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The Other Side of '80s L.A. Rock

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2018

THE IMAGE OF Los Angeles rock in the '80s is imprinted like a tacky tattoo: bands with poofed-up hair and eyeliner, girls with poofed-up hair and hiked-up cleavage, all congregating at venues like the Roxy and Club Lingerie. A city of glammed metal, big, chunky riffs, lyrics about girls, girls, girls.

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