Interesting vid- its amazing how different peoples views are on what constitutes the genre of music you loved. I have all of those albums apart from The Scorpions.

Fun couple. Brings back memories of listening to all that vinyl in my parent's basement. What a time!

Fun video. I watched all 13 minutes. Very generic and good for the person revisiting this classic period in all our lives. For me however, I am still in that period mentally (& lovin every minute of it!). I love the bands that never quite "made it", (Kix, LA Guns) and who are still quite active. For me they are still hungry and want it and put forth a true R & R experience live. Bon, motley, Ratt are either tired looking, out of genre or just a nostalgia act. I love seeing bands that still feel a need to prove something. The Scorpions are a huge band that I can't help but say still put 1000% into their shows and seem to be havin the time of their lives just as I am!

Thanks for the video. Keep the flame alive!

Also, I forgot....I can pay $30 and be blown away by Kix, LA Guns or Skid/Sebastian. Or I can pay $100 bucks to see Bon Jovi/def and feel like I been had and old amongst a bunch of lonely peeps revisiting the good old times! NO NEED TO REVISIT WHEN IM STILL IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Still try and get into new stuff albeit tough. Closest I come is Buckcherry. Also Fun. is a sticky bubblegum pleasure that brings me back and makes me feel like I'm still in NYC as a 20 somethin' in the east village. Don't cringe :) I love singing to that lead singer emotional whines. Love cheese every now and then!

I meant to say earlier - never did like the term Hair metal - I found it rather derogatory at the time.

Thanks very much for posting (and commenting) on my video. This was really designed as an intro to Glam/Hair Metal. I'd love to go deeper in the future with bands like KISS, Cinderella, Dangerous Toys, Firehouse, Frehley's Comet, Extreme, White Lion, Great White...and yes, I even Winger.

That was a fun video. All those albums rock.
like Kixchix said, I'm also mentally still back in the 80's scene. My wife laughs at me, for I still do the same air guitar, rock motions and moves as I did 20 yrs ago. Some things never change and that's fine with me.

Great overview. I agree with Metal Jesus on all fronts but disagree with Metal Jestress' viewpoint on RATT and DOKKEN!

Still, it would be cool to be married to a Rocker Chick you could have these kinds of debates. I do see how they stay married, though. She voices her displeasure with one of his favorite bands and he acknowledges it's "not one of her favorites". However, the transverse may not be true. He agrees with EVERYTHING she says.

Now, that may be because he likes every band they talk about or it may be because he doesn't want to catch h*ll from her if he doesn't agree with her.

Notice, at the beginning of the video, when they thumb through some selections of their record collection, the Gene $immons produced "WOW" album. It's so cool they feature it. All the songs on it are
written by Paul Stanley, Vinnie Vincent and $immons AND they all play the music and sing backing vocals on the entire record!

Ace Frehley is also featured. Now, THAT is a Rock & Roll album, people! I strongly suggest you check out the video of "It's My Life", a song from the album. Just click on the link below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvgDDgma5o

And to see her in even more bada*s mode, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hha6TH2R7w

KixChix: Hey, did you live in The Village? I lived in NYC for 14 years and worked at Hudson & Houston for 9 of 'em. Though I lived on The Upper East Side (hahaha!!!), I also had a girlfriend who lived on Sullivan and Houston right around the corner from Arturo's Pizza and next to the nightclub, LIFE, where I saw Johnny Winter point blank in 1999! I also dated a chick who lived on Ludlow, right around the corner from Katz's Deli of "Harry Met Sally" fame. Man, how I miss those world famous mile-high pastrami sandwiches!

MB: 14th & 4th, Union Square between 1997 & 2002. Palladium in view on 14th st right outside my window.

No kids, just my American Bulldog named "Angus" and the wife. Much simpler times :)

Awesome, KixChix! I know exactly where you lived! If you don't mind me asking, what were you doing there?

I worked in advertising.

I used to go to The Palladium back in the day when I lived in Brooklyn while attending School of Visual Arts in the early 80's.

I had a buddy who lived twenty flights up in the same building that houses Virgin Megastore from 2005 to 2007 and another that lived at 13th and Park from 1987 to 1995. I used to buy a lot of clothes at Cheap Jack's and hung out in that dive bar on 15th or somewhere around there, right off Park.

Also, I used to go to The Coffee Shop right on Union Square. I also dated this other chick that lived at 8th Ave. and 13th. We used to live in Limelight and The Cat Club but stopped going there after Hair Metal died.

Here's a couple more East Village stories for you -- I also used to frequent A Bar with "Handsome" Dick Manitoba bartending and also once sucked face with a 17-year-old heiress in between singing Jane's Addiction tunes at Vasac's 7B Horshoe Bar off Tompkin's Square in 1995. Okay, don't freak people. I thought she was 21 as she was drinking in the place. It was only later that one of her girlfriends told me the situation and that was the fact that one of the chick's brothers was a bouncer there. Perhaps the braces should have been a tip off! Gotta love NYC!

All that aside, hahaha!!!, I betchya anything, we might know some of the same people, or at the very least, we we may have been in some venues at the same time without even knowing it. I also used to hang out at Scrap Bar in the West Village and Cafe Wha-Wha and The Pyramid Bar, The Mercer, Raoul's, El Teddy's in Tribeca, Soho House, Blue Ribbon, Nobu, Odeon, and all those Indian Joints in the East Village. I could go on but then I'd never get off here, something I'm sure people are relieved to see at times, if not all the time, hahaha!!!

Nice video! Now a days, I too, tend to go and see a very limited amount of bands that I will pay for, it's sad that it's a short list too! As far as new bands, right now I'm really liking Nasty Habit, man those kids look young as hell but can play. Thanks Metalboy for the Wendy O video, God that shit was crazy back then, miss those days!!!

Crap, wnated to ask the New York people if they have seen Nasty Habit as they are from around there?

Nah, Darktown. I wish! I left the New York area in 2006. Got Nasty Habit's stuff, though. You are right! They are great!

p.s. RIP, Wendy O. (1949 -- 1996)

MB: practically lived at Virgin across street from my place. Good times. Go back with kids few times a year and low n behold they love NYC. Did not hang with a lot of rockers, so we prob never crossed. I may be hallucinating but I think I even saw Motörhead at a very small club/bar The Continental by St. Marks.

Ah, used to "LIVE" in the Continental. A chick I once dated who's now one of my best friends, used to play with her band, "Bikini Contest", there all the time. Great fun!

p.s. KixChix, what was your occupation at the time you lived there, if you don't mind me asking?