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My dad got me into rock n' roll in general at a young age - I'm certain that everything I am today can be blamed on my drives through the town with my dad, blasting Billy Joel's "Still Rock N' Roll To Me" at such a young age...
Around the same time, I remember hearing my dad and my older brother play a lot of Queen (I have the most vivid memories of listening to "Bohemian Rhapsody") and Twisted Sister.
I wandered off that path for a few years, got into Avril, Simple Plan, and Good Charlotte. Was pulled back into the harder rocking music through my friend, who first introduced me to bands like AC/DC.
I grew a fascination with metal culture, and rented "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", and this was the first time I heard the term "glam metal".
A year later, I'm browsing a garage sale, and come across Cinderella's "Night Songs" cassette. I look at the album art, think to myself, "That's so glam...", and buy it. From then on, I'm hooked.

Also, I think part of my love for glam grew from the fact that, for years, I was trying to find a way to tame and flatten my hair without making it look dull. Then, I discover a whole culture where "poofy" hair is revered, and, along with it, a fashion that I can actually enjoy...

Posted 2 years ago #
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I think it was about 2001 when my mom introduced me to Guns N Roses and when I first heard "Sweet Child O' Mine" I was like "woah this is cool and so hard core." After I heard GNR I got into Motley Crue and from there on went to the other Hair Metal bands such as Def Lep and Poison and loved it. Then I discovered Grunge and got hooked on that for a few more years. 2 years ago I pretty much started listening to Hair Metal again and got back on it. At this time I was really branching out and discovering a lot of good musicians of the past such as Queen, Cream, The Doors and so many other great bands. Then I heard David Bowie's epic "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" and I seriously loved it. Bowie got me more into the whole Glam thing pretty much and the Hair Metal Bands pretty were a stepping stone into it. I want to dress the whole glam way, but being in "Hillbilly Hell" as a friend of mine on here says, I can't really get away with it. I have gotten to the point where I'm saying fuck it. How much longer can I let my mom control my fashion. I'm going to see the New York Dolls tonight and I am going to style my hair Glam style and wear makeup to it because It's a Dolls concert and the lipstick is their signature. My mom says "No you can't do that" and I am going to do it anyway. *grins hahaha Glam is cool!

Posted 2 years ago #
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the first single I bought for myself was guns and rose's sympathy for the devil! can't remember what the b side was but remember it blew me away!!!

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Posted 2 years ago #
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I love this topic, but my dad has always listened to Glam so I knew most of it from him, I've always loved Randy Rhoads since I saw him.. but what really got me into was when I was watching youtube one morning when I was about to go to the doctor.... and I saw Sebastian Bach, jump into the crowd and get in a fight... then I heard 18 & life .. and after all that was "All She Wrote" in the words of Firehouse.

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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 Glam in the first place?
What about the rest of you?"
- StillRocking

for me it has to be the honesty of it all and the look too bands like guns n roses first.... also my first time listening to motley crue as well... it's like i look at what is writien(the lyrics) and then i can kinda relate to alot of em ... and its kinda hard to explain the rest.

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Posted 2 years ago #
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Well my parents are both very into Rock, Metal, Punk from the 70' and 80' so it was always a part of my life. But I got into glam when I was about 9-10. It was when me and my mum were watching VH1 and there were videos from bands like Van Helen, Twisted Sister, Poison,... and I said to my mum ''These guys with long hair, makeup, etc. look damn good, and he music is great2!!''
And that is kind of how I first got into it

Posted 2 years ago #
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Being a musician at 7 and having to play jazz and classical guitar 11 hours a day made me want to listen to other music.Rock,Glam,I love it all,that music made me the guitaist I am today,Growing up in the 80s was magical!

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Cause its so awesome!! and plus, its like amazing in all ways possible...My best friend was the one that got me way into loving it, i liked it, but now, i am a HUGE fan of it...

Steven Adler (gnr),Tom Keifer (cinderella), Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe) love them so much!! Well Steven the most!!

Posted 2 years ago #
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First hearing Whitesnake in the summer of '08 got me into hair metal. I realized I had finally found my true home.... Sunset Blvd!

Posted 2 years ago #
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Whitesnake got me into Rock 'n' Roll in general - I was 13 years old and there was the video for 'Fool For Your Loving', and I saw and I was like 'Woaah.'

I was into mostly radio-focused Indie bands at the time, so it was definately a big change or me, but from then on I gfot into Rock and Roll! The next step was Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Hawkwind, AC/DC so on, so on...

From there, I started exploring music. I got into Psychadellic, Space rock, Prog Rock, heavier metal, and then, Glam Metal - WASP and Twisted Sister were my first Glam discoveries, that I found on Limewire, for some reason. I got into Vixen, GnR, Crue, so on, from there.

Then I got into Thrash, then Black Metal, then Death Metal, Doom Metal, Viking Metal, Stoner Metal, that brought me back to Space Rock, Psychadellic, Progressive rock, Progressive Metal, Metal like 'Priest, back into Rock and Roll, and then finally I dug up a David Bowie CD I had from a while back -- Ziggy Stardust -- and I listened to it, by Thor, it must have been over 100 times. I was cracking out on Bowie, I swear!

My guitar tutor helped me get into 70s Glam Rock, from there. He told me about Marc Bolan, KISS, New York Dolls, The Sweet, so on, so on - all bands I had flirtations with in the past, but nothing that really solidified. And then on, I just kept getting more and more into the music, the lifestyle, the fashion, the makeup, the hair, the attitude, the Glam.

So, I went from Indie Kid, to Rocker, to Hippy, to Metalhead, to Hippy, to Rocker, to Glam Rocker!!! And I've settled down with Glam - if you can settle down with Glam that is!!!

Hahaha.

Not that I dont like all that music, and way more, 'course.

Posted 1 year ago #
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i dont want to melt into the crowd, man, how can i melt into the crowd if my cock is covered in glitter and silver? problem solved, not to mention its the most kickass form of music EVER

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Posted 1 year ago #
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*dims the lights for story telling*
it all started back in the summer of '09.
Me, my mom, and my dad were all playing rockband. My dad went to the rockband music store and there was Dr.Feelgood in it. I had never heard of any of this music at this time. He played it and i was like "wow, this is insanely good!"
So that got me hooked on Motley.

Then my grandpa was watching VH1C and i sat down to watch it with him. It was something about Pink Floyd. He put the "guide" up and on next was a show called Rock Fest. So i watched it. It had some stuff like Led Zeppelin and The Kinks. So i started DVRing it at my house. Then i found out about a show called Metal Mania, which has stuff like Poison and Ratt and Cinderella.
And then, i started recording That Metal Show.

And that's how i found out about the music i love and adore.

Posted 1 year ago #
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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.."
- Mixxi

Me too! All the same with foreigner,journey and styx in there.which is y I liked rock music growing up and not rap or country.I never got into glam tho til sophomore year in high school.I saw an info-mercial for monster ballads.warrant-heaven being the main thing that interested me.the very next day I went out and bought guns' appetite for destruction.the next day after that,I bought warrant's greatest hits and def leppard's hysteria.and from that day til now,I've built up my collection of 80's metal to about 800+ cds.I don't download.I hate burned discs for some reason.they never sound the same as bought cds.and I feel good about owning the cd booklets

Dan Dash

Posted 1 year ago #
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It all happened when I accidentally downloaded a Kix song, thinking it was Kiss song(Hey! They're spelled similarly ). I started listening to a little bit of Kix, and they were a pretty good glam band, so I got a bit more into Glam. Then I saw the Carnival of Sins concert of Motley Crue and ever since i've been a dedicated Glamster/Sleazer/Cock Rocker/Glam Rocker/Glammer/Hair Rocker whatever the hell were supposed to be called. Luv it, KISS is still my fav band, and the Crue is my #2. As for Kix, I kinda stopped listening to them, but its thanks to them that Im Glam today.

Posted 1 year ago #
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I was like 11 or 12 when my mom bought me Guitar Hero.. and the first song on there was Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil". It was a bad cover, however, I fell in love with that song, and asked my mom about the band... which led to all of the glorious bands I love now.

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Well,it all actually began when my older cousin gave me two CDs from W.A.S.P. to listen to(Crimson Idol and their first)
and from the first time I heard them I knew it was something I've never heard before...I began searching in YouTube and then downloading songs from bands like Whitesnake and Def Leppard. Then I discovered bands like Cinderella,Poison,...I loved their sound, and the music generally!Then I understood that it was all called Glam.I knew that I had discovered something great, a whole new world!
And I keep listening and searching, because glam is just the best!

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i grew up listening to glam, hair metal, classic rock, etc: Queen, Aerosmith, Metallica, Motley Crue, Poison, ACDC, Styx [don't really know if that counts, but that band played a major part of my childhood]. that was the stuff my parents listened to in the 80's [my mom also listened to Bowie, ABBA [yes, i LOVE ABBA], and new wave stuff that my dad hates =P], so that's what i listened to when i grew up in the 90's [born in '92]. luckily i loved it and still do. i thought the long hair, scarves, bandana's, tight pants, sequins, and crazy make up were normal for musicians [wasn't exposed to grunge THANK GOD]. big shock when i grew up and realized that wasn't the norm anymore lol
but i still love the style, the music, and the general lifestyle of glam/hair metal. it's waaaay better when compared to music today. blech. so the love of glam has been around my whole life basically! but the one song that REALLY set me off into glam obsession was Ballroom Blitz by Sweet. i had heard it a million times as a kid, but my dad played it in the car a few summers ago [parents divorced; go back to Michigan where i'm from to visit him in the summer] and i had like a revelation of how amazing it was. i just got an urge to put on spandex and tease the shit out of my hair lol
but of course i'm heavily influenced by Bowie nowadays. i love him and his music.

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"*dims the lights for story telling*
it all started back in the summer of '09.
Me, my mom, and my dad were all playing rockband. My dad went to the rockband music store and there was Dr.Feelgood in it. I had never heard of any of this music at this time. He played it and i was like "wow, this is insanely good!"
So that got me hooked on Motley.
Then my grandpa was watching VH1C and i sat down to watch it with him. It was something about Pink Floyd. He put the "guide" up and on next was a show called Rock Fest. So i watched it. It had some stuff like Led Zeppelin and The Kinks. So i started DVRing it at my house. Then i found out about a show called Metal Mania, which has stuff like Poison and Ratt and Cinderella.
And then, i started recording That Metal Show.
And that's how i found out about the music i love and adore. "
- Ms.CleoTyler

Yeah, it was Metal Mania for me too. I saw the Livin on a Prayer video- that was just the coolest video...

Posted 1 year ago #
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Seeing Kiss on "The Paul Lynde Halloween Special" in 1976, when I was 4 years old.

Posted 1 year ago #
specgabe696
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watching the on stage attitude, The clothes and Hair, the Fun, everything is so atractive and the energy of the music, that was why i started to listen.

Posted 1 year ago #
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yas really wanna know what got me into glam...i was trying to find me self and guess what i found when i heard galm ?(this ones a no brainer lol)

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

Posted 1 year ago #
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At first I found Kiss 2006.I saw them live 2008 and I was completely hooked up.It was something amazing.Then I knew that glam is my thing.

Posted 1 year ago #
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Somehow I always listened to glam, I began to discover it in high school, I listened to all _from Sex Pistols to Maiden, from Nirvana to Guns_ and more often mixed genres (excluding disco and hip-hop, of course). From the time when I listened a little better or worse 'all kinds of metal(black, death, heavy, epic, thrash ..) I went through a period in which I followed very darkwave deathrock, finally there was a change. I do not know what exactly, but it was like discovering the folly of loving something that until then was always overshadows. Many people say that music is frivolous; some sides may be so, but its energetic,incredible,and makes me feel very good, even when it seems nothing get well. And I'm not ashamed of being what I am, indeed, now I think I could not really be nothing different, and I am so very happy.

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I was about 12 years old and I was staying up late one night watching some music video show on tv while my parents were out. They were playing all the usual pop shit when this next video came on that just had me mesmerized.
It was WASP "I Wanna be Somebody". I had never seen anything like it before. I was familiar with KISS and Twisted Sister but they seemed kid-friendly and like comic-book heroes. WASP just looked purely fuckin' evil. I remember just watching that video and thinking these were the most evil looking men I'd ever seen. I was convinced they probably killed people in their spare time. I had to have this!
I went out and bought WASP The Last Command. This led me into buying metal mags and getting heavily into the whole scene. I'll never forget the look of disappointment on my mother's face when she saw me pulling down my Mr.T poster to put up Motley Crue instead.
Ive been a metal maniac ever since so I guess that WASP video made more of an impact on my life than any other music video I've seen since.
Thanks Blackie.

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I used to like Iron Man, the comic book character, and so when I searched it up, the song Iron Man by Black Sabbath came up, and then I got into Sabbath. Then I took guitar lessons and learned Smoke on the Water and Crazy Train, and got into Deep Purple and Ozzy. My cousin got guitar hero II for his b-day, and Shout at the Devil was on in, and with Motley Crue combined with Ozzy, I explored more into Glam Metal, and so on...

Posted 1 year ago #
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T.Rex's brilliant Electric Warrior album.

Posted 1 year ago #
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can anyone help me find the lryics to a few songs because ive looked EVERYWHERES onlone and cant find the lyrics too axx attack-krokus,bad bad girls-fastway,proud to be loud-nitro...any help would be greatley appreciated

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

Posted 1 year ago #
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My mom played alot of Guns N Roses, Motley Crue, Ozzy, Skid Row, Queensryche, Aerosmith, etc. when I was really little. When I was maby 9 I started to forget about it and headed twords mainstream shit, but KISS saved me from that. I started dressing glam when I was 11, I saw Poison's "Nothin` but A Good Time" video and got hooked for good. ...that's my glam story

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I liked A bunch of guns n roses, aerosmith, Poison, alice cooper, KISS that sorta stuff for quite some time but didn't know it was glam. Then 1 a year or 2 ago I heard Ballroom Blitz on the radio and I found out who did it and that led to like a bunch of other glam stuff.

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i guess not

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

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