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That's pretty good. If you ever see Deadbolt, you will hear a lot of
anti long-hair sentiment.
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:33:42 -0700 "Marty Tippens"
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> You are correct, Bill, the scars run deep.
>
> Rick Griffin, who illustrated the Challengers album covers, did a
> cartoon in the early '60's that reflected the mind of many surf
> music and pre-Beatles rock fans. I think it's reprinted in John
> Blair's book and/or the Dumb Angel Gazette. A surfer kid comes upon
> a long hair with ruffled shirt and Beatle boots and asks, "What are
> you?" and the hipster replies with something such as, "Ya gotta have
> long hair to be cool" and it goes on from there. Griffin's attitude
> is clearly that the long hairs are a bunch a phonies. I know some
> older folks on the Ventures list who still carry that anti-long hair
> attitude.
>
> The Boss Martians do a very clever homage to this circa '64 attitude
> on their "13 Evil Tales" CD in a song called, "Long Hair Lenny".
> It's a 1997 tune but sounds as if it could very well have been a
> cut on a Trashmen album. "Long Hair Lenny took my girl
> away"..."Looked like a chick from head to socks". Very well done.
>
> -Marty
