Heartbreaker/Soul Shaker

30 | she/her | glam metal forever💘 I follow back from @rattkween86 ✨☽✧¨*〃.¸¸✧¸¸.〃*¨✧☾✨ 80s Aesthetic | Vintage Collector

[britnyfox]

𖤐 Lex | she/her | 30 | glam metal forever 𖤐 Master List (under const.) 𖤐 I wanted a place to archive and rave about glam metal and an era of music that was truly one of the greatest ever, so here we are 💘 𖤐 While I love Crue, GnR, Metallica, and Poison as much as the next person, there are already so many great blogs dedicated to them, and I really want to focus on a lot of the artists that don't get as much exposure in the present day, but who helped significantly shape the genre and culture surrounding metal music in the 80s. 𖤐 I'm sure I'll be updating this post as time goes on! Don't be afraid to say hi 💘

[tracking: userbritnyfox ~ yeah, the url wasn't taken - I can't believe it either]

dividers here

[britnyfox]

Does my bedroom kinda look like a 1980s love dungeon? Yes. Is that kinda by design? Also yes.

[bcpie13]

used some different filters☝️🤓

I think this would be a great pfp, but I still can't bear to part with T-bone😔

[rattkween86]

Got a sweet new sporkle shirt at last night's show! 💗

[heavymetal]

Def Leppard, early 80’s

[musicmags]

[long-cold-winterr]

[ride-the-hammett]

What an awesome picture!! 😉😉🔥🔥

[the-girl-who-loves-monsters86]

MTV Headbanger's Ball Alice Cooper

[ride-the-hammett]

Little rotten bloodsuckers.....love it!! 🤭🤭😉😉

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Black Sabbath

September 26, 1971

Convention Hall

San Diego, California

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[prismatic-bell]

Ngl, knowing this makes me wonder what would happen if they found a single brown M&M. Like, the contract was clearly read, someone clearly did go through and pick out the M&Ms, but they missed one.

Like. Since the purpose of the rider is “make sure they read the contract,” would the band be like “they clearly did read it, we’ll go ahead” or would they say “no, it wasn’t done right and that means we can’t go on because doing so would set a bad precedent”?

[karleyn]

Good question 🤔

The instructions were clearly read, understood and followed - the execution however was somewhat …lacking and incomplete.

That doesn’t have to reflect on their other work. But it might.

(Sorting out M&Ms is like the ultimate task for the intern that started 3 hours ago, they might overlook a single brown one. Don’t berate the poor intern but double check the safety measures would be my course of action)

I would kind of alter the whole thing though:

If it’s always M&Ms and always the brown one, people will just pick that rule up via the Grapevine. And soon a bowl full of M&Ms without the brown ones says very little about the venues contract reading.

I personally would rotate through different snacks and add in really tiny print that if they cannot provide that snack they should ask what alternative I prefer. If they do that they have definitely read the thing

[prismatic-bell]

Yeah, I’m with you on the alteration. Once it becomes well known it leaves too much to chance.

[vintage-tigre]

[britnyfox]

Even though my birthday wasn't until today, there was no better early birthday gift I could have possibly given myself. This live show was everything. I haven't been squished up against the front of a stage like that since I was a kid, and I haven't cried at the end of a show like that, probably ever. Tom Keifer is still killing it out there, man.

#keiferband and L.A. Guns at Spokane Live, September 2025.

[lagunsvixen]

♡ L.A. Guns studio cassette (10/8/88)

I’m in touch with a really cool guy (with cool stories) who worked with the Guns as a roadie from their beginning up until Hollywood Vampires. He had demo tapes from the band. This one was recorded before Cocked & Loaded and only four songs from this tape made it on the album. All the songs on this tape are completely raw recordings.

He’s still friends with the original producer and that’s how he got the tapes.

“I lived and I’m still in contact with the producer of these tracks Jim Faraci. He produced LA guns first album and started the second one at the village recording studio and the band screwed him over and went with someone else to finish their second album, cocked and loaded…. And I ended up with the tapes lol I worked with the band from basically their beginning until through Hollywood vampires I lived with Tracii and Nikki for a bit and was very good friends with Steve Riley right up until the end God rest his soul.. but anyway I thought you’d appreciate that little story.”

I got lucky since only one of these tapes was left after others being sold!!

“It’s probably less than one in 100. If there is 100 that has still survived they weren’t made for the masses and never for sale and only sent to selective agencies. Not all songs on the cassette made it onto the album. It’s crazy.”

I’m so excited to play this on my ‘83 Panasonic boombox. It’s so damn treasured by me ♡

[lonelyfuckingcat]

🖤🦇🖤

[ozzytrustnoone]

If anyone needs Ozzy wallpaper, I made a small batch of them🦇

I don't have much experience in such things. But I tried very hard👉🏻👈🏻

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ozzy Osbourne ( 1948-2025) & Bill Ward (b.1948)

[rattkween86]

Only 26 more days until I get to see Tom Keifer and L.A. Guns, and I could literally scream omg what the hap is fuckening!!!!!