Metal means long hair?

nepi · Post by **nepi** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:57 am

Guys, I have seen that not all of you have long hair. I wonder why metal means to have long hair? Or what does it means to you, long or short hairs?
Why can't/want you have long/short hair? job, family, others?

I just want to know what do you think about that...

EDIT: I have added a forth option: I am female and have short hair - but it won't work

stratobabius · Post by **stratobabius** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:04 am

Long hair have been a trend since the first metal and rock bands were created in the 70's...Perhaps a remnant of the hippies?I liked long hair only because of the headbanging.

Anyway, I wanted to have long hair, but long hair didn't want me it seems...It started falling.

But now I'm ok again after cutting it!

nepi · Post by **nepi** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:57 am

... and in the Hippie-era, it was a kind of revolution?

It's nice to have longer hair, stratobabius, but it needs time too

I thought I have to try the long hair style. Now I can do it because I go to school and on my job it's possible or: my boss says it's ok. Remember I work on a bank! And when I would cut my hairs, I would let them grow so long... So I have my cut and let the hair do the talking

NeonVomit · Post by **NeonVomit** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:05 am

I've got long hair. I'm a student, no one can say anything

Patricia · Post by **Patricia** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:17 pm

Actually, i've never had short hair, except when i was born!

Stratovarrior · Post by **Stratovarrior** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:39 pm

I have short hair and It is far more easier to look after that long hair...

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:53 pm

Mhhh...

http://www.stratovarius.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7651

Shurik · Post by **Shurik** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:54 pm

I had long hair once, it's a pain in the ass and isn't worth the trouble ... I don't look like metalhead at all, no long hair, no bands' t-shirts

NeonVomit · Post by **NeonVomit** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:06 pm

Shurik wrote:I had long hair once, it's a pain in the ass and isn't worth the trouble ... I don't look like metalhead at all, no long hair, no bands' t-shirts

A POSER!! KILL HIM!!!

stratobabius · Post by **stratobabius** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:09 pm

Dave wrote:Mhhh...

http://www.stratovarius.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7651

Funny, I answered first there too...

NordicStorm · Post by **NordicStorm** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:40 pm

Short hair for me. Besides, male pattern baldness runs in the family, so it's very likely only a matter of time before it would become an Xtr3me mullet™

Like Shurik, I don't dress like a metalhead either; I'm just not into the metalhead garb...

MetalAngel · Post by **MetalAngel** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:33 pm

I had so many times short hair that I was ashamed by this kind of hair-styling. I prefer to have long hair (I'm long-haired since 5 years now) and for me metal is a question of long hair...

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:15 pm

Half a year ago I still had long hair, now it's short.

dirge · Post by **dirge** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:55 pm

I am me, I don't want to 'look' metal, I want to look like I do, individual!

IceBreaker · Post by **IceBreaker** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:57 pm

Long hair & headbanging. Aah.

Anyway, I think also having long hair is refreshing, I namely became completely bored with short hair or even short trendy hair.

As long as I´m student it´s good to grow hair.

Stratofanius · Post by **Stratofanius** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:48 pm

Long hair

stratoplayer · Post by **stratoplayer** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:11 am

Not "long" by metal standards (think more like Jorg than Lauri) but its getting there. Too bad practically everyone tells me to cut it

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:14 am

stratoplayer wrote:Not "long" by metal standards (think more like Jorg than Lauri) but its getting there. Too bad practically everyone tells me to cut it

Here it was the same, and, well.. I cutted it.

stratorobbo · Post by **stratorobbo** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:42 am

Dave wrote:Mhhh...

http://www.stratovarius.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7651

hehe you had to do that didn't you

and it's long for me, ever since i heard power metal about 14 months ago.. i haven't touched my hair with anything sharp... i don't know why.. i think it's because i look like a monkey with short hair lol

stratoplayer · Post by **stratoplayer** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:34 am

I look like a 13 year old geek with short hair... some say I have a baby face..

htcdude · Post by **htcdude** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:45 pm

I am male and have short hair, but i do miss my long hair

StratoFactor · Post by **StratoFactor** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:20 pm

I cut my hair a short while ago also, and dang I still miss my old , charming , long and a little curly hair

MetalManiac · Post by **MetalManiac** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:14 pm

Well, I had a long hair, but it had to be shortened. So now I have a semi-long one.

iron_thunder · Post by **iron_thunder** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:39 am

i can't headbang with short hair, plus short hair looks crappy on me.

Miguel_Ricardo · Post by **Miguel_Ricardo** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:55 am

I have to confess that I made herecy...

I cut my hair in a Beatle like style.....

But now its like non short, non long hair.

browneyedgirl · Post by **browneyedgirl** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:13 pm

I have long hair VERY long to the top of my butt

But its not because of music I grew it long like that.

Hair is no reflection of musical preference, just like not having piercings or tattoos does not mean a person is not "Metal".

And I hate that hateful stereotypical terminolgy of judging someone to be "Metal" or not. Metal is not a Cult, its simply a style of music&no matter how old a person is, or what they look like, anyone can be a fan of Metal. :headbang:
Stereotypes are so Nazistic!

nepi · Post by **nepi** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:32 pm

browneyedgirl wrote:Hair is no reflection of musical preference, just like not having piercings or tattoos does not mean a person is not "Metal". And I hate that hateful stereotypical terminolgy of judging someone to be "Metal" or not. Metal is not a Cult, its simply a style of music&no matter how old a person is, or what they look like, anyone can be a fan of Metal. :headbang:
Stereotypes are so Nazistic!

I share the entire post with you but I dunno what exactly you want to say with your last sentence.

It's right, Metal is a style and lives in a heart and doesn't mean to have long hair, piercings and wear a 10 kilo bandoleer on a gig. But I was surprised on Wacken, how many people have short hair, I recognised after the openair....

And it seems I will have in any months short hairs again...

browneyedgirl · Post by **browneyedgirl** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:08 pm

Well, Any kind of stereotype, saying a person has to look a certain way, even have a certain type of philosophy to like something, or be worthy to be included in a group is kinda judgmental&rigid, and very unfair to say to someone. Maybe Nazistic was too strong a word.

My son has short short&nobody wold say he's not "Metal"!

I remember once a person on a forum said I was not "Metal" and it just flew all over me&I will never, ever forget it. Because this person had alot of rotten gumption to judge me who she does not know. A person knows within themselves their beliefs&all.

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