Rock and roll over laughing with this retro ‘Full House‘ clip from the MTV glory days of Slaughter, which headlines the Whisky in August.
While wandering down one of those glorious YouTube rabbit holes where productivity goes to die, we stumbled across this forgotten gem: an early-’90s episode of Full House built around none other than hard-rock heroes Slaughter.
Now, if you’re under 40, there’s a decent chance you’re asking, “Slaughter? Wasn’t that a horror movie?” But in 1990, Slaughter wasn’t just a band. They were everywhere. Mark Slaughter and company exploded onto the charts with their debut album, Stick It to Ya, which sold over 2 million copies and was one of the biggest rock records of the year.
“Up All Night” was the kind of song that made you want to drive too fast with the windows down. “Fly to the Angels” was mandatory listening for every teenager experiencing heartbreak for the first time. And “Spend My Life” was one of those arena-ready sing-alongs that could turn 15,000 people into one giant karaoke machine.
Their videos lived in heavy rotation on MTV—back when MTV’s radical programming strategy involved occasionally showing music videos.
Watching this clip today is like opening a time capsule from an era when big hair ruled, guitar solos were featured in every pop song, and every TV show somehow found a way to shoehorn a rock band into the plot.
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