#hair metal

Guns n’ Roses, Faster Pussycat, JetBoy, and L.A.Guns play Riki Rachtman’s Cathouse, 1986: ALL DRINKS ONLY $1.00 UNTIL 11:00.

Glam Guns n’ Roses.

Teeze. For every band you remember, think of the hundreds you don’t.

Poison n’ RATT, together at last.

Lita Ford and her custom locomotive BC Rich. “Stiletto. I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.”

Faster Pussycat.

Shout at the Devil era Crue. 

Steven Adler and Nikki Sixx standing in front of the Sunset Guitar Center, late ‘80s.

Lita Ford as a redhead.

Merry RATT-mas, everybody!

Axl’s purple pants….

Crüesing through Canada, 1982.

80s guitar ads.

Axl’s sneer circa 1992.

Poison handbills, mid-’80s. Flyers like this used to be on every phone pole in town. Bands would tear each other’s down to fight for audiences.

Ratt’s Robbin Crosby, who would have turned 56 today. 

Appetite for Self-Destruction. “It would be nice to make a record that’s 76 minutes long.”

METAL SHOES

Duff and Steven Adler, 1990: “Our attitude epitomizes what rock and roll is all about.”