# What happens when the hair bands lose their hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-the-hair-bands-lose-their-hair/256271 "2004-07-22T00:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-the-hair-bands-lose-their-hair/256271/21 "2004-07-24T03:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zoff] [QUOTE] _Originally posted by astorian_ Yeah, the Scorpions were all balding when I saw them in 1982 with Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. > [@](#): > > That must have been a great show. At least Blackmore’s kept all his hair (if not his grip on reality.) Well, not necessarily! Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is one of the few aging rockers who’s always accepted his receding hairline and expanding waistband with common sense and humor. And he’s long enjoyed teasing his colleagues who can’t or won’t accept the fact that they’re balding! More than fifteen years ago, I heard him on a radio show laughing about how his old friend Ritchie Blackmore was going around wearing one of those big furry Buckingham-Palace-Guard hats, to hide his shiny head. Was Ian fibbing, or just making a joke? Perhaps… but it’s equally possible that Blackmore’s current hair is fake. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-the-hair-bands-lose-their-hair/256271/22 "2004-07-24T04:42:14Z")
[Ritchie Blackmore] Hair. Grip on reality. Hair. Grip on reality. Hair. Grip on reality. Oh, bugger, I need several drinks. Then I’ll ask my Tarot cards. Hmm. Has anyone noticed that the Magician from the Ryder pack looks an awful lot like me? Where’s the bloody whiskey?[/Ritchie Blackmore] Actually, when Deep Purple got back together in '84, they were all in their forties, and Ritchie’s hairline didn’t seem to be any further back than it was in some of the pics I’ve seen from the '70’s, so maybe Ian Anderson was just kidding. Unless the Man in Black had a bald spot more toward the back of his head that crept forward, as seems to have been the case with Kevin Du Brow. A bald spot in the back is easier to hide, up to a point… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-the-hair-bands-lose-their-hair/256271/23 "2004-07-24T06:27:24Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Well? > > What, we’re gonna have a hair band revival concert tour with a bunch of bald guys? That dude from The Scorpions has been singing ROCK YOU LIKE A HURICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! for years with the receding hairline. And Gene Simmons pretty much invented the “long hair and a bald spot” look. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-the-hair-bands-lose-their-hair/256271/24 "2004-07-24T07:33:00Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > I was gonna mention Geoff Tate. Is it a coincidence Queensrÿche started sucking immediately after Tate cut his hair, circa 1996? _Promised Land_ was a great album, everything since has sucked. I last saw them 3 years ago, and they were blown away by the opening act, _The Tea Party_. Hmmm. Maybe I should start a thread explaining why I think all female hard rockers should be required to have tubal ligations… [sub]and this from a practicing Catholic who is opposed to contraception.[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-the-hair-bands-lose-their-hair/256271.md?page=1)