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Hey, I havn'nt posted in a while, maybe because I ain't a long hair. But I still lurk.
Anyway, hi again guys.
I was just wondering, why do rock stars have long hair, or why is long hair conisdered to by a rock star posture? Does it stem back from the hair metal days, and just another cliqued sub culture?
James
curious
way, way, way way, way, way way, way, way back....
...Elvis would have had it but it would not have looked good on HIM...
....so he didn't : )
Back further than that. Think "rhythm, music, flying manes, flickering firelight". Dancing around the fire is mankind's defiance to all that would attack in the night. It is mankind's ultimate assertion of power. It is an image of which long manes are very much a part. It thrills our primeval soul.
No matter the music and flickering lights are often now electric. Our psyches demand that flying manes remain a part of this powerful scene.
Hmmmmm...now that you mention it...makes a lot of sense...
...LONGhair has been around for a long long longlong Time!
And that even goes on today, with a defiance against haircut regulations!
I just wonder why the rockstars that have long hair still like robert plant and jimmy page and ect ect dont go bald or anything like some men do. can you recall a rockstar that is still famouse that had long hair and still has great long hair . Take ozzy osborne for example. Maybe its a conspieracy (cant spell tonight)
it happens. kerry king from Slayer said his hair was thinning and that's why he shaved it, he would probably be going slightly bald by now anyway. theres more, they are only human
Frampton had among the most known manes in rock history.
Not any more!
The other day, I was up watching "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." You know, that movie from the 70s where Frampton and the BeeGees sing Beatles songs.
Anyway, I was watching and this girl popped into the scene with, I have to admit, one of the nicest butts I've ever seen. Then she turned around and it was Frampton!!
Well, after about 6 scalding hot "Ajax and Steel Wool" showers, I decided to steer clear of Frampton from then on!
Scary.
The Rev
Lol
Or think of Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull... gorgeous mane back in the 70s, but now? At least beards usually don't thin out - except when undergoing heavy chemotherapy...
How about Zakk Wylde?
Does It really matter? I mean what the hell? I personally recon because they are trying to not conform.
All I seem to see now on "rock stars" nowdays is short hair. It's a good warning sign with lots of them, "short hair=lame music". If it's "musicians" then that's a different story. Many "musicians" don't have long hair but there is a larger percentage than in the general population that do. Anything creative "tends" to lead one to a slightly different view of life and in turn social norms.
I can't speak for anyone else but my hair is a sign of committment/dedication. Think of that when seeing musicians play who are not "rock stars" and probably will never be.
Also, in a visual sense, hair lends to a larger onstage presence and usually also adds more movement to a performance.
Well, they don't all use drugs, but a lot of rock stars use drugs. I don't know why.
Drugs have been a big thing (with artists primarily) for most of the century. Ernest Hemingway and the rest of the Lost Generation crowd used to drink absinthe and smoke weed (this was before Prohibition). Sigmund Freud did coke (so did Sherlock Holmes; what do you think that 7% solution was made of? Water and cocaine).
In the sixties, the use of drugs to expand the mind and enhance creativity saw a leap (Jimi Hendrix, Morrison, etc.) and that evolved into the "Rock Star Excess" era of the 70s (Aerosmith).
Now all those old guys have been through rehab (Ozzy) and the younger ones just coming on the scene are alot more conservative, I think. More weed and speed, less LSD, PCP, etc.
The Rev
Then for the better
i thought that long hair on rock stars started as an anti-establishment rebellion in the late 60's. i also believe that the look was somewhat associated with the anti-war movement (vietnam) here in the united states. (alot of the guys burning draft cards had long hair) at some point guys realized that some women liked long hair on men so the look sort of caught on.
Long hair can also help protect your hearing.Especially thick hair. I play Guitar, so I'm exposed to loud noise a lot. It's one of the reasons I started growing my hair long. But mainly cause long hair looks so cool!
Most rock stars may not even consider the hearing thing, but it's just an interesting little fact I picked up I thought I'd share.
I question this. Consider that the wavelength of a sound at the limit of human hearing is about 0.5 cm. It will pass through hair just as readily as light passes through your cornea, and for the same reason: the spacing of the fibers is much smaller than the wavelength of the signal.
I'd add that if hair over your ears impaired your hearing, nature would undoubtedly not be growing it there. :-)
Bill
I can hear just as well with long hair!
The message this is in reply to has been edited. Stalker, could you please let me know how you are entering those elipsis marks? It is causing weird display problems in Opera. For example, it forces a new line. I would ask you to please stop entering them that way (appears to be a single character), but I'm curious how you are doing it.
Apparently, the webmaster's browser (Opera) isn't handling the ISO characters properly.
It IS a single character!