New Book About Glam Metal Coming

A new book is on the way about the music we love. It is called Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the 80's Hard Rock Explosion and is due in March. The authors are Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock. From the promo page announcing the book is this description: 

The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal.

1980s hard rock was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated—and maybe even helped to define—a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” are as inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics, Pac-Man, and E.T.

From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-Platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Nothin' But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians, managers, producers, engineers, label executives, publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists, magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies, and hangers-on who lived it.

Featuring an impassioned foreword by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and avowed glam metal fanatic Corey Taylor, and drawn from over 200 new interviews with members of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot and others, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and many more, this is the ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged chronicle of a time where excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who created a sound and style that came to define a musical era—one in which the bands and their fans went looking for nothin’ but a good time…and found it.

Comments

[HrMtlFan]

Cool, thanks. How about a little love as well for the newly-released '80s-hard rock masterpiece book "The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Hair Metal"? Over 400 pages of glam-metal glory! Has been getting terrific reviews on Amazon...

https://amzn.to/3beWLxE

www.HairMetalForever.com

Check it out! :-)

[Him]

Good point. And Allyson did. But your post read a bit like SPAM.

Introduce yourself. Tell us how long you've been a reader. Cozy up a bit.

Not trying to be harsh. The world needs more books like this. Just saying.

[HrMtlFan]

Hi, apologies for that, you are absolutely correct…I don’t know where my manners went…sorry.

I have been a regular, daily reader of BBG for literally years now. I come not only for the news and for Allyson’s valued takes on things, but just as much to read the comments and absorb the opinions from a group of posters that are clearly knowledgeable and engaged fans of the genre

Myself? I am an uber-fan of all things ’80s-hard rock and glam metal…living and breathing the music and scene for the past 35 years

If you all would be so kind as to accept me as part of the BBG family, I will be an active commenter moving forward and do my best to contribute positively to the group. Best regards, and thanks! 😊

[Him]

That's a great introduction. I, personally, appreciate it. No one else seemed to care.

I wonder: as an author, why didn't you post sooner?

I wish your book great success.

[HrMtlFan]

Thank you so much for your kind words...I am thrilled to be a formal part of the group! Not sure why it took me so long to start posting, especially since I read the site everyday...I guess it's simply better later than never. :)