A New Free Hobby: Growing my hair out again.

[8bit]

I’m only 39 but decided to grow my hair out about two years ago. I had long hair as a teenager into my early 20s and always kinda missed it. One day I looked around and noticed most of my friends my age were already bald or severely balding anyway. So I figured might as well go for it while I know I still can.

I love it. It’s well last shoulders at this point. Made some greys more noticeable but I’m okay with that. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned how people respond to you differently as a musician with long hair versus short. I haven’t noticed any difference in that regard. But I do notice some kinda look at me different now. Not people I know but strangers. Some people tend to look at me warily, or as if I might be a threat or something. Nothing major but it’s noticeable anyway.

I don’t particularly care for that but I get it. Long wild hair gives off a different vibe than short and tidy does. Same as baggy jeans and a wifebeater gives off a different vibe than a business suit.

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

No way do I want long hair again.

I understand that from a lot of different perspectives.

 

[Toto'sDad]

Going the opposite direction. I'm seriously considering a buzz cut for the summer. I haven't had one since I was a lad. I'm thinking it will make grooming super easy, not that I'm all that concerned with grooming. A friend of mine said that my grey hair, and goatee made me look old, (that's being generous it's white). I replied, I AM OLD DUFUS. When you're as old as I am, the only way to disguise being old, is to wear a ski-mask.

 

[GibbyTwin]

Let mine go a couple years ago when everything got shut down. The barbershop I went to went out of business and I didn't want to go to one of those 'stylist-type' places. I just pulled it back and tied it off. Been doing that ever since, every once in a while chopping off a little at the ends. Every time I brush it I get strands that get left behind in the brush. As that continues I assume at some point the question of cutting it will be moot.

 

[Dr Improbable]

I've been rocking the "Wizard" look for ages:

 

[pippoman]

My hair reaches my waist……. My nose hair that is.

 

[Andy B]

I keep my hair relatively short these days. Same with my beard with the exception of my goatee which is getting long enough to get caught in zipper. With brown hair and gray beard it attracts attention.

 

[ReverendRevolver]

I stopped cutting mine due to busy work schedule right before the plague, and opted to just let it be long again. I'd gotten over the awkward unmanageable part where you can't pull it back, so figured why not. I'd had long hair from teenage years up to mid 20s. Those few years with short hair taught me that it's not really less work. Removing haircuts and bad hair days and having to fight it or have the wife say it should be styled..... no thanks. Shortest it'll go now will be long enough to pull back and short enough for a comically large pompadour. And that's just a maybe.

 

[staxman]

I bet you look great!

 

[P Thought]

hi P thought long time no viddie droogie

“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”
― Anthony Burgess, A ClockWork Orange

Hi p-clicka! I'm glad to see the floods didn't sweep you into the bay. And thanks for the title quote. I either missed it or forgot it, guess I'd better read the book again. Fiction is our friend.

P.S. Smartin' off about hair, I had to go back and look before I remembered that this thread isn't really about hair. Me too, man. I'm 4 or 5 years behind you, but the infirmities seem to be overtaking the firmities that I used to take so much for granted. No complaints though. Give me 20 more years or 20 more minutes, overall I'm satisfied.

 

[Jxff]

I had a good reason to visit this forum again, as I have been hanging out with the bassists for the last 7 years, a MJT tele build. I moved over to bass because of the neuropathy in my finger tips wasn't going away. The thicker strings of a short scale bass was less painful to play then my youngest daughter's 3/4 Duo Sonic with 9's. Caused by a life extending cancer treatment, it was a good problem to have. Being told "enjoy the time you have left" turned into "you are having a wonderful remission" and finally "you are completely cured". During that time I adopted a philosophy... take the good. I recently turned 60 and now 16 years since a stage four cancer diagnosis, in an hour, I will be teaching my oldest to drive. The grin I have on my face, isn't from the fun of the tele build about to start, it is all about taking the good. Teaching my eldest daughter to drive, a very good thing. I kinda wonder though, I logged in to asked about pickups and the first thread I read is this one. I was hesitant about building a 25 1/2" scale guitar, but now I know it's a good thing. As for my hair, it grew all the way down my back.

 

[GeneB]

More salt than pepper I'm 3mm on sides and 7mm on top. Mustache is white, I shaved off goatee for New Year as it too was white and I was fussy trimming it.

Note: I used to worry what people thought about my looks. As I got older I didn't care what people thought about my looks. Now I'm old enough to realize no one was ever really looking anyway.

 

[Dadzmad]

I had fairly long hair in the 70's with a tail - cut it off in 1980. Moved to CA last year and have grown it out and sport a tail. Now I blend in, looking like every other 69 year old white boy in the Ranch Market.

 

[gitold]

When I got divorced I started to grow out my hair so I could put it in a pony tail. It got to my shoulders and I gave up. We already had a grey haired pony tail guy at work named Otis and we didn’t need another.

 

[Jupiter]

For every thing you do, one of these days will be the last time you do it, and you might not see it coming.

For example, the last time I played pickup basketball was February 2020, and it took a couple of years before it sank in that there really might not be a next time.

 

[brookdalebill]

When I got divorced I started to grow out my hair so I could put it in a pony tail. It got to my shoulders and I gave up. We already had a grey haired pony tail guy at work named Otis and we didn’t need another.

My friend Bob has great, long grey hair.
More hair than a human being, I tell him.
Occasionally, when he and I disagree, I’ll say “Look Emmylou, …….