Yep the death knell was warming up in the wings when these guys hit. People were fed up with the bloated cock rock cheese and were searching for heavier more down to earth tones. Extreme/death metal/grindcore was in its infancy, not to mention grunge.
My dad showed me these guys when i was a kid in the early 2000s He called them the most talented, dorkiest band ever. Coming back 20 years later, he was spot on 😂
I’m not sure if I occasionally watch this video because it’s kind of catchy or because of the hot blonde. The members of the band have a ton of talent but it was all lost with their attempt to go beyond over the top. I recognize the talent but what the band put out was a mess.
I was a seriously hardcore heavy metal collector in the 90's but I never heard of Nitro until tonight and when I heard this, I did not miss anything. That is probably why nobody ever informed me of them. Not even Columbia House and I collected music through them for many years lol
Haters are gonna hate. I like this band and everything I’ve ever heard. People say this is why grunge came out…. Maybe. I know one thing though, I’m not the only one that hates what’s on the radio today and what we’re stuck with right now for Garbage ass music. I’d take this over anything on the radio today.
The band members are definitely talented. What they were trying to accomplish with the band was way beyond over the top and didn’t work very well. This song is catchy enough that I can listen to once in a while. The rest is garbage
✨🎶💃It's called "The Skate"🕺🎶✨ It goes as far back to the 1960's, as far as I know. My mom was a teenager at that time (1960's) her and her friends busted those moves at the clubs.😁🎶✨
How this song came about: Jim Gillette desperately wanted his band to be exactly like Guns n Roses. Not inspired, not even in the same genre. He wanted an EXACT copy, and of course, he gets to be Axl Rose. He grabs a thesaurus, a guitar, all the famous rock ballads, and goes to work. 2 hours later he comes out with this, and does not want input from anyone. "Just record it" he says, while asking for a few quarters from the producer so he can call his mom. It's a long distance call, cause she lives deep in the country. Jim's mom, a sweetheart, rallies the whole town for a day "because Jim is shooting a video with his friends". After successfully shooting for a day, they have video. They just need an editor now. It just so happens that the producer's girlfriend works editing commercials back in New York, so on their way back they shoot the World Trade Center. "Wouldn't it be funny if those huge towers..." says Jim before being interrupted by the flight attendant asking if he wanted another Coke. The producer's girlfriend gets all the footage, and as a favor, finish the video. Jim is excited, he looks EXACTLY like Axl! Snake moves on point, hair, girls rubbing his thighs. "MTV is gonna play this back to back!" he said as his band mates listened. They never commented on anything he said. Nobody cares about the video. Nobody knows about the video still today. But here we are, 32 years later, enjoying the last vestiges of what someone thought was "so metal", never thinking that people on a site called "CZcams" would be enjoying the video on a completely unintended context.
I remember these guys . I was just getting my freak on when these guys came out. I was 16. The lead singer wound up with Lita Ford. Great voice, great guitars but mediocre songs . God I miss those days. Gas stations would have gas wars and sell as cheep as 87 cents per gallon. Cell phones were the size of a purse Only pay phones that cost 25 cents per min. This music brought out all the cuties.
@@MikeHart72 most cool stuff from the 80s still exists but drugs and liquor are over priced now and everything else doesn’t feel the same the music is different now too
@@Jessepinkman764las sustancias tóxicas son inhumanas e insanas lamentablemente sigue siendo legal y se sigue vendiendo más y más y la ola de adictos ni hablar y las muertes es fatal no le veo graciosos ojalá algún día se pueda hacer música y salud al lado
This song actually has a dope instrumental and production, the problem is Jim Gillette's abuse of high falsetto screams. He has an incredible range and he knows it that's why he does it so damn much. Freight train is straight wack af but this song is very good, if wouldve been made by Skid Row, Poison or any other successfull band wouldve been a smash hit
@@mikelastname3753 They actually did. If you just Google their net worth Lita is about 4 million and Jim is 1 to 6 million. A couple of good hit songs can go a really long way. Their music is pretty decent for the era. They would have gone further if they didn't come in so late in the game as that type of music was fading out. I always thought Jim was a pretty cool guy though and it's a shame he has to be that way. Either way, his actions have definitely changed my mind about him.
@@viol8r Honestly I kinda feel disappointed how people does not appreciate extremely good guitar technique , that's all. Perhaps he is for higher taste.
So we’re just gonna sit here and not say anything about David Letterman’s face on a bass? Why does everyone of Nitros videos seem like they’re playing a different song than the video? The solo is the usually the only thing that matches. David Letterman bass! I want to know where that bass is
Ron Jeremy replaced Alan Hale (The Skipper) who shot that same bus driver scene but was dropped in favor of Ron. Hale died a month later never having seen his footage.
I sat here a few minutes trying to come up with a smart aleck remark about how bad that was. But I couldn't think of anything. I guess when you're that bad, nothing is funny about it.
Director: How many 80’s band cliches would you like in your video?
Nitro: Yes
I was just thinking that, love it tho!! Gotta love the 80s;)
@@jakobwiberg9536 Yep. I lived it. I’m no better. 😆
Who's prettier, the singer or his girlfriend?
i dont think we thought of "cliches" back then...your looking at from this generation...this was how every ballad video was directed,lol
@@jeremybilbrey1133
I’m 54. I was there.
I can't help but think if these guys had come onto the scene a couple years earlier they would have done a lot better
Correct, timing timing timing. They were so late.
Yep the death knell was warming up in the wings when these guys hit. People were fed up with the bloated cock rock cheese and were searching for heavier more down to earth tones. Extreme/death metal/grindcore was in its infancy, not to mention grunge.
Solo is sweet…
I miss the 80s for the guitar prowess of these axemens.
Nothing like the 80s.
The decade that made us..
Played this on my radio show back in the day. 80's metal forever! ; )
Nitro’s “home sweet home”
Nitro's "Alone Again"
Nitro’s “Heaven”
I was searching for Mötley Crüe comment
Doing the Axl Rose's snake dance, lol
Daniel De La Parra Richard Black's snake dance*
You mean The Davey Jones from The Monkees Dance! See the Daydream Believer video. LMAO!
Everyone fighting over who swayed their knees side to side first
That would be the mashed potato
@@kissfreak4501
*The Slide✨💃✨
*edit*
Wait....the Skate, think it was called. Circa 1960's...
My dad showed me these guys when i was a kid in the early 2000s
He called them the most talented, dorkiest band ever.
Coming back 20 years later, he was spot on 😂
I’m not sure if I occasionally watch this video because it’s kind of catchy or because of the hot blonde. The members of the band have a ton of talent but it was all lost with their attempt to go beyond over the top. I recognize the talent but what the band put out was a mess.
@@MikeHart72 she was Julie on Growing Pains
@@Savagemister There it is. I knew I recognized her
Dorky and talented? Holy hell, 80's Weezer
Man, the solo is one of my favourites by Batio, is like a roller coaster!
It kicks ass, as every good solo should
Yeah, that sequence of arpeggios at the end is killer, pretty cool.
nitro was before their time! ofr was a great record! extremely catchy and hard rockin
What an amazingly and skillfully solo.
This was a different era where musicians actually were masters of their craft. Glad they are still immortalized on the web.
I met them at The Basement in Dallas. Great guys. All clean and sober.
Ojalá fuera así,pero a veces se hacen mal las cosas y siempre se termina en uso de sustancias tóxicas ojalá no suceda más sean el año que se este
2024, long way from the 80`s home.
2:15 Jani Lane alert.
R.I.P JANI LANE
I don't care what anybody else says about this song and video ... I dig it :D
Oh man.. this was music . Damn, Jim Gillette, Michael Angelo Batio... BEASTS
Dayum Spongebob really put those hours in on vocals huh!
LEGEND !!!! 🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥💪💪💪
I was a seriously hardcore heavy metal collector in the 90's but I never heard of Nitro until tonight and when I heard this, I did not miss anything. That is probably why nobody ever informed me of them. Not even Columbia House and I collected music through them for many years lol
You’re not serious or hardcore at collecting metal if you went 35 plus years without even hearing of nitro.
My favorite song
Mom was in the Dick VanDyke show, and the show was huge. I love the girl worship scene, so 80's #love it.
I want that airbrushed David Letterman bass!
😆😂
I bet they did that to get Letterman to have them on his show, publicity. Evidently it didn't work though.
i want an airbrushed Trump guitar. MAGA
@@vanguard4065 Why, do you like being laughed at. Political talk, especially Trump talk, doesn’t belong on the 80’s
@@vanguard4065 ewwww
Man this is such a good song, just those vocals... ugh
That high pitch bullshit in the 80's killed a lot of great bands ! Musically they were cool but vocally they sucked !
@@stepit1 Sing like Jim Gillette, i want to listen
@@stepit1 and how many songs talk of the long winding road? Slaughter used that Long winding road bs too.
@@mattmidnight.666 Why would you sing like that if it ruined the song completely, music is a composition not competition, naive!
@@conmane3341 Whether music sounds good or not is subjective, Nitro is one of my favorite bands, and the vocals play a big part in that.
my dude MAB killing it in this track, I rather listen to this that whatever comes out nowadays
I can not believe so less people are interested at the beginning of MAB‘s carriere.
Nitro was so underrated
Julie McCullough, Playboy,
Miss February 1986. Because people need to know. You're Welcome
Thanks, man of culture
@@SadusAttack You're welcome, Trisomy 21 child.
Haters are gonna hate. I like this band and everything I’ve ever heard. People say this is why grunge came out…. Maybe. I know one thing though, I’m not the only one that hates what’s on the radio today and what we’re stuck with right now for
Garbage ass music. I’d take this over anything on the radio today.
Literally lol. Rock is not even a scene in the states anymore. Just country or rap stars that emerged from tiktok.
Starts like a dream theater song
It reminded me of Dead Or Alive by Bon Jovi
@@TheOnlyHollywood1 Oh yeah it actually sounds very similar
I bought this CD just ‘cause I liked this song after hearing it on Z Rock in 1989. I was 12. This was the only decent song on there. 😂🤣
Zrock was the best --
If this was the best.....I think we have a problem hehe
The band members are definitely talented. What they were trying to accomplish with the band was way beyond over the top and didn’t work very well.
This song is catchy enough that I can listen to once in a while. The rest is garbage
When I first listened to King Diamond i hated it, now it's one of my favorite bands, same with Nitro, you gotta give it chance to grow on you.
Total Production costs = $1.
Made with an iPhone lol
no not funny try again look at the date.....really
@@dynothane300 You don't get humor do you(rhetorical(that means you don't need to answer))
The video does appear to have had a little bit of a budget. The directing and production, however, are absolute shit.
Paying Janie Layne, did I see Ron Jeremy as the bus driver???
the singer's dance is very reminiscent of what Axl Rose used to do. It remains to be seen who copied who...
✨🎶💃It's called
"The Skate"🕺🎶✨
It goes as far back to the 1960's, as far as I know.
My mom was a teenager at that time
(1960's)
her and her friends busted those moves at the clubs.😁🎶✨
How this song came about:
Jim Gillette desperately wanted his band to be exactly like Guns n Roses. Not inspired, not even in the same genre. He wanted an EXACT copy, and of course, he gets to be Axl Rose. He grabs a thesaurus, a guitar, all the famous rock ballads, and goes to work. 2 hours later he comes out with this, and does not want input from anyone. "Just record it" he says, while asking for a few quarters from the producer so he can call his mom. It's a long distance call, cause she lives deep in the country. Jim's mom, a sweetheart, rallies the whole town for a day "because Jim is shooting a video with his friends". After successfully shooting for a day, they have video. They just need an editor now. It just so happens that the producer's girlfriend works editing commercials back in New York, so on their way back they shoot the World Trade Center. "Wouldn't it be funny if those huge towers..." says Jim before being interrupted by the flight attendant asking if he wanted another Coke. The producer's girlfriend gets all the footage, and as a favor, finish the video. Jim is excited, he looks EXACTLY like Axl! Snake moves on point, hair, girls rubbing his thighs. "MTV is gonna play this back to back!" he said as his band mates listened. They never commented on anything he said. Nobody cares about the video. Nobody knows about the video still today. But here we are, 32 years later, enjoying the last vestiges of what someone thought was "so metal", never thinking that people on a site called "CZcams" would be enjoying the video on a completely unintended context.
Axl ripped his snake moves off of Richard black from the band shark island . Fact
How do you know all this? It's like u were there
@@fumxz7924 i was there
@@chacharamaster09 u n jim were "pretty babies"
You dont have idea of anything
Singer to become Brazilan JiuJitsu World champion 2015.
I remember these guys . I was just getting my freak on when these guys came out. I was 16. The lead singer wound up with Lita Ford. Great voice, great guitars but mediocre songs . God I miss those days. Gas stations would have gas wars and sell as cheep as 87 cents per gallon. Cell phones were the size of a purse Only pay phones that cost 25 cents per min. This music brought out all the cuties.
I can tell from this comment and your profile picture that your a pretty cool guy and would’ve been awesome to party with in the 80s
@@Jessepinkman764 Fr9m what I hear the 80’s were pretty cool and a good party. I can’t seem to remember beyond 1986 lol
@@MikeHart72 most cool stuff from the 80s still exists but drugs and liquor are over priced now and everything else doesn’t feel the same the music is different now too
@@Jessepinkman764las sustancias tóxicas son inhumanas e insanas lamentablemente sigue siendo legal y se sigue vendiendo más y más y la ola de adictos ni hablar y las muertes es fatal no le veo graciosos ojalá algún día se pueda hacer música y salud al lado
Loved the video and the song :)
Who else came here because of Steel Panther's Are You Metal?
Uplifiting video!
This song actually has a dope instrumental and production, the problem is Jim Gillette's abuse of high falsetto screams. He has an incredible range and he knows it that's why he does it so damn much. Freight train is straight wack af but this song is very good, if wouldve been made by Skid Row, Poison or any other successfull band wouldve been a smash hit
Not really, it's way to cheesy for Skid Row. Poison maybe
this was the last joke of the 80s hair bands. this is so bad. everything about it is horrible!
@@sixslinger9951 the way they did it is cheesy af, i get it, but the idea and songwritting was aight
@@sixslinger9951let’s hear what you’ve put out
Abuse of my ears 😂
That's the only time Rose Marie and Ron Jeremy appeared in the same video!
He’s such a big big star
💜
Ain't that Ron Jeremy at the helm of the bus? :O
1:35 You dont sing into the side of an RE-20... you sing into the end of it....
lol
The old lady in the beginning was spot on.
Not the bad Axel Rose imitation 😮
When your mom says we have Guns n Roses at home
Mom was right.
Lmfao🥉
Not really. His wife is Lita Ford. Between him and her, they bring in about 6 to 9 million a year. I'd say that's doing pretty good. Lol
@@rtay1138 she divorced his abusive ass....
@@cheyennemcginniss6164 Well, he's a douche bag in my book then. Glad she did. Thanks for the update!
@@mikelastname3753 They actually did. If you just Google their net worth Lita is about 4 million and Jim is 1 to 6 million. A couple of good hit songs can go a really long way. Their music is pretty decent for the era. They would have gone further if they didn't come in so late in the game as that type of music was fading out. I always thought Jim was a pretty cool guy though and it's a shame he has to be that way. Either way, his actions have definitely changed my mind about him.
Ron Jeremy behind the wheel! He’s going to do these ladies!
You can have a band with talents that are technically amazing at what they do, but it doesn't matter because it has no soul and nobody cares.
Glam Metal is pure passion and talent
@@TemplarShad0w Not really, not until Poison came out
Indeed.
@@TheOnlyHollywood1me gusta los Poison fallen angels
@@TheOnlyHollywood1los Motley Crue quizas si fueron algo malos
There are no words to describe the douchiness of their singer smh
this what i call gorgeous woman
This is what anime characters are made of ...hella
i mean this is just the culmination of the worst parts of the 80s glam scene all in one swoop lmaoooo
Ron Jeremy was their tour bus driver! 😂
Ron Jeremy is driving their tour bus, wow. Shouldn't it be the other way around? He's the bigger star.
Ol' Ron is riding a prison bus now.
Ron Jeremy driving the bus, you know they not ever going home again!!!
Babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
"Jim Was A Truly Cutie But Mike Was So 🔥
Let this be a lesson. Listen to your mothers
lol
Just now heard of this band. A
High notes till your gut hurts.
曲の良し悪しは抜きにして
８０年代の音楽の人ってカッコよかったんね
そして女の子はキレイでカワイイ。これ重要
For all those haters, you couldn’t carry MABs guitar case! 😂 🤣 😱
@@viol8r Honestly I kinda feel disappointed how people does not appreciate extremely good guitar technique , that's all. Perhaps he is for higher taste.
How bout his wig?
Good because I don't want to.
Alright then.
The frontman has his own character, he did not need to imitate Axl.
He doesn't look anything like axl
Nothing like axl...I cant stand axl
Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Ron Jeremy, and Jani Lane all make cameos in the video
Michelangelo Batio the king of speed metal
The actress playing his mom and the old guy sitting at the gas station....Buddy and Sally from the Dick Van Dyke Show.
This is precisely why Nevermind was released.
LOL
Yeah, the 90s SHIT killed the 80s TRASH
So skinny heroin junkies could play two chords and wear Xmas sweaters on stage? Yeah much better....
@@jedsteelwell2354 how many of those grungy's killed themselves? many!
Both suxed..least Batios still standing
Still my favorite by Nitro.
I preferred H.W.D.W.S album. That was pretty cool. Loved Don't Go, I want u, Makin love so many good songs on that album.
80s rule go MAB
Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam FTW!!!
The live footage and the band just messing around town is good. They shouldn’t have bothered with filming the “story” part. Love the song though.
I think that was Ron Jeremy driving the bus 😂
If any video was Taylor made for Beavis and Butthead, it was this one
Hey it's Ron Jeremy driving the bus!
Lol... You have right! xD
That Batio solo wasn't half bad. He played tasty riffs with good timing, and shredded just enough to build up excitement without making it ridiculous.
Washington Square Park!!
Jim Gillette é fodaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa fodaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 🤘🤘🤘🇧🇷🇧🇷
Sephiroths real origin story
Poor Julie McCullough. They must have blackmailed her or something . . .
The Davey Jones Shuffle is gaf
Vocal stylings are very similar to King Diamond. I'd love to see a sing off between them.
I doubt king diamond could pull off Nitro's Machine gun Eddie
3:34 a guy wearing a GN'R Lies t-shirt
Jim Gillette looks like the lead singer of Goo Goo Dolls
That’s Tony sopranos mother in law, btw
That bus driver is headed straight for fucksville
I'm sorry...
"Coumm on, geddoud, geddoud, geddouda here you bunk, you now/know gourk, you never gonna march anything, I never gonna see you again!"
The most underrated band ever, They were SO fuckin' brilliant.
Caroline Cat You can’t be serious. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
@@justinwalters7953 ahhh... yes, I am. Sorry not sorry. 😂
@@kittyalleycat while their 2nd album was certainly an improvement of the mess that was their 1st. They still had a way to go to be brilliant.
Hola belleza rockera
@@damian4182 hola! 😁
Hey I got an idea , Let's do what everyone else was doing in 1989 but we will be way more stupid.
3:20 weird seeing twin towers intact now.
So we’re just gonna sit here and not say anything about David Letterman’s face on a bass? Why does everyone of Nitros videos seem like they’re playing a different song than the video? The solo is the usually the only thing that matches. David Letterman bass! I want to know where that bass is
I apologize for thinking of Vinnie Vincent during the solo
I'm mostly upset at Mike Judge!!!! This would have beaten the Winger video on Beavis and Butthead hands down!!
A "Late Night" with David Letterman makes an appearance at 1:27.❤❤
I spotted Ron Jeremy, Kurt Kaboom, and Jani Lane.
Ron Jeremy replaced Alan Hale (The Skipper) who shot that same bus driver scene but was dropped in favor of Ron. Hale died a month later never having seen his footage.
@@deepfreezevideo but you missed the Playmate???
nice
Always hated Gillette's over the top vocals.
Julie McCullough
Where's TJ Racer these days?
I sat here a few minutes trying to come up with a smart aleck remark about how bad that was. But I couldn't think of anything. I guess when you're that bad, nothing is funny about it.
Or you're just not very funny.
@@jonstiffer4994 -- Hmmm, I'm a professional comedian, but your analysis is probably right.
The 80's...when it was all about hot chicks in love with rockers.