re: Obscure “hair band” that is actually a good rock band? One of the ones I’m thinking of…

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I kind of will allow it, though. They did have a pretty good bit of success, but always came in for scathing criticism because of the Christian thing. I think they have been consigned to the "obscure" heap and presumed to be dummies. But all members were highly skilled and they were a great band

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Stryper headlined at least two major arena tours in the late 80’s. I went to multiple shows during both tours. At the same time Poison was headlining arena tours and the Stryper shows were sell outs in the same venues that Poison failed to sell out. Despite being shuffled off to the side by music publications and critics the fan support was most definitely there. The media was trying to make them irrelevant because they didn’t know exactly how to categorize them but their music was as good or better than 98% of the stuff coming out at that time. Sold out arena tours, gold and platinum albums, multiple top five songs requested on MTV makes it clear that there were many people who noticed them.