The funny thing is Cliff Burton never got into any of that, he always looked like he could have been in early Scorpions or Black Sabbath, much more hippy-ish.
The bands that looked like girls were crappola like Poison and Ratt. I remember seeing that first Poison album and thinking, ‘oh great another chick band.’
Freegards
LOL!! That’s XACTLY what I said when I saw the cover of their first album in the ‘80s:
“Who’s the babes?”
*shudder*
Didn’t Cliff state he liked REM? Besides, he looked like a asshat. I saw the early 90 shows with Newsted and the dude was a headbanger on stage.
Poison and Ratt
Funny you mentioned those 2. Met both bands in Charleston WV. Same show. Poison’s first national tour.
All pretty fun guys. We had a blast, plenty of BEAUTIFUL women backstage. Back in the days before we realized we weren’t going to live to 30 if we didn’t quit being stupid.
Only one I didn’t meet that night was Stephan Pearcy, and I met him in Charlotte on a solo club tour many years later.
Call them crappola if you like, but CC Deville, and Robin Crosby were two of the best.