the entire "hair band" and "glam metal" thing is a sham thats grown from the unknowing, those that werent around looking back and naming the style of music based on the fashion of the day. I have seen bands from Queensryche to Led Zeppelin to VanHalen and even Journey all lumped into hair and glam metal. Its just ignorance. The deal in Cali was the "Sunset Strip" metal scene, it spawned alot of bands, many from other parts of the country went there to try to make it. Some made it in other parts of the country or at least gave it a shot. Some came from England and other parts of Europe. It was just the commercial popular rock/metal of the era and so many were involved from the early days of Ozzy, VanHalen, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Doken through to late commers like Warrent and Firehouse. "Hair"... "glam"... "Sleeze"... the words of newbs
Looking back I think it was the hay day of heavy rockin music, they used to fill big venues with two acts. Today its small venues with 3-4 bands. There was local clubs with local acts all over, today the pickins are slim by comparison
