Firehouse - any fans?

You show me a supposed "glam metal" band and I'll show you a dozen "hard rock" bands that play the exact same style of music.

Glam is an image, not a musical style.

Eyesore wrote:

You show me a supposed "glam metal" band and I'll show you a dozen "hard rock" bands that play the exact same style of music.

Glam is an image, not a musical style.

They start calling it Glam metal because the image, with a femening make up like PRETTY BOY FLOYD for exemple. Its like glam rock from the 70s in the UK, they were playing rock and hard rock too but they only called glam rock to bands that looked like it like THE SWEET, or T-rex.

Thats why to a band like FIREHOUSE or WARRANT you can not call them GLAM METAL because they didnt had the looks for that, they were just melodic hard rock bands. Even if the styles are similar (maybe glam has a more female touch to the music, listen to POISON debut album), its glam when the image is like that.

Firehouse fall under the hard rock category.

Lov'em. Wish they will release a new album one day.

Eyesore wrote:

Glam is an image, not a musical style.

Agreed. Grunge too, it's a fashion, not a style of music.

It cracks me up how hung up people get on "image" of bands, I can understand how it might be important if you are 16 or younger, but when dudes in their 40's are arguing about bullet belts and spandex it's the best kind of comedy.

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when dudes in their 40's are arguing about bullet belts and spandex it's the best kind of comedy

Spandex 'n' bullet belts 'n' vinyl ist tr00, grimm, und KVLT!

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

RATT, : party, carefree, summertime fun kinda bands.

RATT is none of those things...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

RATT, : party, carefree, summertime fun kinda bands.

RATT is none of those things...

Fat Freddy wrote:

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when dudes in their 40's are arguing about bullet belts and spandex it's the best kind of comedy

Spandex 'n' bullet belts 'n' vinyl ist tr00, grimm, und KVLT!

who taught you the English language???

exact33 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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when dudes in their 40's are arguing about bullet belts and spandex it's the best kind of comedy

Spandex 'n' bullet belts 'n' vinyl ist tr00, grimm, und KVLT!

who taught you the English language???

English is for pozers. Tr00 arcane steele vynal mettle warrior code is where it's at! Ehehehehehehe

Fat Freddy wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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when dudes in their 40's are arguing about bullet belts and spandex it's the best kind of comedy

Spandex 'n' bullet belts 'n' vinyl ist tr00, grimm, und KVLT!

who taught you the English language???

English is for pozers. Tr00 arcane steele vynal mettle warrior code is where it's at! Ehehehehehehe

See Exact, you're better off not responding to FF when he gets like this.

S.D. wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Glam is an image, not a musical style.

Agreed. Grunge too, it's a fashion, not a style of music.

It cracks me up how hung up people get on "image" of bands, I can understand how it might be important if you are 16 or younger, but when dudes in their 40's are arguing about bullet belts and spandex it's the best kind of comedy.

Maybe for you its a comedy but for others like me its not. Its not very cool to see people on stage not wearing any metal or hard rock image and that i look more like a rockstar than they do. Its boring. I wanna cool show when i was 16 and when i will be 50. Its part of our movement. Its so much more than only music.

I never saw it as a "movement", it's music and it's an artform that I've enjoyed for many years, but I don't pattern my daily life around it. I did when I was a teenager, but not since. My favorite "image" was just jeans and t-shirts, I measured bands by how well they played live, I could care less what the stage clothes looked like.

I have nothing wrong with people that view it as a lifestyle, I'm just not one of them.

S.D. wrote:

I never saw it as a "movement", it's music and it's an artform that I've enjoyed for many years, but I don't pattern my daily life around it. I did when I was a teenager, but not since. My favorite "image" was just jeans and t-shirts, I measured bands by how well they played live, I could care less what the stage clothes looked like.

I have nothing wrong with people that view it as a lifestyle, I'm just not one of them.

I respect you but for me its still the same like when i was a teenager only now i have a wife, a daughter and more records

I like the first three Firehouse albums.
It's a funny story how i discovered them: I'm a big fan of the 90's Show "Parker Lewis can't lose". It was shown on TV around 1995 here in Germany and one episode contained a song (the episode where they desperately search a girl for Lemmer) i really liked. It took me 8 years to find the song. It was "Shake & Tumble" from Firehouse. First of all, i was just happy that i finally discovered the song (reminds me of that one Married with Children episode were Al looks for a song) and i'm glad.
I like the first album the most.

I hated them and still do.

Love the first 2 albums - they rock!

Have not listened to any of their recent albums. Might have to give that a try soon...

nevermore wrote:

I still have one put away when they were called White Heat.

Never got into Firehouse, but used to go see the guys constantly when a couple of them were still in Maxx Warrior, even as recently as a reunion show in NC in Jan. Carl, er, "CJ" still has it!
http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=777&Itemid=39

Eyesore wrote:

You show me a supposed "glam metal" band and I'll show you a dozen "hard rock" bands that play the exact same style of music.

Glam is an image, not a musical style.

Same with the word "Punk" - except Punk is a lifestyle and not an image or musical style. Jesus was the original Punk - Bob Marley was a Punk - Henry Rollins is still a "Punk" - Hank Williams Sr was a "Punk - Rosa Parks was a "Punk" - Danzig is still Glam.....