Moss

I remember when I was in College (late 80's) and I was jamming with various people trying to find a good fit. Me and another guy were guitar players and had really connected. We found a drummer that was huge into hair metal. To the point where it was just us playing in a garage and this guy was still mugging and making stupid faces and spinning his sticks and **** like there was a camera in there. He actually gave me a manual on how to be in a metal band that had such nuggets like "Pantene will give your hair nice body and bounce...". Basically it walked you through how to do all the cliche things those hair bands were doing. That's when I knew I was out of step with the current state of rock music and something needed to change. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard Smells like teen spirit. It sounded so damn different and refreshing. Hair metal had run it's course and was ready to die, thank you Nirvana for hastening that demise. I enjoyed hair metal for what it was, I played Ratt and Tesla and all that in bands, but at some point it just started getting ridiculous. Any type of music that gets big spawns the imitators and starts killing it off. It happened to Grunge with bands like Creed and candlebox or whatever.