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Guys,
Boycott the barbershop. if some clown with a clipper fetish thinks you need to get a haircut ignore him. these guys will be the ones who suffer permanent damage to their scalps from clipper burns, not you!
this tool is one of the worst things ever invented by humankind!
keep your hair long and natural and keep it growing
like God intended!
~Peace and Love~
Jerry
There was a period of time when there was a boycott of
barbershops, (Late 1960s and/or early 1970s?)
Business at alot of barbarshops went down, a number of them
even went out of business.
Yes, I recall when some barbers left their shops and went to work in salons because business was so bad for the barber shop.
the same guys who were laughing at the Beatles a few years earlier were worried about keeping their shops open by the 1970s.
most young guys did not go to barbershops during the 1970s.
as a matter of fact many business executives were going to the salons instead of the barber shop.
yes, and everything seemed to be going great, that is until these guys with their closely cropped haircuts, baggy clothes, baseball caps and rap music emerged and their strong desire to feel the clippers and get various buzzcuts like the "fade".
why anyone would want to shave their hair off like a marine recruit is beyond me!
I am hoping that there will be a resurrection of the long haired Rocker prototype once again.
I had some faith in Kurt Cobain at first, but unfortunately he wasn't around long enough to make an impact on the resurrection of longer hair and probably was not the best role model either.
Jerry
To be fair I think it was also the Punk scene in the late 1970's that favoured short hair so they didn't look like Hippies, and when the AIDS epidemic hysteria reared it's head I think a lot of people became conservative. The rise of the pharisee Christian con-men televangelists who preached to scared people. And the rise of the corporate culture who began to enforce rules on how their male employees could look like. I remember the horrible 1950's retro camp "preppie yuppie look" that came back into fashion at that time and the conservative clothes back in fashion at this time I think was an reaction to the AIDS thing. Conservatism generally appeals to scared or hateful people.
While the media is run by money-oriented people sponsored by industries who persuade the masses to go along with spending money on things like high maintenance haircuts I feel long hair will only appeal to people who are free-thinking non-comformists who want to do their own thing.
Kurt Cobain was hardly a role model for long hair and his own tresses looked unhealthy and dishevelled. He wore his hair at medium length a bit past the collar only.
Duncan
The hippie counterculture had already dissipated by the time the punk subculture emerged in the mid-late 1970s(this was the Disco era) and while some punks favored short styles, there was a small percentage with long hair, however the majority of punks wore styles that would not have gone over well in a corporate environment.
punks were definitely nonconformists.
Yes, It was actually the preps and yuppies who were really responsible for bringing short hair back, not punk rockers.
I don't agree. The punks definitely paved the way for the return of short hair, and there were plenty of hippies still around when punk started. The hair shown in your pic is a much bigger barrier to employment than just long hair, and when they inevitably changed their hair style to something more 'sensible' it was invariably short.
Plus, I actually got chased down the street by punks just because I had long hair.
The Disco folks.
Didn't Disco people generally favor shorter styles?
John Travolta's hairstyle in Saturday Night Fever(1977) was quite short for the 1970s and many guys started emulating that look, did they not?
also, Disco proceeds punk by a few years and was more popular with the masses than Punk was back then(Disco acts outnumbered all other acts including Rock bands combined on radio at one time) so I would assert that many boomers who were of the Woodstock generation and mindset could have made the transition to Disco in the 1970s and then became part of the 1980s Yuppie culture.
True, that those styles would definitely have created a problem for potential employment, and it is possible that many punks started wearing short conventional styles because some had short and spiky hairstyles already, however many boomers who had long hair during the late 1960s and early 1970s who outnumbered the punks cut their hair short when they became yuppies and the overemphasis of being "more professional" tripled down into other sectors of employment so the yuppies had a larger impact upon paving the way for the return of short hair since there were greater quantities of yuppies than punks.
Are you familiar with Jerry Rubin?
also, it could be suggested that the 1950s nostalgia during the 1970s could have helped pave the way for the return to short hair since Men had short haircuts during the 1950s(remember the show "Happy Days"?) and of course the neoconservative revivals in both America and the U.K. and
as Duncan has already pointed out the college-aged Preppies with their return to 1950s styles in hair and clothes played a part in the return of short traditional haircuts for Men, but imho it was the Yuppies of the 1980s who definitely had the largest impact and Yuppies were of the same generation who attended the Woodstock festival in 1969. That is why today most Men regardless of their politics generally have short hair And long hair does not seem to have any political connotation like it did during the Vietnam war era.
sorry you got chased but are you sure those were not skinheads? many skinheads listen to punk as well as hard metal music.
I don't think a Ramones fan would've done that, but maybe some very hardcore skinhead types.
where and when did this occur?
btw, many punks I have known wear their hair long now.
With all due respect, though he's short-haired now, I'm afraid Henry Rollins would have disagreed with your disagreement, back in the day.
--Val
The lead singer definitely had long hair.
Was this in Southern California, by any chance?
according to Henry Rollins in this interview from 1985 he stated that Black Flag were not welcomed in the Hollywood scene because they had hair past their shoulders.
check out this interview
I AGREE!! MY LAST HAIR CUT WAS 6 YEARS AGO. MY HAIR PAST MY ASS. I NOTICE I DONT GET COLDS OR FLU ANYMORE AND I HAVE MORE ENERGY. I CALL IT THE SAMSON EFFECT. THAT MUST BE ONE OF THE REASONS OUR SLAVE MASTERS WANT US SHORN AND HUMBLED.