Re: Could Hanoi Rocks have been bigger than Guns \'n\' Roses?
I remember them, not well, but still...
hanimal, you have to remember when this stuff came out. Sure it sounds cheesy now, but back in the early 80's this was an emerging sound. Go find Motley Crue's 'Too Fast For Love' or Def Leppard's 'On Through the Night' and you know what I mean. Hanoi Rocks had a similar raw sound that was gaining ground at that time.
HR still had a kind of punk sound to them. You can even feel a little new-waveish in that clip (maybe just hindsight). And back then, this was the sh!t.
To the OP, hard to predict what could have happened, but this child of the 80's says no. They came & went in the very early days of hair bands, before it really took off.
They could have been successful, if they caught the wave, but I don't think they would have been anywhere near the GnR level. That's just being way too optimistic.
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