Always liked warrant even cherry pie that was kinda cheesy…by 1990 this kind of music was getting stale and by summer 91’ it was almost over when grunge took over (Nirvana sept 91)… the grunge stuff was kinda refreshing , but by 94 it was old hat (lasted less then hair metal)…it’s good to hear people are jamming this stuff again and grunge is now known as complaint rock…winger got dogged big time and they were a great band of musicians..there was so many good bands/ songs in the 80’s , even 1 hit wonders, their music was positive, happy and feel good (opposite of alternative/grunge).
I was in a "hair metal" band back in the mid to late 80's called "Tempest", and we opened for Warrant at a club in West Hollywood called (at the time), "Gazzari's". I remember they were just about to get signed to Columbia, I believe, and we were hanging with them upstairs in the dressing rooms just talking girls and music. The were VERY cool and sweet dudes-ALL of them. Jani was a real nut, and had an awesome sense of humor. R.I.P., Mr. Lane. You are missed!
The "Tempest" that was the club band in the movie Martial Law? Performing "Sauza"??? If so, holy shit, I've been trying to find that song or any others for YEARS!!!!!
What a great front man. In my opinion, Jani's voice never changed. He sounded the same at 45 as he did at 25. Thats a rare thing. RIP Jani, i hope you found your peace.
To @WMFNINDY23 concerning silhouettes, por favor, listen to Captain Beefheart and Zoot Horn Rollo's, "Pompadour Swamp". Additionally, may Jani Bane Wane FfFind that "piece" rather than "peace" while HopeFully And Prayerfully, R.esplendent I.n P.rovidence R.I.P. A.M.E.N
Summer of '85....cruisin on a Saturday night with friends in a '65 Mustang....blasting this song as loud as those JVC speakers would pump it out.....great times....great memories...great friends and great music......and a case of Bud in the cooler in the trunk...LOL
All of that was my life too except the cooler of Bud!😂 I couldn't stand the taste of beer!!😅 I miss my '65 Mustang, but I miss Jani way more. Oh, the music he could have continued writing and singing. Gone far too soon.😢😢
@@markserour9115 I almost peed on myself from laughing.....YOU'RE right! Look...at 57 yrs old...I'm surprised I even remember anything about THAT summer...It was a very wild summer. When I read your comment....I had to THINK...and go back in my mind. Then it CLICKED!! I remember a particular cassette that I played A LOT!! And I loved Warrant...and I remember listening to them A LOT! I remember having the cassette album DRFSR...and I wore it out to the point that I lost the original case. But there was ANOTHER one that I played a lot...and I lost the case to that one too. (prob due to all the BUD) Sign in Please-Autograph...the song...TURN UP THE RADIO!! ......THAT is the one that I was talking about...LOL!! Look...I was in the RIGHT ballpark....just on the WRONG base😆. I DID blast that song...just did it a few years later...but it was SO MUCH FUN!!! Thanks for the laugh...AND the fun correction.
Amen to that I remember then we'll THIS MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE I MEET JOEY FROM WARRENT , BACK STAGE 2010 AND HUNG WITH JERRY DIXON, I WAS George lynch guest I made him a guitar awesome times
These guys and Ratt. Great songwriters and musicians. 80's radio rock has caught a lot of disrespect over the years, which is a shame. There is quite a bit of good music and several good bands. Ratt and Warrant being my faves, closely followed by Tesla and Dokken.
Sweet Jani , you had talent and a charisma even you did not understand. Rest in peace dear man. You will always be missed and cherished. This song is pure joy.
Its so sad that he seemed to only think of himself as the cherry pie guy... Although I love that song he seems so sad in one of his latest interviews before he passed away he regretted writing that song. 😭 such incredible talent I guess sometimes their greatest fame is their biggest torture. RIP Jani Lane 🙏💛🎤🎸🎼
@@ShayMichele he totally despised that song from what i hear the record company pretty much forced him to make a song like that and from what i can tell from his reactions it could have been a contributing factor in his death as it caused a ton of depression for him. It pretty much killed his passion for music as he wanted so much more for the band. Maybe if he wasnt so pressured in making Cherry Pie things would have turned out differently.
@@emobassistformallygeddysco3126 that is so sad!!! He was so talented and I like Cherry Pie! It was fun and fit the style of music of that time... I had no idea until I saw that interview from right before his death. 😭 Always a fan !
I've only started listening to 80s hair metal in recent years. Back in the 80s, I didn't have much money to spend and I was into blues, so what spare cash I had was spent on blues albums, so I missed the hair metal thing (apart from the "Good Dirty Fun" album by Rick Derringer). Now I'm really enjoying the hair metal thing, especially when I'm driving my car. Bands like Dokken, XYZ, Y&T, Krokus, LA Guns, Ratt, Motley Crue, Britany Fox, Cinderella, Roxx Gang, Lynch Mob, Fastway, etc. All easily found on iHeart Radio app. Play it loud Opp Dawg!
Huge comeback. Super fun for me: in my guitar cover rotation, I have this song, Cherry Pie and Uncle Tom's Cabin :) Warrant's guitar riffs and bouncy movements thru the measures of their songs are really great to re-discover :) Enjoy the comeback brother!
I hear you. I had an official MTV Headbanger's Ball t-shirt, and wore that thing so much, it vaporized. They were the glory days of our youth, and great music!
My father bought me this album back in 1989. He always did that back in the day...Whitesnake, Alice Cooper and many more. My hero died 5 years ago and everytime i hear Down Boys playing i remember him. Love you, dad.
Overexposure & it becoming trendy to hate on it at the time are the only reasons hair metal died out. If this music made a genuine comeback & got airplay nowadays it would be utterly massive, people don’t know how good they had it with this type of music.
Damn ! Makes me feel like I'm 20 again!! I'm 50 now but can still fucking rock like the good ole days! One of the few hair bands I loved! Warrant, skid row, slaughter . Brings me back dude!!!
Grunge is crap, depressing and poor músic, comparaded with hair metal early 90's out excellents bands Slik Toxik, Wildside, Von Groove and i can say it more than 30, killed by Nirvana.
We had the best music of all time Us 80’s kids know what I mean lol We all like fifty now lol But omg I wouldn’t trade my generation for anything especially the music
Me and my college roomie used to have this thing called "Metal Study Hour" in 1989 where we would study from 7pm to 10pm with no music on but from 10pm to 11pm we would play hair metal songs like this one and rock out while doing calculus and physics homework in our dorm room --- man, those were great times!
The way the street light silhouettes your thighs inside your dress.....one of greatest lines ever written and sung in the whole history of rock n roll imo😮 the best🎉Goat level
I remember these days. Rushing home after school to tape the music videos playing on MTV with VHS tapes! I lived for MTV. Lived to see Warrant on there. CANNOT imagine growing up without MTV. What a loss.
They play the music of your generation when you move to a retirement home. Just imagine how many long haired grandpas and broken hips there will be because our generation will have Warrant, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy, Ratt, Scorpions, Skid Row, and all that great 80s music pumped in over the intercom. Shit, if you have Alzheimer’s you might think it’s the 1980s and that you’re at the concert.
You know whats funny. Back in the 80's, I used to wonder why older people stuck with their music and didn't evolve. I was living and enjoying Hair Band music when all of a sudden, Nirvana and grundge music hit the scene and BAM, I instantly become one of those old codgers that got stuck in the music of his teenage years. Not once did I buy one CD of grundge bands, yet, I had probably 75 CD's of Big Hair and regular rock Bands. yeah, I occassionly liked a song here in there like Glycerine from Bush(oops, I did buy that CD), but, for the most part, my jammin days to new bands came to an end. lol
Weird I'm probably around the same age as you (late 40s), and absolutely loved metal from the early to late 80s. Then it started getting stale with the influx of sub par hair bands in the late 80s and very early 90s (Winger, Poison etc). I totally embraced grunge and alternative rock when it broke (as long as it was hard and guitar oriented aka Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots etc). I saw it as a much needed breath of fresh air to the rock scene. Then around 1996 when rap and pop started taking over I totally gave up and now listen to music almost exclusively from the late 60s through the mid 90s.
Warrant deserves so much more recognition and credit for what they made together. The word underrated gets tossed around so much when talking about older bands from the 80s. But if there is one band thst is truly underrated its warrant without a doubt!!
exactly they did it all to get the chicks and it worked! How many chicks do get these lame indie bands with soy drinking beta males or these extreme metal mouth breathers with no harmony
I wasn't born in the 80's yet but it must have been a great decade! I'm 20 years old but I prefer 80's rock over the current electric crap. I'm writing 80's rock myself. I play and record everything, I just don't have professionell equipment, that's why the sound is not perfect. Here's the youtube link to my new song. Not doing this for likes, so don't give me likes but I'm happy for any (ANY) kind of feedback, just in case somebody is interested:) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kqcBnJXSiGg.html
I remember when this song came out. In my teens then. I feel so old and would truly go back to 80s if I could. The crap they call music today cannot hold a candle to the talent of the 80s. I remember as a kid thinking my parents were so lame listening to Frank Sinatra and stuff like that, now my son thinks the same about me. Crazy.
The difference between today's music and the 80s doesn't have the wide difference that existed between 70s music and the generation before it (i.e., Frank Sinatra). Shouldn't be a big stretch for today's kids to appreciate Warrant. Some kids today are just narrow-minded little assholes.
Well a lot of today's music (One Direction) copies bands from the 80's, and 80's bands copied a lot from the 70's. This song was heavily inspired by "Bye Bye Love" from The Cars. Even the 90's bands from the Grunge era had their influences. King's X invented Grunge but nobody's heard of them. Except for all the Grunge bands that copied them.
If Jani had him an intervention, and it worked, this man would have been an even bigger Rock and Roll Giant. Wrote some real Compelling tunes. Miss him and Kevin Debrow, Randy Rhodes, Ratt’s Crosby. Southern California’s Rock and Roll supermen!
First time I saw Warrant was in a little club in San Diego about a month before this album dropped. Maybe 30 people in the club. They played it like it was an arena. Just a fantastic show and they didn't seem to care how few people were there. Flash forward several years as grunge is taking over, and again I'm seeing them in a small club. I was having a bad night personally, and Jani saw it and called me out on it during the show. Told me (and everyone else) it was HIS mission to make sure I had a good time. After the show he came and found me and talked a bit. Just a seriously down to earth guy. Very sad that he's gone. He didn't deserve the exit he received.
Just saw Warrant last week and they put on a great show. Down Boys was the 2nd song they played. Them along with Bret Michaels took us back to the late 1980s and 1990s very quickly!!
Grunge music could never match the awesomeness of hair metal. Never forget that metal existed before grunge and continued to exist after grunge. I'm glad I got to live this era
It still makes me angry that "I'm so depressed, I want to shoot myself" grunge garbage ruined the music I grew up with. People can call it cheesy, over the top etc but it was FUN.
@@jondunmore4268 I was going to say gayest instead of weakest but I was avoiding all the shit people usually give you when you make a comment like that
Warrant was and still is one of the best rock groups ever. I was in my teens when I first listen to them and at times still do. Boy, I miss the 80's! I remember getting together with rock fans every Saturday night turning on the head banger balls that is when MTV meant something but now it's pure junk.
I willnever stop loving Warrant, this song is one of their greatest, most of them, RIP Jani Layne, you left us with more to give of yourself! Terri Leckner, Montreal
This song makes me feel so HAPPY and so SAD at the same time. I love it so much, and yet it is a reminder of my lost youth, and how I'll never be young again.
Jani Lane was very underrated... great talent... great voice,multi-instrumentalist and good song writer... Unfortunately, Warrant came (88-89) during the time grudge rock started to takeover around 91... Thanks for the great music Jani......RIP brotha
+Marie Yost (justanothermother) yes records are out of print now but i still have all of my albums from the 80's....and a record player that still works...lucky me...grew up in the 80's....it was trully the best of times in music...love it...poor jani lane...didnt know he had passed away 4 years ago....damn he was a hotty
I watch and listen to this video annually to remind me of how special this band was. How 80’s rock is the best. Real singing real talent. I’m a down boy.
If you like this, listen to Uncle Tom's Cabin, I feel was their best song. A house shaker. I loved being a teen throughout the 80's , and young man in that era, life was so different than today. Peace......
I was lucky enough to see Warrant 2x in Concert back when Jani Lane was still on Vocals in the 90's. First time was Warrant Opening for Poison at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island for the Flesh and Blood Tour. Second time was at a Rock Club on Long Island called The Roxy and Warrant jammed up close and personal I was right up against the stage looking straight up at Jani the whole time. Was Awesome !!
What a decade, there is never gonna be another one like it,I'm glad to have been a teenager then, r.i.p Jani you should still be here rocking, what a voice, the guys in warrant didn't attend his funeral, they were bitter about money
