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Underrated glam bands

Truktek2

Truktek2

Sep 5, 2008
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Queens, NY
#1
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?
 
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Hanoi Rocks was the poo! :cool:

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.
 
#6
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)
 
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Papazita said:
Hanoi Rocks was the poo! :cool:

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!
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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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Mic Nuggette' said:
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)
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I was just going to post the same. Sweet is by far one of my all time favorite bands.
 

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