Probably bad phrasing on my part - I meant that it didn't happen to the extent that it happened in the UK. I know there was some element of glam in the US in the 70s, but as you said, it didn't dominate the music charts as it did in the UK.Vraith wrote:On the first, that's just not true. It may not have totally ruled pop culture, and we borrowed/shared a significant number of U.K. artists...but the scene existed and had high-impact and great popularity and vibrancy.michaelm wrote: so there was a glam rock scene in the early to mid 70s that didn't happen in the US.
When I heard the so called glam of the late 80s, it just seemed like a second rate rip off of the UK scene
On the second...I can get behind that, for the most part. They had a veneer of glam-look. But the material/ideas beneath...not really all that glam.
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The late 80s was definitely a pale shadow of what went on in the 70s. I found it all rather fake.
