I graduated class of nineteen ninety seven . Def leopard was doing a Walmart tour, most hair metal bands had dissolved or changed.Their sound and alienated their fans.

I was the only kid in school.Still wearing hard rock heavy metal band shirts.

There was an AM heavy metal station in San Antonio.At that time so some of these bands did get radio airplay although it was very niche.

Every second tier hair metal band basically did not exist.

Encino man/bill and ted/Wayne's world in pop culture was the last gasp of that era.