Don’t Call It Hair Metal Don’t Call It Hair Metal

Don’t Call It Hair Metal

Art in the Excess of ’80s Rock

    • 4.0 • 1 Rating
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s


There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock ’n’ roll of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess. Attention to songcraft, showmanship, and musical virtuosity (especially in the realm of the electric guitar) were at an all-time high, and radio and MTV were delivering the goods en masse to the corn-fed children of America and beyond.


Time hasn’t always been kind to artists of that gold and platinum era, but Don’t Call It Hair Metal analyzes the sonic evolution, musical diversity, and artistic intention of ’80s commercial hard rock through interviews with members of such hard rock luminaries as Twisted Sister, Def Leppard, Poison, Whitesnake, Ratt, Skid Row, Quiet Riot, Guns N’ Roses, Dokken, Mr. Big, and others.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2023
May 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
312
Pages
PUBLISHER
ECW Press
SELLER
ECW Press Ltd.
SIZE
11.8
MB
Ye Olde Metal: Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny Ye Olde Metal: Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny
2014
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uncensored On the Record Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uncensored On the Record
2012
RocKwiz 1001 Songs RocKwiz 1001 Songs
2007
Blues & Chaos Blues & Chaos
2009
Rush Rush
2017
Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers [Revised & Expanded Ebook Edition] Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers [Revised & Expanded Ebook Edition]
2014
Windle, Castleman LLP Windle, Castleman LLP
2004
The Game The Game
2021
Becoming Gaia Becoming Gaia
2021
Autumn & Ava Autumn & Ava
2015
Learn to Tango with D Learn to Tango with D
2008
They Just Seem a Little Weird They Just Seem a Little Weird
2020
Limelight: Rush in the ’80s Limelight: Rush in the ’80s
2020
Anthem: Rush in the 1970s Anthem: Rush in the 1970s
2020
Double Talkin' Jive Double Talkin' Jive
2022
Confess Confess
2020
Nöthin' But a Good Time Nöthin' But a Good Time
2021