2023 Rock & Roll HOF screechfest

Oh, I’m not joking at all. Jeff LaBar grew up close to where I did, and I remember him making appearances at one of the local music stores after they hit it big. But they weren’t big enough that my brother and I couldn’t get in and get an autograph and listen to him talk for hours about guitars.

I loved Heartbreak Station — that’s when it became apparent to the world that they’d been pigeonholed in their first two albums.

 

Then I apologize for mansplaining Cinderella!

While I got to see them with David Lee Roth and Extreme in 1991--Extreme was the opening OPENING act despite having a no. 1 song not even a month earlier--I regret not going to see Cinderella when they played a club a mile or so from my house in the early 2010s. They never came this way again and were broken up long before Jeff's death.

 

Cake was a bunch of band geeks trying to play rock.

 

Cake wasn't listed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_rock

 

How do you not have Jonathan Richman? Or every Velvet Underground related act? Galaxie 500 was three kids from Harvard.

 

Bet you were urgent to post that.

 

Weird genre. But Rush is included so all is right with the world.

Plenty of "geeks" were into hair metal too. In fact? I'd venture to guess that the majority of hair metal fans are geeks.

 

FUCK YOU BUBS I'LL FUCKING CUT YOU!!!!

Yeah, us geeks loved hair metal.

 

Cut me slack, man! I whacked the "but enough about BYH" part of my post.

 

It's an excess of INXS. Never understood the appeal.

 

Checks out.

 

There are a host of deep-seated psychological issues tied directly to the existence of hair metal. Geekdom is just the tip of the iceberg.