Why the 90's never left

The Oklahoman ^ | June 9, 2011 | George Lang

[MeganC]

I’m wondering when there’ll be a Scott Joplin tribute band? If you’re going to go for 90’s nostaligia then do it right!

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Puhlease.
I played in Metal and Rock bands in the 1980s. Those bands didn’t kill anything. The arena rock and hair metal thing had run it’s course at the end of the 1980s. There was nothing new to be done with it.
Band’s like Jane’s Addiction were already sowing the seeds of the look and music that was coming.
Grunge and other 90’s music was simply the next genre in music that came along. And usually, it’s promoted as being what killed off the previous one. The way punk and metal was promoted as killing disco.
And I’ve been living in the Seattle since 1990 so was at ground zero for what happened. Bands like Alice in Chains were glammy hair rockers right up to the last couple years of the 1980s. Then they just started dressing more cold weather alternative, slowed down their songs, and all drop tuned their guitars and basses. Voila!!! Grunge was born.
And the music industry dogpiled into it everyway they could.

Now if anyone really wants to go relive the 1990s. Simply go to Portland, Oregon. They are still stuck in it there and their is little hope of them ever moving forward.

[Pan_Yan]

There's good music out there, but you've got to remember that radio has a limited play list. With the internet good groups get more exposure than ever without the filter of record companies, but you have to look for them.

I grew up on 80's heavy metal but I'm mellowing and my tastes are broadening. My oldies are mixed with Death Cab for Cutie, Shinedown, Weezer and Snow Patrol, just to name a few.

[massgopguy]

At least three bands I played in opened up with Wicked Sensation.

[massgopguy]

HA! Mine is stuck in my car tape deck right now!

[massgopguy]

Damn Curt Cobain.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

George Lynch was one hell of a guitar player and soloist. His harmonics and tone were copycated by the thousands.

I like Dokken a lot. Agreed on the live Beast from the East album. Was a very good live album. One of the better live albums of the 1980s. George Lynch’s guitar playing on the instrumental, Mr. Scary, was jaw dropping good. Very good on the whole album.
Dokkens videos always made me laugh. They were just soo bad, they were good. It was kind of funny when “In my Dreams” video came out and it actually had good production values and no bad action movie stunts.

[Avery Iota Kracker]

I’m musically stuck in the 18th and 19th centuries. Great place to be, too, I might add.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Honestly. I had a ton of rocker friends who were pretty bitter over grunge happening, but I embraced it cause I really liked Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, but still kept listening to rock and metal as well through in the 1990s.
I was never much of a Nirvana fan. I thought some of the early stuff, like the Bleach album, was superior to what they did as they got big.
I liked Mother Love Bone a lot. Band members of Pearl Jam were in before Pearl Jam.

Some of the old school bands still make good music. Love the new Megadeth album. Saw Iron Maiden tour last year. Love them and the new album. Iron Maiden is one of my favorite bands of all time. In high school days, I spent alot of afternoons learning songs off the killers and 1st album. Ahhh good memories.......

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Honestly. I had a ton of rocker friends who were pretty bitter over grunge happening, but I embraced it cause I really liked Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, but still kept listening to rock and metal as well through in the 1990s.
I was never much of a Nirvana fan. I thought some of the early stuff, like the Bleach album, was superior to what they did as they got big.
I liked Mother Love Bone a lot. Band members of Pearl Jam were in before Pearl Jam.

Some of the old school bands still make good music. Love the new Megadeth album. Saw Iron Maiden tour last year. Love them and the new album. Iron Maiden is one of my favorite bands of all time. In high school days, I spent alot of afternoons learning songs off the killers and 1st album. Ahhh good memories.......

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Do you wear one of those cool Beethoven wigs too? Sweet! ;)

[wbill]

Well, really, it wasn't just Dokken's videos that were bad.

You can pretty much pick most 80's hair metal band videos and say "Yikes". There are a few exceptions. "Jump" by Van Halen set the standard for "concert" type videos. There were a few others. Judas Priest and Metallica could usually be counted on for something OK. "Summertime Girls" by Y&T likely set a record for "Most Bikini Walk-ons by Hot Chicks"...song was OK, but the video - to my 14ish-year-old undersexed mind - was really, really exceptional. :-)

But, if you go back and watch the videos (VH1 Classic still shows them occasionally) for what I remember as being AWESOME ... Ratt, Scorpions, Def Leppard and so on ... my reaction is "While I might have thought these videos were the pinnacle of cool 25 years ago, now? Not so much. And what the heck is the lead singer doing there, anyway????" Songs are still good, though.

[wbill]

Oh, and one other. Someone on FR recommended that I go back and watch "VOA" by Sammy Hagar not too long ago. It was in reference to his generally conservative viewpoint.

I'd not seen it since the album came out, what, 25+ years ago? I just remember that it was banned from MTV, ostensibly for violence, but more likely because it portrayed Reagan as one of the really good guys. So, I googled it.

Great vid. Even better than "I can't drive 55". :-)

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Watching Tawny Kitaen doing ballet backflips over a Jaguar was one of those visuals that sure caused a stiring with this young boy back then. If there was ever a better image to promote the benefits of becoming a musician, I don’t know of any. But as with all such innocence, later on she ends up dating O.J. Simpson and becomes a crack head. Talk about a fantasy killer.

I really like Y&T as a band. Their videos were terrible, but summertime girls did rock with the amount of babes in bikinis.

There was plenty of bands that made great concert and videos. But yes, many were total cheese. Most don’t age well, but many still bring back soo many good memories, hard not to enjoy it.

I was just listening to Scorpions Love at first Sting a few days ago in my car. The song “I’m Leaving You” always floods my mind with memories and makes me smile. I love that song. Ahh...girls with big hair, white mascara, trashy outfits, and pumps. Ahhhh......love that look. I just do.