BANG TANGO- not a big fan. Lead singer tried really hard to be Steven Tyler.
BULLET BOYS-"Smooth up in ya" was overplayed on Headbander's Ball. One album wonder really. A true David Lee Roth wanna be.
DOKKEN- If he shows up it will be a wonder. I went to a LA concert with most of these bands expected to show but Don was having a heavy flow and sitting on a hot water bottle so everyone got pissed and flaked. All was blamed on management and how much each band was supposed to be paid. Yeah, right.
FASTER PUSSYCAT (feat. Brent Muscat)-Techno sh*t from Taime Down. Godawful. First album was great.
FIREHOUSE- Bubble gum poppy rock that although somewhat listenable was'nt anything new.
L.A. GUNS (feat. Tracii Guns)- No Phil Lewis, No LA Guns. Tracii Guns is great guitarist but stop using the name if it is'nt the actual band.
POISON- Seen them a bunch of times. Sloppy in concert and hopefull CC did'nt find any coke.I heard they got into a fight last time they were together.
QUIET RIOT-Metal Health. Say no more. Maybe they won't leave the lead singer at a truckstop because he's so obnoxous.
RATT-Steven Pearcy must have been given alot of money to do this.This could be messy. Warren and Juan don't get along and Bobby Blotser can't stand Steven. Great albums. sucky in concert.
SLAUGHTER-Dana Strum is an arrogant buttwad.
TESLA-Sacramento boys. Great show here at the State Fair. See ya in July.
VINCE NEIL-Facelifted and ready to play more Desmond Child ballads?
WARRANT_Dirty rotten filthy stinking bloated drunk puking falling off the stage or barfing on the bar. Might be fun.
Y&T-Who and where have we been? Summertime Girls? Black Tiger? Google those and get back to me.

Toddbrew1

IvyLeagueMetalhead

If you were ever thinking, "wow I want a sentimental melancholy sleaze rock record about being old and still living in LA trying to be a rock star" this is the album!

I agree with all on Exposed, however have you heard Carved in Stone, the Vince Neil/Dust Brothers collaboration? There are some great songs on there. The Crawl and Black Promises kick so much ass.

noamjamski

.....I remember being in the crush up front at the general-admission Aerosmith/GNR show in 1987, and being greatly amused that the back-up band (this was pre- "Appetite.") was doing the Aerosmith genre better than Aerosmith was. Slash was absolutely smokin' that night! Later, when Aerosmith came out, all we could hear was a little bit of Steven Tyler, and ton-o-drums.

.....I remember a Bullit Boys video [not the name, unfortunately], where they had a monster gated snare that sounded like it was recorded in the Grand Canyon, an absolutely killer guitar tone, and the most banal, "metalheads are retarded"-sounding song I've ever heard.

.....Poison: suspect guitar-leads, and too much trying to be cuter than the 1980s girls. Guess what, guys? You'll never be as hot as the Bangles! My biggest gripe was that most 80s metal singers were a like a cartoon-caricature of Steven Tyler/Robert Plant. Put Poison's silly vocals right in there...

.....Motley Crue managed to keep me buying their stuff album after album despite being pretty cheezy, and their guitar player being below-average at playing leads. But, when he wasn't soloing, Mick Mars had a fantastic grinding, precision engine that wouldn't quit! His rhythm playing was sonic nirvana!

.....Quiet Riot was an awesome band early, and just absolutely went down the toilet with each subsequent album. Formula: take more and more "blaze" out of the guitar, and add more and more Phil-Collinszey synths with each subsequent release. Oh, yeah. All singles have to be Slade covers. Add in an Axel-worthy head-case singer, and you've a train going off the rails. This band once had Randy Rhoades in it, damnit!

.....Slaughter and Warrant? Too slick. Too produced. You just can't drown the main guitar parts in chorus and reverb, and still be metal! It has to bite! Tesla was interesting, with some actual melodies. But by the time they were on the scene, the histrionic bar had been set so ridiculously high by the likes of Malmsteen,the Lynches (George AND Steve) and Bettencourt (Extreme) that they never had a chance. I liked Dokken, even with the sometimes-sub-par songwriting. Their singer was not trying to screech like everyone else.

.....Best metal singer of the 1980s? I have to give it to David Coverdale of Whitesnake. He sounded like a man among squeaky boys. Too bad the Sykes/Coverdale team imploded. That white album was great stuff, marred only by a too-produced guitar sound.

AcidReign

lucasg

janine

@ everyone else: PS, I love how this is the most commented on post...

Vince Neilstein

IvyLeagueMetalhead

Maura Johnston

brasstax

.....This fest in the heat is going to be pretty tired and hot, I'll bet. Y&T? Who the hell was this?

AcidReign

I'm there, bitches!

FionaScrapple

GuySmiley

Maura Johnston

Even as a fan of Metal that is pretty rank.

The reason it says Faster Pussycat (featuring Brent Muscat) is because Taime Downe is no longer in the band! Then again when I played with them on the Metal Sludge tour at Don Hill's they were doing this fucked up pseudo-industrial Marilyn Manson thing. Yes, they re-arranged Bathroom Wall to be fake Goth!

Its only Rock and Roll, but if this stuff was important that would be an instant death sentence!

noamjamski

What a sausage fest. Where's Lita Ford on the lineup?

heidiho

speaking of hard rock bands named after collections of letters, why is xyz not on this bill? and why did i think they were french?

Maura Johnston

brasstax

Who are Y&T? Why am I completely blanking on that?

heidiho

Cam/ron

Ned Raggett

JasonBob7

JasonBob7

heidiho

pandabear

brasstax

bambino