You're only as old as the girl you're feeling...

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On the very excellent 'Metal Sludge' site great hilarity is made of a hopeless hair-metal-turned-nu-metal LA band whose guitarist is exposed herein as having shaved ten years off his age. OK, everybody lies, but TEN YEARS! Heh. (I think JAMC did a similar thing). Is this justified though? Is the need to appear alot younger than one is pure vanity, or rueful acknowledgement of the inevitable loss of youthful fire and fury?

― dave q, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, is it more pathetic/common/defensible/indefensible for men to lie about their age than women, and if so, why?

― dave q, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 43.

I think it's more acceptable for men because the only point in being a female musician is to be shaggable, surely? Bugger. I'm not going on tour, guys, I'm quitting the band...

― emil.y, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm. I don't know anything about this case, but would the age- shaving have put him under thirty when he started playing music? I'm told that it's almost impossible to get a music career started if you begin it if you're over thirty.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm told that it's almost impossible to get a music career started if you begin it if you're over thirty.

This statement seems pretty accurate. I mean, "a music career", isn't that something for nubile girls anyway?

― Simon, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I haven't been nubile for some time. I've been married for eight years. (Hint--look up "nubile" in the dictionary :-)) Yeah, I've also noticed that everyone hitting the charts lately seems to be barely old enough to shave.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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