re: Am I the only one still listening to Glam metal music?

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I just checked it out on eBay for a smaller price.
529 pages though. Is it an entertaining read?
Just by reading the chapters names, it sounds wild.

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Yeah, but be warned the format is that of the “oral history” which I know doesn’t appeal to everyone. That aside it’s a great read if you’re a fan of the music. Highlights for me were the Dokken stories, the absolute disdain George and Don had for each other and also some really funny studio hijinks. Kip Winger is still bitter all these years later claiming that Metallica and Beavis & Butthead killed his career. The stuff about the costume designing was interesting too. Michael Jackson was enamored with a jacket Jani Lane wore and wanted one just like it. And other seemingly mundane topics like the “flyer wars” on the Sunset Strip were pretty fascinating.

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Yeah, but be warned the format is that of the “oral history” which I know doesn’t appeal to everyone. That aside it’s a great read if you’re a fan of the music. Highlights for me were the Dokken stories, the absolute disdain George and Don had for each other and also some really funny studio hijinks. Kip Winger is still bitter all these years later claiming that Metallica and Beavis & Butthead killed his career. The stuff about the costume designing was interesting too. Michael Jackson was enamored with a jacket Jani Lane wore and wanted one just like it. And other seemingly mundane topics like the “flyer wars” on the Sunset Strip were pretty fascinating.

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I ordered the book from Amazon today because of your suggestion. Also ordered Liquid Tension Experiment 3 and the new Smith/Kotzen album.

Cool, yeah if you like reading and are a fan of the genre I’m sure you’ll both love it. Entertaining and a lot of laugh out loud stories.

I also recently read Steve Gorman’s book “Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes”which was excellent even though I’m not a big fan of the band.

And if you want a big heavy coffee table book with a bunch of great 80s hard rock pictures pick this up too- “The Decade That Rocked: The Photography of Mark “Weissguy” Weiss”

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Yeah, Steve's book pretty much precludes any "real" BC reunion.

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Yeah he was really good about reminding us that the Robinsons are a couple of greedy MFers lest we forgot from two pages ago.

Great guitarists, incredible singers, mediocre drummers, atrocious production value

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I like this. You're making me spend money with your "too hard to pass" recommendations.

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Not sure if it's between printings or something but I'm only seeing it available from a third party at the moment. I just got it last month directly from Amazon for $35. You might want to check around or wait for a better price.

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I have a large collection of stuff that can be broadly termed "glam" or hair metal. I lean more toward stuff that was less poppy and wussified. Favorites include:

Badlands
Love/Hate
Spread Eagle
Four Horsemen
Lillian Axe
Dangerous Toys
Skid Row
Junkyard
Every Mother's Nightmare
L.A. Guns

Like any other genre there's good and bad, unfortunately it seems that this type of music routinely holds up the worst examples as best and most popular. But good taste was never the strong suit I guess.

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Totally agree. There are some forgotten gems if you go deeper than the most popular stuff. The ones you mentioned plus Johnny Crash, Little Caesar, Smashed Gladys, Sea Hags, Jetboy, Cats in Boots, Vain and Dirty Looks just to name a few.

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I had to refresh myself to reconfirm my memories on why I quickly disliked that song back in the day. I'll give it 2 positives. Anthemic chorus. And, looking at QR led me to see that James Durbin had been with them recently but left to do a solo record, which I like so far.

But the riff is really boring, there's not much musically or lyrically and I would put it up as an example of their lack of songwriting talent that led the record company to make them cut a couple of Slade remakes. (I admit the story of doing COFTN and them trying hard to tank it but having a hit, is pretty funny.)

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Which bring us to Quiet Riot, speaking of "worst examples as best and most popular." IMO "Metal Health" is far and away at the bottom of the barrel as far as the main albums to come out of the first wave of LA glam. "Shout at the Devil", the Ratt EP then "Out of the Cellar", "Tooth and Nail", W.A.S.P. s/t, even "Sign in Please" by Autograph is probably better. I've got fond memories of more than one moment in time having to do with "Metal Health", my buddy following me around on my paper route carrying his boombox and playing the cassette, a 7th grade dance where the evening's music consisted of the DJ playing that album all the way through twice, going to the grocery store to buy the newest copy of Circus or Hit Parader. It was the first one to go to number one and it paved the way for all the rest of the bands that hit it big for better or worse but it's a pretty bad record. I think "Thunderbird" is the worst power ballad ever made. And "Let's Get Crazy"- "want to kiss your lips, not the ones on your face Your innocent jive is really out of place In need of assistance A dog for my bone Ain't no way tonight I go home alone." Yeesh. Plus the fact that they imploded five minutes later and Dubrow burned all his bridges in record time make Quiet Riot a pretty strange case.

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Twisted Sister

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They rocked, even though I always saw them as a "teenage band". Used to be a fan of them too.

A little story about them. Back in '84 or '85 (I was 12), I loved their videos on Mtv. One day I was at a K-mart with my aunt and saw their "Stay Hungry" cassette. I wanted it so bad. So I asked my auntie if she could buy it for me. I'll never forget when I showed her the "Stay Hungry" album cover lol. In her mind she was like WTF is this (Dee Snider with a bare bone pretending to eat it and his eyes peeled wide open). Her expression like "you like this?". I told her it was all a costume and the music was great. She told me that's fine, if you like it, let's take it. She made my day, she was such a sweet heart, RIP. She died of cancer in her late 50's. Great people are never forgotten.

As for me ,I used some 3rd-party tool (Tunelf Spotibeat Music Converter) to download and convert Spotify music to other format and then burn the convered spotify music to CD for listening.

Great album, heavily inspired by AC/DC, like Rhino Bucket and Dirty Looks

Johnny Crash- “Neighbourhood Threat”

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Guns N' Roses is my favorite band ... I would not put them fully in the hair metal category ... and saw the Not in This Lifetime tour about 10 times.

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Well you didn't see the real Guns N' Roses then. Not trying to be an arse but there were a lot of replacements up there. Still better than most though.