Enter Grunge – Exit Hair Bands and More?
The year was 1991 and WARRANT was enjoying their biggest commercial hit. ‘Cherry Pie’ was heavily played on MTV and it seemed the Hair Bands would rule forever.
But lead singer Jani Lane knew it was over when he walked into the office of Warrant’s record label and instead of seeing a large poster of the ‘Cherry Pie’ album cover just a year earlier, he now saw Alice In Chains.
And so the story goes… you may have heard that Grunge killed the hair bands, but did it also kill the career of wrestler ‘Ultimate Warrior’? Interesting take here
For those of us that love 80’s metal and hair bands, the early 90’s was painful… captured perfectly here
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