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I am a fan of 80's early 90's metal/hard rock music and noticed some of them have short hair now and they used to have nice long hair. For example the singer Geoff Tate from Queensryche had nice thick long hair and if you google him you will see his hair was so nice long. I seen him recent and he has shaved head and its ashame that some long haired rockers/metal musicians cut their nice hair. Also I watch a show That Metal Show On VH1 and noticed alot of old 80's metal bands kept long hair like Alice Cooper, The Cult, Dokken, Winger, Motley Crue Ratt and others and they look great still with long hair but i get sad when some cut hair short since they looked good with it. Basically I wanted to know if you agree and if know of musicians who had long hair and now has short and you felt the same as I do where they looked better with long than short?
Sadly that's been the case with several of the older metal bands from the 80s.I don't go to many live shows anymore unless its really something special.When I see these bands, in their current form, most have cut their hair short.In other cases they may have gone down hill in other ways.Go take a look at current pics of Axl Rose for example.Maybe its the wear and tear of the lifestyle.Cheers
Mârk
Big fan of the 80's/90's here as well. For me the biggest shame of all is Jon Bon Jovi, man, was his long hair beautiful or what? =)
But he looked damn handsome on the "Keep The Faith" days as well, with his hair a little shorter, google it sometime. And Geoff Tate looked awesome with long hair indeed, but i believe he cut it short because of baldness, he now has a very thinning and receding hairline. Still awesome voice, fortunately!
Dear hug, pal!
Three reasons why they now have short hair come to mind:
1) They mistakenly believe that short hair is more modern and don't want to look old-fashioned.
2) They think long hair only looks good on younger guys.
3) They have no choice. Male Pattern Baldness is hard to argue with.
In most cases, it's probably number 3.
Damon
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I recall a conversation I had with someone who worked in the music industry back in the 1990s and the discussion had to do with the current music at that time.
As much as I tried I could not see what was so different about the so-called "Alternative Rock" during the 1990s and asked him what is so different about this stuff that makes it any different than the Rock music of the 1970s and 1980s and his response was "a short trendy haircut".
to sum it up, he said there really was not that much difference since I pointed out that much of it sounded like regurgitated Glam Metal or 1970s BTO among other big 1970s groups to me.
this is not to dismiss the true underground scenes of the past such as 1970s Punk, but the 1990s-2012 "alt-rock" is nothing new and with few exceptions it's all manufactured.
witness when Metallica were shorn in 1996 they suddenly started getting airplay on "alternative" formats.
bands such as Three Doors Down with their short cropped trendy styles were nothing but a diluted version of 1970s southern Rock.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are another example of closely-cropped musicians which are a big name who all had members with longer hair at one time.
the reason these guys are shearing their locks off is because it's the image that sells to the masses anymore.
the corporate machine does not care about new music.
it's about selling an "image".
how many long haired guys do you see in the current top bands these days?
I rest my case.
Many experts believe that the band's jump from 3,000 seat venues to 15,000 seat arenas would have happened much sooner, if the public's perception of the band wasn't a bunch of wacky Irishmen who waved white flags, climbed scaffolding and had what appeared to be several dead rodents on their heads. As the argument continued, Edge remained quiet as he longed for the days when he actually had a head of hair. At this point in his life, Edge would gladly accept a mullet if one were made available to his scalp. Adam was also strangely quiet as he remembered both his own checkered past as the only blonde guy in Dublin with an 8-inch afro during the Boy sessions, or more likely, he was fondly remembering that all the groupies who were rendered nauseous by Bono's hair eventually found their way to Adam's dressing room.
It was clear that this argument over Bono's mullet was 15 years in the making and tempers exploded. Bono stood up and defiantly said, "Will you guys shut up if I shave my head now?!" The band agreed and razors were brought out. When Bono's dome was properly shiny, they all had a pint (except for Adam) and considered the matter closed.
But a funny thing happened. Whether it's his age or his constant travels or his love of curry, Bono's hair was simply not growing back. The sides came in, but a large circle at the crown of his head remained hairless. He considered this a sort of cosmic joke from the hair gods who were likewise unhappy with his blatant disregard for their feelings while wearing that infamous mullet.
He consulted high-priced specialists, but no one could help. In the end he turned to Hollywood stylist Stephanie Sheppard, who had somehow made a completely bald Bruce Willis seem as if his hair was thinning normally in The Sixth Sense. Sheppard devised a hairpiece system that would be durable enough to sustain the tugging and petting of which U2 fans are often guilty. She also found a way to make it appear lifelike as he runs around the heart or puts his fingers through it. Occasionally there are missteps. Witness his unmoving mane during the Super Bowl performance. But for the most part, only educated eyes can usually pick out its falseness.