guitard(7354) | I’ve been authoring a lot of Big Hair ’80s metal band DVDs lately (from CBG’s collection) filmed in 1989 and 1990. I have to search for photos to use in the menus that are (hopefully) from the same year as the show I’m authoring. Finding actual concert pictures is kind of hard – there were no digital cameras back then and the pro photographers who were taking pics back then don’t usually post them (at least, not without watermarks). So what I usually have to use are professionally shot pics of the band that were in magazines (that are of course, staged). What I’ve noticed is that getting all dressed up and looking really effeminate with the makeup, etc. was a big thing back then. At that point in time, I wasn’t really paying very close attention to music or buying CDs; I pretty much only heard Big Hair ’80s metal on the radio, and that was it. So it all just kind of blew right by me and I don’t really remember much about bands dressing up that way. What leaves me kind of scratching my head is … why were guys playing hard rock / heavy metal music – an endeavor that is about as overtly masculine as it gets – trying their hardest to look effeminate?
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Mink(2663) | That’s a good question. I don’t get it either. I do like a lot of the music from that era. Never really understood the dressing like girls thing.
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Gilligan(1518) | Poison’s album cover was the best (worst?) example. 
They explain it here: Bret Michaels Makeup Basically just trying to be outrageous so they get noticed. Plus, the music biz is/was a copycat scene where they were always trying to find the next “Current Hot Band”, so when Bon Jovi and Quiet Riot and Van Halen got popular with their big hair and weird clothes, makeup was the next logical step to be noticed? I was really into a lot of those bands back then and while I recognized it was very effeminate and unrelated to the actual music, it didn’t bother me or I didn’t think about it too much. I do remember laughing at their hair a lot…
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guitard(7354) | CBG shot several Poison shows back in the day – and that is one of the bands that got me thinking about this. Of course, Brett Michaels eventually moved on to a ‘stud’ phase where he would show off a six-pack and try to look anything but effeminate. 
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Lance(3169) | is that your computers wallpaper ? lol 
another tour.. and no shows in my area.. maybe the next reunion tour 2020 … lol
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guitard(7354) | Oh hell no! But if you must know … it’s this pic: 
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