Dee Snider's House of Hair Radio show - Guitars101

**Riff Addict** · 08-03-2004, 05:43 AM

Does anyone else get the "House of Hair" radio show hosted by Dee Snider that's on Saturdays and Sundays? My local rock station has been airing it for over a year now and it features 80's metal bands only for 2 hours. Its very refreshing hearing the radio play guitar dominated music and vocalists that can actually sing. [img]images/smilies/rock.gif[/img]

Dong · 08-03-2004, 05:48 AM

woooo. i wamt it here too

**Riff Addict** · 08-03-2004, 05:53 AM

Maybe you could call your rock stations and request the show, get some friends to call in also. I'm in Waco, Texas and its a very popular show here. Let's get our music back in the mainstream again!!! [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img]

08-03-2004, 08:41 AM

How about my music in the mainstream? wait it never was in the mainstream.

**Riff Addict** · 08-03-2004, 08:50 AM

Not that Zappa's not great and I do have respect for him and his music, I've never met one person here in Texas that is a fan of his or that even knows who he is. Zappa fans seem to be a rare breed? Where I come from, 70's and 80's Hard Rock/Metal is very popular. Other than Dee Snider's radio show, the radio plays nothing but Audio Slave and Nickleback. [img]images/smilies/icon_mad.gif[/img]

What was that hit song Dweezil had back in the 80's? I know I liked it but haven't heard it in years. [img]images/smilies/headscratch.gif[/img]

wahwah · 08-03-2004, 09:02 AM

Also check out www.hardrockin80s.com as they only play...well, you can guess, can't ya! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

08-03-2004, 09:03 AM

Well...No insult but thats because your in texas (lol). Im not just talking about zappa. Im talking about all sorts of great music, that never was very mainstream in the first place. I just dont like the fact that you seem to over-idealize 80s rock, when theres plenty other things that came in 60s, 70s, and 80s included. Lots of progressive bands that people dont really seem to give a shit about today. People who took risks and experimented. What about the 30's, 40's and 50's? Who says there wasnt plenty of great things happening in music then? Why the obcession with only 80s rock? Because you grew up with it? I certainly didnt grow up with John Coltrane (random example) but i like it. To your dweezil quesiton, i think he brought back "my guitar wants to kill your mama" in the 80s, which was his dad's song anyways. (Dweezil Is a Funny Guy, And Plays Guitar Just Like EVH, but doesnt even come close to living up to his dad)
For Dee Snyder ... hes a hilarious guy. Real cynical at times. On the other hand, i don't think hes done anything good for music LOL.

**KC_ArtRocker** · 08-03-2004, 09:59 AM

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For Dee Snyder ... hes a hilarious guy. Real cynical at times. On the other hand, i don't think hes done anything good for music LOL.

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Couldn't have said it better myself. Mr. Snyder ocassionally show his bitterness about his own band not gaining the success of other bands featured on his program.

As far as his contributions to music: other than a couple of 80s hits, this radio show gig is probably his greatest contribution to music, which ain't necessarily putting him up there with Hendrix or Van Halen!
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08-03-2004, 10:30 AM

:P if "we're not gonna take it" is a great contribution to music, then then P. Diddy is a great guitarist. [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

rain · 08-03-2004, 10:53 AM

We get that here aswell Riff!!!,,,Every sunday night!!,,,i love it!!!

**Riff Addict** · 08-03-2004, 10:57 AM

I like 50's, 60's, 70's music also but it just doesnt get me going like straight forward heavy rock and roll from the 80's. Too me and MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of people, 80's metal is the best music ever made. It was mainstream when I was a teenager and it just got in my blood. C'mon, its fun, fast paced, dual guitars with great riffs, hooks, blazing solos, makes me wanna bang my head and sing out loud! 80's pop and other stuff always bored me to death. I hated the new wave craze and jazz fusion rock that creeped in. I think its great that you like music to constantly change and evolve. I for one just cannot accept anything that doesnt just plain rock! I must be rocked! Loud distorted guitars, pounding drums, structured verse and chorus, solos, Dio, Halford-like vocals!!!!!!! That gets my blood pumping like no ther music in the world. I can't listen to Jazz for very long without wanting to projectile vomit. I'd rather hear AC/DC than the best Jazz band you could throw at me. I like blues as long as it has a rock quality to it. I don't like much country music at all.

I don't want you to think I'm attacking you BP, I'm not at all, sorry if it comes across that way. I respect your tastes and preferences and I hope you can respect mine. We are all different individual minds and thats ok. True, I can be an opinionated bag of hot air sometimes. [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

Later bro.

**KC_ArtRocker** · 08-03-2004, 11:03 AM

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:P if "we're not gonna take it" is a great contribution to music, then then P. Diddy is a great guitarist. [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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I don't know if P.Diddy is any good of a guitarist, but he is a well-school classical fartist.

**Riff Addict** · 08-03-2004, 11:04 AM

I don't think the Dweezil song you mentioned was the name of the one I'm thinking about. It was very VH-ish though. I can't really remember much except that I liked it alot. [img]images/smilies/headscratch.gif[/img]

08-03-2004, 11:22 AM

LOL. No offense taken at all. It still intrigues me. Id rather listen to 60's Rock and Prog Rock then 80s rock. Id rather Listen to Jazz then AC/DC. We must be opposites. " I think its great that you like music to constantly change and evolve." Well it DOES change and evolve. LOL. Which is why there are always new horizons.
"I hated the new wave craze and jazz fusion rock that creeped in" Yea new wave was terrible. On the other hand the fusion stuff is way beyond your 80s rock in my book. Involves way more talent, composition, as well as open-minded-ness. " I like blues as long as it has a rock quality to it. I don't like much country music at all." Well. Blues gave way to rock, dont you know that? Old rock is just a 12 bar blues at a faster pace, with more attitude. Yea i hate country too.
"I can't listen to Jazz for very long without wanting to projectile vomit" Well i believe alot of people have an extreme misconception on what jazz IS. They think jazz is defined as the likes of Kenny G. That isn't jazz. Its fluff. If people would take a Jazz History course, they'd find that the very idea of someone taking a solo - comes solely from jazz. A spotlight on the individual, this was new then. The jazz players indeed were the very first people to "rock out" truly. They were viewed as outcasts just like the early rockers were. They were involved in drugs just like the early rockers were (LOL). Jazz is something that urges people to express themselves as individuals. While that is something rock has done once, i strongly believe rock has stopped doing that quite a bit. Especially in the 80s. When its all about the lifestyle, what space is there for the music and peoples expression? My problem with a lot of 80s rock is that very lack of individuality. Everyones copying eachother. All the bands played the exact same type of riffs, with the exact same type of drum beats, with the exact same type of vocals. Wheres the individuality? I also think theres a giant definition problem for 80s metal. To me, 80s metal is like - REAL METAL. Not poppy hair band stuff. To a lot of people i meet online though - The Hair Bands were metal. In my book, the hair bands werent even close to being metal. I see people on this site all the time talking about "whitesnake" and "winger" and bands like that. To me, that was an era of terrible pop music that people like to think is metal.
Why does everything have to be loud? I dont really understand. Whats wrong with dynamics? Whats wrong with something subtle? Whats wrong with beauty in music? Thats what i dont understand. Why does everything HAVE to be fast and loud? Dont you like variation?

**Riff Addict** · 08-03-2004, 11:56 AM

Hmm, I just can't explain it, I guess it just boils down to the feeling or rush I get from that generation. I am a hopeless Rocker at heart, and I have many friends who are the exact same way (they are all my age) maybe that is part of it. I know all rock is evolved from blues, but I can't listen to the roots of blues music but rather the later rock that it inspired. I agree that there is a mis-conception of what hair band metal is but having lived through it and knowing how the media labeled it at the time and how it was marketed, most all loud, long haired guitar rock bands back then were lumped together and called "Hair Metal" . Even Van Halen, Whitesnake, Dokken, Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Ronnie Dio, Priest, etc....these bands were NOT alike at all! They were all original, I don't think any of these bands sound anywhere near alike. I can hear one note from the scorpions and know immediately its them. Today's so-called Metal to me all sounds the same and is horrible. The guitars all sound the same, the guitarists can't play solos, the vocalists are exact clones of one another. [img]images/smilies/icon_mad.gif[/img]
I've said this before, originality doesn't always = good music. When you speak of guitarists expressing their own individuality, my expression happens to be the style of music from the 80's. More specific, the British Metal Invasion of the early 80's which began with Sabbath and Judas Priest! That's me!! I don't want it to change. Why?? Thank God for that.

For the record, I don't like bands like Winger, Poison, Warrant and most glam stuff like that. I'm more into Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, Dio, Queensryche, Ac/Dc, Scorpions, Ozzy w/Randy/Jake, Dokken, Whitesnake, etc. To me these are Hair band era rockers that I love more than most things on this earth. Music is what gives me life, it is as important to me as breathing. These bands got me through some tough times in my life and I still get that rush when I hear them. I can't imagine life without it. Peace.