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Originally Posted by MRock
Simply put, Grunge killed the Big Hair. It was big. And so it goes every 5 to 7 years with the turn of the "new sound". Personally I liked the bands mentioned above, but it put a nail in the coffin for a major label to sign my band of that time. We were being courted by several labels and I even had a VP at Atlantic Records soliciting song writing from me ... it all changed with Nirvana. Still, those were some kick-ass times for me! 
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Very cool,
yeah I remember that the crowd of non orthodox fans probably switched from Big Hair to flanel shirts, as it was in vogue, you haven't see that here though.
I still believe the movement was somehow pure, there was good stuff going on, there was stuff that sucked going on, and as with everything that gets a lot of airing it also got a lot of fake following.
The documentary "Hype"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116589/
is actually well worth watching, I saw that on German TV a couple years ago, then I bought the soundtrack, and the band I started to like the most, that was featured there are The Gits.
Some orthodox metal guys can't stand it up to this date, but I guess that's why they're called orthodox.