Originally Posted by Jdoughs

When Sammy joined that type of music was swaying towards mainstream.

We never heard Woman and Children First on the radios, but every song off 5150 got radio play, and the industry was being swarmed by this "new metal".

New metal, by that i mean "fun metal" up until the movement along Sunset and bands like Van Halen, metal was often dark an/or bluesy, The Maidens, Priest, Sabbath etc, there was no such thing as "fun metal"

Thats what Van Halen brought to the world, was music where Metal fans stood back and said , "OMG, The singer is having fun, how fucking cool is that!"

Cars and pussy, loud music and cold beers, spinning the cap of 40 oz'ers and tossing it away, because it wasnt getting put back on, these are the things VH brought to the music industry. They pushed the envelope of enjoying Metal, Metal was fun, fuck the doom and gloom, lets rock and get pissed up.

They basically opened the doors for bands like Quiet Riot, Ratt, Poison, Warrant, and that whole movement out of L.A. They put US on the map for Heavy Metal. Without them, none of the others may have had a job.

VH1 Did a great documentary a few years ago called Heavy Metal: The story of Metal, you get a real good sense of how a few bands really blew the doors open. Quiet Riot is a perfect example, they didnt make it to big, but if not for them getting signed to tour with Loverboy, their record never would have slammed to number 1, and the record dicks would have never ran to Sunset to sign up every "glam" band out their.