CrueHead1989
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I got into Glam Metal from my parents i grew up listening to Motley Crue (my favorite band), poison, dokken, twisted sister, w.a.s.p., cinderella, guns n roses, skid row, and the list goes on!!! It is simply the best fuckin music i've ever heard so energetic and catchy. No music today comes close to how good the music was then. Glam Metal will never be forgotton!!!!!!
Cheers!!!!!!
pebblesdavis
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Hearing "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" by Judas Priest, and "I Don't Know" and "Crazy Train" by Ozzy!! That pretty much did it for me!!!! I was HOOOKED!!!!
fallenangel33
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my uncles got me into glam. actually no. they got me into classic rock, heavy and thrash metal, and from there i started exploring the world of metal (all genres) and glam owned (although its not my ALL time favorite genre of music, it ranks in the top 3). i thinkkkkkk the first glam bands i listened to were poison and crue. but anyway. ive been a fan of thrash and heavy metal for like... 6ish years now. but its only been like 2 or 3 years since i started listening to glam.
carroll13
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I already covered this in a similar thread, so I'll condense it.
In 1976, I watched the Paul Lynde Halloween Special on TV.
Later, I got into New Wave.
Later still, I got into Motley Crue.
Then I got into Punk and Goth at pretty much the same time(1984).
...which both eventually lead me to rediscover the original Glam without the Metal aspect.
LadyPeterbilt
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How the hell I miss this?
Guess when you live it, as time changes, you don't think about what got you into it, it just happens.
Everything has a complicated fucking label these days, and I am used to simpler times...........
ccmetalhead
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My dad, which I will always be grateful to, I used to make fun of him for it when I was younger, but now I really respect it, I feel like the luckiest 16 year old in the world to even know the term "glam metal". I started listening to Slaughter and Krokus around 11, and began to learn new bands, I became engulfed in it, it was like my escape. Now I've moved on and listen to a lot of death metal and extreme hardcore, but I keep up with my roots all the time. Keel will always be my favorite band, Friday Every Night for life!!
ryndanzig
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well my firs rock n rol bands were sabbath and rush, and my dad had me listen to a whitesnake vinyl, and i absolutly loved it, i found a heavy metal compilation vinyl in our attick with zebra, dio, krokus etc. so once i got into whitesnake and krokus i started getting into hair bands the first bands i loved that my dad hated were actually Motley Crue and david bowie
Hollywood
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Motley back in early 80's got me rollin'.
Ratt
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When I first started getting into music when I was little, I was playing on the web and found Shotgun Messiah and found more and more bands and decided that this was the music for me! (as well as the fact that I was born in the wrong time period 
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donnabright
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One word, or two words I mean to say... Metal Edge got me into Glam. My mom, even though she does not care for this cool music decided to buy me a Metal Magazine called: Metal Edge and when I got my first copy I went oh, woo look at all the cool sexy men. LOL.
I stared at the hot pictures for days. I was into Glam ever since.
cocokitty
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WHEN I WAS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD MY AUNT MOVED IN W/ US AND ALL MY COUSINS LISTEND TO WAS
POISON, CRUE, RATT,....I COULD GO ON FOREVER....WELL THAT WAS IT FROM THEN ON I WAS HOOKED ...ALTHOUGH AT 10 I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GLAM
mikalo
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just the guitar playing and energy of all the bands. they knew how to make great music...and make it memorable...that is something thats missing very much today
sleaze-eee
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Lucky enough to grow up in LA when Hollywood was the center of the rock/glam universe and seeing some of the best bands live on the strip every weekend. Watching them play live before they got the big deals and went out to the world.
Quite Riot, Dokken, Ratt, Crue, Poison, G&R, Shark Island, LA Guns & yes even Warrant and many others I was either to stoned to remember or were so bad I wanted to forget.
kissangel
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What's not to get into?! Most of the music is awesome and I don't know about you but I'm audio visual! These guys are sooo hot! I don't understand the "gender bender" term I heard earlier. I'm totally straight(except for Angelina Jolie and I'd even be a lesbian for a minute for her!)and I think that gorgeous hair , eyeliner and some sexy pouting lips topped off with some really tight spandex pants is a good lookin' man!! If they can really rock...what else is there?! It will always be GLAM for me!
CAH08
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Motley Crue's Theatre of Pain and Ratt's Dancing Undercover cassettes in 1986 turned the casual fan of the genre I was then into the full blown glam/rock 'n' roll/metal junkie that I still am 22 years later... And DAMN proud of it!
Remember: Rock 'n' roll is for the young and the young at heart!
samsonite
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Definately MTV and my first video tape recorder.
Still got the tapes here but no tape player anyone. Should get one off a ebay just so I can watch those old MTV tapes.
motleyguy
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So I could get closer to my sisters friends and have a closer look at their boobies
glammetalmonster
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This is a really interesting thread. 
For me it was two things:
1.) The inclusion of Ratt's 'Body Talk' video in the film 'The Golden Child'. That's my earliest recollection of thinking that kind of music really kicked ass. I was about 8 years old.
2.) KISS were shown on MTV during the summer of 1996, when they co-headlined Donnington. Believe it or not I had never even heard of KISS up to that point. That did it for me. I bought their Greatest hits, and was hooked. I became involved in a small web community which had a great java based chat room called 'rock chat', made loads of friends worldwide who turned me on to lots of different 80s glam metal. Even so, it was the worst time to start liking this kind of music in that it was totally unfashionable. Anything with a guitar solo was deemed inferior. I was ridiculed by all my school mates, but fuck 'em. This IS the best music in the world, and I'm amused to see the same people who laughed at me back then now claim to love hard rock now it's back in vogue. 
Blondie
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I loved punk, alot of the Ramones etc, so when I was young it was alot of pegged jeans and leather jackets, then I got into g'n'r, the hair grew, I got some boots, and it just really went from there.
I'm still not into alot of the hair/poser bands because they just seem like boybands with guitars, but I fuckin love the crue, g'n'r etc, and alot of real classic bands like Led Zeppelin and the Stones.
Dynamo
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The thing that got me into The Sweet wasn't anything to do with the way they dressed. It was simply their music. I remember them doing well in the charts with stuff like CoCo and Poppa Joe, but they didn't really float my boat, and I'm still not too keen on Little Willy, but I do remember liking Wig Wam Bam, but it was just another pop song that was good.
The turning point was Blockbuster. I was bored sometime over the Christmas period 1972/73 and was flicking through the channels. Hahahaha, I say flicking through them, there was only either two are three to choose from, depending on whether we had BBC2 at the time, and I was watching a special edition of Magpie, which to us was always ITV's poor mans version of Blue Peter. Anyway, I remember them introducing The Sweet to sing their new single which was Blockbuster. I was enthralled, and to me it was just what pop music needed to be like. Loud and brash and sirens, the works.
After that, The Sweet were in free flow with great song following great song. Hell Raiser came out and blew us all away again, then Ballroom Blitz, and then Teenage Rampage. I was in heaven. Then the album Sweet Fanny Adams was released and I realised they could write their own stuff as well and were more than just puppets for Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Yeah their B sides were always written by themselves, but those songs would never have held themselves up like the A sides did, but Sweet Fanny Adams changed all that with songs like Set Me Free and Rebel Rouser that they penned themselves.
GlamGypsyEito
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I'm only 18 born in 89 so i didnt live through the 80s or anything,about 4 years ago i Really got into glam as soon as i started listened to Motley Crue pretty much, id always heard Queen,T.Rex and Guns n Roses when i was younger my parents/sisters ect.
but the first time i heard Dr Feelgood and the Pure Energy, excitement and Catchyness that really gets youre blood pumping i was hooked, i started buying up hairspray,dressing Glam & exploring all types of 80s Hair metal,Glam Metal,Sleaze & Glam Rock to this day.
I THINK WE NEED A REVOLUTION BRING BACK GLAM !
Blondie
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Whereabouts in the UK are you man?!
I can't PM you because of this "100 hundred post rule"
egin
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I got to say that it was because of Sweden Rock Festival I became totally in love with glam and sleaze...
Before that i just listend to all kinds of rock but didn't really care aboute the styles, just picked whatever rock suited my mood at the particular moment. But then... Watching all the laidback awesome glamsters at SRF, totally stuffed up in the crowd to Hardcore Superstar and Crashdiet, screamin' my head of to Aerosmith, White Lion, Alice Cooper, White Snake, you name it!
The lyrics are always awesome and the variations of the melodies just blows my mind.
I really enjoy dressin' up in leopard, zebra, trashed clothes, high heels, lots of jewelry and accessories, heavy makeup and BIG hair!
How couldn't I possibly fall in love? And who can blame me for not discover the sweet satisfaction of glam when I live in Sweden?
Call me a wannabe if you like. I fucking don't care!
rattNrollamber
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I was always around this music when I was younger, my mom would blast her stereo with playing records, cds, and tapes.
It is weird because I have bought some cds like Ratt's Out Of the Cellar and when I listen to it I remember hearing the entire album, deja vu you could say!
I always covered my ears when I was younger though 
I really got into stuff like Dokken, and Motley Crue some years ago, the image of Motley Crue really got me into the whole thing of glam and loved it ever since. I've gotten into even more glam metal bands along the way.
poisonfan5
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"So I could get closer to my sisters friends and have a closer look at their boobies
- motleyguy
nice one...i did too lol...
tinaluvsaxl
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My mom and my best friend's dad kinda exposed me to 80's rock and glam metal when i was growing up.
But there is one day I can say totally changed it for me. My friend bought "Welcome to the Videos" (GNR vids) and came over to watch it at my house. I remember sitting in front of the TV and watching axl step off the bus in the beginning of Welcome to the Jungle. And slash playing the opening riff and I was in love!!!! the whole video was the sexiest, most kickass thing i'd ever seen. By 2 months later i refused to wear anything but ripped jeans, shredded crue shirts and i dyed my hair black and blonde like Duff haha
rockNrollstar
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gettin into the Crue. thats what got me started. I have always like 80s stuff and rock music. so it just kinda made sense to like the 80s rock n roll. besides. the big fluffed hair and lots of make up and leather just attract me. And the big songs. im a sucker for a genre with catchy songs and good lookin guys!
RattPoison
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It all started when I bought my first KISS record in 1978. By 1982-1983, I was also into Van Halen, Motley Cure, Ratt, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, etc. They gave me balance as I hated most of the pop stuff going on back then, Eurythmics, Madonna, Duran Duran, etc, etc...
Clementine
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Well my ex at the time (I was 17) gave me a mixed mötley crue cd and what made me listen to more was Girls girls girls, Bad boy boogie and Jailhouse rock. Then I got to know a glam-band in Iceland (through our same interest in mötley crue and rock) and I designed their cloths and did their hair and makeup for photos and gigs, some great time and through them I got to know more and more great bands that I didn't know about, and got hooked on it. So before glam/rock and metal I was really lost just trying to find something I liked. (well, I found Queen cd to listen to and Pixies but it wasn't enough for me). And the music that's "IN" today never did the trick for me.
I never looked up to my older siblings or my parents so Mötley gave me something to look up to and then Steve Vai took my eyes and David Lee Roth and many many many more great men.
And now my younger siblings look up to me cause I'm the only one in the family that listens to Rock and plays the guitar and has friends with long hair. How can you not fall in love with that rockstyle-living? And the lyrics and rythm? The beautiful guitars? The guys that looked like stars? ... How can you not love Rock?
metalheadkid
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glam is just kick ass, it's all about havin hell of a time and partyin!! 
thats what got me into glam.YEA!!!!!