We Got The Whole 9 wrote:BigbadB wrote:We Got The Whole 9 wrote:I may or may not get ripped for this but I've been listening to Skid Row - Slave to the Grind, daily. Only a couple songs have not held up. Their debut I can't say the same for but that 2nd album is amazing.
Oh and yet more randomness but Blind Melon was terrific.
Opposite for me. I loved the Skid Row debut album more than Slave, but Slave was good. Interestingly enough, I'm currently reading "Nothin' But A Good Time" which is the uncensored history of glam rock/hair metal from the '80's. I was a fan of many of those bands, but I'm in that age group that fit perfectly. I'm the same age as most of those bands from that era...Motley, Ratt, Cinderella, LA Guns, etc...and I had a secret obsession with wanting to be on stage doing what they were doing. Problem was I never learned an instrument and I lived in the middle of nowhere, IL.
Just bought my first electric guitar and getting ready to do online lessons. Meanwhile, while reading this book, my headphones are playing all of the debut albums of all of those hair metal bands. Probably a bit too late to live my dream, but I'm cooped up in the house with nothing better to do. LOL. I don't typically even listen to that era of music these days, preferring more of a blues/blues rock sound these days, but it's fun to go back and reminisce.
Been on a similar kick lately. I still like a lot of glam rock. I'm a huge fan of Motley up through Dr Feelgood. Found myself watching a lot of their old live performances. I only saw them once, at Ozzfest back in like 09 or 10, and they crushed it. Went down a YT rabbit hole and I'm watching like old ass Headbangers Ball episodes lol. horsefeathering Bulletboys came on and I hadn't heard them in 30 years. I used to wear out their debut album. I remember we had a rec room with a pool table and that was our stage. We couldn't afford guitars and knew no musicians back then so we made some horsefeathers guitars out of cardboard and thought they were the coolest.
Later in life when I got a guitar I just could not figure it out and gave up way too easily. horsefeathers was way harder than it looked lol
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That era was so incredibly me at that time. I was 21 and going to clubs on the weekends and bands were doing every hair metal band that was hot at the time. Saw them all in concert. Saw Crue in Florida. There was one band in the Peoria area that had a young phenom guitar player that we had to see every time they played somewhere. He was actually from the same high school as me, but about 5 years younger. I talked them into playing my wedding reception, which is something they typically refused to do. They cleared out our older family members with their own version of AC/DC's "Big Balls" where they changed the lyrics to "Brian's got the biggest, balls of them all" and crap like that. Hilarious now, but I was petrified at what my own parents thought of my music choice. But they were really good. I actually played some tennis with that guitar player a few times. His girlfriend had a sister that was my age, so we had a bit more in common. One day he says to me that he got accepted at Berkelee school of music in Boston and I was so happy for him I was moving to Champaign at the same time from Peoria. Years later, I almost couldn't even remember his name, but was completely out of touch with that scene and him. One day after the internet was invented by Al Gore, I was browsing my dial up AOL cd of free internet and his name popped up in my head. I googled him (was google a thing yet?) and after music school, he accepted a job playing guitar for Charlie Daniels Band and he stayed there until Charlie retired, which was only a months before he passed away. I knew he was good.
But the band shows were amazing at that time. I don't remember a lot of them as we'd get so messed up preshow. I've ben telling my wife for years that my one regret was that I never saw Van Halen, but going through old concert tickets I found a Van Halen ticket stub from the Peoria Civic Center from the 5150 tour that I don't remember going to, but apparently I did. I don't have a clue who I went with or any other details. That night is erased from my memory bank.
The guitar lessons I'm starting out with are called Beginner Electric Lesson by Marty Music (You Tube). I like the way he explains things, and he's very important about repetition. My problem with guitar lessons before was that I wasn't playing songs at the end of the first day and it became frustrating waiting to be able to be good enough to do that. I was bored with just learning chords. His lessons actually have me putting a few easy chords together that sound good right off the bat and he stresses to play around with those chords by mixing strums and picking strings while getting used to where your hands are. I'll keep you posted, but so far I really like the way he teaches.
ETA: That guitar player is Chris Wormer. He's got some stuff on YouTube that is pretty cool. I wish it was more rock than CDB/country, but it's still cool that he made a career doing what he was so good at.
