2023 Rock & Roll HOF screechfest

Their memoir, “The Dirt,” is a phenomenally entertaining read. Unparalleled debauchery. The film version only scratches the surface.

 

Simply weren’t enough chicks who’d go down on you in a theater.

 

I know Cracker did that song on Kerosene Hat, one that you had to wait for when the hidden track thing was a thing.

 

I sometimes wonder if Def Leppard would even defend that. While it probably had to happen to get that album off the ground, having Mutt Lange producing did them no favors. Half the songs on there sound like Shania Twain. They’re good songs, solid, pop-rock songs, but the production just really left a lot of them coming up short.

 

Now the question we've all been waiting for this estimable panel to tackle - Journey or INXS? Which left a bigger impact?

 

I don't know if you're just fucking around or not, but Cinderella was a sorely underrated band. Got their break by opening for Bon Jovi on the Slippery When Wet tour so they were marketed as a glam band and pushed heavily w/the ballad "Nobody's Fool," but those dudes had bluesy, bluesy chops. As good as "Coming Home" was, they had two of the best songs of the entire era on their third album, "Shelter Me" and "Heartbreak Station." But they were already falling thru the cracks even before grunge ended the party.

 

The answer of course is Foreigner.

 

every time I marvel at this board it takes me to even fresher heights - that this place is loaded with secret INXS fans delights the hell out of me.

 

Sure they would. They became the biggest band in the world in 1988, all after coming back from a four-year absence with the awful "Women" as the lead single. Today that would bury the band and the album w/o a second thought.

 

That book's also a reminder that Mick Mars is surely in the right in his whole kerfuffle with the rest of the band. The other three guys should be in prison for life for multiple offenses at this point.

 

The DBT song “Self Destructive Zones” is the tale of a hair metal band getting run over by the grunge train.

Girls taking down posters, boys cutting their hair, pawn shops full of pointy ugly guitars.

 

There's a great tale of Warrant going to Columbia's offices and seeing Alice In Chains posters where the Warrant posters were a year earlier. They all knew the gig was up then.