Musicians' image

[willywonka666]

I pay a lot of attention to and find it interesting when anyone, changes their appearance. This may sound shallow, and most everyone will say "looks shouldn't matter, etc" but here is my take anyway.

I'll give an example of the band Metallica, This is a classic pic of the band


And this is them today


Now I know times change, and people get older, but dammit, they don't look interesting.

Now they don't owe me anything, but I myself would find myself more excited for them and interested if they looked somewhat the way they did during the glory days.


Whether you like their new material or not, no one can deny, their glory days were pre 1996.

I'm just saying, does anyone else here know what I mean or have any examples of someone's appearance or image changing, and you just kinda lose some interest?

I mean, I would probably go see them in concert, but there is an element missing and I think people downplay image too much sometimes.

Thoughts?

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

it's not always about the image. 50-year-old thrash metal rockers often look ridiculous if they try to remain looking like they're 20. Some people can pull of looking the same and still look young (i.e. Robb Flynn of Machine Head, who is around 45 and still looks young and not ridiculous despite having long hair, beard, piercings, etc.). However, someone like Tom Araya looks much older by trying to keep his young image and would benefit from a makeover.