BOC-Brushing That Hair

[Torgo]

AB sez:

>Put Marshal Plan, Let Go, White Flags, Make Rock Not War,
>Debbie Denise and few others on the same disc, a cover photo showing
>everyone in three foot tall hairdo's and what do you have?  I think you
>can guess. We'll never know but do you think at the mid to end of their
>album careers these guys contemplated wearing spandex and perming their
>hair?  At a minimum you'd have to say they would have made one mediocre
>hair band.  8>)

Wanna know why I like the hair bands? Glad you asked. At least when the
hair bands were big, although the "fashion" that went with the music was
hokey and silly, when a band left the stage it (for the most part) ended
there. Sure Y&T combed their hair straight up in a tower that would make
Don King jealous and wore mascara. But you rarely saw the kids that
listened too it walking down the street wearing mascara. Today's music is
all about fashion and nothing else. Kids tune into a new video to see how
many tattoos he has to get now because the vox man has them, and to see how
many wool hats with tassles he has to yank over his head this week. Then he
decides that his pants aren't NEARLY baggy enough and starts shopping fat
shops to get a pair of 70+ pants he can drag behind him like a damn
parachute. THEN the song comes second.

Another reason to like the 70s music (you see I am tying BOC back into
this). Alot of bands I heard I had no picture to put with them. If they had
an album cover pose that was it unless you saw them live. Many a band I
heard on the radio that I still like alot today I STILL don't have a face
or an image to set it to, yet its great stuff. Today its the other way around.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I never tried to look like the rock star I wasn't. I
let them wear the hair and the leather and the spandex and the whatever,
and I tried to look like me and me alone. Like I tell people who try to
dress the image, I am a big Hockey fan too, but you'll never see me walking
down the street wearing pads and a farking goalie mask.

So what does this have to do with BOC and AB's remark. Actually very
little. I had a point when I sat down at the keyboard this morning, but it
seems to have evolved into something else. :^D


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