This footage was taken in 1986, before Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, or Mike Starr ever even joined the band — so it’s basically just footage of Layne Staley with massive hair and ridiculous clothes ...

Hopefully these nods to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical establishment and will pave the way for similar inductions in the future.

Many hair metal bands released albums throughout the 1990s ... These albums are notable not only for their deviation from the sound that made these bands famous, but also for their willingness ...