No apologies needed, lemmy is a living legend and he inspired most of the bands that are considered"old" now, not many people could do what he has done for as long as he has....
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The (badly) aging metaler
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No apologies needed, lemmy is a living legend and he inspired most of the bands that are considered"old" now, not many people could do what he has done for as long as he has....
Wow OP, good thing you're here to tell everybody what they should wear, when they should stop playing music and how they should conduct themselves in public. Don't know what we'd do without you.
ozzy WAS a good singer, 2 decades ago, now he sounds flat, cant hit those high notes anymore, its really embarrassing listening to him now.
I need a shotgun to protect my stash of Spaghettios?
Believe me, I much prefer Motorhead. I'm referring to when Ozzy was in his prime. Hitting high notes can get impossible for some singers after a while. There isn't much that can be done. Probably nothing.
One of the things I respect about Lamb of God, from my home state capital, is that they don't seem to care about image:
Yet they all wear black shirts and blue jeans, and all have the same facial expression.
Every time I go to NAMM I see a lot of guys in their 40's and early 50's still trying to look like they did in high school in the 80's.
It would be silly regardless of what their job was, but seems to happen more often in the music industry.
Funny thing is, famous players are by far the least of the offenders. Most of them seem to have realized they aren't still 25 and dress accordingly.
The bad ones are the manufacturer and dealer reps. It's kind of amazing seeing the combover mullets walking around the show floor.
I can't tell you the number of "big deal" players I've met who are usually very nice folks, wearing baseball hats and t shirts, while Bob Nobody who's a low level rep for a manufacturer is strutting around like he owns the place in rhinestone encrusted stage clothes, having spent an hour on his hair. Some off them are completely ridiculous.
It would be silly regardless of what their job was, but seems to happen more often in the music industry.
Funny thing is, famous players are by far the least of the offenders. Most of them seem to have realized they aren't still 25 and dress accordingly.
The bad ones are the manufacturer and dealer reps. It's kind of amazing seeing the combover mullets walking around the show floor.
I can't tell you the number of "big deal" players I've met who are usually very nice folks, wearing baseball hats and t shirts, while Bob Nobody who's a low level rep for a manufacturer is strutting around like he owns the place in rhinestone encrusted stage clothes, having spent an hour on his hair. Some off them are completely ridiculous.
Not to mention four of the five guys have the same hairstyle and facial hair.
A carefully crafted "No image" is actually an image.
Can you prove that? I'm not arguing, but I'm curious how you came to that conclusion.
To me it looks less silly to have a 70's metal look on a 50yrs old guy than a 50yrs old guy looking like a rapper ...
It's not just musicians, a lot of people just hold onto a style that reminds them of simpler times in their lives, before mortgages and jobs they hate etc. Even their musical taste will revert back to that one last summer when the didn't give a &*&^. 
I've never been able to figure out why more often than not Eric Clapton dresses like he has just come from a cook-out.
A lot of bands say they don't have an image which I think usually means they wear "street clothes" on stage and for photo shoots. But even their street clothes adhere to a set of rigid rules. Nirvana comes to mind. Their image was they had "no image", but that no image operated within certain parameters which mainly consisted of clothes that looked like they could be found at the local Goodwill. Those silly sweaters became Cobain's image.
The Lamb of God photo that was posted earlier in the thread was cited as an example of a band not caring about their image, but obviously they do. They all took the effort to wear matching t-shirts, to have the same hairstyle, and to grow similar looking facial hair (except for the face of the band who has short hair and is clean shaven which makes it easier to identify him as the singer).
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OK, the photo was a bad example with the matching shirts, but how f'in generic could it possibly get?
If you guys think their facial hair is all the same, take another look.
If you guys think their facial hair is all the same, take another look.
It's all the speed he does that keeps him in shape. For the rest of us, we should skip that cheeseburger or pizza, and go for the salad once in awhile. I play better when i feel good, and sometimes I'm amazed at how well I play after a jog.
Unfortunately, I suppose I tend not to be too fashion conscious. But I do know right off when something doesn't look too good, if it is pretentious or if something just doesn't match. I've just never given much thought at all to what efforts bands go when dressing to have an image. Obviously, though, it's a big deal to a lot of bands. I'm sure it goes way back. It seems to be one of the first things Brian Epstein thought about when he started managing the Beatles, for instance.
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You mean the dude in his late 50s, with the acid wash jeans, Nike hi-tops, and the awesome skullet, still playing night ranger & Billy Idol covers ?? I love that guy...
Cobain should have dressed better at home, too, considering how much of the ugly schmatta he was wearing in home movies is now immortalized in the documentary "Montage of Heck."
So many issues going on in this thread I'm gonna need therapy. I came from the punk rock era,and it's fun playing hard, loud and rude. You can't realistically sustain that teenage anger indefinitely. Now I'm a far better player, and can play heavier and nastier than my teenage self ever imagined. But being the chunky elder statesman you see at stage left, I'd probably be a little self conscious head banging in front of the youngsters.
Then again, I just watched this year's Isle of Man festival. Let's just say there was a shocking amount of Grecian Formula and unnaturally jet black hair framing heavily lined faces. These were mostly musicians backing up young singers. They could pass the 40 yard test, but fail closer scrutiny. Maybe I should drop a couple lbs, get a vat of that black goo and take some kids gig.
Then again, I just watched this year's Isle of Man festival. Let's just say there was a shocking amount of Grecian Formula and unnaturally jet black hair framing heavily lined faces. These were mostly musicians backing up young singers. They could pass the 40 yard test, but fail closer scrutiny. Maybe I should drop a couple lbs, get a vat of that black goo and take some kids gig.
