Hair Metal Memories

To close out our first season of HMM, Aaron and Bryon decided to host an all call-in show. Our callers were too interesting, though, and we didn't want to have an enormous podcast that went for hours, so we're breaking it up into two parts! In Part 1, return guest Skotty B. Good discusses what hair metal is with the lads, and gets offended on behalf of Van Halen. Then the lads talk extensively wit...

It's our longest episode yet, for the longest album we've talked about so far! Aaron and Bryon do a deep dive on Extreme's third album, their magnum opus, Three Sides To Every Story! Special guest Jordan Bleujack Voigt calls us from the countryside in Iowa to talk about this complex slab of hair metal history, and we announce our first-ever contest!

In the second "lockdown" episode, Aaron and Bryon give their take on the debut Winger album from 1988, and why this band is way better than you remembered. Tangents include the incestuous inner circle of the band, Kip Winger's classical music career, Beavis and Butthead, and an accidental Adam Schlesinger tribute. 

Aaron and Bryon do their first episode in the Age of the Virus! Using untested remote technology, they discuss the 1987 debut album from glam and punk influenced hair metal provocateurs Faster Pussycat. 

In this episode, Aaron and Bryon talk about the mega-selling and mega-awesome Guns n' Roses masterpiece, Appetite For Destruction, and special guest Shawna Corbin tells us about getting kicked out of second grade and why there's recorded sex on this album. 

Aaron and Bryon dissect the mega-platinum hair metal behemoth that is Bon Jovi, connecting the dots to Yes, Cher, and atheism, and special guest Chad Watkins hits us with a killer high school metal band name and tales of the best BBQ sauce ever. 

Aaron and Bryon discuss one of the albums that helped launch this podcast, the debut self-titled album by Badlands! This short-lived but well-loved Jake E. Lee project is an underrated gem. Special guest Skotty B. Good talks about his experience with the album, and how he came to it via being in a Christian rock band! And much more!

Aaron and Bryon discuss the self-titled 1987 Whitesnake album, answer a listener question, and talk about the strange connection between Whitesnake and the Grateful Dead with their special guest Greg Bruna.

Aaron and Bryon discuss the history of White Lion, the guitar genius of Vito Bratta, and are joined by special guest Dean Erickson, who wasn't sure about being on the show but became a convert of this underrated hair metal gem.

In our first episode, Aaron and Bryon discuss Dokken's seminal album, Under Lock and Key, with special guest Rachel Dudley!