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04-24-2009, 03:13 PM
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So I was listening to the "oldies" station (80's rock) when a Faster Pussycat song came on. Then it kind of dawned on me. If you look through the spandex and make-up, some of the genre were actually pretty good bands. Definitely not all of them, but some of them never got the recognition they should have. So my question is, who do you think was the most underrated glam band? |
04-24-2009, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | No such thing. I could name a lot of overrated glam bands, though. |
04-24-2009, 04:09 PM
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04-24-2009, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: NYC | | | Hanoi rocks. Such an amazing band. jetboy was another. more of a sleaze band though. Hey trutek, where in queens are you? just curious. |
04-24-2009, 08:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ohio | | Hanoi Rocks was the poo! 
I don't know if they could be considered "glam," but... Extreme, Mr.Big, Saigon Kick. Look past the requisite top 40 acoustic power ballads (More Than Words, To Be With You, and Love Is On the Way, respectively) and they had some great stuff!
Enuff Z'Nuff, also.
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04-25-2009, 05:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ventura California | | | The Sweet. One of the most under rated glam bands ever. (except for Pelvic Triangle) I had the pleasure of meeting the latest incarnation of The Sweet last month. Simply awesome live. I had forgotten how great some of that music was. As far as Pelvic Triangle.....to many issue's within the bands line up prevent a reunion right now. However my bass from that era is still for sale on ebay!
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04-30-2009, 08:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | | Faster Pussycat ROCKS, many of the people here on TB have never heard of any of the great glam bands from back in the day, although they seem to be touring together again. I saw Faster Pussy Cat with Cinderella and Poison not too long ago.
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04-30-2009, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Mic Nuggette' The Sweet. One of the most under rated glam bands ever. | Under-rated, over-rated, whatever... The Sweet have earned their position in the pantheon of rock greats. Awesome band. |
04-30-2009, 10:21 PM
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04-30-2009, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BurningSkies Mott the Hoople? | I agree. I'm huge Hoople' fan from the early days. Still the best version of "All the young dudes" ever put on vinyl. Ian Hunter is brilliant. Overrend Watts...well he fit in the band is about all I can say for him.
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05-01-2009, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Papazita Hanoi Rocks was the poo!
I don't know if they could be considered "glam," but... Extreme, Mr.Big, Saigon Kick. Look past the requisite top 40 acoustic power ballads (More Than Words, To Be With You, and Love Is On the Way, respectively) and they had some great stuff! | Saigon Kick +100 I LOVE Jason Bieler's music.
Extreme - one of my favorites and incredibly talented, but I can't agree that they ever were "underrated". Nuno is a virtuoso and is held in very high regard.
Extreme and Saigon Kick toured together and became friends - Pat Badger played with Jason Bieler's short-lived (but EXCELLENT) band "Super Transatlantic".
I saw Extreme live recently, they are the real deal live!
Nice thing about hair bands - you had to have some pretty good guitar chops to be able to solo at that level. Sure, a few bozos came through the woodwork, but for the most part the guitar players of the era (George Lynch, Nuno Bettencourt, Adrian Vandenberg, Warren DiMartini, etc. etc. etc. the list goes on and on) could SHRED!
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05-01-2009, 08:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | Skid Row. I'm not saying that I have their albums laying around, but Sebastian Bach has one of the all time greatest voices in rock and roll, and the band lays down very solid tracks behind him. |
05-01-2009, 08:29 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mic Nuggette' The Sweet. One of the most under rated glam bands ever. (except for Pelvic Triangle) I had the pleasure of meeting the latest incarnation of The Sweet last month. Simply awesome live. I had forgotten how great some of that music was. As far as Pelvic Triangle.....to many issue's within the bands line up prevent a reunion right now. However my bass from that era is still for sale on ebay!
Mic Nuggette'
Pelvic Triangle (1979-2006) | I was just going to post the same. Sweet is by far one of my all time favorite bands.
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05-01-2009, 09:52 AM
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05-01-2009, 10:07 AM
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Bowie.
The New York Dolls.
Velvet Underground.
T Rex.
Mott the Hoople.
Sweet.
many more I can't think of right now!
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05-01-2009, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by two fingers Kings X | Ooohhhh....I could put King's X in several categories, but I don't think glam would be one of them. |
05-01-2009, 06:01 PM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | | Re: Sweet - I was never a big fan but I loved "Ballroom Blitz" and "Love Is Like Oxygen", especially the extended version of the latter. Their drummer was FANTASTIC!!!!! |
05-02-2009, 02:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Philbiker Re: Sweet - ...I loved "Love Is Like Oxygen", especially the extended version... | Nostalgia is going to make me cry...  |
05-03-2009, 01:21 PM
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