I just never understood the appeal of GnR (Axl Rose is a fucking asshole, anyway), Poison, or most of those '80s/'90s hard rock or hair metal bands... there were always just way too cheesy for me to take seriously. About as close to "hard rock" as I get is AC/DC, and that's strictly the early, Bon Scott-era stuff. There are a few other '70s "classic rock" bands that I can tolerate, too, like Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, etc., but I don't know if that'd be classified as "hard rock" or not. Generally, though, I heard enough of '70s arena rock while I was growing up to last a lifetime.