hair metal

Hair metal is subgenre of heavy metal. Also called glam metal. It started on the sunset strip in los angeles. The sunset strip was made famous by van halen. Quiet riot got signed and other bands started to get signed like ratt,dokken,montley crue. The music was pretty good. Most people thinks it gay music cause the bands wore catskin,makeup and looked like hot chicks. Maybe you should ask all the groupies from back then if they were gay. Later bands like bon jovi,warrent,and winger are not hair metal there hair pop-rock bands or whatever. They ripped off poisons succsesful balled every rose has it thorn. With there own balleds.