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If all musical trends are limited in their duration then so was the hair metal thing which makes the Scandinavian bands you mentioned ...........irrelevant.
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Alan Yentobs documentary on the electric guitar was very much like that. Hard Rock/ Metal guitarists were pretty much ignored, but the likes of Van Halen/Vai et al have contributed far more to modern guitar design than Graham Coxon.
While stylistically Dokken and Ratt may be similar, to me they are polar opposites of Van Halen and Vai. In their prime, both Van Halen and Vai were ground braking, inventive, humorous, kick ass rock guitarists who massively pushed the envelope. Dokken and Ratt were conservative, derivative, totally humourless, overproduced, pompous pop bands.
IMHO none of the elements which make a good rock and rock band were present in Dokken or Ratt. There is no danger, no sense the synergy of players within a band, no songs, no energy, no progression between albums.
They are closer to the Backstreet Boys or Rihanna than to Van Halen. I'm not trying to toll when I say that, I really believe it. I like George Lynch, and Zappa rated Warren Di Martini, so I'm sure he's very talented, but these were good guitarists in abysmal bands.
I was delighted when the Chili Peppers, Nirvana etc swept this shit away and we got rock and roll back from the bad guys.
I'm not sure if 'irrelevance' has anything to do with it, but to me, they were the lowest point rock has ever seen, thank fuck them and their white baseball boots, frost wash jeans and poodle hair have disappeared.
Don't like what you don't like, I couldn't care less, but don't try to paint it as anything more highfalutin than "I just don't like that" (and also don't try to speak for everyone). I mean guitar hero is one of the most popular computer games of all time, for example (granted not all the songs are hair metal but a lot are), and computer games are arguably more culturally relevant than 90s grunge, for example. Plus i'd wager if you walk into your average high school and mention hendrix (i love hendrix, FWIW) I doubt most would have heard of him. If you're going to play the "culturally relevant" game I'd say most guitar music probably fails that test now, unfortunately.
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It's also worth noting that a lot of the elder statesmen nowadays were considered terminally uncool not that long ago. I remember not that long ago (talking the mid 90s) that the beatles and the stones and bands like that were considered to be old fashioned and, er, "culturally irrelevant". Stuff gets really uncool and then comes back into fashion again a a result- hair metal might do the same (and in fact arguably is, since solos were forbidden around the turn of the millenium, they've been gradually coming back I think and there are even some signed modern hair metal bands who get played on scuzz and kerrang these days).
Look how recently the fashion world was confidently saying, "Those 80s fashions will never come back, they're just too uncool". Yeah, they came back. If leggings and shoulderpads can come back, I dare say almost anything can.
I also think downloads help with giving people a wider variety of music, I remember when I was young before they existed people only really liked what was currently popular and in the charts, and that doesn't seem to be the case so much any more.