# Were any of the Hair Bands in the 1980s any good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-any-good/736929 "2015-11-07T18:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-any-good/736929/101 "2017-05-26T17:15:59Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > At least with the second-tier bands – Ratt, Poison, Skid Row, Great White, Dokken – there wasn’t much talent there to begin with, so at least you didn’t feel like you were missing out on anything. Post snipped. Ratt - Warren DeMartini is a hell of a guitarist. Poison - eh Skid Row - Sebastian Bach is an awesome vocalist and ended up on Broadway. Dave Sabo and Scotti Hill are great players. Great White - eh Dokken - George Lynch is a badass. A serious badass. (not on your list) Winger - Kip Winger is a badass who studied with Sam Guarnaccia and Edgar Grana. Reb Beach is a badass and attended Berklee and did tons of studio work with people like Chaka Khan, Roger Daltry and the Bee Gees\*. Rod Morgenstein is a fucking monster who has played with the Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse, Jordan Rudess, Jazz is Dead. He won Modern Drummers ‘Best Progressive Rock Drummer’ from 1986 to 1990 and all around best drummer in 1999. I didn’t like much hair metal (and still don’t) but there were some damned good players in quite a few of the bands. Slee \*He did a very wide range of stuff ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-any-good/736929/102 "2017-05-26T21:07:58Z")
> [@sleestak](#): > > Dokken - George Lynch is a badass. A serious badass. > (not on your list) > Winger - Kip Winger is a badass who studied with Sam Guarnaccia and Edgar Grana. All right, all right, I’ll retract Dokken. As for Kip Winger – the guy was a ballet dancer. _A fucking ballet dancer!_ That fact alone ruins any metal cred he may have had. In any case, my original point (from two years ago) still stands – the biggest problem with hair metal was that it squandered whatever talent the musicians may have actually had. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-any-good/736929/103 "2017-05-26T21:47:41Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > Although now that I think about it, this thread’s so old that 16 y/o me is now 18. That version of me is into King Crimson and can’t probably be bothered to care about metal/not-metal. And mine has discovered Rush and will talk to you incessantly about lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-any-good/736929/104 "2017-06-01T06:26:40Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > And mine has discovered Rush and will talk to you incessantly about lyrics. I think we could find common ground there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-any-good/736929.md?page=5)