Yep, I partially chose 84-94 for hard rock and metal(side note I've seen both Dream Theater and Van Halen live but not that back then). All of my favorite albums, Megadeth Rust In Peace, Appetite for Destruction, Faith No More's Angel Dust. 94 was really the last year before things started taking a nose dive quick,
Seriously the rock music scene then was amazing. The atmosphere of concerts today are a shell of what it used to be even in the late 90's. Today it's people holding up cell phones paying retarded prices for these shitty festivals.
Even on a local level the idea of bar bands were huge. I was talking to a guy who ran a rock club for years and he said multiple cover bands used to draw 500-800 people a night. Lines around the block to get in the place. He mention everything dried up after 9/11 and the business never recovered and hip hop/dance took over from there.
Oh yeah tell me about it,
I was born in 1982, so I was a just a kid back in the late 80s when Metallica was still in their prime and Guns N'Roses still dominate the charts. I remember that because I grew up with my cousin as my mom will leave me at my aunts house and my cousin who is like 10 years older than will play Guns,Metallica all day either playing the cassette or he will be playing along with his guitar.
He got a stash of Maiden,Megadeth he also listens to hair Metal bands that has some good guitar solos in it. So even though I am not a kid of the 80s. I was exposed to that sort of Music and by the time I was in my early teens when I started to listen to the typpical mid 90s grunge and alt rock scene my cousin immediately indoctrinated to listen to the more technical 80s early 90s rock!
Fortunately there are a lot of guys in my school who are sort of 80s music fan as well back then we did not even realized we are already like straglers or hipsters as some will call it. It was already the late 90s Spicegirls and other shit music dominate the radio but since there is enough people who still listens to 80s stuff I did not feel alienated until I graduated High School in 1999 and realized how shitty pop culture has become.
When I was in college I am the weirdo because I still play Ride the lightning and listens to Slayer! As an aspiring Musician/Guitarist It was really depressing no body wants to play the 80s.
Coverbands you say? Wow I never knew that one can survive and make money as a cover band back then well I am not from the USA so we may have different experiences about the Music industry but damn during my time in College back in late 2003. People think I am a retard because I want to cover, Mr.Crowley and Crazy Train!
I never had the chance to see those great bands live like Guns,Metallica etc, luckily I was able to see Dream Theater last September! It was an experience its my first big Concert was able to meet the Band before the show they are great in person!