13 Years of BBG!
Today is the 13th anniversary of this website, which is pretty crazy when you think about it. After all, 13 years is quite a long time. We sure have made some good memories over the years. We've seen a lot of concerts, witnessed some incredible reunions, said goodbye to some bands (and they all inevitably come back!) and mourned the untimely deaths of some of our heroes, too.
We've celebrated personal victories and supported each other through defeats and other bad times. We've swung through three different American presidents (so far!), near countless natural disasters and one on again, off again Brexit.
Through it all, the constant has been the music, especially the hairy kind. Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Tesla, Poison, RATT, Motley Crue - we love them all. But we're in on the joke, so we can poke fun at them - and ourselves! - now too.
Of course the biggest news in Glam these days it the apparent Def Leppard, Motley, Poison tour. Our friends Poison are set to make a big announcement today at 4:30... presumably about this tour. This is the tour that will dominate posts on this site for awhile once it kicks off - because that is just how we roll. For every person who comes here to comment and complain about Motley again, there are two more who say they don't want to listen to anything but 80s metal, Lizzo be damned. In 13 years of doing this site there are three bands that consistently get the most comments when I post about them: Guns n' Roses, Motley Crue and Van Halen. This has not changed or wavered. The fan bases are solid and vocal.
Who knows what this next year will bring. I am trying to focus on my day job and my business writing, so my tank is pretty empty when it is time to update this site. I also find I go through phases where I will only listen to one band, period. I will do Pink Floyd, then I See Stars, then Aerosmith, then something absolutely random. I do not listen to commercial radio because I do not have the patience and I try not to read Facebook too much because that site is trash so I am limited in my exposure to new glam. Quite frankly, I'd rather listen to the old stuff anyway and I bet you would too.