do balding steel players play better?

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 29 Aug 2013 10:41 am

back in the seventies we had jerry garcia and buddy cage and the longhair who played for gatemouth brown and herb s. with an afro, etc. really sexy swishing it all around for the girls. really high sexual tension and hot licks. now, 44years later, we have alot of older more mature players who, you would think, would have gotten way past this shallow form of ego based posing and have progressed into the more pure form of talented expression of music, unaffected by self-centered concerns.
what do you think?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 29 Aug 2013 11:18 am

Well, I do have a personal opinion...

Fred Justice · Post by **Fred Justice** » 29 Aug 2013 11:38 am

Chris, have you been rehearsing some of Bill Hankey's writings?

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 29 Aug 2013 12:41 pm

It's not what is on the head, but in the head that matters.

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 29 Aug 2013 12:45 pm

I sure hope so Chris...I'm halfway there, I got the bald thing DOWN!

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 29 Aug 2013 1:01 pm

Of course bad guys play better. It's obvious.

(God made only a few perfect heads. He put hair on the others to cover up his mistakes.)

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 29 Aug 2013 1:30 pm

ROFL....WHAT FRED SAID>>>LMAO

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 29 Aug 2013 1:33 pm

chris ivey wrote:back in the seventies we had jerry garcia and buddy cage and the longhair who played for gatemouth brown and herb s. with an afro, etc. really sexy swishing it all around for the girls. really high sexual tension and hot licks. now, 44years later, we have alot of older more mature players who, you would think, would have gotten way past this shallow form of ego based posing and have progressed into the more pure form of talented expression of music, unaffected by self-centered concerns.

what do you think?

I think I'd like to have some of whatever it is you've been smoking.

Joe Naylor · Post by **Joe Naylor** » 29 Aug 2013 1:42 pm

Where is Joe Wright ?????

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 29 Aug 2013 3:44 pm

Joe Naylor wrote:Where is Joe Wright ?????

Do you mean David Wright? Well, Joe and David are the extreme opposites I guess.

But, some in the audience might not be able to tell. When they get blinded by the stage lights reflecting off the players head, it distracts them enough that they can no longer hear the music.

Joe Naylor · Post by **Joe Naylor** » 29 Aug 2013 5:36 pm

Richard ---- Would that Wright Brothers?

I expected David to comment - know um both well

Bud Angelotti · Post by **Bud Angelotti** » 29 Aug 2013 7:37 pm

I'm with Mike.

But can anybody tell me why none of these emoticons have any hair either ?

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 29 Aug 2013 8:21 pm

At 66 (almost), I still have *relatively* thick curly hair (salt-pepper). And I'm still a chick magnet... except now I'm reverse polarity.

Afro?!?

That's the late and great Monte Paul on drums behind me, at the Holiday II in El Monte, CA. With Jimmy Lawton and the Lawmen, 1971. Jimmy and I still stay in touch, though he now lives in Europa.

Stephen Silver · Post by **Stephen Silver** » 29 Aug 2013 9:55 pm

We're not bald. We're Hairing Impaired

Joe Naylor · Post by **Joe Naylor** » 30 Aug 2013 9:39 am

My Dad had a friend that everybody called Shorty. I grew up knowing the guy. I was about 30 and he was about 80 or more. One day he had a guy ask him why people call him shorty (he was less than 5' tall)- he took his ball cap off and I saw he had no hair under that "John Deer" hat - he just smiled and said that actually he had grown way up through his HAIR.

AND Herb you look just like the last time I saw ya

Joe Naylor
www.steelseat.com

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 30 Aug 2013 11:48 am

Bald players are not quite as good, but just by a hair.

Carl Mesrobian · Post by **Carl Mesrobian** » 31 Aug 2013 5:59 am

chris ivey wrote:back in the seventies we had jerry garcia and buddy cage and the longhair who played for gatemouth brown and herb s. with an afro, etc. really sexy swishing it all around for the girls. really high sexual tension and hot licks. now, 44years later, we have alot of older more mature players who, you would think, would have gotten way past this shallow form of ego based posing and have progressed into the more pure form of talented expression of music, unaffected by self-centered concerns.
what do you think?

Are you implying the the more bald one gets the better the playing gets - if so, I'll shave my head ... please!!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 31 Aug 2013 9:12 am

I'm getting balder every year, but my steel guitar playing is not getting better ever year. If there is some sort of correlation, it seems to be passing me by.

Carl Mesrobian · Post by **Carl Mesrobian** » 31 Aug 2013 9:28 am

Alan Brookes wrote:I'm getting balder every year, but my steel guitar playing is not getting better ever year. If there is some sort of correlation, it seems to be passing me by.

The falling hairs are clogging up the changer end

Just tilt your head back and position yourself properly!

Dean Rimmer · Post by **Dean Rimmer** » 2 Sep 2013 9:52 am

....the psg...makes you pull your hair out...yeah ..

Dean Rimmer · Post by **Dean Rimmer** » 2 Sep 2013 9:52 am

....the psg...makes you pull your hair out...yeah ..

Carl Mesrobian · Post by **Carl Mesrobian** » 2 Sep 2013 11:06 am

I think we should keep the topic on track

Elton Smith · Post by **Elton Smith** » 2 Sep 2013 1:31 pm

If bald makes you play better,Im going to be a genuis.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 3 Sep 2013 4:23 am

Well, Brother Joe....All Hair
Me....No Hair........

having hair or not has really nothing to do with your playing, theres something else that will set you apart in your playing..............

Peter Nylund · Post by **Peter Nylund** » 5 Sep 2013 6:07 am

Let me see now....
Paul Franklin = hair, Tommy White = hair, Mike Johnson = hair, Buck Reid = hair, Doug Jernigan = hair, and the list goes on....
Am I on to something here? $:\$

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