Have you ever looked the part of a rock star etc?

[Barking Spiders]

Ah, remember them good old days of going through the musicians/bands wanted ads at the back of Melody Maker. I'd make a habit of auditioning for bands that were quite well known at the time just for the hell of it, knowing that was as close to being a rock star  as I'd ever get.  It became crystal clear I  just didn't look the part . At the time I was a pretty decent drummist and not butt ugly but in the late 80s image was pretty much order of the day and I just looked well,  uninteresting I spose. I wasn't 'glamorous' in a Duran kinda way and I wasn't seedy, dirty rock n' roll incarnate like Guns n Roses.  Doesn't anyone else think that had they looked more the part,  they might now be sunning themselves at their £10m beach hideaway  in the Seychelles ?

[Cat Burrito]

I definitely looked the part - I did miss the part with the £10m beach hideaway however... unless by £10m beach hideaway you mean getting signing on and going back to a grotty bedsit?! In which case, I can tick that box 100%!

[EliasMooseblaster]

I don't know about "rock star" per se, but I think I've managed to a aqcuire a "look"...I recall going for a drink with some former colleagues a few years ago. Having not seen any of them for a while, one of them asked me, "so what are you up to these days?"

Before I could reply, his wife stopped me and said "no, wait, let me guess...you're a musician, aren't you?"

"Why yes," I (probably) replied, smugly, "Yes, I am. Though," I continued, somewhat less smugly, "...not really enough to make a living out of it."

[Bluewine]

Me, I've never had rock star looks. I look like an insurance clauns adjuster.

I have seen some guys that were fantastic rock musicians but didn't have the look and it held them back 

Blue

[davepb24]

A mate once accused me of looking like Jim Morrison...

[Lozz196]

Yeah, around 85/86 I had a look similar to The Cult/Hanoi Rocks. Rather ironically it was at a time when I wasn`t in a band but looked like I was in one, rather than since then when I`ve been in bands but haven`t looked like I was.

[leschirons]

In the very early seventies, I had the look. Lots of hair, 27" waist and sprayed on pants ( as in trousers, not Y-fronts)

I auditioned for T-Rex (drums) and got a second audition. Unbeknown to me, and all of us at the auditions,  Bill had already been approached and had already recorded a few tracks. Anyway,  obviously, I didn't get the job. My then wife to be however, still maintains to this day that I lost out because I was too good looking for Marc Bolan to have on stage with him.

Well that's her story and I'm making sure she's sticking to it 😂

Probably did me a favour really as I suppose he could've offered me a lift home at some point.

[skankdelvar]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Me, I've never had rock star looks. 

... he said, looking like a like a total rock star 

[Frank Blank]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

Yeah, around 85/86 I had a look similar to The Cult/Hanoi Rocks. Rather ironically it was at a time when I wasn`t in a band but looked like I was in one, rather than since then when I`ve been in bands but haven`t looked like I was.

Some kind of inverse formula going on I think, the times when I wasn’t in a band were the times when I most looked like someone in a band.

Edited May 10, 2018 by Frank Blank

[leschirons]

11 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

... he said, looking like a like a total rock star 

I would've agreed had it not been for the giraffe print giant table cloth behind him.

[mikel]

Back in the early 70s I looked the part. Skinny, long haired and had no problem getting women. The down side?  I didnt have the rock star talent. Still dont. 

[Cat Burrito]

 

Many years ago (early 90s) Live at The Marquee. We went to obscurity after the show! (in case you haven't grasped that this is Basschat, I'm on the bass - one would hope that didn't need pointing out!?).

[Cosmo Valdemar]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

Yeah, around 85/86 I had a look similar to The Cult/Hanoi Rocks. Rather ironically it was at a time when I wasn`t in a band but looked like I was in one, rather than since then when I`ve been in bands but haven`t looked like I was.

Pics, Lozz!

[The59Sound]

I think attitude is as important as the look. 

[skankdelvar]

28 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

Many years ago (early 90s) Live at The Marquee. 

Oh yes. Deffo a rock star.

[Count Bassy]

6 hours ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

I don't know about "rock star" per se, but I think I've managed to a aqcuire a "look"...I recall going for a drink with some former colleagues a few years ago. Having not seen any of them for a while, one of them asked me, "so what are you up to these days?"

Before I could reply, his wife stopped me and said "no, wait, let me guess...you're a musician, aren't you?"

"Why yes," I (probably) replied, smugly, "Yes, I am. Though," I continued, somewhat less smugly, "...not really enough to make a living out of it."

Was it the old clothes, holes in your shoes, and empty wallet that gave it away?

 

Edited to add: PS that's a comment on most musicians I know - not on your good self of course.

Edited May 10, 2018 by Count Bassy

[Lozz196]

1 hour ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Pics, Lozz!

Pretty much none exist, Ben. A couple of me looking rather like Sid Vicious before the hair got longer, but none us took cameras around back then, we`d have just lost or broke them when hammered, which was every night.

[EliasMooseblaster]

11 hours ago, Count Bassy said:

Was it the old clothes, holes in your shoes, and empty wallet that gave it away?

 

Edited to add: PS that's a comment on most musicians I know - not on your good self of course.

To be fair, even now that I have a regular income I have a dreadful habit of not buying new clothes until the old ones start falling apart. At least back then I had the excuse that I was skint!

[bertbass]

Always.

[police squad]

That's me at the front. The guy with the tats ended up drumming with Bernie Torme.

This is 1990 and that's Dover Castle at the back

[MacDaddy]

19 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Yeah, around 85/86 I had a look similar to The Cult/Hanoi Rocks. Rather ironically it was at a time when I wasn`t in a band but looked like I was in one, rather than since then when I`ve been in bands but haven`t looked like I was.

where's the empathy button when you need one 

[Leonard Smalls]

Here's me looking rockfish at the Marquee, 1990-something...

 

[uk_lefty]

I think I "looked the part" of cheap Mark King immitator but only playing fingertyle (if you ignore the shorts that I still get stick for off the band!!!)... Only problem being thirty years late!

Edited May 11, 2018 by uk_lefty

[Steve Browning]

Nuremberg - 1993. To answer the question - no!!

[Burns-bass]

I don’t look like a rock star but my mother in law owns a house in the Seychelles that’s forms the entire of my wife’s retirement provision.