10 Biggest Bands That Got Boo'd Off The Stage

For pretty much the entire '80s, the hair metal lived and died on the amount of flashiness you put into your playing. No matter what kind of heavy genre you may have been co-opting, it usually helped to step up the look just a little bit and put an ungodly amount of hairspray in your hair. Then again, that same type of mentality with an actual metal audience was an absolute disaster for Dokken.

Although the show they were playing would go down in history as one of the biggest Monsters of Rock festivals ever played, one of the promoters must have had it out for these guys when setting up the bill. Putting them on the same stage as the likes of Pantera and Metallica, the idea of a lower tier hair metal band kicking everything off went about as well as you think it did.

Compared to their stages back home, you would have thought that Dokken had managed to kill good taste altogether, with fans throwing everything they possibly could their way every time they tried to go for banter between the songs. Even though George Lynch's guitar techniques have been lauded along every stripe of guitarist in the rock community, this is probably the one gig that signaled the definitive end for hair metal going into the next decade. God rest ye poodle-haired souls.