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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 2700591" data-attributes="member: 34175">In regard to the two bands listed - I chose Skid Row!  Much grittier and had a hard edge.But as to which hair band reigned supreme, neither of these two were around long enough to qualify.  If you really want to know, strap in junior, someone in the business is about to school ya!As far as hair bands (SPECIFICALLY not just heavy metal but those that were on the spandex circuit) there are a pleathora from which to choose during the time frame of 1983 - 1992.  I have seen many responses and I must admit that Motley Crew fit that mold when they first arrived on the scene, but by the late 80s they started to move into the realm of "legitimate" Heavy Metal.  Though Queensryche has been mentioned, they fell into the progressive metal categoryThe Warning, Operation: Mindcrime and Empirewere all concept albums and were too deep for the hair, whores and Heinken crowd... And Iron Maiden they were true Heavy Metal pioneers (the spandex was not a hair statement, just what everyone was wearing at the time (I even had a pair of black spandex pants))So we are specifically looking at bands that exploited the LA sound and the Hollywood look.I would narrow our group to Poison, Warrant, Skid Row, Slaughter, Vixen (you go girls), Faster Pussycat, Cinderella, Whitesnake, Twisted Sister, The New York Dolls, Van Halen (yep they were pioneers), Y&T (yep, they were too), Mr Big, Extreme and the like (There are about four thousand more bands I could name but you get the drift)As far as pure hair The New York Dolls were a hold over from the glam days and along with Twisted Sister are probably the MOST repsonsible for the look - the odd part is the LA look was created in the New York club scene - both bands were NYC based.The hair sound was one of tight vocal harmonies and distorted guitars - Van Halen, Whitesnake and Y&T were the progenators of that sound - hands down.  And if you don't believe VH belongs in this category, go back and watch any of the videos from the 1984 album... They may have started as a rock band, but under the guiding hand of KISS bassman Gene Simmons (another group that probably belongs on this list) they soon became as much showmen as musicians (Diver Down and Women and Children First are probably the best examples)  Y&T though gets my ultimate hair band vote.  Though they aren't as well known as the rest, for those of us who were paying attention, they scored the sound and the look well before any of the rest.  This Long Beach (later Hollywood) based quartet cut their teeth in the late 70s opening for groups like Sweet, STYX and KISS and formed thier own distinctive sound in spite of it.  At the begining of the 80s rock anthems like Lipstick and Leather and Summertime Girls set the standard for all other bands to follow.  They could roll out the metal and even scored another major hair hit Don't Be Afraid (Of The Dark) just as the 80s drew to a close.  Unlike all of the other bands in the era, they stayed true to themselves and to their sound throughout the duration.  They are IMO the hands down absolute winners of the Hair Band Hall of Fame MVPs."This has been Behind the Hairspray, I'm Thunderfoot, we'll see you next time..."PS in case you were wondering how I came by the name Thunderfoot - maybe you have a clue now. *budda-budda budda-budda BOOM-BOOM* <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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