Any hard rockers here?

[Pretty Go Pale]

Hair band fans need not apply.

[Skittles]

1. I would say I am a big fan

I always gravitate to hard rock, old and new - and OMG I very much share your disdain for those g.d. HAIR BANDS - f***ing PUKE-INDUCING :puke:

[Pretty Go Pale]

2. Farkin' -A

The 80's -- I haven't seen hair teased that much since Alfalfa took the brunt of Frogy's jibes in the "Our Gang" days. I eat me up some metal.

[Skittles]

3. don't get me started

I'm an old gal now but I remember being in Hyde Park in London in 1971, when I was 14, and looking around at the way people were dressed - the striped pants and flower vests - and thinking to myself, "THESE PEOPLE LOOK RIDICULOUS." I vowed right then and there I would never, ever do the g.d. weird hair / fashion sh** so my pictures would always look somewhat natural. I thought the same thing with that nasty big hair fad in the '80s - people must look back at their pics now and wonder WTF they were thinking. NOT ME!!! :D

[Pretty Go Pale]

4. Note to self:

Lose the striped pants and flowered vest.

[Skittles]

5. LOL!

well I think it's OK to dress how you please, just don't be a chronic slave to the "popular fashions" because all to many of them look ridiculous!!! :D

[Pretty Go Pale]

6. Thanks

I'll keep the striped pants. What a relief. Ice cream truck drivers have limited options.

[Skittles]

7. I've been googling but cannot find a sample of what I remember

they would have been flared of course :)

[Pretty Go Pale]

8. Hey . . .

. . . you've bought cremesicles from me before, haven't you?

[Skittles]

10. YES DAHLING

and I was wearing these shoes:

Yes INDEED! :7

[Pretty Go Pale]

11. I wore those . . .

. . . in my not-to-be-mentioned Sonny Bono phase. Added heighth . . . and depth.

[calimary]

21. Dang! Those are something! Did you do the rhinestone work?

Or did they come that way? Very nice! Those sure take me back. I had a pair of those beige platform sandals that everybody wore, except that I rhinestoned the platforms myself. They turned out really cool.

[Cobalt-60]

25. I had disco platforms

I was sufficiently drunk that I had to remove them to walk on the St. Louis levee bricks.
I apparently flung them into the river sometime during the jazz festival.
thus ended my experiment with disco shoes.

[Broken_Hero]

9. Hell yes...

Slayer, Metallica, Slipknot, Fear Factory, Soul Fly, Shadows Fall, ILL Nino, Life of Agony, to name a few....:D

[Pretty Go Pale]

12. I see

I love of a moving power ballad -- like Reign in Blood.

[ForrestGump]

13. I am a rocker, but

I don't answer sexual questions on DU.

[Pretty Go Pale]

14. Good practice.

If anyone asks you such a question, don't answer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. From the early days

Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin (of course), Grand Funk et al. A bit later, Montrose, Foghat, Santana, and Journey and REO Speedwagon before they sold out to the power-ballad pimps. And Nugent, before I found out what a fucking asspipe he is.

Edit: Forgot about Alice Cooper. Shame on me.

:headbang:

[chknltl]

16. OZZY OZZY OZZY

I second the Deep Purple and Uriah Heep above but never was much of a Led Zepplin Fan. Other old school stuff would have to include The Who, Ten Years After, Humble Pie and progrockers: YES.
Metallica, Biohazard, Genitorturers and Sepultura kept it alive until Nirvana, Slipknot, Coal Chamber, Sevendust, Rorshach Test and etc came along.

I suspect that I won't be the only one here who claims to have a wide and varied assortment of other genres of music in my library but rock is it's central core. Once I discovered the local "indie"-(read not signed but hopeful)-bands I spent more time listening to them than the mainstream stuff. My musical treasures come from those local talents...If you get the chance, venture out to your neighborhood club and check a few out, you may come away with a few treasures of your own.

[calimary]

17. Oh, God, I LOVED Ten Years After! And Led Zep. AND Nirvana.

And Foghat and Deep Purple. Still do. Now, my son's into punk and metal and I find a lot of what he's listening to MOST intriguing. He likes Ozzy, Metallica, Aerosmith (which I LOVE), Motley Crue, and other stuff like Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, AC/DC etc.

And I used to LOVE this somewhat obscure British group that never quite made it over here very far: Juicy Lucy. GREAT stuff. Probably impossible to find now, but I still have their album somewhere. Truly great, righteous stuff. The louder and crunchier it is, the better I like it. If the Stones aren't yet too old to rock 'n' roll, then neither am I.

[chknltl]

18. I remember the name Juicy Lucy but....

...nothing more about them. I saw Ten Years After back in '70 or '71 which would have been about the same time that Jucy Lucy band was out and about.

[calimary]

20. Yep. I think it was indeed about 1970.

They had a song called "Chicago Northwestern" that was so heavy it'd sink straight down through a concrete floor. It even had a peddle steel guitar in it, screaming and whining, and I didn't even mind that. It actually worked. And ordinarily I HATE peddle steel guitar (the soupy country music kind). A somewhat gross album cover - girl posing surrounded by fruit, with some of it smashed into her mouth and dribbling down her chin. Fun, though.

I discovered the group during a shopping trip in London when my parents took me on vacation before I graduated high school (one of those last big family vacations before the kid goes off to college). It was playing in this boutique where I flirted with this cute guy behind the counter who looked a lot like Mick Taylor. Sigh... Those were the days.

I love Ten Years After. Their "Space in Time" album was my favorite. But "Let the Sky Fall" isn't on the CD version, so I'm glad I still have the vinyl.

[chknltl]

22. I have Crickelwood Green on cd!

I heard of Juicy Lucy over in Europe as well. I was in Berlin Germany from '69 to '71
I even caught one of Pink Floyds early shows there...right before they released Umma Gumma.
One band I saw back then at an underground nightclub was Tangerine Dream. They were VERY STRANGE...now they make soundtracks for major movies. (Saw Golden Earring at that same club about that same time too).

[calimary]

23. Dang! Great stuff!

I remember when "Radar Love" first hit. It was, and still is, one of THE great time-to-hit-the-freeway tunes. What a great time for music that was. I've tried to make sure my kids are well-educated about these "finer things." Especially my son, who is now a fledgling rocker "in his own write." Whenever it is that we get all my old albums out of storage, "Juicy Lucy" is one of the first ones I'm gonna play for him. And I bet he'll promptly appropriate the LP.

[chknltl]

24. I actually saw GR a few years before Radar Love

They were at a small club and played a lot of cover tunes back then. Their version of Eight Miles High is one I remember, (I had the Cassette), because it was harder edged, less poppy and rocked as only Golden Earring could!

For the last decade I have had the opportunity to work with local bands. Some are very talented...it is a crime that talent is not necessarily the defining attribute for success in the field of music. Although I have many of my old faves from my teen years on CD now, I rarely listen to them instead opting for a disc from one of my fave locals instead. If you have the ability to listen in here is a catchy punk/rock, (mostly rock) number from one of those bands. Please note the "retro-California-surfin'60s" guitar solo in the center of the song.
http://www.cookiefactory.com/music/black_n_blue.mp3 The song is written and sung by a young lass who sadly performs in a country western band these days.

[calimary]

30. Cool! My years of working in rock took a hiatus for motherhood.

Before that I worked in rock 'n' roll radio and covered lots of concerts and bands and individual performers. After my break, my kid started landed a job that called for him to join a rock band and go on a tour of some schools back east, so after years in the business, I finally achieved the one position that had always eluded me. I could legitimately (and entirely cleanly) say "I'm with the band"! :rofl:

Talent is indeed NOT necessarily the defining attribute for success in music - or elsewhere. I was telling my kid who complained about an actor who got hired in a band as a guitarist mainly because he had a distinctively great look - about something I read in a Jayne Mansfield biography. It was during her va-va-voom heyday, when she went sashaying onto some set or into some casting office or whatever, seeking some film role. The director (or whoever it was) took one look at her, turned to his companion, and said "if that can talk, it gets the part."

Thanks for the tip. When I can make some noise, I will check this out!

:toast:

[Fox Mulder]

19. Let's just say that Squizz is my favorite channel on XM radio.

Squizz plays new hard rock all the time.

[Maestro]

26. Hell Yeah!

Mastodon, Trivium, Mudvayne, As I Lay Dying, Zao, All That Remains, SOAD, Between The Buried and Me, The Human Abstract, the Mighty Met (even the new stuff), Throwdown, Ill Niño, Ankla, Children of Bodom, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and a ton of other bands.

[Initech]

27. Hell yeah! I own more hard rock albums than any other genre.

Currently playing: Tool - 10,000 Days

[gr8dane_daddy]

28. My list of current fav's:

Pantera (RIP Dimebag) - Cemetary Gates has got to be one of my alltime favorite songs

Black Label Society - Time's Killing Me is how power blues riffs should be

Drowning Pool - Step Up makes me wanna slap my mama!

Barry Manilo...just kidding!

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Do punk/hardcore kids count?