Nitro - Long Way From Home (1989)

[@patton303]

Director: How many 80’s band cliches would you like in your video? Nitro: Yes

[@jakobwiberg9536]

I was just thinking that, love it tho!! Gotta love the 80s;)

[@patton303]

@@jakobwiberg9536 Yep. I lived it. I’m no better. 😆

[@thingfish000]

Who's prettier, the singer or his girlfriend?

[@jeremybilbrey1133]

i dont think we thought of "cliches" back then...your looking at from this generation...this was how every ballad video was directed,lol

[@patton303]

@@jeremybilbrey1133 I’m 54. I was there.

[@ShowoutBlowout]

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

[@TheOfficerMahoney]

Correct, timing timing timing. They were so late.

[@beeemm2578]

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.

[@Eddie_King_Jr]

@@TheOfficerMahoney they were also total shit, so there's that.

[@jimmyr204]

Played this on my radio show back in the day. 80's metal forever! ; )

[@danieldelaparra7708]

Doing the Axl Rose's snake dance, lol

[@ystermannexe]

Daniel De La Parra Richard Black's snake dance*

[@patrickromanowilliams4878]

You mean The Davey Jones from The Monkees Dance! See the Daydream Believer video. LMAO!

[@viol8r]

Everyone fighting over who swayed their knees side to side first

[@kissfreak4501]

That would be the mashed potato

[@XI_Daisy_XI]

@@kissfreak4501 *The Slide✨💃✨ *edit* Wait....the Skate, think it was called. Circa 1960's...

[@juklymgdm777]

Man, the solo is one of my favourites by Batio, is like a roller coaster!

[@AlejandroRasmussen7]

It kicks ass, as every good solo should

[@nevessl998]

Yeah, that sequence of arpeggios at the end is killer, pretty cool.

[@akadkins69]

nitro was before their time! ofr was a great record! extremely catchy and hard rockin

[@thomasflores7817]

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 😂

[@MikeHart72]

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.

[@Savagemister]

@@MikeHart72 she was Julie on Growing Pains

[@MikeHart72]

@@Savagemister There it is. I knew I recognized her

[@CurlyChop]

Dorky and talented? Holy hell, 80's Weezer

[@markzappasodi]

​@@MikeHart72Julie McCullough, actress from Growing Pains and a Playboy centerfold. ❤❤❤

[@indian3750]

Solo is sweet… I miss the 80s for the guitar prowess of these axemens. Nothing like the 80s. The decade that made us..

[@toddhavely8405]

I met them at The Basement in Dallas. Great guys. All clean and sober.

[@damian4182]

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

[@Soldier1287]

Nitro’s “home sweet home”

[@TheOnlyHollywood1]

Nitro's "Alone Again"

[@televisedpork7993]

Nitro’s “Heaven”

[@hefenzy]

I was searching for Mötley Crüe comment

[@uiu510]

What an amazingly and skillfully solo.

[@fundorgon]

Dayum Spongebob really put those hours in on vocals huh!

[@warpath6666]

I don't care what anybody else says about this song and video ... I dig it :D

[@leroyjamesarmitage4362]

2:15 Jani Lane alert.

[@haydenrockz2471]

R.I.P JANI LANE

[@ZareneJemilynOrca]

Nitro was so underrated

[@descentofaeons]

Oh man.. this was music . Damn, Jim Gillette, Michael Angelo Batio... BEASTS

[@DAVE_ICEMAN]

Loved the video and the song :)

[@diegoambrosio9121]

Uplifiting video!

[@ebozyn]

Julie McCullough, Playboy, Miss February 1986. Because people need to know. You're Welcome

[@SadusAttack]

Thanks, man of culture

[@ebozyn]

@@SadusAttack You're welcome, Trisomy 21 child.

[@markzappasodi]

I've had private sessions with her centerfold. 😁

[@axlh.1827]

Man this is such a good song, just those vocals... ugh

[@stepit1]

That high pitch bullshit in the 80's killed a lot of great bands ! Musically they were cool but vocally they sucked !

[@mattmidnight.666]

@@stepit1 Sing like Jim Gillette, i want to listen

[@HomeSouthBuilders]

@@stepit1 and how many songs talk of the long winding road? Slaughter used that Long winding road bs too.

[@conmane3341]

@@mattmidnight.666 Why would you sing like that if it ruined the song completely, music is a composition not competition, naive!

[@R.Lennartz]

@@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.

[@FriesinNF]

I can not believe so less people are interested at the beginning of MAB‘s carriere.

[@user-tv1le7sw2l]

Mom was in the Dick VanDyke show, and the show was huge. I love the girl worship scene, so 80's #love it.

[@markzappasodi]

RoseMarie.

[@rafuxec]

my dude MAB killing it in this track, I rather listen to this that whatever comes out nowadays

[@Catman3131]

LEGEND !!!! 🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥💪💪💪

[@viceroy6282]

Total Production costs = $1.

[@geestang2662]

Made with an iPhone lol

[@GeorgePierceSr]

no not funny try again look at the date.....really

[@erikstagner9722]

@@GeorgePierceSr You don't get humor do you(rhetorical(that means you don't need to answer))

[@HolyDiver1]

The video does appear to have had a little bit of a budget. The directing and production, however, are absolute shit.

[@josephliptak3183]

Paying Janie Layne, did I see Ron Jeremy as the bus driver???

[@firebirdone]

This was a different era where musicians actually were masters of their craft. Glad they are still immortalized on the web.

[@cheyennemcginniss6164]

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. 😂🤣

[@ericrietschel6854]

Zrock was the best --

[@brycepagey888]

If this was the best.....I think we have a problem hehe

[@MikeHart72]

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

[@R.Lennartz]

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.

[@livingdeadman77]

2024, long way from the 80`s home.

[@JL-fs8os]

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.

[@WinnieDrums]

Literally lol. Rock is not even a scene in the states anymore. Just country or rap stars that emerged from tiktok.

[@Jerry_nockemberg137]

I think that was Ron Jeremy driving the bus 😂

[@AdminAccount-cr2tb]

yeah that's exactly what I thoght!

[@samot8945]

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

[@TheOnlyHollywood1]

Not really, it's way to cheesy for Skid Row. Poison maybe

[@sixslinger9951]

this was the last joke of the 80s hair bands. this is so bad. everything about it is horrible!

[@samot8945]

@@sixslinger9951 the way they did it is cheesy af, i get it, but the idea and songwritting was aight

[@Gunther-qi9op]

@@sixslinger9951let’s hear what you’ve put out

[@HeadNtheClouds]

Abuse of my ears 😂

[@speedhead]

i mean this is just the culmination of the worst parts of the 80s glam scene all in one swoop lmaoooo

[@gustavomolinari7522]

Tô be honest, I never really understood why this band failed. They seem too skilled to play Glam rock, and maybe this is why it sounds so plastic. Once I saw a video here on KZbin, where the host said that NITRO's original plan was to be a DEATH METAL band. Yes can you believe it? BUT, their producer back then convinced them that they could make it big in Glam. It might be so, because the band lacks a lot of identity, and it seems they are doing it just for money/girls and so it looks goofy. But, playing a more technical style, progressive, technical death, NWOHM, they really could go big, big. I don't know if that story about death met is true, but to be honest: no one dedicates that many hours on an instrument to play hard rock or glam....

[@TheDevilsTriangle]

By this point in time this style was basically just "more of the same". The market was flooded with groups like Faster Pussycat, L.A. Guns, Slaughter, Poison, etc. So much so that we started getting bands like Enuff Z'Nuff and Trixter. Glam was already over the top without a lot of headspace, so to push it even further you get something like Steel Panther (without the satire). As for technicality; there was no shortage of groups around this time that were technically solid but the overall songwriting just wasn't there. I used to call them "music for guitarists" because you would always see their albums in the back of Guitar World magazine, but never on the shelves. (As an aside - my introduction to Gillette was an ad for his solo album in the back of Circus magazine c. 1987). Racer X and MSG were two of these bands; technically brilliant but only listened to by other musicians. Satriani and Vai were two artists that eventually broke out of this with some commercial success. Later, Paul Gilbert from Racer X hit it big with Mr. Big (pun intended lol) To your second point - Imagine if they had taken it in the direction of something like Sanctuary (i.e. Battle Angels). That would have been a GREAT fit for Gillette's voice and thrash lumbered along long after Glam had died.

[@gustavomolinari7522]

@@TheDevilsTriangle Very true. Cool comment, man, thanks!

[@Slayer_Rooster]

the singer's dance is very reminiscent of what Axl Rose used to do. It remains to be seen who copied who...

[@XI_Daisy_XI]

✨🎶💃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.😁🎶✨

[@wadeguidry6675]

I want that airbrushed David Letterman bass!

[@JohnDoe-nj3vj]

😆😂

[@drServitis]

I bet they did that to get Letterman to have them on his show, publicity. Evidently it didn't work though.

[@vanguard4065]

i want an airbrushed Trump guitar. MAGA

[@MikeHart72]

@@vanguard4065 Why, do you like being laughed at. Political talk, especially Trump talk, doesn’t belong on the 80’s

[@televisedpork7993]

@@vanguard4065 ewwww

[@MilesTippett]

1:35 You dont sing into the side of an RE-20... you sing into the end of it....

[@lerippletoe6893]

lol

[@chacharamaster09]

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 "KZbin" would be enjoying the video on a completely unintended context.

[@azazz666]

Axl ripped his snake moves off of Richard black from the band shark island . Fact

[@jimbothompson6540]

How do you know all this? It's like u were there

[@chacharamaster09]

@@fumxz7924 i was there

[@jimbothompson6540]

@@chacharamaster09 u n jim were "pretty babies"

[@jdivirtual4836]

You dont have idea of anything

[@viceroy6282]

Ron Jeremy is driving their tour bus, wow. Shouldn't it be the other way around? He's the bigger star.

[@andyholstein237]

Ol' Ron is riding a prison bus now.

[@stevenmeatsandwich49]

Ron Jeremy driving the bus, you know they not ever going home again!!!

[@GreatBeyond74]

He’s such a big big star

[@Slazlo-Brovnik]

Singer to become Brazilan JiuJitsu World champion 2015.

[@markwalker274]

Just now heard of this band. A

[@SuperSharpboy]

Starts like a dream theater song

[@TheOnlyHollywood1]

It reminded me of Dead Or Alive by Bon Jovi

[@SuperSharpboy]

@@TheOnlyHollywood1 Oh yeah it actually sounds very similar

[@Savagemister]

The actress playing his mom and the old guy sitting at the gas station....Buddy and Sally from the Dick Van Dyke Show.

[@MrAirblown2009]

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.

[@BrianMoser-2006]

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

[@MikeHart72]

@@BrianMoser-2006 Fr9m what I hear the 80’s were pretty cool and a good party. I can’t seem to remember beyond 1986 lol

[@BrianMoser-2006]

@@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

[@damian4182]

​@@BrianMoser-2006las 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

[@garymiddleton658]

My favorite song

[@jimharrison5601]

That's the only time Rose Marie and Ron Jeremy appeared in the same video!

[@jamesmoss3424]

Don't mess with Nitro. 😀👍🎸🤘

[@jameshegler4182]

Babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@Catman3131]

This is what anime characters are made of ...hella

[@realemonful]

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

[@Goremachine]

You’re not serious or hardcore at collecting metal if you went 35 plus years without even hearing of nitro.

[@adammassacre4715]

1:32 Jim Cobain

[@Rowsdow3r]

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.

[@TemplarShad0w]

Glam Metal is pure passion and talent

[@TheOnlyHollywood1]

@@TemplarShad0w Not really, not until Poison came out

[@Kakriainen]

Indeed.

[@damian4182]

​@@TheOnlyHollywood1me gusta los Poison fallen angels

[@damian4182]

​@@TheOnlyHollywood1los Motley Crue quizas si fueron algo malos

[@sailorc2033]

Julie McCullough

[@DAVE_ICEMAN]

For all those haters, you couldn’t carry MABs guitar case! 😂 🤣 😱

[@DAVE_ICEMAN]

@@viol8r Honestly I kinda feel disappointed how people does not appreciate extremely good guitar technique , that's all. Perhaps he is for higher taste.

[@jedsteelwell2354]

How bout his wig?

[@ReverendBenzo]

Good because I don't want to.

[@SuperSuperpenisman]

Alright then.

[@Butterb0ne]

Who else came here because of Steel Panther's Are You Metal?

[@brentlohr3394]

I’d still rather listen to crap like this over any numetal

[@Killerklownsfromouterspace]

Mom was right.

[@jasonbrown6774]

Lmfao🥉

[@rtay1138]

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

[@cheyennemcginniss6164]

@@rtay1138 she divorced his abusive ass....

[@rtay1138]

@@cheyennemcginniss6164 Well, he's a douche bag in my book then. Glad she did. Thanks for the update!

[@rtay1138]

@@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.

[@blancanieves80s]

💜

[@SlaveKing]

Just saw this on a play list. Not a fan of his voice but to each their own.

[@nellitaleva9709]

"Jim Was A Truly Cutie But Mike Was So 🔥

[@KingGrio]

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.

[@roland7379]

Michelangelo Batio the king of speed metal

[@Johnny_Nitro]

How is this music “Nitro” tho? Even for the 80’s this is pretty tame. 😳

[@niko4831]

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

[@shanemorgan-u2d]

the girl was in playboy back in the day

[@kamiluszynski4258]

Ain't that Ron Jeremy at the helm of the bus? :O

[@manifestgtr]

“Don’t worry mom…I’m totally NOT gonna get steamrolled by Mother Love Bone, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden within the next 18 months!”

[@marcusmanchego3346]

That’s Tony sopranos mother in law, btw

[@marcusmanchego3346]

That bus driver is headed straight for fucksville

[@attilathehun0]

Hey it's Ron Jeremy driving the bus!

[@Tostereue]

Lol... You have right! xD

[@skold3878]

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.

[@Jakob-zs1qu]

Of course a hair band always has to have a power ballad with a cheesy music video

[@yellow-powerftw9058]

this what i call gorgeous woman

[@ReverendBenzo]

You've never called a woman in your life.

[@yellow-powerftw9058]

@@ReverendBenzo you dont know me kido

[@BunterHiden66]

If any video was Taylor made for Beavis and Butthead, it was this one

[@televisedpork7993]

Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Ron Jeremy, and Jani Lane all make cameos in the video

[@BriansFunHouse]

High notes till your gut hurts.

[@alien3battle]

3:34 a guy wearing a GN'R Lies t-shirt

[@jasonh6563]

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.

[@zanthony1286]

Ron Jeremy is the boss

[@LionRex9250]

Ron Jeremy was their tour bus driver! 😂

[@riverplate0101]

Washington Square Park!!

[@joshuagonzalez16]

Sephiroths real origin story

[@chelldondelayunting133]

nice

[@GreatBeyond74]

Jim Gillette looks like the lead singer of Goo Goo Dolls

[@brohawk7395]

I'm mostly upset at Mike Judge!!!! This would have beaten the Winger video on Beavis and Butthead hands down!!

[@angelhuezorocks]

The frontman has his own character, he did not need to imitate Axl.

[@jedsteelwell2354]

He doesn't look anything like axl

[@kevinz7215]

Nothing like axl...I cant stand axl

[@brightbite]

Still my favorite by Nitro.

[@partuziusmaximus7969]

80s rule go MAB

[@IAmSuperStick]

Where's TJ Racer these days?

[@boozebubbles]

Let this be a lesson. Listen to your mothers

[@DAVE_ICEMAN]

lol

[@kanelitwiniec]

A "Late Night" with David Letterman makes an appearance at 1:27.❤❤

[@brigham2250]

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.

[@jonstiffer4994]

Or you're just not very funny.

[@brigham2250]

@@jonstiffer4994 -- Hmmm, I'm a professional comedian, but your analysis is probably right.

[@TheRockinDonkey]

How did they snag Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie for this video?

[@TS-ib9ll]

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!"

[@contrabandjoe7974]

By the time this video was released, Glam Rock was cookie cutter. Couldnt tell one band from the another. Jesus they all looked and sounded alike.. Grunge was lurking...

[@jedsteelwell2354]

Grunge is garbage

[@TheOnlyHollywood1]

@@jedsteelwell2354 Glam was too once bands like Poison and Bon Jovi came along

[@Devr0ss]

like rap/hip hop today, but what is lurking?

[@televisedpork7993]

Yep. Same thing happened to Grunge later in the 90s when post-grunge arrived and you had Pearl Jam clones like Creed and Nirvana clones like Puddle of Mudd.

[@Idol2Idol]

Same thing happened with Grunge. That was all manufactured and formulatic as well.

[@LapsedComicFan]

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

[@benjamingalili511]

The Davey Jones Shuffle is gaf

[@OlleForsberg]

Ah, always glad to find stuff to add to my "ridiculous music videos" playlist.

[@TheJunnu]

Ron Jeremy behind the wheel! He’s going to do these ladies!

[@HocusPocusFocus69]

Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam FTW!!!

[@lakerdigital]

@1:44 Their bus driver was Ron Jeremy?