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Why would any rock band that hasn’t been involved in a serious crime be hated?
When you look at rock bands of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s , it doesn't matter, you find lots of talent to not a lot of talent, but you also find some hate with most.
The most hate I’ve seen for a band with a lot of talent has to be Stryper.
With quotes like "You're not making Christianity better, you’re making rock’n’roll worse” - Hank Hill on Christian rock.
And an actual quote By Sleazegrinder( Classic Rock )
Loudersound.com
The squares are going to church and getting haircuts, so you get pentagram tattoos and form a black metal band. That’s how youth revolt works, man. And that’s why Stryper was such a fucking bummer.
While their lyrics were not about sex, drugs and all that but their musicianship shouldn’t be ignored, these guys were extremely talented and still are.
They’re still touring and while some of my rock heroes can’t sing anymore, or play anymore, and some are sadly gone already these guys still sound as good as they did in the 80’s, which is amazing to me.
Although I temporarily lost hearing in my right ear, I and many others stood loving every note we were hearing.
The band was mostly still all original except for the bass player which had changed and now included the bass player from Firehouse. The lead singer and guitarist Micheal Sweet was hoarse when he spoke having a cold or allergy type problem but still sang and hit every extremely high note during the performance.
Micheal Sweet said during an interview that in the hay days I’m guessing especially during the Heaven and Hell tour with Motley Crue he said while performing he had been spit on so much that he had trouble holding his guitar pick.Thankfully they don’t see that kind of hate these days.
If you ever have a chance to see these guys you should take it. They’re pretty down to earth and definitely can rock!

They held bible readings backstage while their tourmates (including notorious blood-guzzlers WASP) banged groupies and gave in to chemical excess.
Only in America, man. And I mean that literally. Britain and Europe were a lot less impressed with these Jesus hairballs. And they suffered a pretty swift and rocky fall from grace after that, really. The next album was full-on glam, and tanked. The album after that was all black leather, classic metal, and no Jesus, and it tanked, too. Then the 90s hit, and they broke up. And Christian glam metal died with them. Thank Christ (ahem) for that.
Of course, that’s not really the end of the story. What Stryper really did was create a new, secondary metal market that exists right under our noses and we don’t even know it. For almost every sub-genre of heavy music there’s an inferior Christian version playing the church circuit. Christian death metal, Christian grindcore, Christian fucking black metal, man. Look it up, it’ll freak you right out. That’s Stryper’s fault, basically.
Stryper also got back together. And every right-wing politician in America mentions Reagan every chance he gets these days. It’s pretty grim. Just say to no to Jesus-metal, kids. I barely survived the 80s the first time.

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