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1980s Heavy Metal and L.A. Hair Bands
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 3, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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Prayer, drag, Headbangers, sensitive, glam, Jersey, virtuosic, lecherous, chords, Boston, sexist, teased, power, Sambora, popular, 1987, extreme, Motorhead, Axl, womens, big, cheesy, Dirty, ridiculous, balance, tempo, intending, Jungle
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heavy metal hits the        time
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bands from the first half of the 80s had decent success
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Van Halen
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but there wasn't really a move toward heavy metal yet
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second half of the 80s, heavy metal becomes much more               
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two bands that started off this trend, but not particularly thought of now as heavy metal
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Bon Jovi
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New             
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Jon Bon Jovi
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Ritchie               
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1986 Slippery When Wet
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many of the features of heavy metal rock from early 80s
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"You Give Love a Bad Name"
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"Livin' On a             "
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"Wanted Dead of Alive"
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created a momentum that other groups were able to emulate
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Guns and Roses
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Los Angeles
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       Rose
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Slash
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         Appetite for Destruction
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that was the album that tipped the                for heavy metal
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today not perceived so much as heavy metal
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"Welcome to the             "
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"Sweet Child o' Mine"
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"Paradise City"
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1987                        Ball
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on MTV
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playing nothing but Heavy Metal
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L.A. Hair Bands
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bands that are         -influenced in their use of clothing, bands that have this spandex thing going with feathered boas, leopard-skin vests, and all this kind of stuff starts to show up
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and make-up, and I don't just mean make-up to accent their eyes but make-up like             ' makeup, heavy makeup
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they've got              hair, they have long hair and its flowing down and it all gets kind of teased up
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a distinct look that celebrates less glamour per se as in the 1970s, but a cheap kind of glamour more associated with strip clubs and              bars
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that's the kind of stuff they were embracing
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it's not that they didn't know how to do the more sophisticated glamour kind of thing, they were embracing this element of the low night life
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this is what these bands were standing for
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Mötley Crüe
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a type of L.A. Hair Band
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Poison
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took it to an               
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1986 Look What the Cat Dragged In
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Talk            to Me
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a good representative of Hair Bands
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a compact form
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not a long, extended tune
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has a                    guitar solo, but not too long
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             lyrics typify Hair Bands, sexually predatory                    kind of attitude, almost exaggerated in cartoonish proportions
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1988 Open Up and Say...Ahh!
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Every Rose Has Its Thorn
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the            ballad
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arose out of the 1970s from e.g.             's more than a feeling
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every metal band has got to have the one tune, where the lead guitarist would pick up a 12-string guitar and start to play some open              in a kind of stairway to heaven moment
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and the lead singer sort of shows his                    side
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yeah, I may pursue women and drink hard, but heck, I'm a sensitive guy, too
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then they sort of do that whole sensitive guy thing for a minute
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usually about two-thirds the way through the show to slow down the            before it picked up again for the grand finale
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in spite of the fact that these heavy metal L.A. hair bands seemed to dress up like women, almost as if they were in         , it had the effect of actually attracting more women somehow
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they actually had a strong female following
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in spite of the fact that that is probably not what they were                   
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often when people make fun of stadium Heavy Metal from the 80s, what they are really making fun of are the Hair Bands from L.A. because they think bits of it were                     
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Warrant
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Winger
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Skid Row

Ideas and Concepts:

From the primal scream department, memories of the 80s via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "By the mid 80s, heavy metal really hadn't taken off as a major industry, but Guns N' Roses 1987 album Appetite for Destruction was the album that tipped the balance to make heavy metal a major industry, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 a year after its release. The album has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide, including 18 million units in the United States, making it the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. Guns N' Roses has been credited with reviving the mainstream popularity of rock music, at a time when popular music was dominated by dance music and glam metal. Alx Rose, Slash and team brought forth a hedonistic rebelliousness reminiscent of the early Rolling Stones, a reputation that earned the group the nickname the most dangerous band in the world."
From the 1980s unfortunate musical genre department, via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "L.A. Hair Bands were bands that were glam-influenced in their use of clothing, most of them had a kind of spandex thing going with feathered boas, leopard-skin vests, and all this kind of stuff starts to show up. And they had makeup, and I don't just mean makeup to accent their eyes but makeup like womens' makeup, heavy makeup. They had teased hair, this long hair and it's flowing down and it all gets kind of teased up. In general, they had a distinct look that celebrated less glamour per se as in the 1970s, but a cheap kind of glamour more associated with lowly strip clubs and cheesy bars. That's the kind of stuff they were embracing. It's not that they didn't know how to do the more sophisticated glamour kind of thing, they were just embracing this element of the low night life. This is what these bands stood for."
On the Heavy Metal power ballad, via tonight's History of Rock class: "The Heavy Metal power ballad arose out of the 1970s from songs such as Boston's More Than a Feeling. Every 1980s Metal Band had to have one of these, where the lead guitarist would pick up a 12-string guitar and start to play some open chords in a kind of Stairway to Heaven moment, and the lead singer would sort of show his sensitive side, as if to say, yeah, I may pursue women and drink hard, but heck, I'm a sensitive guy, too, and then they would all sort of do this whole sensitive guy thing for a while. The power ballad would usually be played about two-thirds the way through a show to slow down the tempo before it picked up again for the grand finale. And if there was one typical 1980s Heavy Metal power ballad, it was Poison's Every Rose Has Its Thorn."
On ironic and ludicrous musical genres, via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "In spite of the fact that these Heavy Metal L.A. Hair Bands seemed to dress up like women, almost as if they were in drag, it had the effect of actually attracting more women somehow. They actually had a strong female following in spite of the fact that this was probably not what they were intending. Often when people make fun of stadium Heavy Metal from the 1980s, what they are really making fun of are the Hair Bands from Los Angeles because they think what these bands were doing and what they stood for was ridiculous."
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