock band that influenced all the kids that grew up in the 70s that turned into the hair bands of the 80s...Motley Crue was one of the first ones in the early 80s along with quiet riot, night ranger, Def Leppard, Ratt and Twisted Sister and than it seems to have exploded in the mid 80s with Bon Jovi who took beautiful hair to a new level...Dokken , Poison, Guns N Roses, Cinderella were mid 80s and than in late 80s Warrant, slaughter, winger, white lion, white snake, firehouse, skid row ended the decade.....
Totally agree! Kiss' stage show was a huge influence on the hair metal explosion in the 80's. I'd say Quiet Riot probably came first... They were actually around in the late 70s. The other bands you mentioned perfected the sound... Poion, Warrant, and the Crue are who most people remember as being 'hair bands' - LOL
@@barndude5562 ...all I know is that it rocked in the 80s and those were great groups to party to !!
check your facts, dude, Whitesnake started back in 78...
The first band to intro the world to "hair metal" was Quiet Riot with their album Metal Health.
Van Halen 1978 Running with the Devil VAN HALEN TOUR
The problem with the question is the hair metal has never had a proper definition. It was just a label that music snobs and rock critics (but it repeat myself) used to deride music they didn't like without having to support their arguments that it wasn't good music. Some have suggested hair metal as putting more priority into the look of the band than the music. Ok, well, what about New York Dolls, then? Why isn't NYD a hair metal band instead of a punk band? If hair metal is just bands with long hair then why aren't the Beatles a hair band? The truth is that hair metal is a meaningless fucking term that we use a lot because others use it and really no one knows what it means.
I would consider kiss the first.
i'm 53 ,Cruehead since 1983 ...cruehead for life !! grow up with them saw 14 times live
Jamal, you had all kinds of rock musicians floating around everywhere. Motley Crue, Ratt, Gun-n-Roses, Quiet Riot, Poison, Toto, and many more. And not just rock, you had punk and New wave acts too, like Black Flagg, the GoGo's The Bangles, ...all came from L.A.. It was was a awesome time.
I would say that KISS was probably the first with hair like this! 🎼
Such FUN music!!!! Home Sweet Home next!!!
The first examples of this fusion began appearing in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene. Early glam metal bands include Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Stryper, Bon Jovi, and Dokken.
The first examples of this fusion began appearing in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene, pioneered by bands such as Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Stryper, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and Dokken.
First hair metal band is a tough one. I don’t even know who formed first, first one to put out an album was probably Motley Crue, but a bunch of other bands were right behind them. First hair metal band to get super popular is probably Quiet Riot.
At least in the 80s era.
Nah, Def Leppard was before QR.
@@brentwittman547 not hair metal though, they didn’t glam it up until later on, They get lumped in with Iron Maiden, Saxon, and others in nwobhm
A lot of oldsters attribute a band called Hanoi Rocks to be the first hair metal band. Interestingly enough, their drummer Razzle was killed in an accident as a passenger in Motley Crue’s singer Vince Neil’s car. Vince Neil had to stand trial and almost went to jail for it.
Haha! Man you just pulled some deep memories with Hanoi Rocks!
oh Vince spent some time in LA county jaii for that
Another super energy band in concert...Tommys flipping drumming is amazing, Just Awesome. Thanks, Peace
My daughters favorite group. She flew from HI. To where ever to watch one of there last concerts.
Motley Crue is definitely a pioneer of the genre, but Dokken formed before them in 78. You should definitely check them out. George Lynch is a beast at the guitar.
Rockin' With DOKKEN!
Kiss was the first.
Hanoi Rocks was one of the first real glam metal bands. You definitely should check them out, because they've got many hits like Million Miles Away or Boulevard of broken dreams
Here we goooo!!! Thanks for these videos Jamel! They mean so much!
Their concert was fun from open to shut, wild ride! More Crue please!
Without a doubt hair metal began with T. Rex, and also The New York Dolls, David Bowie and Van Halen
Crue came out in 81
Quiet Riot was the “first” hair metal band to make it with the song Cum on Feel the Noize which was actually a remake of the Slade song and then the style exploded.
I don’t remember if you checked out Quiet Riot yet or not but Cum on Feel the Noize and Metal Health are two of their best songs
This is the correct answer.
Motley crue is my all time favorite rock band, this song is one of their best.
Dude of all the reacts on UA-cam you just became my favorite.
Motley Crue was the SHITtttttttt back then. All of us metal heads saw them
You could argue that Motley Crue was the first and most successful "hair metal" band, but the "Glam Rock" bands came before them which paved the way for this style. I am sure people will argue this point all day long. Many heavy metal bands since the late 60s did the long hair thing, but glam rock bands added in the make up.
I'd agree with your statement, the glam bands of the '70's (Bowie, T-Tex etc.) and the theatrics to Kiss and the heaviness of Sabbath and the party of Van Halen kind of lead to the Crue and hair metal. Then you had the hair metal adjacent bands, Scorpions, Maiden, etc. Interesting to think about for sure.
Van Halen first then Motley Crew
@@OGGOAT23 NOPE. Van Halen was not hair metal. They were too cool to need makeup.
Enjoying the videos ☮️
I saw them for this show. It was FANTASTIC. 1987.
Such an exciting band to watch LIVE and to hang out and listen with my friends! Thanks Jamal! Peace!
Did Tommy Lee and his kit just do a somersault??🙃
Yes. I saw it live. The crowd went wild.
Tommy Lee was known for doing insane drum solos, not because of the playing but because of what he would have his kit do.
Theater of Pain tour: Kit went on a 90 degree angle so the top was facing the audience
GIrls Girls Girls tour: Did a 360 rotation like you saw in the video
Dr. Feelgood Tour: Lee went to a separate kit that went above the audience
Then there were the stunts that he did in latter tours
2011-2012 (or so): Kit was on a loop that went upside down, and Lee would even have a fan join him
2014-2015: The "Roller coaster" kit that went on a track over the audience, rotating. Just insane.
I saw it live too. He was right over my head & I kept thinking we would get hit with sweat or the rig would fall on us. It was so cool! 💕💕
@@prettyinpink2842 LOL...Tommy Lee sweat dripping all over ya. That musta been a sight to see live.
@@MichaelSmith-wb1es same here! Saw them on this tour, Girls! Girls! Girls! Blew my mind & everyone else’s when that drum kit came out & started turning!
It's hard to say who was truly the first, but a few of the early bands of the genre included Motley Crue, Dokken, Quiet Riot and Ratt.
I like Ratt....! Def Leppard is another big one.
Dokken still doesn't get the respect they deserve.
@@lajeannehall8875 I really like "It's not Love" but that's about it.
@@2869may The album before, Tooth and Nail, was my favorite. Senior in high school, living on the wild side, making memories before university. Good times. I will say this, I think their music appealed to girls with a love for power ballads.
@@lajeannehall8875 Right, There not "power" ballads But Alice Cooper's ballads are his best work! If you don't already know them they're worth checking out!
I suggest "I Never Cry", "You And Me" and "Only Women Bleed"
It was so much fun for me to get to see them live back in the day.....Good times!!!!
Man it is so fun to watch this stuff. This was the prime of my life absolutely love these guys LOL. I don't think mildly is categorizes glam metal anymore. They were the only ones that really made it through all the phases. Because they adapted. Sorry to keep adding to my comment LOL but you have no idea how much fun this day in age was. It was just fun. It wasn't like today. We knew how to have a really good time. And everybody got along
Looks That Kill and Merry Go Round are good songs as well.
Do Bastille Day by Rush!!! Also Time Stand Still
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Hahaha... my little crew dubbed this song my "theme song" back in my late teens. Surprised I am still alive I never NEVER expected to get to this old.
Robert Boyer
I know what you mean. I always thought that I would get killed in my 1971 Trans Am. That was the fastest car I ever had it had a 455 with a four speed transmission in it. The engine was bored out and had a big cam two and a half inch headers going into six inch collectors then the stock mufflers so it wasn't loud unless you punched it and the tires broke loose and started screaming even though it had 60 series tires on all four wheels. The speedometer went to 165 mph and once I had it close to being pegged but had to let off it because the front end of the car got really light and it felt almost like it was floating. It ended up getting hit by an older woman (66 years old) that ran a stop sign and hit me at my passenger side back wheel and twisted the body so bad that on the drivers side rear roof piller was wrinkled up. I was unhurt but by neck felt like maybe my neck muscles got a bit stretched a bit so I spent the night in the hospital for observation. That was the only time I was in a hospital until about three weeks ago when I spent 13 days in the hospital for spine fusion surgery and a tumor removed as much as they could because the tumor was wrapped around all those nerves that come around your tailbone. Unfortunately the tumor turned out to be stage 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma both my kidneys have tumors as does my right lung and what is left on my lower spine. At least since my surgery I don't have the part of the tumor that was pressing against my sciatic nerve. For a little over three months I had the worst pain I've ever felt in my life staring in my tailbone then it would go over to my right butt cheek and down my hamstring. My back is healing well now. I probably don't have very many years left but I'm 63 years old and have had a good life and had a lot of good times. If fact there are a lot of my memories from the 70s and 80s that are a bit fuzzy if you know what I mean. Lol. So I'm just going live the rest of my life to the fullest. And not worry about things that I have no control over. The 70s and 80s rocked!
All time favorite song from the Crue. ❤️❤️
Did you watch The Dirt movie about motley crue?
Weekends in the 80s, speaking from experience, was basically going to concerts every Friday or Saturday night and sometimes both. This was in Utah no less I can’t even imagine what it would’ve been like in LA. The 80s were slammin when it came to rock ‘n’ roll and going to concerts. I miss the 80s and those fantastic concerts!!!
I saw Triumph twice and Ozzy once in a week span!! In the 80's
And this video right here is when my love of Mötley Crüe and Nikki Sixx started! I’ve seen them in concert twice and they put on a great show. Don’t get me wrong, I knew who they were and I liked their music going back to shout at the devil but this song sealed the deal.
If you want to see one of the original makeup and hair bands check out Twisted Sister
Twisted sister came way after motley Crue. Motley Crue was one of the first hair bands/glam metal.
I digress, Twisted Sister was playing music since 72, I was probably thinking they came later because I saw them in concert LONG after Motley Crue.
@@carasteed1457 twisted sister formed in 1972 nine years before motley cure
The first recognized band in the hair metal genre to score a top 10 hit in America would have been Quiet Riot their big songs would have been come on feel the noise and Metal Health you should definitely check out both of those videos
Cum on Feel the Noize was actually a Slade cover.....
M3 Fest in Maryland was crazy! I'm 43 now, so I couldn't experience it when it was going on...but I have met many of them!
Need this tonight! Jamel, so excited to hear you get to more Crue. Or that I'm finding more reactions. Their energy is infectious!! L.A.
I would say “hair metal” started somewhere between Motley Crue and Def Leppard. Two bands I can get originality from where, most “hair metal” bands from that era I feel sound like copycats. Just my humble opinion though. Would love to hear others thoughts on where hair metal all started!
Black Sabbath ? Long hair metal from 68
Quiet Riot was definitely one of the first.
This was a cool show to be at...
They filmed this in Indy at Market Square Arena.
Touching on your thoughts of being there in the 80s, on the Sunset Strip... you're right. The sheer amount of talent in the room at any given time was phenomenal. And it was a party every night. Living in LA, you hear all the stories and get to relive a bit of it when you hit up some of the venues that made that time period what it was. Myself, I am also 40 going on 41. So I have seen my share of shows from alot of these bands. Motley Crue I have seen about 10 times. Best was 2011 at the famous Sunset Strip Music Festival. They literally shutdown a couple block section of the Strip for the show. Motley Crue came on right after Bush. Sun was setting. Flanked by legendary bars & venues: Rainbow Bar and Grill, The Roxy, The Whiskey, The Viper Room, The Key Club (at the time). Right down the street from the Crue's old apartment. It was a surreal moment. Almost like the ghosts of that decade of decadence came back to life to witness Motley Crue rock the Strip. A night I will never forget. And afterward, it was a madhouse. You had members of some of those bands partying with people, lines of people up and down the Strip waiting to get into places. Music everywhere. Tommy was in The Whiskey raising hell. It was a wild night. I remember running into this guy that said he hasn't seen the Strip that alive since 1989. Pretty cool. They were basically the most notorious band on the Strip at that time. If you get a chance, watch a video on here called "When Metal Ruled the World". It was an old VH1 documentary that talked about the debauchery of these bands during that time. Very interesting.
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Seen them live back in the day crazy concert, party time 🎉🎸🎸🎤🥁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘😎🤘
KISS was the very first to make that very popular. They also introduced the pyro effect to live shows🤘
I saw them on that tour in 1987
Whitesnake opened for them and Dude, one of the best rock concerts Ive seen. I love those days and the music.
These days we're in now, is an embarrassment, music, the way things are with everything! Pathetic.
Im honored to have grown up and lived in the 70s and 80s. So cool, so nice.
I love watching your reactions. You always have the most genuine expressions!
Got to love that big 80's sound.🤘🤘🤘
The Dictators and New York Dolls introduced hair metal. but W.A.S.P. and the Crue really brought what 80's dark glam metal presented us. VanHalen genuinely brought it.
One of my top 10 favorite bands! I listen to them since i'm 7 years old!!
I was 21, living in LA when this album came out. It was wild! Part of that was just being young but LA was :Rock Clubs, Strip Clubs, Concerts, Fast Cars and some drugs and alcohol. Damn, what a party!
I saw a LOT of concerts back then and this one was one of the BEST!!!!! The Crue put on an awesome concert!!! This was back when you could see 2 or 3 bands for $20-$30, and GOOD bands too!!! To see true “glam metal” as it started, see Motley Crue “Shout At The Devil”
Most memorable Crue experience was this tour and tommy solo and that kit going up in the air, spinning around as he jammed to zeppelin songs....that was awesome.
Motley Crue was the leaders in hair metal.
Whoooo! The 80’s was a great time! Especially as a teenager! 💙👍✌️
Hanoi Rocks of Finland is credited for starting the Hair Metal image. Early groups in America were Motley Crue, Blondie and the theatrical king and godfather of metal Alice Cooper.
I saw them on 5 consecutive tours starting with Shout at the Devil, those shows were absolutely insane!
A lot of the "hair metal" or "glam metal" bands like Motely reference the New York Dolls as an influence. They were part of the glam rock movement in the 70s.
In the LA scene..the first band to breakout and give the glam scene out there national recognition was Quite Riot. A lot of the influences came from NY Dolls, Bowie, T-Rex and KISS. People can make fun of the glam look...but there were many many amazing musicians at this time in music.
These guys deserve to be honored to what other people are afraid to do they do not care they just cared about music and pleasing the fans
1987 was the year that it all came together. There were some bands that had been around prior to that year. But as time went on more and more bands came on the scene and became "hair metal". I don't know who started that phrase but it is misleading. "Hair metal" became a collective term for all band that were hard and or heavy. And to visualize the majority had long hair. Ultimately, there were 2 genre's being blended together. The first ones to start this genre up was, I believe, Def Leppard with their super album Pyromania in late December 1982/early January 1983. The others to follow are: Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Ratt, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Dokken, Lita Ford (true heavy metal: Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Accept were getting noticed as well). There where already established bands like Ozzy Osbourne, Motorhead, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were gaining popularity. MTV was playing a lot of videos back then and it was a visual form of discovering new bands. Back when MTV actually played music videos, it was a sure way of getting noticed back then. Somehow they all got lumped together. Probably because of the energy in the music and the shredding guitars along with the long hair. We had the best music in the 80's IMO. Andrew Awakened is right... in the 80's it was referred to as "glam metal" and "hair metal" is really a diss on the genre and the era. Poison were late players in the game. They came on the scene in 1987. Def Leppard's first release was the song Photograph. I was 13 and I remember it well. It broke new ground for musicians and set the bar higher in terms of production. Thanks in part to Mutt Lang who produced Pyromania and Hysteria.
I grew up in West Hollywood during the 80s and was around this scene as my parents were musicians. There was definitely early influence from The New York Dolls, Alice Cooper, David Bowie and Kiss from the 70s. But the scene on the sunset strip that I was a kid around in the early 80s is considered the birth of Hair Metal or Glam Metal. I've always considered Motley Crue the pioneering band with others like Ratt, WASP, and many that most have never heard of joining in.