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Top 100 Heavy Metal and glam rock acts from the MTV era - it's still real to me (2 Viewers)

Todem said:
Check out Rival Sons who are vastly better and far more original. But they capture that vibe and are on point.
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I do like Rival Sons.  We went thru a long period of no straight ahead rock.  There was too much of  Linkin Park  and neutered RHCP for my tastes.

 
scorchy said:
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As Finley took the mound for a April 16, 2002, road game against the Chicago White Sox, the Comiskey Park musical director took a subtle dig at Finley's messy divorce, and played "Here I Go Again" by the band Whitesnake, referencing Kitaen's appearance in that band's videos and her previous marriage to the band's lead singer, David Coverdale. Lasting only 1+2⁄3 innings, Finley gave up nine runs including two home runs. The musical director was later fired, and the White Sox apologized
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To be fair, his pitches were pretty slow and easy at that point.

 
zamboni said:
One of my favorite Sebastian Bach trivia notes is that his brother Zac Bierk is a former NHL goalie and is now the goaltender coach for the Ottawa Senators.
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That was big news at the time for Please Like My Sport hockey fans.  This sport's big break!  Everyone will love us now!

 
Tick said:
zamboni said:
One of my favorite Sebastian Bach trivia notes is that his brother Zac Bierk is a former NHL goalie and is now the goaltender coach for the Ottawa Senators.
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That was big news at the time for Please Like My Sport hockey fans.  This sport's big break!  Everyone will love us now!
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Actually most diehard hockey fans don’t want everyone to like the sport. More fun being on the fringes.

 
zamboni said:
Actually most diehard hockey fans don’t want everyone to like the sport. More fun being on the fringes.
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i was happy as hell when the wings won in 97 and then I was sick of them for the rest of their run because of all of the stupid car flags and bandwagon fans.  I used to actively root against them.  Also was hard for me to stomach adding players I grew up hating like Hull and Chelios and Shanny.  Also the worship of all the ####ty grind line players like Draper and McCarty

im mainly indifferent now, I really don’t have the bandwidth to follow them.  I’m sure if they make a cup run in the next few years I’ll get drawn in and come full circle 

Oh and Mitch Albom writing some of the dumbest articles ive ever read about them didn’t help 

 
18. Dokken / Lynch Mob

Album by album, 1983 debut, Breaking the Chains was pretty good, couple or few top notch tracks anyway.  Look at these dinguses.  Then... three kickass albums, 1984-1987.  

Tooth and Nail
 Into The Fire
 Alone Again

Under Lock and Key
 It's Not Love this looks dangerous
 Unchain The Night

Back for the Attack
 Kiss of Death
 Dream Warriors Patricia Arquette, welcome
 Heaven Sent

Is this mostly just George Lynch, and glorified Joe Lynn Turner at the front?

Well, yes, mostly, but Don has his charms for me and there is stuff in his post-Lynch catalog that I like.  This is one of the few acts and on both sides that I'll still check out anything new they do.  It's been a while for Don and I hope he's alright tbh..

George Lynch though, what a ####### machine he has been, holy hell

But back to ~1990, real quick, they just don't like each other and it's an ego struggle and being the superior talent I'd say George was probably in the right, but it's too bad they couldn't make it work.  It seemed like they had momentum, should I start using synonyms?, after Beast from the East..

Walk Away  bye!

Lynch Mob was pretty good

Tangled In The Web

Don solo was not so great [1000 Miles] and he got slapped legally when he tried to restart a new Dokken on his own.. hate when you lose legal ownership of your own name!

But wait, there's more.

A pop group has a hit with In My Dreams

Dokken has had some good stuff with and without Lynch back on board for a payday.  Most notably Erase the Slate with Reb Beach. But if anybody requires a post-Lynch Dokken deep dive, I've got you covered :lmao:

Lynch's career has been truly impressive.

For Lynch Mob, personally I liked the second album better
I Want It big dumb ### banger

Some of that, he did some bad Soundgardeny stuff with Dokken, solo stuff, cranking out records pretty much every year with a rotating lineup of people he likes to work with, I think he must be living the dream and good for him.  GOOD FOR YOU GEORGE ####### LYNCH

Where Do You Sleep At Night

KXM - Breakout

Sweet & Lynch
 

Now that we're between Dokken and Priest, sit tight for some recommended Saturday Afternoon Viewing

 
plinko said:
18. Dokken / Lynch Mob

Album by album, 1983 debut, Breaking the Chains was pretty good, couple or few top notch tracks anyway.  Look at these dinguses.  Then... three kickass albums, 1984-1987.  

Tooth and Nail
 Into The Fire
 Alone Again

Under Lock and Key
 It's Not Love this looks dangerous
 Unchain The Night

Back for the Attack
 Kiss of Death
 Dream Warriors Patricia Arquette, welcome
 Heaven Sent

Is this mostly just George Lynch, and glorified Joe Lynn Turner at the front?

Well, yes, mostly, but Don has his charms for me and there is stuff in his post-Lynch catalog that I like.  This is one of the few acts and on both sides that I'll still check out anything new they do.  It's been a while for Don and I hope he's alright tbh..

George Lynch though, what a ####### machine he has been, holy hell

But back to ~1990, real quick, they just don't like each other and it's an ego struggle and being the superior talent I'd say George was probably in the right, but it's too bad they couldn't make it work.  It seemed like they had momentum, should I start using synonyms?, after Beast from the East..

Walk Away  bye!

Lynch Mob was pretty good

Tangled In The Web

Don solo was not so great [1000 Miles] and he got slapped legally when he tried to restart a new Dokken on his own.. hate when you lose legal ownership of your own name!

But wait, there's more.

A pop group has a hit with In My Dreams

Dokken has had some good stuff with and without Lynch back on board for a payday.  Most notably Erase the Slate with Reb Beach. But if anybody requires a post-Lynch Dokken deep dive, I've got you covered :lmao:

Lynch's career has been truly impressive.

For Lynch Mob, personally I liked the second album better
I Want It big dumb ### banger

Some of that, he did some bad Soundgardeny stuff with Dokken, solo stuff, cranking out records pretty much every year with a rotating lineup of people he likes to work with, I think he must be living the dream and good for him.  GOOD FOR YOU GEORGE ####### LYNCH

Where Do You Sleep At Night

KXM - Breakout

Sweet & Lynch
 

Now that we're between Dokken and Priest, sit tight for some recommended Saturday Afternoon Viewing
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Lynch has joined Dokken on stage for guest shots pretty regularly over the last couple of years.  Judging from the video I've seen, Don and his voice are completely shot. 

Lynch and Pilson are also working together with the group The End Machine. 

 
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Skipdog77 said:
Lynch has joined Dokken on stage for guest shots pretty regularly over the last couple of years.  Judging from the video I've seen, Don and his voice are completely shot. 

Lynch and Pilson are also working together with the group The End Machine. 
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They played at the local casino here, dolmen’s voice is done.  Still, they were one of the best acts from the LA scene from the early 80’s.

 
Still a big fan of Dokken and that is due to Lynch.   He had great riffs, impressive solos and killer tone.   Lynch’s playing was sloppy at times but he is still one of my favorite guitarists.  I saw Dokken live a few times and the shows never seemed to go well due to technical issues, drunken Don, and just tension on stage.   The shows weren’t bad.   They were not smooth.   

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I was ten years old when "School's Out" hit. That damned song was a weapon in kids' hands and the bane of every school administrator in the country.

All of his/their early 70s albums are really good, though I'd suggest getting the original Greatest Hits for a novice. One of the best bang-for-your-buck LPs money can buy.

The thing about Cooper is - for all of the imagery, "shocking" lyrics, and staged beheadings - that the nuts-&-bolts of the songs are really solid. They are built on the Motown model: have a huge beat, a memorable melody, and "hook 'em in the first 30 seconds and don't let 'em go".  Even his late 70s ballads were fine songs, even though most true believers thought he sold out.

Then he turned around and dumped Flush The Fashion on an unsuspecting citizenry in the early 80s. He was accused of coat-tailing New Wave (which was true), but he was also satirizing that whole scene. The thing is, the songs were still really good. "Clones" became a decent-sized hit. I really need to go back and listen to this LP. It's been years since I've last heard it. I remember it being off-putting when it came out, though I liked it. And I recall listening to it again maybe 15 or 20 years ago and understanding it better.
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Alice has had such an interesting career. I got into them because Eighteen was one of the 100 greatest heavy metal tunes according to a special issue of Hit Parader that I picked up. So I got Greatest Hits, and discovered that song didn't do much for me. But No More Mr. Nice Guy, Under My Wheels, and Elected were great, and Hello Hurray was a track I loved. I had actually forgotten completely about that tune until it was featured several years ago in one of the X-Men films.

I started getting into his later 80s stuff, and at that time, Constrictor was among my favorite albums.

Great American Success Story, which is the theme song for the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School (although I don't remember it from the movie).

He's Back theme from Friday the 13th part 6 maybe? Whatever, it perfectly fit my wheelhouse in the era I was listening to it in.

I still think Constrictor is solid, though very dated, as is Raise Your Fist and Yell, which Kip Winger played on. Then came Trash, which was a fantastic album. He followed that up with a few mediocre albums, but I've checked out some of his newer stuff over the last ten years and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the songs, like You and All Your Friends . 

 
plinko said:
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT

Just 30 minutes of killer conversation with attendees of a Saturday night Judas Priest & Dokken show at Cap Center, Landover, Maryland in 1986. Won't be news to many of you but it's always fun to catch again!  
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What?  No mention of going to see a 25th anniversary screening of this at Union Craft Brewing in 2011, complete with the director and some minor celebs from the video?  I think I still have a pic of Iron Priest or Judas Maiden or whatever the name was of the cover band that played.

 
If I could only have one Alice album it would be Billion Dollar Babies. Hello Hooray, Elected, Generation Landslide, plus 2 or 3 others that would fit perfectly on any Halloween mix.  🤑

 
scorchy said:
What?  No mention of going to see a 25th anniversary screening of this at Union Craft Brewing in 2011, complete with the director and some minor celebs from the video?  I think I still have a pic of Iron Priest or Judas Maiden or whatever the name was of the cover band that played.
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Lets see it, Iron Priest!  I am making the b&c watch this later

 
Dokken is the only band on this list that I saw more than twice live.   :bag:

I like to think I wasn't in to them for long, but if ANY Dokken song comes on hair nation, even if I haven't heard it in 35 years, I somehow know the lyrics by heart.  So I must have blocked some of that out.

Form the beginning, Don seemed to hate George.  I remember reading Circus or Hit Parader or one of those metal magazines around Breaking the Chains and Don was ragging on George for playing in some New Wave band dressed like he was an elf.  

 
17. L.A. Guns

The overall story of L.A. Guns doesn't have much to do with Tracii Guns, or Axl and Izzy, or whoever is trotting around using the name whether they have any right to be.  

Most interesting, from ancient history, and still only mildly, is that every member of the GNR classic lineup did rotate through L.A. Guns at some point, and not usually together.

But really, at least from our perspective, the story has been Phil Lewis all along.  Part of the original London glam-rock band GIRL, with Phil Collen, that band would fall apart when Collen left for Def Leppard.  Lewis bounces around, makes a few more records with various projects to limited success.. and gets hooked up with Tracii and L.A. Guns

Phil on getting w Guns  

Early Phil, post-Girl material.. Tormé  .. I guess in London they didn't know Mel.. this isn't bad.. love this album cover .. Tormé  :lmao:  
All Around the World
Mystery Train

GIRL ~ Hollywood Tease - a song L.A. Guns would re-record, but here they are the Phils

The day L.A. Guns hired Phil Lewis, was the day Phil Lewis hired L.A. Guns as his backing band.  He's not flashy but he's the secret to their success, and their driving force.

The first album crushed, and while it couldn't quite hope to hang with the first, the follow-up Cocked & Loaded was pretty excellent too.

One More Reason
Electric Gypsy seriously be careful you guys
Cry No More/One Way Ticket

Rip And Tear

Never Enough

1991, Hollywood Vampires, wasn't bad
Kiss My Love Goodbye earworm, coulda been a hit track?
Crystal Eyes
 but it was a letdown, and the band started to fracture

Since around 2001, the Lewis-led L.A. Guns, with healthy and totally different looking Tracii on board for years now, have made a bunch of solid stuff.  To me, at this point in time, as far as sheer volume of respectable studio material goes, Phil Lewis and his L.A. Guns have padded their totals.

2005 Electric Neon Sunset
2012 Araña Negra
2017 Christine
 

 
Two great choices back to back.

Monkey Business by SR was a real heavy hitter with the volume all the way up.

Alone Again by Dokken was another one of those mix-tape beauties--the pause in the middle of the song and that guitar riff comes in. Just awesome!! 

 
L.A. Guns was just really good sleaze rock. I still listen to them every so often, unlike most of the others on the list. Their first was pretty legendary. Whether it gets knocked down a peg because it's hair metal, having Faster #####cat, G N' R, and L.A. Guns coming from the same locale -- never mind locale, coming from the same street -- was quite the thing. 

Born to run yeah
Born to fight
Shoot for thrills yeah
Into the night...

Wait! Shoot for thrills!
Into the night

 
UncleZen said:
I like LA Guns but exactly how are they ranked higher than Skid Row and Dokken? Your rating method is whack! 😀
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Yeah gotta agree here...Dokken and Skid Row smoke L.A. Guns by a landslide. I mean Dokken has so many....so many great songs. 

I can’t even name more than 2 L.A. Guns tunes.....being serious. But music is subjective. 

Slave to the Grind is arguably much better than their debut. For me it certainly is. A hard hitting record that felt like a middle finger to the record company. “We are not making a commercial sap fest"

L.A. Guns......meh.

 
UncleZen said:
I like LA Guns but exactly how are they ranked higher than Skid Row and Dokken? Your rating method is whack! 😀
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The ranking is questionable but it is his list.   Skid Row was much better than LA Guns in my opinion too but LA Guns did have some great, sleazy tunes.  I love the first two albums from both bands.  Skid Row did get heavier on their sophomore effort which was a really pleasant surprise since it seemed that most hair bands went in the other direction after their initial album.   

 
plinko said:
18. Dokken / Lynch Mob

Album by album, 1983 debut, Breaking the Chains was pretty good, couple or few top notch tracks anyway.  Look at these dinguses.  Then... three kickass albums, 1984-1987.  

Tooth and Nail
 Into The Fire
 Alone Again

Under Lock and Key
 It's Not Love this looks dangerous
 Unchain The Night

Back for the Attack
 Kiss of Death
 Dream Warriors Patricia Arquette, welcome
 Heaven Sent

Is this mostly just George Lynch, and glorified Joe Lynn Turner at the front?

Well, yes, mostly, but Don has his charms for me and there is stuff in his post-Lynch catalog that I like.  This is one of the few acts and on both sides that I'll still check out anything new they do.  It's been a while for Don and I hope he's alright tbh..

George Lynch though, what a ####### machine he has been, holy hell

But back to ~1990, real quick, they just don't like each other and it's an ego struggle and being the superior talent I'd say George was probably in the right, but it's too bad they couldn't make it work.  It seemed like they had momentum, should I start using synonyms?, after Beast from the East..

Walk Away  bye!

Lynch Mob was pretty good

Tangled In The Web

Don solo was not so great [1000 Miles] and he got slapped legally when he tried to restart a new Dokken on his own.. hate when you lose legal ownership of your own name!

But wait, there's more.

A pop group has a hit with In My Dreams

Dokken has had some good stuff with and without Lynch back on board for a payday.  Most notably Erase the Slate with Reb Beach. But if anybody requires a post-Lynch Dokken deep dive, I've got you covered :lmao:

Lynch's career has been truly impressive.

For Lynch Mob, personally I liked the second album better
I Want It big dumb ### banger

Some of that, he did some bad Soundgardeny stuff with Dokken, solo stuff, cranking out records pretty much every year with a rotating lineup of people he likes to work with, I think he must be living the dream and good for him.  GOOD FOR YOU GEORGE ####### LYNCH

Where Do You Sleep At Night

KXM - Breakout

Sweet & Lynch
 

Now that we're between Dokken and Priest, sit tight for some recommended Saturday Afternoon Viewing
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Been waiting for these guys.  Luuurffffed Dokken so hard back at their peak (and still have a heavy does of them in my most used Spotify playlist as a matter of fact.)   As I shared way back up thread, Don's voice has been garbage dating back to as early as 2004 (that was a concert that L.A. Guns opened for them, no less), but I just don't care.  There is a live version of "Heaven Sent" that was recorded in one of their massive tours of Japan that's quite possibly my favorite "hair metal" song ever.  Both vocals and players were spot freaking on, with just enough spontaneous action that took it beyond the album version for me.

One of my first gigs in my current industry (circa 2003) allowed me to befriend a guy we'll call Andy (cuz that's his name).  Andrew sort of elected himself as the "bullpen DJ" and brought in a second hard drive for his tower that he'd ripped what felt like a million MP4s onto.  He hooked up to some external speakers, and would just hit shuffle every morning when he got to work.  He had, pretty much, every Dokken track known to man on that thing.  When he found out I was also a fan we wore the HELL out of that ish.  To this day, whenever I hear Dokken it takes me right back to that office building, at that desk, singing freaking "Tooth and Nail" at the top of our lungs, much to the chagrin of the other 5 employees in the room (####. Those. Nerds).  We don't talk often any more, but for years I'd still sometimes get texts from Andy that were nothing more than "No way! I TOOOOLD YOOOOOUUUUU!!!!" or something similar (To which the proper response would be "Straight to the TOOOOoooooOOOOoooOOOOOOPpppp!!!!!", in case you were wondering).

If whatever incarnation of them rolled somewhere close enough for me to see tomorrow, I'd probably still go see them.  Even with Don's dead pipes.  So, so many great songs, and Lynch is just an animal (also probably kind of an #######, but meh, who isn't sometimes?).  Pilson never seemed to get the credit he probably deserved, if memory serves had a hand in writing a ton of their best tracks. Was no slouch on secondary vox/harmonies either.  Dude could sing his ### off too.

Who needs Don?
 

zamboni said:
That video for Breaking the Chains was played a ton on MTV back then. Another one of those  “we’re metal, so let’s go with the sadomasochistic/torture theme.”
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And only the BEST of fake plastic chain guitar strings.

 
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Leroy Hoard said:
If I could only have one Alice album it would be Billion Dollar Babies. Hello Hooray, Elected, Generation Landslide, plus 2 or 3 others that would fit perfectly on any Halloween mix.  🤑
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The title track is one of the most bludgeoning assaults in rock history. 

At the Maiden/Cooper concert I mentioned upthread, the Maiden fan left after "Billion Dollar Babies" was done. He said something to the effect of "welp - my face has officially been rocked off; I'm done here". He didn't even stay for Iron Maiden, just went back to the parking area and drank beer with our limo driver.

 
5-ish Finkle said:
Been waiting for these guys.  Luuurffffed Dokken so hard back at their peak (and still have a heavy does of them in my most used Spotify playlist as a matter of fact.)   As I shared way back up thread, Don's voice has been garbage dating back to as early as 2004 (that was a concert that L.A. Guns opened for them, no less), but I just don't care.  There is a live version of "Heaven Sent" that was recorded in one of their massive tours of Japan that's quite possibly my favorite "hair metal" song ever.  Both vocals and players were spot freaking on, with just enough spontaneous action that took it beyond the album version for me.

One of my first gigs in my current industry (circa 2003) allowed me to befriend a guy we'll call Andy (cuz that's his name).  Andrew sort of elected himself as the "bullpen DJ" and brought in a second hard drive for his tower that he'd ripped what felt like a million MP4s onto.  He hooked up to some external speakers, and would just hit shuffle every morning when he got to work.  He had, pretty much, every Dokken track known to man on that thing.  When he found out I was also a fan we wore the HELL out of that ish.  To this day, whenever I hear Dokken it takes me right back to that office building, at that desk, singing freaking "Tooth and Nail" at the top of our lungs, much to the chagrin of the other 5 employees in the room (####. Those. Nerds).  We don't talk often any more, but for years I'd still sometimes get texts from Andy that were nothing more than "No way! I TOOOOLD YOOOOOUUUUU!!!!" or something similar (To which the proper response would be "Straight to the TOOOOoooooOOOOoooOOOOOOPpppp!!!!!", in case you were wondering).

If whatever incarnation of them rolled somewhere close enough for me to see tomorrow, I'd probably still go see them.  Even with Don's dead pipes.  So, so many great songs, and Lynch is just an animal (also probably kind of an #######, but meh, who isn't sometimes?).  Pilson never seemed to get the credit he probably deserved, if memory serves had a hand in writing a ton of their best tracks. Was no slouch on secondary vox/harmonies either.  Dude could sing his ### off too.

Who needs Don?
 

And only the BEST of fake plastic chain guitar strings.
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I saw Dokken at the fair up here in Michigan.  It was sad.  He was just leaning on the monitor.  Not even moving around.  Probably 20 years ago now.  He literally showed up for a check.  Leaned on the monitor.  And #####ed at the crowd for not even getting out of their seats.  He says "Come on, we aren't Incubus, we're Dokken...sing along"

 
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16. Tesla

Well these guys don't have much baggage, just hard working 'Murkin rock n rollers.  And while they're no L.A. Guns they're pretty damn excellent!  Mechanical Resonance was a perfect debut.

EZ come
Modern Day Cowboy
Little Suzi's on the up

Heaven's Trail
The Way It Is
Love Song

The Great Radio Controversy was a little softer, 4 stars say I, gave them their biggest hit and had them on a tear, when they released an acoustic live album in late 1990 - with a real hit and everything - that made a historical impact.. and for a couple of years you couldn't walk down the street without tripping over a tossed out MTV Unplugged CD.

A year later, the third album, Psychotic Supper - it wasn't bad but wasn't as good, and the rest was history for us here, and I won't always keep pushing newer stuff, but they have also put out quality tunes in their older years.  
 

 
plinko said:
16. Tesla

Well these guys don't have much baggage, just hard working 'Murkin rock n rollers.  And while they're no L.A. Guns they're pretty damn excellent!  Mechanical Resonance was a perfect debut.
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Very much agreed, except give me Tesla over L.A. Guns. They were sort of like AC/DC in that era, in that they were just a good ol' hard rock band that got lumped into the hair metal scene and rode it, despite the fact that they were less reliant on looks and hooks and never got glammed up like Bon Jovi, Poison, Crue and others. 

 
plinko said:
16. Tesla

Well these guys don't have much baggage, just hard working 'Murkin rock n rollers.  And while they're no L.A. Guns they're pretty damn excellent!  Mechanical Resonance was a perfect debut.

EZ come
Modern Day Cowboy
Little Suzi's on the up

Heaven's Trail
The Way It Is
Love Song

The Great Radio Controversy was a little softer, 4 stars say I, gave them their biggest hit and had them on a tear, when they released an acoustic live album in late 1990 - with a real hit and everything - that made a historical impact.. and for a couple of years you couldn't walk down the street without tripping over a tossed out MTV Unplugged CD.

A year later, the third album, Psychotic Supper - it wasn't bad but wasn't as good, and the rest was history for us here, and I won't always keep pushing newer stuff, but they have also put out quality tunes in their older years.  
 
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One of my favorites. Saw them twice back in the day… once with Great White and once with Firehouse. Still will rock some Tesla from time to time.

 
plinko said:
16. Tesla

Well these guys don't have much baggage, just hard working 'Murkin rock n rollers.  And while they're no L.A. Guns they're pretty damn excellent!  Mechanical Resonance was a perfect debut.

EZ come
Modern Day Cowboy
Little Suzi's on the up

Heaven's Trail
The Way It Is
Love Song

The Great Radio Controversy was a little softer, 4 stars say I, gave them their biggest hit and had them on a tear, when they released an acoustic live album in late 1990 - with a real hit and everything - that made a historical impact.. and for a couple of years you couldn't walk down the street without tripping over a tossed out MTV Unplugged CD.

A year later, the third album, Psychotic Supper - it wasn't bad but wasn't as good, and the rest was history for us here, and I won't always keep pushing newer stuff, but they have also put out quality tunes in their older years.  
 
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One of my all-time favorite bands. Haven't been able to get into much of the newer stuff, but agree they have had some decent songs in there.  I thought their "reunion" album Into The Now (2004) was really good. 

..and I can't believe it's been 17-18 years since Into the Now was released.  Man, I'm old. 

 
Herb said:
Very much agreed, except give me Tesla over L.A. Guns. They were sort of like AC/DC in that era, in that they were just a good ol' hard rock band that got lumped into the hair metal scene and rode it, despite the fact that they were less reliant on looks and hooks and never got glammed up like Bon Jovi, Poison, Crue and others. 
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Saw them many times, and the Psychotic Supper tour stood out to me.  In an era where it was alot of flash and glam with concert opening songs (blinding lights, dropping curtains, pyro, etc.), I'll never forget Tesla just strolling out on stage with the house lights still on, waving to the crowd, picking up their instruments, and just starting to play.  

 
Tesla was a cut above just about all bands at the time IMO. Wouldn’t even call them metal, but rather a blues band. Frankie Hannon is a very underrated guitarist.

I often find myself listening to their live Five Man Acoustical Jam.

 
Tesla's a very good band and still make it into my rotation, where few of the glam metal bands do. 

Had a long drive with home with my daughters a while back and played them some Tesla and they disagreed vehemently with my assessment of their quality. They were threatening to jump out of the car going 70 if I didn't turn them off. Think it was the solo in Cumin' Atcha Live that did it. Kids. 

 
Psychotic Supper was a really underrated record.
 

Song and Emotion (dedicated to Steven Clark from Def Leppard) was a monster tune.

Another underrated tune was Freedom Slaves. What a kick ### groove and jam.
 

And of course the album opener Change in the Weather starting with “Put this in your pipe and smoke it!!”

Edisons Medicine is a killer jam and the big hit from the record Call it What You Want kicks ### to this day.

The album released in 1991 and had no shot with Grunge ruling the airwaves.

 
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I wore out my Mechanical Resonance cassette listening to that album. They weren't hair metal but a victim of the times. They might have been bigger if they would have slapped on some makeup and spandex. 

 
UncleZen said:
I wore out my Mechanical Resonance cassette listening to that album. They weren't hair metal but a victim of the times. They might have been bigger if they would have slapped on some makeup and spandex. 
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:lmao: Jeff Keith and Frank Hannon would be the ugliest chicks at da club

 
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