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As I was driving to pick up some chicken salad for lunch, I was listening to my iPod and White Lion came on. I've really been returning to my fondness for the old 80s hair bands. I was thinking about how I really liked the good ones like White Lion and Dokken when my musical ESP kicked in and... yup, Dokken played next. I assure you the iPod picked it all on its own. This stuff just seems to happen to me. A lot.
Anyway, I was also thinking that one of the reasons I probably like this music so much is the very obvious classical and baroque influences in it. Primarily my fondness for pedal tones must have come into play because hair bands loved to chug away on a pedal tone on the guitar while shifting dyads and triads over them. It's like the whole concept of the hair band (and even to some extent thrash metal) musical styling. Add to this the hair band employment of arpeggios and flourishes and Bach is suddenly rocking out with an electric guitar and a perm! The solos (well, when you're dealing with virtuosos like Vito Bratta or Nuno Bettencourt) were very melodic.
"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal." - Geezer Butler
Anyway, I was also thinking that one of the reasons I probably like this music so much is the very obvious classical and baroque influences in it. Primarily my fondness for pedal tones must have come into play because hair bands loved to chug away on a pedal tone on the guitar while shifting dyads and triads over them. It's like the whole concept of the hair band (and even to some extent thrash metal) musical styling. Add to this the hair band employment of arpeggios and flourishes and Bach is suddenly rocking out with an electric guitar and a perm! The solos (well, when you're dealing with virtuosos like Vito Bratta or Nuno Bettencourt) were very melodic.
"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal." - Geezer Butler
