This puts a smile on my face, oh, I dunno…ten miles wide?
Nickelback > Motley Crue.
Not to hijack*, but Kix were…nay, are the best showmen of the hair band era and beyond.
Saw them a couple of months back for what I’ll put at my 50-someodd Kix show, and they haven’t lost a step. It sucks that Donnie Purnell had to flake out, but Mark Schenker is a quality replacement.
It’d be a lot easier for me to name the hair metal bands of that era that I didn’t see live than the ones I did, and while there were a ton of them who could put on an incredible live show, no one did so as consistently as Kix.
Now you’re clearly trolling.
*Actually, only a partial hijack – Kix’s Bang Bang (Balls of Fire) was co-written by Kip Winger.
Wrong band. That was Warrant.
Joe
I know, but in the spirit of the other sucky hair metal bands being mentioned I thought I’d throw the ubiquitous “Cherry Pie” reference out there.
Music isn’t the Olympics. Additional complexity or difficulty of a part doesn’t make the song better in and of itself. If such skills are applied correctly to an otherwise good song, it can help. But sometimes, it just gets in the way of the rock. Winger didn’t seem to get that.
And on that note:
S.O.D. > Just about any metal band from that era.
I dare you to make learning that song take more than 5 minutes.
If ya gotta have long lived, and still rocked harder than Winger, then have some Melvins. Dale and Buzz have been going since Kip was writing songs with Kix, without a break, and they’ve usually been what heavy metal should have been at any given point in that time (and often what it would be doing later). On the other hand, I’ve seen them be intentionally ummm, offensive? no, challenging to an audience when they were an opening band. To the point where they were booed off the stage. Don’t visit their webpage. It changes sometimes, but It is guaranteed to frustrate (that’s a youtube link above, not their webpage. I’m not that mean).
ETA:Yep couldn’t stop myself. Just visited their webpage. Different, frustrating in a new way.
Yngwie Malmsteen just told me he wants to kick your ass.
Winger only had a thimblefull more metal credibility than Stryper, i.e. miniscule.
Krokus is my vote for rock musicianship rising above the hair metal trappings 
Yeah, that one was a joke.
Tell him to come on over. I’ve got a Goya Les Paul copy with his name written all over it, and some wasted teenage years to talk to his ass about!
/scabpicker starts practicing the two Bach pieces he knows furiously, while mumbling angrily about Swedes and Ralph Macchio
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there
Ah HA! That was great, especially since its true!
You’ll have to put out a buffet for him when he comes though…he’s not quite so svelte these days.