Watch the ‘Nothin’ but a Good Time’ ’80s Metal Docuseries Trailer
Paramount+ has launched the official trailer for the upcoming docuseries Nothin’ but a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ’80s Hair Metal, which premieres solely on the streamer on Sept. 17.
You can watch the trailer beneath.
Nothin’ but a Good Time is predicated on Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour’s 2021 ebook of the similar identify, a 500-plus-page oral historical past that gives an in-depth take a look at the ’80s exhausting rock explosion. The docuseries guarantees the similar, that includes Poison, Def Leppard, Guns N’ Roses, Quiet Riot, Skid Row, W.A.S.P., Great White and extra.
“Go inside the ’80s hair metal phenomenon that enthralled generations of music lovers and still influences culture today,” the official description reads. “Directed by Jeff Tremaine (Jackass, The Dirt), the three-part series showcases the notoriously wild ’80s hard rock phenomenon and features interviews with those who lived it, including Bret Michaels, Stephen Pearcy, Nuno Bettencourt, Dave ‘Snake’ Sabo and Riki Rachtman, along with Corey Taylor and Steve-O, among many others.”
“I Feel Like I’m Gonna Die, So I Probably Shouldn’t Be Doing This Band”
“In the ’80s, it was an exciting time in music — it was amazing,” Michaels says in the trailer. “We bet on ourselves, and when it paid off, it was awesome.” But as anyone even remotely aware of the ’80s exhausting rock scene is aware of, what went up inevitably needed to come down.
“It was nothin’ but a good time?” former Guns N’ Roses and Great White supervisor Alan Niven says in the trailer. “Not the fucking life I lived.” Immediately afterward, L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns displays: “I feel like I’m gonna die, so I probably shouldn’t be doing this band.”
Nothin’ but a Good Time is the second ’80s exhausting rock docuseries to hit Paramount+ in a little over a 12 months, following final summer season’s I Wanna Rock: The ’80s Metal Dream.
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