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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#1: May 3rd 2012 at 6:24:45 PM

This is just a weird little curiosity of mine....

I got into Slayer around 2004/5. I knew Kerry King as the bald dude with a badass beard. Yet it seems during Slayer's heyday he had a full head of hair and only shaved it all off when he started losing it. (that's what I read anyway)

Similarly, Phil Oakey of The Human League had some pretty radical hairdos (it was the 80s after all) but decided to keep it short when he started losing his hair.

And so I'm just wondering what other prominent long-haired musicians had to adjust for the ravages of age?

Also do you have any preferences ie. do you miss the hair or like their new look?

For KFK, I think the bald look is a lot more distinctive and better than his old appearance. However I miss Phil's outrageous but stylish 80s hair.

xexyzl Since: Jan, 2001
#2: May 3rd 2012 at 6:41:59 PM

Obligatory Devy

The loss of hair definitely marked a change in his music and personae.

x86x2 Eternally dreaming... Since: Nov, 2011
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#3: May 3rd 2012 at 6:54:27 PM

Let's see here...I have:

  • Jack Owen - former Cannibal Corpse guitarist
  • Frank Mullen - vocalist for Suffocation
  • Lars Ulrich - drummer for Metallica
At least as far as I know.

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Thwise hi from emotions Since: Dec, 2009
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#4: May 3rd 2012 at 9:49:29 PM

Frank Black from the Pixies

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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#6: May 3rd 2012 at 11:15:54 PM

Michael Stipe is the first example I could think of for whatever reason. this is the most hair a half-assed google image search demonstrates him as having at one point, as compared to the R.E.M. trope page image.

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#7: May 3rd 2012 at 11:51:59 PM

Pretty much anyone who was ever a member of Genesis, with the exception of Tony Banks. All right, maybe just Phil and Peter (who looks more like Uncle Fester with each passing day).

AsTheAnointed Since: Jan, 2010
#8: May 4th 2012 at 3:25:54 AM

Jordan Rudess. Joe Satriani. The aforementioned Devin Townsend. Three of my all-time favourite musicians, actually - I think baldness and musical genius have a correlation.

Though I generally prefer the younger look, I'm obssessed with human aging and growth so I think it's cool when musicians look way different from their younger selves.

edited 4th May '12 3:27:49 AM by AsTheAnointed

whataboutme -_- from strange land, far away. Since: May, 2010
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#9: May 5th 2012 at 1:35:00 PM

Johan Edlund from Tiamat. He's had a shaven head for more than ten years now. Probably due to hair loss, it gets noticeable in their early music videos.

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reub2000 Since: Feb, 2011
#10: May 5th 2012 at 2:42:44 PM

Err they don't have to adjust. Ronnie James Dio's hairline receded noticeably in his later years, but he kept it long.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#11: May 5th 2012 at 6:52:42 PM

[up]At the price of looking like Gallagher's unemployed brother. Wax on, says I.

reub2000 Since: Feb, 2011
#12: May 5th 2012 at 7:26:33 PM

First Off: Never Speak Ill of the Dead

Also, at first I thought you where making fun of Oasis. But then I did a google image search and saw that both of the Gallagher brothers have a full head of hair. Who are you talking about?

Eta: You try looking this badass with a bare forehead!

edited 5th May '12 7:29:05 PM by reub2000

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#14: May 6th 2012 at 3:15:42 PM

[up][up]Much respect & affection to RJD, qui requiescat. However, when someone holds him up as an example for the follicularly challenged, hard choices have to be made. True, the evils that the coiffures of Dio & DuBrow have done live after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. But better to risk a little disrespect to the departed bald than to condemn the living bald to such an ill-considered 'do.

And yes, by "Gallagher" I meant the enemy of watermelons everywhere, not the enemies of dressing-room T Vs and vocal coaches.

reub2000 Since: Feb, 2011
#15: May 6th 2012 at 3:52:25 PM

[up]That whole post made me laugh really hard. Of course he looked more bad ass with all of his hair. I hope I never have to make that type of choice. Honestly when you see a middle age or older guy with a shiny head, the reason is pretty obvious.

AsTheAnointed Since: Jan, 2010
#16: May 7th 2012 at 2:03:29 AM

But better to risk a little disrespect to the departed bald than to condemn the living bald to such an ill-considered 'do.

This is the best thing I've read in this forum in such a long time.

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#17: May 7th 2012 at 3:53:56 AM

Metallica: Lars is the most noticeable, but James and Kirk have definite recession.

Megadeth: Ellefson is noticeably thinning on top and has a bald spot in back...if I'd kept my long hair it'd probably look just like his does now.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#18: May 7th 2012 at 8:45:03 AM

Honestly when you see a middle age or older guy with a shiny head, the reason is pretty obvious.

Why I oughtta...

reub2000 Since: Feb, 2011
#19: May 7th 2012 at 1:45:17 PM

Metallica: Lars is the most noticeable, but James and Kirk have definite recession.

I think James lost some of his hair in the pyrotechnics accident.

edited 7th May '12 3:11:01 PM by reub2000

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#20: May 7th 2012 at 5:56:49 PM

[up] Wouldn't surprise me at all...I remember reading somewhere that the reason Michael Jackson started wearing wigs was because he lost a lot of hair after it caught fire in that Pepsi ad accident.

drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#22: May 17th 2012 at 12:35:36 AM

Geoff Tate and Bret Michaels. Tate got hair implants I believe (before shaving his head again), Michaels just kept buying wider and wider do-rags since about 1998.

edited 17th May '12 12:36:58 AM by drunkscriblerian

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