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A backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock historyyoull feel like you were right there with us! Bret Michaels of Poison
Nothin But a Good Time is the definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal, told by the musicians and industry insiders who lived it.
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulatedand maybe even helped to definea spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted Sisters Were Not Gonna Take It, Mötley Crües Girls, Girls, Girls, and Guns N Roses Welcome to the Jungle are as inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics, PAC-MAN, and E.T.
From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-Platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstocks Nothin But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians, managers, producers, engineers, label executives, publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists, magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies, and hangers-on who lived it.
Featuring an impassioned foreword by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and avowed glam metal fanatic Corey Taylor, and drawn from over two hundred author interviews with members of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot and others, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, and many more, this is the ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged, chronicle of a time where excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who created a sound and style that came to define a musical eraone in which the bands and their fans went looking for nothin but a good timeand found it.
Author: Tom Beaujour, Richard Bienstock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Griffin
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781250830074
Language: English
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