Members Hand Amputation Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members axegrinder Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 When that Aqua Net factory exploded in 1987 everything was set in motion. Conspiracy theorists will tell you that Proctor & Gamble later arranged to have Cobain snuffed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vikingrat Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Adult Hood. That generation had to get a job and have kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vikingrat Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nobody really ended it. The fans grew out of it and moved on with their lives, just like kids do with every music scene. +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nirvana, with zero doubt. They showed a generation of nothings that you could still be rock stars even if you sucked ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nirvana, with zero doubt. They showed a generation of nothings that you could still be rock stars even if you sucked ass. Bitter, party of one: Your table is ready... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Bitter, party of one: Your table is ready... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Arr0wHead Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Nirvana gets too much credit. Right before Nevermind broke, bands like RHCP and Metallica were playing award shows and national TV, Pearl Jam was getting attention, and the entire "alternative scene" of bands like Jane's Addiction were getting a lot more attention. Hair metal was already dying. Then, as the final insult, Nirvana came along and gave this entire disillusioned music movement a poster child, and a name. Yes, Nirvana made the strongest impact. Doesn't matter if Nirvana was the best surfer on the wave, surfers didn't drown hair metal. The wave of alternative and folkish rock music drowned it. And much as they get so much credit for the scene they only put 3 albums into, they get so much credit for killing a scene that had spent the last 5+ years dying. Both are unfair, and inaccurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 In a more serious note: I (and I must assume a lot of other folks might fit in this category) had pretty much stopped listening to MTV and Top-40 radio by the end of the 80s because of the preponderance of crap. By 1989, I was mostly listening to Alt/college radio stations. Nobody killed Hair Metal -- rather, as some here have opined it collapsed on its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 I'd say "Grunge" music on a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fanuvbrak Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 This sums it up: It was 1990 give or take I don't rememberwhen the news of revolution hit the airThe girls hadn't even started taking down our posterswhen the boys started cutting off their hairThe radio stations all decided angst was finally old enoughit ought to have a proper homeDead fat or rich nobody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members skibob Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 I'm gonna go in a little different direction and say Garth Brooks was one of the ones that started the demise. Without a doubt Nirvana dealt the death blow, and GNR & Metallica helped, but Garth Brooks started making "country" music popular in the late 80s/early 90s and that started to pull a lot of would-be hair band fans in that direction. The people that wanted musicians with pretty hair went the country route and the people that wanted rock n roll went the grunge route. The hair bands were left high and dry in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kap'n Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Does it matter? As long as it's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kellanium Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Kurt Cobain This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 I'm gonna go in a little different direction and say Garth Brooks was one of the ones that started the demise. Without a doubt Nirvana dealt the death blow, and GNR & Metallica helped, but Garth Brooks started making "country" music popular in the late 80s/early 90s and that started to pull a lot of would-be hair band fans in that direction. The people that wanted musicians with pretty hair went the country route and the people that wanted rock n roll went the grunge route. The hair bands were left high and dry in the middle. Interesting perspective. Garths live shows were HUGE eighties style arena extravaganzas and were a continuation of everything that was already going on in the eighties. I'm sure you are right that at least some of the eighties rock crowd went that direction. Garth was one of the biggest country musicians to ever live during the nineties having tons more sales than any country artist had ever seen before. All those new fans had to come from somewhere. Nowadays, when my country band plays live, and I see all those dolled up hot ass country girls out there line dancing, they remind me of all the hot little mammas that used to crowd the stages at our hair metal shows. Same girls, they are just wearing different clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JohnnyDD Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 I never liked hair metal but watched its history from the sidelines. It became a parody of itself. Add Mike Judge to the list of those who brought it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 whoever it was... well... i love them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor Morbius Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Thread: Who ended Hair Band craze?The same people that started it. The record labels and promoters. They came out with a new craze and called it grunge/alternative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 I never liked hair metal but watched its history from the sidelines. It became a parody of itself. Add Mike Judge to the list of those who brought it down. i think Mike Judge had more to do with it than people realized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seahorse Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 Another vote for Nirvana. I remember seeing the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit; and within a couple of weeks ..hair metal was dead. It was that instant. It was no record label conspiracy ; it was just something that happened like Elvis or the Beatles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Brewski Posted July 19, 2012 Members Share Posted July 19, 2012 I remember it was the band Nitro! Did anyone see the frieght train video! So over the top thatvits not taken off youtube! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fusion1 Posted July 20, 2012 Members Share Posted July 20, 2012 Seems like a lot of the local hair metal acts in Florida, have gone the way of country. Seems weird they would destroy metal and then move on to destroy country too. Interesting perspective.Garths live shows were HUGE eighties style arena extravaganzas and were a continuation of everything that was already going on in the eighties. I'm sure you are right that at least some of the eighties rock crowd went that direction. Garth was one of the biggest country musicians to ever live during the nineties having tons more sales than any country artist had ever seen before.All those new fans had to come from somewhere.Nowadays, when my country band plays live, and I see all those dolled up hot ass country girls out there line dancing, they remind me of all the hot little mammas that used to crowd the stages at our hair metal shows.Same girls, they are just wearing different clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wimpy77 Posted July 20, 2012 Members Share Posted July 20, 2012 Interesting perspective.Garths live shows were HUGE eighties style arena extravaganzas and were a continuation of everything that was already going on in the eighties. I'm sure you are right that at least some of the eighties rock crowd went that direction. Garth was one of the biggest country musicians to ever live during the nineties having tons more sales than any country artist had ever seen before.All those new fans had to come from somewhere.Nowadays, when my country band plays live, and I see all those dolled up hot ass country girls out there line dancing, they remind me of all the hot little mammas that used to crowd the stages at our hair metal shows.Same girls, they are just wearing different clothes. I agree with you but to hear guys like Hank Williams Jr and others from that time period, you would think Garth ruined country. Once he hit it big nobody like him in the industry because they couldn't sell the records or make the money he was making at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted July 20, 2012 Members Share Posted July 20, 2012 Seems like a lot of the local hair metal acts in Florida, have gone the way of country. Seems weird they would destroy metal and then move on to destroy country too. Really? Are you just guessing or can you specifically name any of these ex hairbands from florida that have gone country and are ruining it? And as far as "going" country, I was born in Lynchburg Virginia, one of the moonshine capitals of the world and my mama was a North Carolina backwoods hillbilly. I grew up in Virginia, Dallas and Florida. And don't under estimate Florida for appreciating country music. As soon as you get away from the coast or the bigger cities, Florida us 100% country music loving rednecks. We have some of the most popular award winning country music radio stations in the country, and just as an ecole, there are four huge county music clubs within about a 30 mile radius of Tampa that on any given night might have close to 1000 people there, that's in each club. We have the single largest country music festival in the southeast, up here in Live Oak Florida at the Spirit of Suwannee Music park called the Suwannee River jam, which we were lucky enoighvto play one of the prime spots in the whole four day event. My very first musical experiences were with country and it is engrained in my roots and although I loved and lived the rock scene, I always remained a country fan as we'll. As far as the band I play in now, ALL if them besides me have been country musicians their whole lives. I don't know who the ex hairbands from Florida are that are now ruining country music are. Do you have some examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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