Love this album. The whole thing just flows so well
What's strange is that I did not get it until two or three years later. I bought a used copy in an indie record store. I did not get to see this tour but I did see him on Skyscraper.
Favorite songs ?
Ladies Night in Buffalo
Big Trouble
Bump n Grind
Yankee Rose
Shy Boy
I think they bear a certain physical resemblance
Tävling 6 i Rund 1 av min Hair Metal-tävling.
Ratt vs Def Leppard.
Edit. Def Leppard leads 70-54 against Ratt.
I bought this new in 1988 and it's remained factory sealed ever since. It has the original uncensored front artwork and the original department store price sticker is still on the shrink wrap.
I'm trying to determine:
Is this considered a true first pressing or an early variant?
How rare is a sealed copy with the uncensored artwork?
What would you estimate the current collector value to be?
You know damn well ol parrot tongue probably used AI on his vocals. He's been using the same live vocal track from 1987 on his gigs with cues. He will pretend he is testing the mic and sing a few REAL notes to gaslight the audience and then the sound guy hits PLAY on the vocal track.🤣 At one gig, he missed the cue and then pretended the mic was acting up. Total clown.
It finally dawned on me that Ratt is my favorite hair metal band. Every time a poll comes up they get my vote,so that's the proof.
If we look at the mid-to-late '80s era, KISS completely reinvented themselves. They took off the makeup, leaned heavily into the Sunset Strip glam metal explosion, and dropped massive anthems like Lick It Up, Heaven's on Fire, and Tears Are Falling. Paul Stanley was at the absolute peak of his vocal powers, and Bruce Kulick was bringing serious melodic shredding to the table.
On the other side, you have W.A.S.P. Blackie Lawless took the foundational blueprint of 1970s Kiss (the fire, the blood, the theatrics), brought it to LA, and turned the dial up to an absolute 11 for the '80s crowd. With Chris Holmes delivering some of the meanest, heaviest buzzsaw guitar riffs on the Strip, they answered back with tracks like I Wanna Be Somebody, Wild Child, and Blind in Texas.
If you put their '80s catalogs head to head, who would take over a night at the Sunset Strip? Are you going with Paul Stanley's party anthems or Blackie Lawless energy?
Van Halen: 21
Alice Cooper: 13
This was a close one only 8 votes separated the two. Now how about hard rockers Junkyard versus my favorite guitarist from my favorite band Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme (looooove his debut album). Who ya got?!?
one of my fav songs by them! lenny has always been seriously underrated as a vocalist, and somehow he sounds even better live. their self titled debut has 0 skips, and "get it on" is easily one of their best tracks. i’d risk it all to see ‘em live
can’t stop replaying 4:05-5:00 💗
Personally I’m not too fond of the change in musical direction. I’m hoping they get back to something like ‘Hold Your Fire’ era with the next release.
He used to be my favorite guitar player. Both of the first Lynch Mob albums are the holy grail of tasty shred.
Got autographs too! The show was amazing they’re so good even after all these years! The vibrator guitar solo was amazing lol
1995
I’m gonna obsess over this picture for a awhile. I can’t be blamed. I’m a woman.
What were your main gateways for information?
Mine were purely internet based and I'd say revolved around two sites around 1998-2000 before any social media or Wikipedia. I didn't know a single person into hair bands then.
Metal-reviews dot com
This one's probably a totally forgotten deep cut. I remember it was run by an English teacher named Andrew who posted a bunch of reviews in his spare time. Hair metal was definitely in his top favorite genres and I found out about so many bands through the site.
Metalsludge dot tv
I think many people here remember it. It was the Tuff singer's anonymously run site where he played a cast of characters parodying hair metal members of the 80s/early 90s. It had its own community and the site was a 24/7 hair metal portal. Many of the original bands weren't even that old around the time of the site's peak. The e-mail interviews were crazy and guys would pretty much write long novels back in response to the questions.
Hair metal... is inevitable