Following a post on the i heart guitar blog, I thought I’d take Peter’s suggestion and do a post of 10 things that annoy me (though I probably already whinge on here more often than he does on i heart guitar)
Anyway, 10 things that annoy me (in no particular order) …
People who...
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I was struck by something a while back, and reminded of it yesterday while listening to South Gang on the way to work. It is this: what the hell has happened to hard rock vocalists?
The singer with South Gang, Jesse Harte, is a great example of what you find in band after band after...
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Tags: 80s, cookie monster, hair metal, hard rock, heavy metal, Music, singer, singing, vocal
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… and metal bandana.
I do love hair metal – as detailed in my previous post. It’s in fact one of my two favourite genres of music.
This is a song I wrote back in 1993, I think, with a friend and collaborator. I re-recorded it (sans vocals) a couple of years ago in...
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Tags: evh, hair metal, hard rock, original, petrucci, road song, van halen
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I saw recently that Steel Panther have a #1 cd ... in the Billboard "comedy" chart O_o WTF is that about? Sure the lyrics are funny, but the music is most triumphantly tremendous hard rockin' hair metal. And yes, I mean that in a very good way.
Hair metal is awesome: Lynch Mob, Ratt, Skid...
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Well, I was going to have a totally sweet cover of Dokken’s “Breakin’ the Chains” to post … but I have children. Children who can’t be left to their own devices for more than a couple minutes, apparently, so now my flow is totally broken, and I’m off to weed the garden
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Tags: Children, dokken, fail, hair metal, Music
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