I am continuing my week reflection into the great music on Sirius23 Hair Nation. Talking about the influence this kind of music had on me personally has been fun.

I did not mention in Monday’s piece the fact that Glam Metal allowed metalheads to have one of the greatest anti-censorship voices in musical history. Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, vocalist, songwriter, humanitarian, and hero. Dee as most of you know took on the American Congress and the blithering idiocies of Mrs. Al Gore and her PMRC cronies.

Dee stood up for freedom of choice, and it is because of freedom of choice that everyone is allowed to pay for and enjoy their SiriusXM Radio and hear all the content with little involvement from regulators.

Twisted Sister’s music packed a great metal punch in hard rock, where they proudly once proclaimed “you can’t stop rock and roll”.

They were right…

In the early to mid 1990’s, my favourite band from this era emerged after the release of a great record that hit me on a personal level. Seattle Washington’s Queenstryche were always a band I respected but did not give much thought to. The release of “Promised Land” forced me to do a 360 and check out the earlier releases, including the bona-fide metal masterpiece “Operation Mindcrime”. The Ryche are known as the “thinking man’s metal band”. Lyrically, many of their records reflected this statement accurately.  Mindcrime is proudly among my top ten metal records of all time.

Fortunately, you can hear the Ryche on Sirius19 The Boneyard as well. Because their music had a cross wide appeal, they were able to reach heavy hard rock and metal fans who frequent channel 19.

The Glam Metal Revolution gave us great songs about love, anger, and getting laid in the back of a car. It also gave us great musicianship. Some of the greatest guitar players of all time can be heard on this channel.

Give Hair Nation a spin, and hear the music behind the great lyrics. It will surprise most people….