What got you into Rock?

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StillRocking
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I was just thinking about this myself, and then I decided "Just make a thread about it already darnit!"

And so here it is. Do you remember what got you into Rock in the first place?

For myself, I grew up on bands such as Poison,Crue, and Guns n' Roses.

And to this day, I still keep up on what all the old bands have been up to.

What about the rest of you?

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just fascinated by the energy of this muzic, the fact they are at the same time such good musicians and so good looking, and then they got a fuckin' crazy lifestyle always like they're about to die in the next seconds ... juzt luv' it !

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Energy of the music and the fact it wasn't so mopey. I like watching bands having a good time.

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I just remember as a kid seeing all the glitter and colour and costumes. I didn't know it was glam, but I knew they were having fun and the songs were so catchy and energetic. Then when all the girls at school have the bands all over their school books and their walls, you know it's a good thing

"I'M BACK!!"

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Older siblings for the longest time (so I thought) tortured me with their loud metal music. What I thought when I was real young, then it just kind of grew on me. And you know, I am a sucker for guys with good eyes.

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Seeing Kiss's rock n roll all nite on tv in the mid 70's, it was like "this is their job? it can't be, its too fun and too cool to be a job, oh shit, it is". The seed was planted.

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I was a teenage kid in the '70s. Glam was it. At least, for me. I loved it. When Queen came out...I was awestruck. I was a huge Aerosmith fan...and then I got a load of Queen. I was all done after that. When Freddie died, my whole world seemed to collapse around me. I cried for week.

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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i always listened to my mum and my sisters music growing up...but i didn't recall many band/ artist/ song names...then i had a touch of amnesia...and when it started to disappear..."then i saw the light"...and found glam...it was triggered by the end of TOTP...and my knack for getting lyrics wrong. "Does Anyone Know The Way To The Bus Stop?"...lol.

"I Want Some Glam RockingZ in My StockingZ!!!"

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I kind of rebelled against grunge! could never get into pearl jam or nirvana like my mates so i just hid and listened to hanoi, the crue, kiss and the like till grunge passed by.

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My Dad was a huge Guns N Roses and Queen fan, and I just expanded from there a couple of years ago. I listen to lots of different music styles, but Glams definitely my favourite.

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I didn't realize that there were so many younger fans of glam. Definitely cool. I remember seeing Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil album in the music store with my cousin. He said, "We have to get this. These guys look too cool to possibly suck". We bought it and were instantly hooked.

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These guys look too cool to possibly suck

i had to laugh at this...fair point...but it was still funny.

"I Want Some Glam RockingZ in My StockingZ!!!"

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i herd motley crue's girls girls girls at a party one night and i turned from a red neck country boy into the biggest glam/hair metal freak of all time

" into the flood again same old trip it was back then "

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Well for me it was my older brother. He is 11yrs older than me and he loved Ratt, Whitesnake, Poison, Dokken, The Crue..etc. So i would hear him listening to it in his room and i wanted the songs, so i would take my tapes that came with my little kiddie books, (remember those?) LOL Anyway and he would put tape over those holes and make me a tape! LOL So needless to say my "My little Pony" tapes turned into Dokken ~ Under Lock and Key and Poison "Look what the cat dragged in".

It's not what ya got, it's what ya give!!

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lol..My Little Pony tapes...i think i still have mine somewhere...with all their patterns..couldn't they be glam?? lol

"I Want Some Glam RockingZ in My StockingZ!!!"

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They could so be glam..lots of color and glitter!

It's not what ya got, it's what ya give!!

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My Mum used to love Bon Jovi and Aerosmith and played them to me when I was little and it all started from there really..

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Kiss *goofy smile*

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i've actually just been reminded how i first found Sweet, specifically...slightly embarrassing...but here it goes: when i was about 7...Top of The Pops 2 was on TV showing some of the hits of yesteryear...and apparently...even at age 7 i fell in love with Steve Priest....i've been told that whilst i watched Wig Wam Bam...my eyes didn't move away from the screen...lol.

"I Want Some Glam RockingZ in My StockingZ!!!"

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surprisingly my mom got me into it.

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My sisters had Def Leppard, Queen and Duran Duran posters up everywhere. All kinds of glam on posters in our room. It was amazing to look at...especially when Halloween came around, we had no problem getting into a costume!

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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My dad was into T.Rex,Sweet,Slade and David Bowie and my uncle was into New York Dolls,Ramones and Lords Of The New Church so it was kinda figured somewhere in the cozmos that I'd turn out this way

DRINKING FIFTHS STRAIGHT FROM THE JACK BOTTLE DO I LOOK LIKE A MOTHERFUCKING ROLE MODEL

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My sisters had Def Leppard, Queen and Duran Duran posters up everywhere.
I think, though, that those posters had a major hand in getting me into glam.
My sister, in her forties and a grandmother, still likes the glam stuff.

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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Head Bangers Ball(the original with Dee Snider) on MTV and Metal Shop on the radio...

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i don't actually remember lol oh it was the KISS concert 2004 changed my life forever
but i started dressing glam the day after i saw the 'Girls, Girls, Girls' video
i wanted to be a crue girl from that moment on =P

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Totally my best friend's older brother's fault! I was like six and her brother had this Kiss-poster on his wall that we always sat and stared at and talked about when we played vido games in his room.
And one day, like...yeaarrzz ago he played a def leppard record when me and my friend was there visiting and I got totally crazy about them and switched all music on my playlist from InFlames to Def Leppard and Aerosmith (and etc!).
And practically everyone I know is sleazers - most band members anyway. Plus, the glam band afterparties are kickazz!

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sweet,slade,mott the hoople,david bowie,t-rex, the faces,aerosmith,motley crue, ratt,dokken,kiss

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But I used to listen to the Queen : News of the World 8 track tape in the car on the way to school every day.

"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve Priest

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used to like grunge like nirvana ALOT...till one day watched metal mania and a band named poison came on and they have led me to like other bands like crue, ratt, iron maiden...and the reason i like the music so much is cause like you see in nirvana's vid "smells like teen spirit", all kurt does is mope around and act all depressed...and in poisons vid "nothin but a good time" they are all jumping round, running, and have so MUCH energy...that is what i LUV bout glam

i know it seems like we are never coming back. i know it feels like we r never coming back. you tryed ur best and you knew it wouldnt last. they were the words they wrote on her casket!

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I got into glam through Pantera's 80s albums which they ironically used to deny existed. After that, I started listening to Skid Row and Cinderella, and the rest was history.

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