When you look cool all the time (like I do) you don't spend all day trying to look one way or another.
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The (badly) aging metaler
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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.
There was a photo of The Jesus Lizard playing live in 1993 and in 2009 taken from the same vantage point. The main difference in the photos was the amount of bald spots in the crowd. 90s rock is the new classic rock.
I died my hair for awhile, but always had a moment of clarity when I looked at those plastic mittens on my hands and felt like a tool.
Ain't no shame in it, though -- artifice goes with show biz like drink goes with smoke.
I was just reviewing some family pics from way back when and I shuddered at how I looked at times-wasn't the hair so much as what I was wearing...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 &*&^.
Dear OP,
I feel embarrassed for you for caring so much about how other dudes dress. Shouldn't you be too busy kicking ass and taking names to notice, being such a cool mofo and all?
Love,
Washed up white haired 90s' rocker guy who looks like he could still be in Citizen Dick
I feel embarrassed for you for caring so much about how other dudes dress. Shouldn't you be too busy kicking ass and taking names to notice, being such a cool mofo and all?
Love,
Washed up white haired 90s' rocker guy who looks like he could still be in Citizen Dick
There's a big difference between aging and just trashing yourself and not giving a crap about your overall health and well-being -- BIG difference. Face it, it's show business, no matter how shallow anyone thinks that is. That being said, I've seen many guys in their 70's lay it down and own the stage.
Nah not huge. He is bubbly, overweight, but he still can put on a show. They probably changed the keys so he can sing but still I thought it wasn't bad. I was expecting nothing from Motley Crue, I went with a bunch of friends for fun and stuff.
Alice Cooper stole the show anyways.
Motley Crue was also playing at Isle of Man. Mick Mars looked like a shuffling skeleton. He could still play but Jeez. How do you know a rock band's old? When the girls singing backup are over 50.
If these crusty, old baldos made any real money, they'd be able to afford some "cosmetic" remedies.
That guy (below) looks pathetic. Hope he's not a fellow TBer.
That guy (below) looks pathetic. Hope he's not a fellow TBer.
No you don't.
Also: I was working at the college radio station on the day that the envelope with the Smells Like Teen Spirit single arrived in the mail. All I can tell you is that the whole "anti-fashion" ethos of the grunge era yielded -- for me -- nearly a decade where I am completely ashamed to see photos of myself. Pretending to not care how you look is actually worse than not caring how you look, which in itself is nothing to be proud of, in my opinion.
So, let's see if I have this correct: After Squiggy left 'Laverne and Shirley', he took some time off, and reinvented himself as 'Jerry Only' of the Misfits?
If someone takes a picture of your band. Your band has an image. Case closed.
Yes, but then there's folks who obsess about it. Johnny Ramone asked Dee Dee to play using a pick, just because he thought it was how it was supposed to look.
