Yes, it’s easily the cheesiest vestige of the ’80s. Yes, it’s the focus of hopeless nostalgia the world over. Not to mention an endless drain on Bic lighter fluid (and a nasty source of ozone depletion?) for over two decades.

But this is indisputable: Two of the biggest-selling power ballads ever written are being revived at this weekend’s Sonoma-Marin Fair.

Last night, every diehard fan in the house sang along as homeboy Jack Blades (”These are my people!”) and Night Ranger powered through “Sister Christian.”

Picture drummer Kelly Keagy, walking the entire edge of the stage like a Vegas lounge lizard, singing: “Don’t you know those boys don’t wanna play no more with you, it’s true…but you’re motorin’/what’s your price for flight?”

As far as power ballads go, it’s the classic tale of lil’ sis growing up too fast, the watered down, slow-jam version of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Look at Little Sister.”

Not to get too deep, but way back in the ’80s, a line like “what’s your price for flight?” stood out like a literary gem, like something George Bernard Shaw might say (”What price salvation now?”), something that didn’t make you rush to the dictionary (a la Rick Springfield’s “I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot”), but rather just ponder the implications.

OK, that got way too deep. We’re talking power ballads here.

That was 1983. Flash forward to 1988 and “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” Now flash forward to 2009. Bret Michaels, looking like Jake Gittes in “Chinatown” after getting head-butted by a massive set change at the Tony Awards a few weeks ago, takes the Budweiser stage Saturday night. Do you smell another trainwreck?

It’s all in the latest 60-Second Weekend, so get those lighters out and hold ‘em high….