re: Who were some of the bands that smoothed the transition from hair metal to grunge?

Here’s some cool band transitions, some before they were considered Grunge

ON THIS DAY, May 23rd, 1987, REDD KROSS with guests GREEN RIVER, SOUNDGARDEN, and MALFUNKSHUN, played a show at the Crescent Ballroom, Tacoma, Washington.

In the months, years, and decades that followed, the permutations created by the band members who played this show were vast.

• On October 1st 1987, four and a half months after this gig, SOUNDGARDEN released their debut EP, Screaming Life, on Sub Pop Records.

• One year after this show, in 1988, MALFUNKSHUN's Andrew Wood would join GREEN RIVER's Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament to form MOTHER LOVE BONE.

• One year after this show, in 1988, Mark Arm of GREEN RIVER would join Green River's first guitarist, Steve Turner (who left the band in 1985); they would form MUDHONEY with Matt Lukin (formerly of (the) Melvins) and Dan Peters (formerly of Bundle of Hiss)

• Three and a half years after this show, in 1990, GREEN RIVER's Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard would form PEARL JAM after the death of Andrew Wood and the end of MOTHER LOVE BONE.

• Five years after this show, in 1992, MALFUNKSHUN's drummer Regan Hagar formed the band BRAD with GREEN RIVER's Stone Gossard.

• Twenty-eight years after this show, Steven McDonald of REDD KROSS joined (the) MELVINS...!

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Skid Row had a big hit with Slave to the Grind

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Has some great songs on iit.

Warrant - Dog Eat Dog
Not grungy but they dropped the glammy silly Cherry Pie type crap.

Ultraphobic didn't come out until 95 but it was more along the lines with AIC and Soundgarden type grungy-ness. Darker downtuned.