The new docuseries “Nöthin' But a Good Time” unfurls tales of sex, drugs, and rock and roll from Poison, Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses, and more.
The 1980s hair metal scene has already received a definitive documentary account courtesy of Penelope Spheeris’Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair MetalParamount+’s three-part docuseries, which premieres Sept. 17, is a non-fiction power ballad for the era of big hair, tight spandex, and rampant debauchery and depravity, reminiscing with an affection that isn’t, alas, matched by its incisiveness.
Similar tales of sex, drugs, and mayhem abound, from David Lee Roth hogging the bathroom at L.A.’s Rainbow Room to receive blowjobs, to manager Alan Niven being introduced to Its birthplace was Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip, and its de facto parents were Motley Crüe, whose unrepentant wildness was their biggest asset. Originally living in an apartment up the street from the Whiskey A Go Go, the band members reportedly foraged for food and cigarettes in the club’s trash cans.
Nonetheless, Tremaine’s docuseries at least says it with moderate enthusiasm, laying out how Crüe’s popularity spearheaded an early metal wave that soon gave way to a second generation of glam acts that were more overtly flamboyant and poppy, led by the likes of Poison, who moved from their small-town Pennsylvania home to California and worked tirelessly to promote themselves via millions of flyers plastered all over the Strip.
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