Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children (Live On Fridays) 

Me too! Didn’t Michael Richards make you cry laughing?

Watched to the end because of this comment. 100% spot on!

His solos are so creative and powerful

Fridays was great. And Melanie Chartoff...

So very nostalgic!

Pat is the queen...

More like 40 yrs. later; but it will still kick ass 30 yrs. from now....

They are still touring..

Especially Myron, such a great drummer

@@soundsgreatentertainment4203 truth, and Roger was her band director that stuck with her all the way back to coxon's Army oh, he even picked Neil for the band. You know they won't bring them and it's a damn shame it takes the band to make it happen and her band was great in the beginning

@@matthewdagnan3396 Did not know that bit of trivia, awesome.

Myron should get in as a session drummer alone. He played for Rick Derringer, Pat, Lita Ford, Kane Roberts, Lou Rawls, Gary Hoey, and numerous others.

I'm SO happy that someone FINALLY mentioned Myron Grombacher!!! The man iZ one of the most entertaining and powerful drummerZ ever, im my opinion. 🤘🥁🥁 I had never heard of him until about four months ago, when I started reading the 70'z and 80'z issues of Modern Drummer magazine 🥁

What a stupid thing to say, that guy. Her career definitely didn't stop as she kept a solid string of platinum albums after this one and her popularity only began to slowly wane by the end of the decade. "Killed her career" my ass

Pat and Neil wrote this song because she read child abuse in the paper ..they felt for those kids...this is awesome song...her career never dies....they are legends...btw Pat and Neil made It to... HALL OF FAME...

@@sonofbarnsey Exactly her next album Precious Time went #1. With tracks like Promises in the Dark, Precious Time, and Evil Genius.

...since when was the 80's ever considered a bad time for music

Steve Mora are you insane

Giraldo is not at Van Halen or Randy Rhoads level, but who else is from that time frame? He probably could have been more well known if he was in a band that wasn't essentially a support band for the star singer. But that seems to be the way he wanted it, plus he got to be married to Pat Benatar which is kind of nice.

Steve Mora He’s really good but just not at that level but I do respect him

Spaghettiows Boober Besides his guitar abilities and distinctive style and stage presence, he’s a massively successful songwriter. He wasn’t just “in” a support band. His musical output surpasses what EVH and RR accomplished combined.

Yeaaaah !!

Yeppers!

So is smell like teens spirits.

There was also "What's The Matter Here?" by 10,000 Maniacs! People forget what a great songwriter that Natalie Merchant is!

Or anywhere else; it would seem....

I totally agree! 👍🎸

Can GOD EVER 4GIVE THEM I AM NOT ABLE 2

My exact thought!

If I'd only known how to play a guitar what could've been. Sighhhh!

Neil rockks.

bwanadave76 >>>>> Giraldo never ''half-asses'' a lead solo IMO .... always tasty / never overplayed ... you know what's totally fucked up tho? ... the fact bands like Pearl Jam got into the RRHOF and Pat Benatar still has not!

The sound balance on this one was particularly excellent; w/ superb voicing and intonation on the lead guitar....

That’s a very early BC Rich Mockingbird.

Bc Rich Eagle I believe

Huh?

Benatar explained in an interview with Portfolio Weekly: "I was living in New York when we wrote it and the New York Times did a series of articles about child abuse in America. I came from a really small town on Long Island and I had no idea that this existed, not in the little gingerbread place I came from. I was stunned. It affected me so much. I was moved by the articles. Whenever that would happen I would write. I said to Neil, 'I want you to do something to the music that it sounds like pain. I want the intense pain that's happening to these children in the notes,' and so he did and it turned out just great. It became an anthem. I always wonder if other people have lofty intentions. I didn't. We started a foundation for abused children. Then we had all these grownups writing letters saying no one had addressed this in this way before and that it was so great having someone in rock-n-roll doing this. It turned into this other thing that I don't think any of us foresaw. The anguish is there. Every time I sing it I really remember the afternoon when we talked about it." Go read the lyrics - they wrote the lyrics so you could feel the pain of the abused children.

when it was released in the beginning the lyrics were misinterprated by many ppl .... which kinda sucked since it may have put Pat in a position of having to nicely explain to the crowd (before they were gonna play it) ... just what the ''real deal'' was in them awesome lyrics (idk all the facts for sure, but i do know that they been playing year after year and selling out a lot of shows ... STILL husband and wife, and get at least a 10-song -per-day airplay ''slot'' 6 - 7 days a week on 95.5 KLOS .....)

Ha... this song was on her 1980 album (Crimes Of Passion) and her next album went straight to #1. She also had the majority of her 14 top-40 hits after this was released (including smashes "Love Is A Battlefield," "We Belong" and "Invincible"), so "they" are speaking out of their butts.

BWAH-hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yeah, they're starvin'!

Killed her career? Not even close. The people who protest songs usually aren't intelligent enough to understand the lyrics.

The idiots who couldn't understand the lyrics of this song were the same ones who thought "Born in The USA" and "Independence Day" were patriotic songs.