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Old 02-10-2012, 03:25 PM  
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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn View Post
You clearly don't have taste or know your music history. Van Halen was not an "80's Hair Band". Van Halen with David Lee Roth was a great 1970's hard rock band back in a day when everyone had long hair. They had their biggest hits in the early 80's. The "80's Hair Band" phenomenon occured in the late 80's to early 90's- roughly 1987 right up to to 1991 when Nirvana's Nervermind album came out and signaled the ascension of grunge.
I was breaking balls to a certain extent, but you could say that Van Halen set the stage for Glam Metal and the hair bands of the 80's with their gimmicky music and even more gimmicky stage antics. I never liked them. Just watched that video, David Lee Roth is such a fucking tool

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