They released an album as recently as 2009. Where Are They Now? They’re still around, believe it or not, and they’re HUGE in Asia. Their biggest hits were ballads, and even their “rock” singles were mid-tempo mewls with all the profundity of rejected Rebecca Black lyrics. They even put out an album last year.įirehouse - Basically the Christopher Cross of glam metal, Firehouse used enough Aquanet to single-handedly burn a hole through the ozone. Where Are They Now? After separating and splintering for years, the original lineup reformed and went on tour in 2008. There’s almost nothing separating these guys from a boy band except their long hair, but My God, what glorious locks they were. Trixter - These guys kind of came in the tail end of the glam metal era, and their unbuttoned flannel shirts basically foreshadowed their demise. It was crap time for music, and these were the crappiest flash-in-the-pans of the hair metal era, and believe it or not, because of nostalgia, most of them are still touring and recording albums today. Bon Jovi (who, god bless, can still sell out a stadium). Listen to it now, and you may get a quick nostalgia rush, but it usually wears off by the time the guitar solo rolls around.Įveryone knows the big hair metal bands: Poison. Most of the hair metal of the late 80s/early 90s isn’t even enjoyable for novelty purposes. About the only thing you can really say for it is that, at least it wasn’t auto-tuned. Most of those glam bands were essentially boy bands with big hair putting pop harmonies to the notebook scribblings of lovesick high-schoolers. It was a very schizophrenic few years that saw the complete annihilation of an entire subgenre of music by one single song, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” I honestly don’t know if the music industry has ever seen a shift so sudden and so devastating: One day, a band like Extreme was selling millions of albums, and the next, they couldn’t sell a line of coke to a prostitute.īut when you’re young, from a small town, and you don’t know any better, there’s a tendency to get caught up in the music of the times, and for few of my formative years, I listened to all of that awful, terrible, no good, lousy music. Basically, when I entered high school, guys had long hair, ripped jeans, earrings, and terrible, terrible taste in music, but by the time I’d left high school, we were all wearing flannel and Doc Martens and bathing had become less of a priority. I came of age at a very weird time in music history.
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