Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Um, Rod Morgestern from Winger was the drummer in Dixie Dregs.
Kip Winger was a big time session bass player and background singer before founding Winger.
Reb Beach played guitar on countless albums before Winger.
Paul Taylor was and still is a hit songwriter.
Say what you will about Winger but they most certainly did not lack talent.
And to the contrary about Crue and Leppard, I know for a fact that on several of their albums, those guys didn't even play on them. And Leppard after Pete was fired was a Mutt Lange creation.
Oh, one more thing. Despite the popular misconception, Guns 'N' Roses wasn't Axl or Slash.
It was Izzy.
Hooray for Winger. They still sucked. They most certainly lacked the talent of producing quality music. [Reply]
About this same time, Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica could be seen throwing a dart on a poster of Kip Winger in the video for "Nothing Else Matters". When asked about this, Kip Winger once stated: "Our band was known to musicians, and a lot of musicians showed up to see me play - watching trying to figure out how I'm playing - we were like the 'hair band' [version of] Dream Theater -- That is why it's the great irony that we ended up on that geeky guy's shirt on Beavis & Butthead, because Metallica couldn't play what we play, they couldn't do it, they literally - technically couldn't do it. And I'll fucking challenge those chumps to that any day of the week, but we could play their music with our hands tied behind our back. And so, I was a little t'd off about that, but in the end, none of that shit matters..."
Hmm, lock Lars and Kip in a shipping container and don't let them out until one kills the other ... and the survivor starves to death. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefnj2:
About this same time, Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica could be seen throwing a dart on a poster of Kip Winger in the video for "Nothing Else Matters". When asked about this, Kip Winger once stated: "Our band was known to musicians, and a lot of musicians showed up to see me play - watching trying to figure out how I'm playing - we were like the 'hair band' [version of] Dream Theater -- That is why it's the great irony that we ended up on that geeky guy's shirt on Beavis & Butthead, because Metallica couldn't play what we play, they couldn't do it, they literally - technically couldn't do it. And I'll ****ing challenge those chumps to that any day of the week, but we could play their music with our hands tied behind our back. And so, I was a little t'd off about that, but in the end, none of that shit matters..."
Hmm, lock Lars and Kip in a shipping container and don't let them out until one kills the other ... and the survivor starves to death.
I doesn't matter how skilled you are if you can't write something good. That's like an English teacher with great command of grammar that writes hack garbage stories no one likes saying she's a better writer than Cormac McCarthy. Maybe Metallica couldn't play what he could, the difference is he couldn't write what Metallica could.
Besides, his name is Kip. I think you're almost automatically a douche just for that. [Reply]
I've seen all these groups live. One of the last concerts I went to (early 2000s, before I declared myself too old and intolerant of drunken concert fucktards to go to concerts anymore) featured four out of the five bands listed. I assume that experience would have traumatized many of you. :-)
Anyway, Cinderella put on one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Watching them on stage was like traveling back in time to 1985.
I've seen Poison twice - once without C.C. Deville (horrible) and once with C.C. Deville (very good).
The only band of the bunch I never cared for was Slaughter. The wife loves them, though. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Demonpenz:
poor winger their only song was about jailbait, fitting
No one else in the world could have made that song. It was genius. Okay, maybe a band like Autograph could have, or even the Bullet Boys, but no one else could have.
Originally Posted by Demonpenz:
great white would burn this pole to the mother fucking ground
I saw them in concert about 10 years ago and they were awful. I mean they sucked ass on every level. They were promoting a new album and didn't play any of the old material THAT EVERYBODY WHO WAS THERE WANTED TO HEAR AND THEY SHOULD HAVE DAMN WELL KNOWN THAT until the very end, and then they did it badly. And the new stuff was dreadful.
The people who got burned up in that night club fire were at least fortunate that they died at the beginning of the show instead of the end. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Demonpenz:
bon jovi didn't discover cinderella, dane saw them playing kickball in junior high and decided to make them rock legends
I've seen all these groups live. One of the last concerts I went to (early 2000s, before I declared myself too old and intolerant of drunken concert fucktards to go to concerts anymore) featured four out of the five bands listed. I assume that experience would have traumatized many of you. :-)
Anyway, Cinderella put on one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Watching them on stage was like traveling back in time to 1985.
I've seen Poison twice - once without C.C. Deville (horrible) and once with C.C. Deville (very good).
The only band of the bunch I never cared for was Slaughter. The wife loves them, though.
I am a huge huge fan of 80's hair band music since I grew up during that time but I refuse to go to any of their "reunion" concerts. I just think it would ruin it for me except for Bon Jovi who I went and saw last year. They put on the best concert I have ever been to. And yes I am a huge Bon Jovi fan so go ahead and laugh. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
I am a huge huge fan of 80's hair band music since I grew up during that time but I refuse to go to any of their "reunion" concerts. I just think it would ruin it for me except for Bon Jovi who I went and saw last year. They put on the best concert I have ever been to. And yes I am a huge Bon Jovi fan so go ahead and laugh. :-)
I like Bon Jovi - saw them back in the 80s and as recently as 2002 or 2003 (last concert I saw). They put on a great show.
As far as the reunion shows go, most I've seen have been enjoyable. As long as they realize that the audience wants to hear their old stuff and they do it well. It can be a crap shoot, though. [Reply]