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Worst dressed bands?
- Thread starter Swerve
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DEVO dresses exactly how they need to dress.
A lot of people care, “clothes make the man” and all that. The look is 50% of the presentation of an act, as it is a signifier to appeal to the target demographic audience, something that they can identify with. Why do you think that for years, the identities of the 30-50 year-old Wrecking Crew members were kept secret, so that the illusion that all those teen to 20’s kids in their mod fashions were performing the music was kept intact for their adoring fans? If the Beatles had come along as pudgy 30-somethings, wearing street clothes or mundane standard formal wear, would they have gone over at all, in spite of the music? That’s why Elvis eclipsed Bill Haley, he was far more exciting, and his being a snappy dresser had something to do with it.
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I mentioned the Eagles because it seemed like it was their records that made their career. They certainly weren't on TV....I assume.
DEVO might have made some interesting records, but they were just arrogant college kids. I can't take their ideas seriously.
You’ve all missed the point…Devo was performance art, their on-stage apparel was satire, a mirror held up to reflect the dumming down and absurdity in society going on at the time, and they perceptively called the resultant Idiocracy. They nailed it.
As far as Paul Revere, that’s what passed for show-biz at the time. Sure, it was a gimmick, but there were all sorts of similar band costume gimmicks at the time(New Colony Six, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, The Great Scots, The Palace Guard, etc). The band had already existed before the Beatles arrived as a frat-rock type outfit, actually recording “Louie Louie” a week before The Kingsmen, but jumped on the Revolutionary War motif as a sort of statement that they were repelling the “British Invasion”, although their music took on the influence of the Rolling Stones and Kinks to a certain extent. Clever, but yes, obvious, and very dated by 1968, however those tights got the girls excited for a few years. So, I’d call it a win for them.
The Shaggs? How would you expect a bunch of sisters from an odd cloistered family in a backwater New England town in the mid-60’s to dress?
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I think your post here just confirmed their entire concept.
They look like the average band as far as dressing up.
I may be out of touch but the American casual look
has been over done.
I may be out of touch but the American casual look
has been over done.
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