male pattern baldness

A Head Was Shaved!! Who Are Your Top Five BALD Artists? Grab a Stack of Bald Rock!

First up:  a huge thank you to Kevin (CanadianGrooves.ca) Simister for being a good sport.  He was not informed that I intended to shave my head live on the show, which I did Friday afternoon.  The hair was getting a little unruly, and I’ve pulled this stunt once before, so I thought why not?  Dare I say, why not?

The theme was Top Five Bald Artists.  Kevin and Jex (Jexcalibur.wordpress.com) brought great lists, and we had a couple of repeat artists.  Friends Peter Kerr, John Clauser, and Jazz King also sent in lists, which Jex read off the top during the hair shaving stunt.  You can read their lists below.

We also unboxed some cool physical product at the start of the show:  Some new stickers from Tim’s Vinyl Confessions, 2Loud2OldMusic, and Tee Bone Man.  A hardcover Guess Who book from friend Robert Lawson.  And a huge BRICK of 8-track tapes from the legendary Tim Durling.  Thank you for your generosity, Tim.  Always.

I’ll be posting a gallery of these new arrivals in a separate post.

Although this wasn’t a serious show, it was a hell of a lot of fun.  Sometimes the strangest topics actually inspire some thoughtful conversation, and that’s what happened here.  All joking and gimmicks aside, there was true appreciation here for these artists, and admiration of their courage to go bald.

Were you able to guess the bald artists in Harrison’s artwork below?  Three of them made our lists, and I revealed the answers live as we arrived at them (plus the fourth Lego artist).

Thank you for watching!

John Clauser from My Music Corner:

5. Sinead O’Connor
4. Michael Barnes (singer for Red)
3. Kenny Greenberg (guitarist for Ashley Cleveland and numerous studio sessions)
2. Luke Easter (singer for Torniquet – Christian thrash metal band)
1. John Bush (Armored Saint / Anthras singer)

Jazz King – singer / songwriter

5. Ivan Moody – Five Finger Death Punch
4. David Draiman – Disturbed
3. Maynard James Keenan – Tool
2. Phil Collins
1. Her husband Rob, singer of Those Guys – classic rock band

Peter Kerr – Rock Daydream Nation

5. Angry Anderson – Rose Tattoo (Australia represent)
4. Skin – Skunk Anansie
3. Tony Martin – Black Sabbath'(he was receding in the 80s!)
2. Rob Halford
1.. Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil…Australia!

Who Are Your Top Five BALD Artists? Grab at Stack of Rock…with a twist! 3:00 PM Friday Afternoon!

GRAB A STACK OF ROCK With Mike and the Jexciter

Episode 35:  Top Five Bald Artists with guest Kevin Simister (Canadian Grooves)

A fun list show is ahead for you today, one and all!  List shows are always popular, and this one is a little different.  Who are you top five favourite bald artists?  Here are some questions I received while putting this show together.

  • Do receding hairlines count? – YES
  • Do shaved heads count?  – YES
  • Do artists who started with full hair but now rock the bald head count? – OF COURSE YES!  I hope we see some skullets on this list.

Joining Jex and I today will be Kevin from Canadian Grooves, a man who knows how to rock the bald head better than most.  We also have guest lists from Jazz King and John Clauser.

BONUS POINTS:  Can you name the four bald artists in Harrison’s amazing Lego art above?

Additionally, we have a load of parcels to unbox!  Including:

And there will be a twist.  Don’t miss this one live.

LIVE Friday Sept 22 at 3:00 P.M. E.S.T. / 4:00 P.M. Atlantic.   Enjoy on YouTube or on Facebook!

#494: I Think I’m Going Bald

GETTING MORE TALE #494: I Think I’m Going Bald
(a sequel to #488: Almost Cut My Hair)

A short while back, we took a look at popular hair styles in different genres of music.  One hair style we ignored, because it really knows no boundaries, is the old fashioned bald head, or the “Jean-Luc” as the kids call it today.*

When I was a young fella discovering rawk at the dawn of the 1980’s, I hadn’t seen any bald rock stars that impressed me.  Now my first musical love truly was John Williams, and he was bald.  Hard rock at the beginning of the 80’s wasn’t like that.  There was…a uniform.  Unless you were Rob Halford, Paul Di’Anno or Udo Dirkschneider, part of that uniform was having long hair to thrash about.

The only bald rockers I had seen included one rare picture of Bob Kulick, brother of Bruce, and the bass player from Blotto. I didn’t like Blotto: they also had a short haired geek with thick rimmed glasses on guitar. So, by extension, I didn’t like bald heads in rock!

Then grunge came, and long hair was no longer a “thing”. Then, even worse, our mortal rock stars began aging! How was this possible? There was no time to consider the thought, as one by one, rock stars shaved their heads completely: Rob Halford, Kerry King, Scott Ian, Billy Corgan, Joe Satriani, hell even Billy fucking Joel has lost the curls and gone cue-ball!

There’s nothing wrong with the bald head, obviously I have learned this now. I myself have rocked the bald look on and off for about 15 years now. Most people don’t do it on and off, but I’ve been blessed with a full head of hair (thanks mom’s side of the family!), and I shave it for convenience and to look tougher than I already am. Seriously though, there’s nothing better than having a shower, jumping in your clothes and heading right to work without worrying about hair. There’s nothing better to beat the heat in the summer either.

Now, funny thing. My mom and my wife both think I am going actually bald. They tell me my hairline is receding. What they don’t know is that my hairline started receding at age 16. Then it stopped and never started receding again! I have the exact same hairline I had at 16, only nobody believes me, because at 16 I was trying to hide that by growing it out!  It has not moved one centimetre since highschool, and that’s a fact, Jack!

This being summer time, I have shaved it all off once again.  This is the closest you may ever see to a picture of “topless LeBrains” here.

Before
After

Who are your favourite bald rockers? Do you favour Sinead O’Connor for her fearless 80’s buzz cut? Do you call it a tie between Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel? There are so many epically talented bald rockers (not looking at you, Chris Daughtry) today that it truly is hard to choose.

* Not really, but a better name than the “Bieber” which was the name of an actual fucking hair cut.