Don, gotta love the old Ratt. I swear we have almost the exact same taste in music. I bet if we took our CD collections and wanted to do some swapping there wouldn't be much swapping to do, cause it would be "hey man you wanna trade this one, nah I got that one already and why would you want to get rid of that?" lol
Richard the Skid Row rules too, and I agree with you, what they are calling metal these days isn't even recognizable as music, just crappy speed guitar and someone yelling at you, God only knows what the hell the words are or why they are so pissed off, my guess would be no lovin'. If I want to get yelled at I can go to work and piss off my boss, but I wouldn't call that music to my ears, or entertainment....then again ohhhhhh now I get it....no no actually I don't not really. I like screaming guitars with a melody, and singers who sing with a purpose and tell a story or make a point about life and have talent and can actually sing way better than the average pissed off drunk guy at closing time.