They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll

by Doug Brod

Book Overview

A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands--KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz--laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s.

It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock landscape. But that all changed when into these dazed and confused mid-'70s strut-ted four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306845199
• ISBN13: 9780306845192
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"