Any GLAM METALERS around?

carnada · 08-17-2009, 06:31 PM

I love glam metal, I wish I was back in the 80s so I could wear weird clothes and have curly hair instead of loooonggg plain hair

Tell your stories from the glam metal years!! post pictures of your costumes if you have some!

woodddj · 08-17-2009, 07:30 PM

i was there, but dont remember much of it. but i do remember in 83 we were flooded by massive amounts of metal from our all time greats. quiet riot-metal health, ratt- out of the cellar, ozzy-bark at the moon, maiden-piece of mind, krokus-headhunter, priest- vengeance, motley crue-shout at the devil, def leppard- pyromania, accept- balls to the wall, dio-holy diver. the list is endless.

HOT TUBES 70 · 08-18-2009, 02:13 AM

if its 80's metal , i listened to it !!!!!
here's some not so common ones ........

KEEL , TT. QUICK , BLACK N BLUE , WRATHCHILD (80's UK !)

HOT TUBES 70 · 08-18-2009, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by woodddj

i was there, but dont remember much of it. but i do remember in 83 we were flooded by massive amounts of metal from our all time greats. quiet riot-metal health, ratt- out of the cellar, ozzy-bark at the moon, maiden-piece of mind, krokus-headhunter, priest- vengeance, motley crue-shout at the devil, def leppard- pyromania, accept- balls to the wall, dio-holy diver. the list is endless.

sweet list dude !!!

Jesstaa · 08-18-2009, 03:58 AM

Don't mind some of the music, but sorry if I seem typical thrash with this - The outfits are so gay. Seriously lol, GUYS SHOULDN'T LOOK LIKE CHICKS IN THE METAL SCENE D= It weirds me out.

woodddj · 08-18-2009, 05:23 AM

most of us look back and ask ourself what in the hell was i thinking? why did i wear that stuff? but back then it was the style and everyone wanted to look cool. its kinda like some of todays styles, i look and see some of the kids with paints that have over 100 zippers and chains on them. and it will be hot as hell out side and kids are wearing beanie hats. its the style, and like ii said, everybody wants to be cool.

rockinr0ll · 08-18-2009, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesstaa

Don't mind some of the music, but sorry if I seem typical thrash with this - The outfits are so gay. Seriously lol, GUYS SHOULDN'T LOOK LIKE CHICKS IN THE METAL SCENE D= It weirds me out.

lol well... Judas Priest is pretty bad ass.

80's Rocker · 08-18-2009, 04:58 PM

YEA! It is like the only thing I really play except for Zeppelin and the like. I love it, the guitars looked cool and sounded even cooler, the look was awesome, the music was not depressing and it was nothin' but a good time! I wish I was alive then to experience it, but Nirvana had to come and screw it all up.( No offence to anybody who likes them) I think that glam metal is slowly starting to come back though, you got bands like steel panther, and newer talent that really enjoyes playing the music and the style of it. What goes around comes around, and it might as well be the 80s!

MartyStrat54 · 08-18-2009, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesstaa

Don't mind some of the music, but sorry if I seem typical thrash with this - The outfits are so gay. Seriously lol, GUYS SHOULDN'T LOOK LIKE CHICKS IN THE METAL SCENE D= It weirds me out.

As I said on other posts, I had hair down to the crack of my ass and I only used a little hair spray on top to get my hair feathered out. I always wore worn out blue jeans with a $400 pair of boots (I had three pairs.) Then a T-Shirt, usually black, with a current hot, Rocker Band like Priest and that was my outfit. All the guys in the band dressed like this and the lead singer was the exception. He was the front man and he got into the "femmy" look. Oh well, at least we got gigs back then.

Jesstaa · 08-18-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MartyStrat54

As I said on other posts, I had hair down to the crack of my ass and I only used a little hair spray on top to get my hair feathered out. I always wore worn out blue jeans with a $400 pair of boots (I had three pairs.) Then a T-Shirt, usually black, with a current hot, Rocker Band like Priest and that was my outfit. All the guys in the band dressed like this and the lead singer was the exception. He was the front man and he got into the "femmy" look. Oh well, at least we got gigs back then.

I just like to look normal old metal, tight black jeans, black t shirt, white sneakers, long black sweatbands (Really gotta get me some, used to steal my mates one all the time, was brutal) long messy hair (gotta grow mine a bit more though, and get the black out of it) and a bit of facial hair.

MartyStrat54 · 08-18-2009, 09:55 PM

You just described what 90 per cent of all convicts look like.

Jesstaa · 08-18-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MartyStrat54

You just described what 90 per cent of all convicts look like.

Oi, was that in reference to Australia? -_-
Lol

MartyStrat54 · 08-19-2009, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by HOT TUBES 70

if its 80's metal , i listened to it !!!!!
here's some not so common ones ........

KEEL , TT. QUICK , BLACK N BLUE , WRATHCHILD (80's UK !)

Living in Phoenix during the 80's had its advantages. LA was just a quick jump away and Phoenix was certainly big enough to draw numerous major acts. A lot of these acts actually based themselves out of Phoenix, because it was cheaper. One act that stayed is KEEL. I used to go into 800 seat bars in Phoenix to watch these guys. By the mid 90's KEEL reinvented themselves...as country rockers! Yes, they went from glam metal to country pickers in the course of about 10 years. They all got married to local girls (who I am sure had rich daddies

). I just wanted to bring this up, because KEEL never made it super big time.

MusicMight :: Artists :: KEEL

What's cool is the original Keel had a member from ICON, a popular local band. You might want to go to the above link, because some of the personnel might surprise you. Also, dig the outfits these guys were wearing when they took their first album cover shot.

HOT TUBES 70 · 08-19-2009, 03:10 PM

thanks for the info !!!

i used to listen to these guys alot back in the 80's during the metal craze .
i knew they never got into the big leagues but still had some good tunes none
the less . Ron Keel has turned out to be a big time producer etc these days.

MartyStrat54 · 08-19-2009, 04:44 PM

Hey, that's what all of the famous or not so famous musician's become...producers. I mean I met Ronnie Montrose and Rick Derringer on several occasions, because they were producing young, talented bands. Rick has been producing for years. He produced Madam X (with the Petrucci sisters, Maxine and Roxy). They ended up with a lead vocalist by the name of Sebastian Bach (does that name ring a bell?). Well of course he went on to Skid Row and got all fugged up on coke and they kicked him out of the band and then the band dissolved. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Look out, something bad is going to bite you in the ass.

HOT TUBES 70 · 08-20-2009, 01:14 AM

you can take that to the bank !!!!!!!!!

carnada · 08-20-2009, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by MartyStrat54

As I said on other posts, I had hair down to the crack of my ass and I only used a little hair spray on top to get my hair feathered out. I always wore worn out blue jeans with a $400 pair of boots (I had three pairs.) Then a T-Shirt, usually black, with a current hot, Rocker Band like Priest and that was my outfit. All the guys in the band dressed like this and the lead singer was the exception. He was the front man and he got into the "femmy" look. Oh well, at least we got gigs back then.

any tips to get a glam metal hair? my hair is long but its not curly at all!! its really straighttttt. I want it a little "feathered out" but not that farrah fosset style lol. I want more like this

like the "blond" guy on the right, or the guy on the very left

I would still kinda shit my pants if I went down the street with hair like that. I would probably just take my equipment to gigs and go to the washroom a few minutes before I go on stage and do all the "magic" put the spandex on get all thta shit, and go on stage, and then everyone would be like "OMG!!! you can see his dicK!!" lololololol

MartyStrat54 · 08-20-2009, 04:31 PM

Well, I can tell you are new to all of this. You can't go to the washroom for a few minutes to get hair like that. Everyone of those guys in RATT had a professional hair stylist working their magic. I was lucky. My first wife was a beautician and did a bang-up job on my hair for every show, but it took at least 30 minutes of someone else doing it. It takes a combination of gel and Aqua Net hair spray. (Please note that this shit is highly flammable. Avoid using it around exposed light bulbs.) The trick is to put some gel into your hand and add a little water and work the water into the gel and this thins it out and it will dry faster. Starting at the base of your hair, you work the gel from base to tip. You do this all over the top of your hair. You then let it set up a bit. Then comes the difficult part of using a hair dryer and a "teasing comb/brush" to begin the feathering process. You have to work the hair in sections. Once the hair has been feathered and looks good, you blast the hell out of it with Aqua Net. Now you hair is guaranteed to withstand the heat from stage lights and any sweating that may occur. It stays like that until you shower it out.

How's that for some "Big Hair" instructions?

ToneZone100 · 08-20-2009, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by carnada

I would still kinda shit my pants if I went down the street with hair like that. I would probably just take my equipment to gigs and go to the washroom a few minutes before I go on stage and do all the "magic" put the spandex on get all thta shit, and go on stage, and then everyone would be like "OMG!!! you can see his dicK!!" lololololol

Dude, I used to work on construction sites to subsidise my band activities back in the 80's. It must have looked funny as hell with this 6'3" guy with blond backcombed big hair carrying bricks and mortar on building sites. You would not beleive the sh1t I got from other guys on the sites but I didn't care, that's what I liked to wear. When not at work I had skin tight jeans and t-shirts with my prized Laredo boots. For on stage I had about 5 different pairs of spandex pants and a bunch of ripped up t-shirts and white boxers boots, all of course set off by some BIG hair!

"Glam" was the soundtrack to my teens and I still love it. I'm going to see Ratt in December which is the first time I've seen them since Donnington in '87 I think it was.

MartyStrat54 · 08-20-2009, 10:49 PM

BIG HAIR-HOT WOMEN!!! YEAH, BABY!!!

carnada · 08-21-2009, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by MartyStrat54

BIG HAIR-HOT WOMEN!!! YEAH, BABY!!!

LAWLAWLAWLAWLAWLAWLAWL its sooo true tho, man I so want a girlfriend lawl.

Anyways, today I asked my cousin if she would like to be my "hair technician" LLOLOLOLOLOL and she said yes! Maybe some day I will upload some pictures of me with my future stage shit lol, I got some spandex, but they are not that awesome....Do you guys know where I can get some awesome spandex?

carnada · 08-21-2009, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by MartyStrat54

How's that for some "Big Hair" instructions?

damn good lessons man. I will try to make my cousin read that. Do you have any pictures of your hair back then?

Also, would just applying hair spray work just fine for some glam metal hair?

ToneZone100 · 08-21-2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by carnada

....Do you guys know where I can get some awesome spandex?

I used to buy rock climbing pants. There was an outdoor/extreme sports shop in Brighton and they sold these skin tight pants that those loony rock climbers wear. They come in some really wacky patterns. I'm sure an internet search will uncover your perfect legwear!

MartyStrat54 · 08-21-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by carnada

damn good lessons man. I will try to make my cousin read that. Do you have any pictures of your hair back then?

Also, would just applying hair spray work just fine for some glam metal hair?

It would depend a lot on the thickness of your hair. If you have thin hair, you could probably get by with just hairspray. We all used gel plus hairspray, because we knew that it would hold up in a snowstorm.

I do have a lot of pictures with my big hair, but they are in a storage locker in Oklahoma. I plan on getting that stuff out in the next few months and I will use my scanner to make some digital images. I wish I had some to show you right now.

carnada · 08-22-2009, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by MartyStrat54

It would depend a lot on the thickness of your hair. If you have thin hair, you could probably get by with just hairspray. We all used gel plus hairspray, because we knew that it would hold up in a snowstorm.

I do have a lot of pictures with my big hair, but they are in a storage locker in Oklahoma. I plan on getting that stuff out in the next few months and I will use my scanner to make some digital images. I wish I had some to show you right now.

Did you do your hair every day? or was it just for the weekend when you were off work?

:laugh 2:

Shawn Fate · 08-22-2009, 10:58 AM

Hair to the air !

80's Rocker · 08-22-2009, 01:21 PM

Big hair anyone?

HOT TUBES 70 · 08-22-2009, 01:51 PM

look at the haystack on that guy !!!! LOL !!!!! LOVE IT !!!!

woodddj · 08-22-2009, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by 80's Rocker

Big hair anyone?

these dude's kick ass, i had NITRO'S O.F.R. tape back in the 80's but over the years the damn thing wore out from being played so much. i now have the cd and keep it loaded in my ipod. the NITRO cd's are getting very hard to come by. if you find one you might have to pay $30 to $50 bucks for it.

MartyStrat54 · 08-22-2009, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by carnada

Did you do your hair every day? or was it just for the weekend when you were off work?

:laugh 2:

We sometimes played Thursday through Saturday, so I went through the ritual three times a week. The rest of the time I just wore it in a ponytail. People were always telling me, "Man you have a lot of hair!" In the Glam era, your hair was everything. I knew guys who were going bald at 20-21 years of age and they had expensive wigs (made of human hair) that they put on each night. It was shocking to see them on stage and then two hours after a show.

I sometimes wonder out of the bands that made it, how many members wore a wig?

08-17-2009, 06:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
carnada Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 658	Any GLAM METALERS around? I love glam metal, I wish I was back in the 80s so I could wear weird clothes and have curly hair instead of loooonggg plain hair Tell your stories from the glam metal years!! post pictures of your costumes if you have some!

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woodddj Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: alabama Posts: 259	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? i was there, but dont remember much of it. but i do remember in 83 we were flooded by massive amounts of metal from our all time greats. quiet riot-metal health, ratt- out of the cellar, ozzy-bark at the moon, maiden-piece of mind, krokus-headhunter, priest- vengeance, motley crue-shout at the devil, def leppard- pyromania, accept- balls to the wall, dio-holy diver. the list is endless. __________________ AVT50X and AVT20X MG15MSII

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woodddj Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: alabama Posts: 259	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? most of us look back and ask ourself what in the hell was i thinking? why did i wear that stuff? but back then it was the style and everyone wanted to look cool. its kinda like some of todays styles, i look and see some of the kids with paints that have over 100 zippers and chains on them. and it will be hot as hell out side and kids are wearing beanie hats. its the style, and like ii said, everybody wants to be cool. __________________ AVT50X and AVT20X MG15MSII

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80's Rocker Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: stuck in the 80's! Posts: 251	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? YEA! It is like the only thing I really play except for Zeppelin and the like. I love it, the guitars looked cool and sounded even cooler, the look was awesome, the music was not depressing and it was nothin' but a good time! I wish I was alive then to experience it, but Nirvana had to come and screw it all up.( No offence to anybody who likes them) I think that glam metal is slowly starting to come back though, you got bands like steel panther, and newer talent that really enjoyes playing the music and the style of it. What goes around comes around, and it might as well be the 80s! __________________ 80's Rocker Epiphone Les Paul Stantard Marshall JCM 800 2204 1960 Cab Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer Charvel Model 1 Rock On!

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MartyStrat54 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Formerly Phoenix, now north of KC Posts: 2,580	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? You just described what 90 per cent of all convicts look like. __________________ MARTY 2009 Gibson Explorer-Hell Raising Machine 1989 Fender Strat Plus USA 2008 Fender Tele USA 2004 Schecter Elite w/DiMarzio's TSL100 with custom 4x12 cab. TSL122 with Man 'O War Speakers. TSL602 #1 with JBL D123 Speakers and 602 #2 with Altec 417 Speakers. "Oh so sweet my friends." DSL401 #1 with Red Fang Speaker and 401 #2 with JBL D123 Speaker. Tubes: Let's just say they are NOS that kick ass.

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HOT TUBES 70 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: SASKATOON Posts: 1,675	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? thanks for the info !!! i used to listen to these guys alot back in the 80's during the metal craze . i knew they never got into the big leagues but still had some good tunes none the less . Ron Keel has turned out to be a big time producer etc these days. __________________ MARSHALL 6100LM MARSHALL 1960A W/-G12H 30's CUSTOM BUILT 2X12 W/-V30's "MARSHALL" - only the best will do !

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MartyStrat54 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Formerly Phoenix, now north of KC Posts: 2,580	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? Hey, that's what all of the famous or not so famous musician's become...producers. I mean I met Ronnie Montrose and Rick Derringer on several occasions, because they were producing young, talented bands. Rick has been producing for years. He produced Madam X (with the Petrucci sisters, Maxine and Roxy). They ended up with a lead vocalist by the name of Sebastian Bach (does that name ring a bell?). Well of course he went on to Skid Row and got all fugged up on coke and they kicked him out of the band and then the band dissolved. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Look out, something bad is going to bite you in the ass. __________________ MARTY 2009 Gibson Explorer-Hell Raising Machine 1989 Fender Strat Plus USA 2008 Fender Tele USA 2004 Schecter Elite w/DiMarzio's TSL100 with custom 4x12 cab. TSL122 with Man 'O War Speakers. TSL602 #1 with JBL D123 Speakers and 602 #2 with Altec 417 Speakers. "Oh so sweet my friends." DSL401 #1 with Red Fang Speaker and 401 #2 with JBL D123 Speaker. Tubes: Let's just say they are NOS that kick ass.

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HOT TUBES 70 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: SASKATOON Posts: 1,675	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? you can take that to the bank !!!!!!!!! __________________ MARSHALL 6100LM MARSHALL 1960A W/-G12H 30's CUSTOM BUILT 2X12 W/-V30's "MARSHALL" - only the best will do !

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MartyStrat54 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Formerly Phoenix, now north of KC Posts: 2,580	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? Well, I can tell you are new to all of this. You can't go to the washroom for a few minutes to get hair like that. Everyone of those guys in RATT had a professional hair stylist working their magic. I was lucky. My first wife was a beautician and did a bang-up job on my hair for every show, but it took at least 30 minutes of someone else doing it. It takes a combination of gel and Aqua Net hair spray. (Please note that this shit is highly flammable. Avoid using it around exposed light bulbs.) The trick is to put some gel into your hand and add a little water and work the water into the gel and this thins it out and it will dry faster. Starting at the base of your hair, you work the gel from base to tip. You do this all over the top of your hair. You then let it set up a bit. Then comes the difficult part of using a hair dryer and a "teasing comb/brush" to begin the feathering process. You have to work the hair in sections. Once the hair has been feathered and looks good, you blast the hell out of it with Aqua Net. Now you hair is guaranteed to withstand the heat from stage lights and any sweating that may occur. It stays like that until you shower it out. How's that for some "Big Hair" instructions? __________________ MARTY 2009 Gibson Explorer-Hell Raising Machine 1989 Fender Strat Plus USA 2008 Fender Tele USA 2004 Schecter Elite w/DiMarzio's TSL100 with custom 4x12 cab. TSL122 with Man 'O War Speakers. TSL602 #1 with JBL D123 Speakers and 602 #2 with Altec 417 Speakers. "Oh so sweet my friends." DSL401 #1 with Red Fang Speaker and 401 #2 with JBL D123 Speaker. Tubes: Let's just say they are NOS that kick ass.

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MartyStrat54 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Formerly Phoenix, now north of KC Posts: 2,580	Re: Any GLAM METALERS around? BIG HAIR-HOT WOMEN!!! YEAH, BABY!!! __________________ MARTY 2009 Gibson Explorer-Hell Raising Machine 1989 Fender Strat Plus USA 2008 Fender Tele USA 2004 Schecter Elite w/DiMarzio's TSL100 with custom 4x12 cab. TSL122 with Man 'O War Speakers. TSL602 #1 with JBL D123 Speakers and 602 #2 with Altec 417 Speakers. "Oh so sweet my friends." DSL401 #1 with Red Fang Speaker and 401 #2 with JBL D123 Speaker. Tubes: Let's just say they are NOS that kick ass.

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