hair metal bands with talent

[mrbluelouboyle]

Loudness

 

[VitalMarcus]

Motley Crue before 1985.

 

[Dick Rott]

Alot of 80's metal bands were very talented. Whether or not you like the music is a different story.

They were good writers and players though with few exeptions.

 

[TekChef]

the music overall was corporate crap..but..

Winger's guitar player Reb Beach is actaully a VERY good guitar player. Their drummer, Rod Morganstein(sp?) is a killer drummer..heck..he was in the Dixie Dregs!

They just both happened to be in the most vilified band of the 1980s!

 

[DoctorX3]

Van Halen
Ozzy Osbourne
Twisted Sister
Def Leppard
Mottley Crue (before they went soft, and again with John Corabi)
Badlands
Guns N' Roses
Blue Murder
Tygers of Pan Tang (with John Sykes
Whitesnake (also with John Sykes)
Tesla
Damn Yankees
Night Ranger (first three albums and Seven)
Extreme
Saigon Kick
Quiet Riot (the first album)
Faster Pussycat (the first album)
Poison (first five albums)
Skid Row (the first three albums)
Bon Jovi (first four albums)
Kiss (with Vinnie Vincent, and on Revenge)
Dokken (not good, just TALENTED)
Billy Squier (first three albums)
Aldo Nova (first album)
Autograph (first album)
Scorpions (everything from Fly to the Rainbow through Love at First Sting, as well as Crazy World)
Sammy Hagar
David Lee Roth

 

[speed]

Ratt wasnt half bad.

 

[Psychonaut]

Lots of good bands mentioned but here are some of my favs from that time...

Scorpions (all the way through Savage Amusement)

Extreme (the first one was the only one that really hooked me)

Danger Danger (about half each of their first two albums)

Dokken (all the way through Back For The Attack)

Motley Crue (first three)

Twisted Sister (Stay Hungry, Love Is For Suckers, Under The Blade)

Skid Row (first two)

Jackyl (debut)

WASP (I like all of their stuff)

Loudness (Thunder In The East, Hurricane Eyes)

Whitesnake (s/t, Slip Of The Tongue, Slide It In)

Ratt (everything up through Reach For The Sky)

Hurricane (Over The Edge)

Tesla (Mechanical Resonance and The Great Radio Controversy)

Cinderella (Night Songs)

There's more but I'm blank at the moment. The bands I couldn't get into were: Steelheart, Poison, Kix, Warrant, White Lion, Slaughter, Keel, Bon Jovi (except one or two songs), solo DLR, and Great White.

 

[ffanatic]

Saigon Kick.

Queensryche (if you could call them hair metal).

 

[Esteban]

I think Steve Vai and Jason Becker played for Whitesnake... interesting, I will check out Tesla.

IMO WASP was not hair metal, they had the clothes and the attitude, but the music was heavy metal, especially The Headless Children which is a masterpiece

 

[Wicked Child]

Def Leppard(up to Hysteria, since then they blow), Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Dokken, Ratt