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music and only music, musicians' attitude and only their look and attitude or both music and look?
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The music. No other style of music relies so damned heavily on "hooks" and "riffs" and making things catchy.
Music first and foremost but I do like a good image after all its glam innit?
Oh yeah, I love the image also, but the music man. I would never have fallen in love with T-Rex just for the image way back when. I liked Electric Warrior, but once I heard The Slider, I was done for. His image wasn't overly GLAM.
Girls with few clothes, drugs, JD, attitude mostly bad. Not Poison, Crue or any of the other half baked late 80's American pish.
H
<font size="4" face="Arial">Thats fuckin music. It could be called anything and I'd still love it.Quote:
Originally posted by Carl I.:
Oh yeah, I love the image also, but the music man. I would never have fallen in love with T-Rex just for the image way back when. I liked Electric Warrior, but once I heard The Slider, I was done for. His image wasn't overly GLAM.
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<font size="4" face="Arial">LMFAO Hud. I'm with you on the first one.Quote:
Originally posted by Hud McG:
Girls with few clothes, drugs, JD, attitude mostly bad. Not Poison, Crue or any of the other half baked late 80's American pish.
H
Ricki Rachtman once said that they had a policy of keeping the heating up high in the Cathouse so the women would wear less. I think all bars should adopt this policy [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Now that is suggestion of the day Grant. Top marks for that sir
Hooters in Amsterdam, now there's a bar! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
<font size="4" face="Arial">Odd, especially considering that Bolan was credited with inventing the very genre itself!Quote:
Originally posted by Carl I.:
Oh yeah, I love the image also, but the music man. I would never have fallen in love with T-Rex just for the image way back when. I liked Electric Warrior, but once I heard The Slider, I was done for. His image wasn't overly GLAM.
He wore the sparkles around his eyes before anyone else, and his satin suits were quite tres chic!
...and the music was tres chic as well [img]wink.gif[/img] ...
For most of the bands who I love, I listened to their music first and then I discovered to what they looked like...
Glam, when done right is, to me, the perfect rock'n'roll.
Like someone mentioned you have the big hooks, the riffs and overall carchy songs which is of course the most important thing. Then there is the rock star element to it.
To me it was never interessting to be in a band without an image. If you wanna be a rock star, dress the part has always been my attitude. Give the people something to look at, some entertainment, some value for money... I think band like Nirvana (and a million other bands) just don't make an effort to entertain. They look boring and they were boring.
Now if you are also into partying there is no better style of music to be into than glam... and let's face it girls like glam as well...
You just can't lose with this.
Now where are those blasted drugs! I know I have them somewhere haha
<font size="4" face="Arial">Odd, especially considering that Bolan was credited with inventing the very genre itself!Quote:
Originally posted by JayForSure:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="4" face="Arial">Originally posted by Carl I.:
Oh yeah, I love the image also, but the music man. I would never have fallen in love with T-Rex just for the image way back when. I liked Electric Warrior, but once I heard The Slider, I was done for. His image wasn't overly GLAM.
He wore the sparkles around his eyes before anyone else, and his satin suits were quite tres chic!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="4" face="Arial">I know, but by the time I fell into Glam, I had already started seeing pictures of Hanoi Rocks, an in all honesty, Bolan was quite "tame" in comparison. The look had been around. It was his music that made me sit up and take REAL notice in 1983 when I first noticed it. During his prime, I was only 2, so his look really would have missed it's mark at that point.
But don't get me wrong, as odd as it is, nothing SCREAMS "GLAM IMAGE" and inspiration as much as that black and white cover for The Slider!!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Yeah, only Andy really wore any kind of "Glam" footwear at times. The rest of them though, the cool looks, then you get to their feet and they were wearing Nike's!!! I never understood that either, and it hurt the image a tad, didn't it?
Wasn't it just RAzzle who wore Nike's?
I can't remember ever seeing Nasty, Sammy, Mike or Andy wearing Nike's, but of course I might be wrong.
Think the most common footwear they had were these chealsea boot type things without the heels
I was attracted by the Teeth of a band.
Nothing more,..
Nothing less.
<font size="4" face="Arial">Almost positive Mike was a tenny shoe guy often.Quote:
Originally posted by chrisdamien:
Wasn't it just RAzzle who wore Nike's?
I can't remember ever seeing Nasty, Sammy, Mike or Andy wearing Nike's, but of course I might be wrong.
Think the most common footwear they had were these chealsea boot type things without the heels
<font size="4" face="Arial">Almost positive Mike was a tenny shoe guy often.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="4" face="Arial">I do recall MM wearing red western boots with his trews tucked into them. Not sure how much of a heel.Quote:
Originally posted by Carl I.:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="4" face="Arial">Originally posted by chrisdamien:
Wasn't it just RAzzle who wore Nike's?
I can't remember ever seeing Nasty, Sammy, Mike or Andy wearing Nike's, but of course I might be wrong.
Think the most common footwear they had were these chealsea boot type things without the heels
<font size="4" face="Arial">Yes, it did sort of nullify the great outfits they otherwise had.Quote:
Originally posted by Carl I.:
Yeah, only Andy really wore any kind of "Glam" footwear at times. The rest of them though, the cool looks, then you get to their feet and they were wearing Nike's!!! I never understood that either, and it hurt the image a tad, didn't it?
Carl, I'm aware you were a mere infant [img]wink.gif[/img] during Bolan's reign. I'll excuse your perfidy on that basis [img]wink.gif[/img] .
As for Hanoi, I liked their outfits, but could never understand why they didn't wear some sort of heel. MM would have looked good wearing some Anello and Davide MJs as Bolan did in his early glam days! Think the cover of Obscure Alternatives by Japan, they were wearing that type of shoe.
To return to the topic...I like the sound of controlled tension, hence I love the production of glam. I also like clothes, always have, and that is another part of my glam attraction.
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<font face="Comic sans MS">To me it was never interessting to be in a band without an image. If you wanna be a rock star, dress the part has always been my attitude. Give the people something to look at, some entertainment, some value for money... I think band like Nirvana (and a million other bands) just don't make an effort to entertain. They look boring and they were boring.</font>
The music, and the free spirit attitude that comes with it.
Image is a plus, but if they look cool as hell and then their songs are dogshit, that it truely terrible... people like that should stick to modelling not music.
The stress free trading scene that always seems to go so smoothly
Initially because it looked so much better than punk! You wanted to be one of them, they looked so out there, so fucked (remember, this is 1986-1990). Then it all went a bit ropey. I couldnt stand it when crap bands playing blues put on some eyeliner and were suddenly GLAM!
It should have all been about the energy, the danger, the balls, the gang mentality, the fucking huge chorus, the sadness in the lyrics, the lost girl, the broken heart, the drink that will make it all better.
It should have been Tyla, not Brett Michaels. The Lords of the New Church, not Warrant. It should have been filthy and need of a wash.
Sadly a lot of the tunes were shit.
Nirvana boring you've got to be joking.
H
Plus one to Mark4130's comments. I think most prefered Slik Toxik to Hanoi but I know where I was at..
The whole package!
The make-up!
The music (melody,cool guitars)!
The Attitude!
The Party atmosphere!
No other genre of music comes close to it!
I also loved the whole package!!!!!
The Dogs(UK) Style was much better than the poison (US) but hey you can't have it all!!!!
Canglamada .. The whole package!
The make-up!
The music (melody,cool guitars)!
The Attitude!
The Party atmosphere!
WHAT ABOUT THE 'CHICKS' DUDE ! 'Glam Chicks' are the Sexiest Girls around, colorful, sexy, LOUD !
Marshy
If the media was ever going to allow any image bands to become well known/"popular" then they would have acknowledged what was going on in the early 1990s rather than promoting grunge.
Face it, a band that wears eyeliner is now called "glam," no matter what they sound like and even look like otherwise.
'Glam' means it must take you at least two hours to get ready to go down to the corner shop for a pint of milk and a paper.
Rubbish, being glam meant being up all night on speed so that you didnt have to re-do your hair in the morning when you went down the shop for your Marlboros in the morning!!
... Aint that the truth dude !
Marshy
Never taken it, Squire. Numerous experiences have shown me that it changes perfectly reasonable people into absolute cunts.
Trust me, I was a perfect example that what you are saying!! I was as big a cunt as you could get and a lot of it was down to speed (Gunstone will vouch for that). [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]
I was an arse before speed, but an affable arse.
With hindsight its very easy to see it was all a load of bollocks.
<font size="4" face="Arial">You want me as a character witness?????Quote:
Originally posted by mark4130:
[QB]I was as big a cunt as you could get and a lot of it was down to speed (Gunstone will vouch for that).[QB]
My initial attraction to glam was from being into regulation metal but then along came GnR and it became clear that you could have long hair and not look shit. Thankfully the music wasn't bad either, although there soon followed the Warrants of this world and it all went downhill, so it was just as well there were plenty of older bands that I was too young to know about at the time (Hanoi/Dolls/Hollywood Brats etc) that you could turn up and drown out all the other crap that was crossing the Atlantic.
Along with Mark I put a band together, got ourselves out and about - and the fact that I also became of interest to the laydeez as a result was of course an added bonus ....
PS: Mark - you weren't that bad. No, really. Honest. Well, apart from ......
THE ATTITUDE OF THE MUSIC