Put it on the sideboard!
Posted by Retropath2 on 20 March 2008 - 1:31pm.
Apropos recent postings on toupees and taches, time to consider this item of distinction, as worn by many.
Who can top Trevor Boulder and his flowing 'burns?
Others worthy of mention might include Gaz Coombes and Justin Currie. Also an alarming jazz guitarist whose name I forget.
Special mention fo Neil Young, who has the ability, it seems, to carpet the sides of his cheeks at will.
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Ray Dorset
Noddy Holder
and Duane Allman, (does the 'tache/sideburn combo count?)
The friendly mutton chop, no less!
I was awaiting learned council on the inclusivity status of the Duane Allman/Lemmy trademark!!
Known down our way
as 'Zangers'. I'm not sure why.
Bob Geldof used to sport some pencil line chops back in the early 1990s.
Or the felt tip pen....
as we call that at ours, as in Prince and David Craig.
(I know, forgive my little affectations)
A Word favourite
At that crucial brink before neat Suedehead sidies mutate into ill-advised mutton chops. (And, unless my ears deceive me, previewing the first Style Council single, Speak Like A Child, a few years in advance)
Fabulous clip!
Love that song (and most of the Brinsleys output). Glad I opened this strand for that alone. And to think one of the outcomes of punk was to blow away the wonderful hairiness of Bob Andrews and Ian Gomm. God, I wish I had seen them live.
Punk sucked
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Punk sucked? - Don't be silly
Don't be silly. And don't forget Jessie Hector of the fablous Hammersmith Gorillas who sported a fab set of bugger grips, as we call them up north.
It's funny how...
...saying punk sucked is the most contentious thing you can say about music. Everything else is up for debate except that. Funny what an orthodoxy it turned out to be.
True indeed
In fact, looking back Richards comment that punk sucked is probably the most punk statement ever. He's unwittingly become a punk by going against the expected train of thought, becoming reborn as an aged Sid Vicious. I expect him to be down the record and tape exchange tomorrow bright and early selling off his boxed set of Horslips Greatest, to buy the complete Dead Kennedys on 7' singles.
Back to toups for a minute...
...did anyone else see Henry Kelly reviewing the Sunday papers on Sky News on the 16th? Normally he favours a well-slicked hairdo but last Sunday it all looked a bit fluffy on top - rather like he had awoken, found a ginger guinea pig on his pillow and decided to wear it in a rakish fashion. I swear there was definite slippage which took the hair down to eyebrow level, swiftly followed by a prolonged shot of the front page of The Sunday Times, before returning to HK and his once again visible forehead, with guinea pig lying doggo, no doubt.
Now, I'm not saying it was nylon or anything. He might have been trying out a new conditioner.
On the subject of Neville Holder's impressive 'boards, a genius sub on, I think, Q magazine once captioned a photo with the observation that 'they made him vulnerable to predators'.
Trevor Boulders Dad
Trevor Boulders dad ran a record shop in Hull called Boulders Record Bar. It stocked 100's of Spiders From Mars singles and some Uriah Heep albums he played on. We would go in to look at the Bowie silver disc he had. Out of pity we bought the Spiders singles, but we couldn't bring ourselves to buy any 'Heep. Nice bloke though, Trevs dad.
I love the fact that the Spiders From Mars came from Hull.
CSNY...
...You've got your Neil Young but you seem to have forgotten your Stephen Stills.
Elvin
Surely Messrs Presley and Stardust deserve a look-in here.
Face fungus
You would expect a Monkee to qualify and he does - Michael Nesmith
Also I think all The Doors did succumb and I would say Ray Manzarek wins.