When you look this ridiculous, you HAVE to rock hard
This is the next cover of Rolling Stone.
It is, apparently, a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Guns N Roses' Appetite for Destruction.
Here's the thing about this band that gets me -- and I know it may be that this sort of rock was just going out of style when I began to get seriously interested in rock music but...they just look ridiculous.
I'll admit they look tough next to, say, the guys in Poison:
Or even Montley Crue from that period.
But is there any one of these guys who doesn't look like your little sister could beat him up?
Even with hair-bands as the prevailing trend the guys in GNR must have had special spandex pants created for the big brass pair it would have taken to call themselves a metal band while the guys from Motorhead were still touring, looking like this:
Glam is one thing.
Bowie and Marc Bolan managed to do true glam with a bit of style and edge.
GNR, by comparison, just look ludicrous -- like they put themselves together in the women's section of a Salvation Army that had gotten a lot of oddly-sized donations from an out-of-business S&M shop and then had their hair and makeup done by former beauty pageant contestants who'd just seen a community theater version of Cats.
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Posted on July 26, 2007 8:05 AM
Bands should look like thugs or look like they come from prison?
They are in the entertainment business and they distinguished themselves from everybody in the crowd .
Today's bands have no glam whatsoever they look like people in the crowd that just came up on stage and started to play Bands of the 80s where just that bands; today I dont here anybody that can really jam.
Posted on July 26, 2007 9:27 AM
I don't think musicians should have to look tough -- but it's clear that GNR so badly WANTED to be tough.
And they were, you know, a metal band.
Distinguishing yourself from everybody in the crowd is good, if you're an entertainer. I'm just saying...they look like someone gave them a cardboard box full of women's goodwill clothing and some remaindered Biker gear.
Posted on July 26, 2007 1:28 PM
But, but, aren't feather boas tough? You just don't appreciate how itchy they are.
Posted on July 26, 2007 4:20 PM
The feather boas are more comfortable than the spandex pants, I'll bet.
Posted on July 26, 2007 7:15 PM
Well, that's just stupid. The whole point is to be over the top. The entire purpose of glam and hair metal costumes seems to have gone right over your head. Try to understand or shut up.
Posted on July 6, 2008 11:18 PM