hair band

[Rex W. Stocklin]

At 6:58 AM -0800 3/30/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>1993  Pantera   (Usenet: alt.rock-n-roll.metal ) (May 6) :
>Pantera...had the image of a "hair band" but their music was still
>much heavier than the typical glam stuff.
>
>Thousands of Google hits.  A 'hair band" is a metal band of a kind
>popular in the 1980s whose male musicians wore very long and
>carefully styled hair, and typically sang songs in harmony.

Gee, you speak of the '80s as if they were in the Paleozoic? Am I
THAT old, golly!

Of course, that last criteria, the harmony, is of a dubious nature,
depending on the band.

If it were the 50's I could see a Chuck Jones riff on this called
"Hare Banned". HAH! Bugs channels the Oz while Fudd belts "Kill the
Wabbit" (a well-known stand-up bit IS heavy-metal Elmer)

Lest y'all think it's hair today, gone tom..., er hair yesterday,
gone today; any pop culturologist (or just any snot-nosed kid) KNOWS,
that two of the leading (though, not MY personal choices) candidates
on this season's "American Idol" are refugees from hair bands. So the
genre is thriving, even WITH the onslaught of rap, grunge, thrash,
house, trip-hop and all the current groovy vibes.


I can't jive at 55,
Lexy Rexy
Fishers, IN