OU812

[guitarplayer]

So today on Spotify while I’m driving, I hear “how can I know this is love”. And I’m thinking to myself …….how long ago was that and I googled it and it was 35 years ago in May that this album was released!

1988! What a great year to be alive the 80s and 90s before things got crazy like they are now. As Eddie money said…. I wanna go back.

 

[jabps]

So today on Spotify while I’m driving, I hear “how can I know this is love”. And I’m thinking to myself …….how long ago was that and I googled it and it was 35 years ago in May that this album was released!

1988! What a great year to be alive the 80s and 90s before things got crazy like they are now. As Eddie money said…. I wanna go back.

It was an amazing time. Player after player, album after album. Really it all got set off with Blizzard of Ozz and then it was just an onslaught of badassery. Vandenberg, Sykes, Campbell, Cavazo, Lynch, DeMartini etc... not to mention a legend like EVH and G Moore who were delivering the goods, it all followed. Granted by the late, late 80's and early 90's it was playing itself out with alot of copy cat/watered down stuff but that first wave of stuff was incredible.

 

[thenine]

Murray/Smith, Downing/Tipton, DeGarmo/Wilton. I could go on with the awesome twin guitar attack bands also.

 

[guitarplayer]

It was an amazing time. Player after player, album after album. Really it all got set off with Blizzard of Ozz and then it was just an onslaught of badassery. Vandenberg, Sykes, Campbell, Cavazo, Lynch, DeMartini etc... not to mention a legend like EVH and G Moore who were delivering the goods, it all followed. Granted by the late, late 80's and early 90's it was playing itself out with alot of copy cat/watered down stuff but that first wave of stuff was incredible.

You joined this forum the day after I did in 2006.

 

[311splawndude]

Thanks for posting. OU812 is admittedly my least favorite VH album but some of the songs rocked, like AFU

Someone just posted this on FB. Some albums that came out in 1984. Such good times.

 

[guitarplayer]

Thanks for posting. OU812 is admittedly my least favorite VH album some of the songs rocked, like AFU

Someone just posted this on FB. Some albums that came out in 1984. Such good times.

Where is out of the cellar!!!!! yeah

 

[311splawndude]

Where is out of the cellar!!!!! yeah

Yeah. That's blasphemy!

I found that pic on The Metal Realm FB page today but Ratt probably influenced more hair metal bands than others, and I certainly liked them more than say - Twisted Sister

 

[Geo]

The only thing that helped me through the VH/DLR breakup was all the other awesome music.

 

[ccn]

I believe "Fair Warning" came out in 81 , Blizzard in 82 . Two incredibly kick ass albums .

 

[Techdeth]

OU812 has some killer songs but sounds like it was recorded in a tin shed . It has to be the mastering at that time . Blow Ip Uour video did too as well as girls girls girls . Then in 89 90 some great productions came from the sane bands

 

[NorCal_Val]

I was working at Tower Records(while going to college) when “OU812” was released.
I was the independent label buyer for our store, and I was busier paying attention to the guitar stuff coming out on Shrapnel Records, than I was to VH’s latest offering.
Racer X-“Second Heat”
Racer X-“Live Extreme Volume”
Cacophony-“Go Off!!”
Joey Tafolla-“Out Of The Sun”
Marty Friedman-“Dragon’s Kiss”
Jason Becker-“Perpetual Burn”
Michael Lee Firkins
Apocrypha-“Eyes Of Time”
Vicious Rumors-“Digital Dictator”
Ominous Guitarists Of The Unknown

 

[Geo]

I was working at Tower Records(while going to college) when “OU812” was released.
I was the independent label buyer for our store, and I was busier paying attention to the guitar stuff coming out on Shrapnel Records, than I was to VH’s latest offering.
Racer X-“Second Heat”
Racer X-“Live Extreme Volume”
Cacophony-“Go Off!!”
Joey Tafolla-“Out Of The Sun”
Marty Friedman-“Dragon’s Kiss”
Jason Becker-“Perpetual Burn”
Michael Lee Firkins
Apocrypha-“Eyes Of Time”
Vicious Rumors-“Digital Dictator”
Ominous Guitarists Of The Unknown

That was like the bubbling underground of the guitar world back then.

 

[ccn]

That was like the bubbling underground of the guitar world back then.

I bet every single one of those guys were majorly influenced by the great EVH.

 

[griff10672]

I was 17 ...... and I remember that album blasting out of the Muscle cars everyone was still kind of driving .... in the summer .... hanging in the bowling alley parking lot ..... smoking those doobs and watching guys have wheelie contests with the rice burners that were just starting to get popular ...
good friggin times !

 

[NorCal_Val]

I bet every single one of those guys were majorly influenced by the great EVH.

Of course they were!!

 

[311splawndude]

OU812 has some killer songs but sounds like it was recorded in a tin shed . It has to be the mastering at that time . Blow Ip Uour video did too as well as girls girls girls . Then in 89 90 some great productions came from the sane bands

*same bands
or
*insane


I just saw this on that same FB group and thought it would be fitting here too:

Not sure I understand the Death Metal one but that one seems more appropriate for Hair Metal

 

[Techdeth]

*same bands
or
*insane


I just saw this on that same FB group and thought it would be fitting here too:

Not sure I understand the Death Metal one but that one seems more appropriate for Hair Metal

Same

 

[just42dave]

I believe "Fair Warning" came out in 81 , Blizzard in 82 . Two incredibly kick ass albums .

blizzard was sept of 80

 

[Racerxrated]

blizzard was sept of 80

...Diary was '81.

 

[fek]

Listening to music was an event back then. Had to source the vinyl, or cassette tape, and have a turntable or cassette player to listen to it. No skipping through sections or songs. Drop the needle and sit back to take it all in. Of course I am putting on the "get off of my lawn" t-shirt, but kids these days have no idea what that feeling was like.