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Nöthin' but a Good Time

By: Tom Beaujour, Richard Bienstock
Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Gary Furlong, Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour
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Summary

This program includes introductions read by the authors.

"A backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history - you'll feel like you were right there with us!" (Bret Michaels of Poison)

Nöthin' But a Good Time is the definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal, told by the musicians and industry insiders who lived it.

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated - and maybe even helped to define - a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls”, and Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” are as inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics, Pac-Man, and E.T

From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-Platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nöthin' But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians, managers, producers, engineers, label executives, publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists, magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies, and hangers-on who lived it.

Featuring an impassioned foreword by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and avowed glam metal fanatic Corey Taylor, and drawn from over 200 new interviews with members of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot, and others, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, and many more, this is the ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged chronicle of a time where excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who created a sound and style that came to define a musical era - one in which the bands and their fans went looking for nothin’ but a good time...and found it.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

"Nöthin’ But a Good Time is an unflinching, all-excess look at an era that many snooty critics have written off as stupid, and its pages present a strong case for how people have underestimated the music and the dedication of the musicians who lived it." (Kory Grow, Rolling Stone)

©2021 Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

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"From the streets to the Strip, the studio to the stage, this is an epic tale told by the people that lived it. It's a backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history - you'll feel like you were right there with us!" (Bret Michaels)

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A great fun ride...

Basically a short history of the rise of what some would call the hair metal bands of the 80’s and the crash of the early 90’s ushered in by grunge and Nirvana.

A lot of fun if you love the bands and music of the time....

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nothing but a bunch of quotes

was expecting something amazing here but its basically a load of quotes about 80s ( American ) bands some I wasnt familiar with telling random stories that weren't very interesting wasnt very Rock and Roll tbh where was all the partying ???? .. I was expecting this to be on the same par as The Dirt .. it was so boring I didn't even finish the book ..what a let down big thumbs down from me

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rocking!

very interesting, pretty well told. if you loved a bit of hair metal in the eighties this is a must, really.

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Oh the Glamour

I'm just a shade too young to have lived much of the years covered in this account of the rise, rise, nosedive of glam metal. But, I'm a metal lifer and have been fascinated by the LA sunset strip scene for years.

This book takes you to the Strip and all its haunts - chronicling the accounts of various bands, their members and other industry figures through the glam metal era.

The narrative is told by stitching together hundreds of quotes and interviews. I imagine this means context might not always be as presented and I'm sure there will be views expressed that others will dispute. But, it is a well told and flowing narrative that I found compelling to the end.

I had fun checking out some of the bands, reading articles about the venues and events mentioned in the book. Cinderella - I had no idea how awesome their first album is!

if you're a fan of the scene or have interest in it, you'll get a kick out this audiobook.

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Took me back to the days . . .

For lovers of 80’s Music - I just finished this fantastic book. The rise and fall of a genre of music that I still indulge to this day. Worth a read (listen), and whilst tinged with sad stories of Crosby and Lane, was a joyous revisitation of bands I aspired to be, back in the day

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Well worth a listen

really enjoyed this even though during the later half of the 80s I was no disciple of glam metal, however this book is great it informs and entertains in a way that's never boring with some laugh out loud stories. so fan of the genre or not its well worth a listen as there is so much more to 80s rock than hair!

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Great read for any fan of 80s rock

If you love 1980s music, then will love this book. It makes me as a 40-year old 80s music fan feel jealous that I was just too young to experience these great bands in their prime.

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Great book, but note it's an ORAL history...

Without reading the description properly I was expecting a more author-narrated history of hair metal. Instead this is pretty much 100% told through the voices of the people who went out and did it - the musicians, record executives and managers. It's all first-hand accounts - which has its strengths and weaknesses. You're not going to get a lot of big picture summary here. It's macroscopic detail taken straight from the coalface, complete with all the prejudices and personal slants that entails. At its best this brings the stories alive and you get to relive those glory day of the Strip vicariously. At its worse it descends into petty bias and anecdote, not without a good deal of repetition. But on balance it's a great ride and champions an amazing vibrant era in music that too often gets dismissed. Strap in and rock out!

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time machine firmly set to the 80s

excellent journey into the madness and excess of the genre of music that will forever remain timeless.

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Ahhh. Memories.

So when I first started listening to this I wasn't too impressed and came close to turning it off. When the reader would say Nikki sixx, and then there would be a paragraph by nikki, then it would be Kip Winger etc etc. it got on my nerves a bit. At first. Then it didn't matter, I was enjoying it, I was laughing and I was remembering what it was like being a teenager just leaving school in 88. It took me back to summer nights listening to Poison and Van Halen. It reminded me of bands long forgotten, to now be rediscovered (thank you Spotify). I really recommend this.

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