Posted on 08/07/2023 3:33:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"There was definitely a double-standard. ... We couldn't be doing the same things the guys did and get away with it," says the singer of one of the few female bands to infiltrate '80s hair-metal scene.
In Penelope Spheeris’s notorious 1988 rockumentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, KISS’s Paul Stanley is interviewed while lounging in bed with a bevy of lingerie-clad groupies; W.A.S.P.’s Chris Holmes chugs a bottle of vodka in a swimming pool; Odin’s Randy O canoodles in a hot tub with bikini girls; Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry brag about spending millions of dollars on drugs; and Taime Downe, Faster Pussycat’s lead singer and the proprietor of popular Hollywood hangout the Cathouse, admits that women can gain entry to his nightclub faster if they wear “sleazy” outfits.
But when all-female metal band Vixen is interviewed in Decline II, they come across as much more sensible, with drummer Roxy Petrucci even joking that her motto is “sex, drums, and rock ‘n’ roll.” Three decades later, former Vixen frontwoman Janet Gardner — whose story is featured in a new three-part documentary, Paramount+’s I Wanna Rock: The ‘80s Metal Dream — tells Yahoo Entertainment that she and her bandmates never felt they had the freedom to wildly party and let it all hang out in the ‘80s like their male Sunset Strip peers.
“I think that people would've been like, ‘Oh, sloppy, drunk sluts — that’s not appealing!’ But with men, it's cool because they're ‘bad boys,’” gripes Gardner. “There was definitely a double-standard that we had to contend with, but that we were well-aware of. We knew we couldn't be doing the same things the guys did and get away with it.”
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Joke or serious?
In the ‘80s, with hair like that, it would have been: Exit 153 (Clifton).
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Too funny. I lived near there in ‘79. Thanks for the laugh!
I worked for an ex school teacher who opened a jazz club and cafe in Montclair. She was practically a double for Debbie and found it quite funny because so many people commented on it. Might have had something to do with quitting teaching and becoming successful in business. LOL. It was a hoot.
And thats why loose women are sluts and undesirable for wives, and men who can sleep with any woman he wants is a man desired by those women.
I remember Vixen.
Poison with hips-n-lips! d;^p
you know, towards the end of the hair metal era, it was getting hard to tell the chicks from the dudes. What with the massive hair and make up
Dude looks like a lady! Could that even be done today?
Me and my metalhead friends watch Decline Of Western Civilization Part II : The metal Years at the midnight movies a couple times. I’m still going strong as a longtime metalhead.
LOL, another Beavis and Butthead classic...
Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF7IvcwTi-Q&list=PLknxpTAVFf972bWhF6h096OT3RmlNgQMx&index=28
It ain’t no big thing \m/
Only Roxy Petrucci (drums) remains from the original lineup, but they still rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnH5LrojUk
I bought a cd of their first album at a thrift store this weekend. I bought it on cassette a long time ago but I think that was bought used too.
Ozzy making breakfast is iconic.
Haha. That Psychostick channel is pretty funny. I’d love to work on a video with those blokes. Thanks for sharing; first time I’ve seen it.
I just saw an article a week or so ago about Janet Gardner. These days she works as a dental hygienist. At least she’s being productive.
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