The Hair Band Guy

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not like fear wasnt pimping them selfs out, i remeber seeing lee ving on whos the boss, the decline of western civilazation and the movie clue.


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You gotta throw in Streets of Fire also.

 

o.k. I guess Poison was punk then. . . ha ha ha

Let me know when 70's Nova's become traditional hot rods. . . .

 

buy yourself an Oldsmobile,then you can be a Rocketeer! (that's what us guys who run Olds or Rocket engines call ourselves) leadsledolds is thinking about selling his...

 

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not like fear wasnt pimping them selfs out, i remeber seeing lee ving on whos the boss, the decline of western civilazation and the movie clue.


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You gotta throw in Streets of Fire also.

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not to mention Flashdance

 

hey Rikki!
it's Heath here from Indianapolis (Ton Up Club Indy & Emperors Hot Rod & Kustom C.C.). yeah, i'm on this board too. glad to see your back online again after the '04 tour. like everybody says, there are a lot of great people on this board, but a lot of cocksuckers too. i can't believe this is a 5 page long thread and plowboy still hasn't posted. he must be in the garage working on his new top secret project.

 

There are plenty of HAMBers that had big hair
Should I post the picture?
Clark

 

hey man, welcome. show some pictures of the bikes, and other stuff. your list doesnt show and 30's cars. whats up with that? its good to see you drive your shit though. i think most of us around here do. i want to see some of this pinstriping to. its stuff i really dig, but im not talented enough to pinstripe. shakey hands.


welcome to the hamb!

trey

 

Welcome! Glad you're a car/bike guy. I was a big fan of Poison back in the day. I still have your cassettes somewhere.

 

Awesome, I was hoping you'd come back. I loved your pinstriped toilet seat diary you did.

I had the hair and I played Poison in multiple bands back in the day. Now all that hair is gone (not by choice ) and I'm bald playing in a rockabilly band sans pomp. Isn't it fun the little twists life gives you. My g/f was a little young for that era, but she loves you guys to this day.


Yeah, WHERE is Aaron??

 

Howdy Rikki, I can't say I dig your taste in cars, but the bikes are a different story.
I've got a '63 Triumph T100SC, the high pipe scrambler model. It hasn't moved in years and it's my fault. I've been promising to get it ready for my wife to ride, but it just keeps getting put on the back burner.

BTW, I saw you guys at the HOB just a couple of months ago. I'm no huge Poison fan but I loved it. Y'all were totally unpretentious and quite simply rocked. It looked like you were truly enjoying yourselves, which is more than I can say for some of the lame assed poseurs that around today.
It took a lot more guts to have a stupid floppy fringed hairdo in '79 than it does to be sleeved today.

I love your pinstriping, you're really good.

It seems that some of you guys are getting caught up about nothing, there are quite a few respected artists on the HAMB that don't have 'traditional' cars, get over it.

 

R/R...Action Girl threatened me with a Boob-Boxing if I didn't welcome you.....
The rest of you need to do your homework....the NEW YORK DOLLS were O.G. HAMB material....Thunders had a chopped 3 window & Johansen had a shitbox with "Too Much Too Soon" lettered on it by "Da Mook", famous East coast pinstriper in the 70's......

 

Aye, alas my fiancee was prime for those days. And she retains a phenomenal mental library of pop metal knowledge. She has left some in a state of awe and utter metal breakdown to the breadth of her knowledge. I walked the darker, heavier line then, so it leads to interesting discourse between us at times.

Welcome Rikki, I might have to converse on some Brit knowledge with you. Stacey has talked nothing but how good a guy you are.

 

Here's one of my Pork Pie drum kit from last year. The idea was to mock a '69 Superbee

 

"Limousines
Champagne
Get my clothes
Custom made

I take handfuls of pills
Trash my house in the hills
Smash up my car
Just to get me my thrills


I wanna be a big rock star, yeah
I wanna drive a big black car, yeah
All the girls will strum on my guitar
When I'm a big rock star"



man, they'll let anyone in here


welcome to the hamb, bro!
let's see some more photos...

tred.

 

I walked the darker, heavier line then, so it leads to interesting discourse between us at times.

Welcome Rikki, I might have to converse on some Brit knowledge with you. Stacey has talked nothing but how good a guy you are.

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I have been there with a woman who was all about R&B (the new , lame stuff). It didn't work out and I wasn't surprized.

Sure, hit me up with Brit stuff. If I don't know, I'll find out. I am lucky enough to have a worldwide connection to all kinds of folks.

"Rock 'N' Roll has always been about haircuts and shoes."
- David Lee Roth

 

I have to say that I really respect you as a musician and drummer. I'm a semi-professional myself. I don't consider playing in bars to drunks "all the way" professional!

But with all due respect Riki, I think everyone is forgettign the other Rick..............Rick James Bitch!

 

Ya can't forget Rick James!

Oddly enough, my Mother wanted my middle name to be James after her Mother's maiden name. Can you imagine?!

Thanks man!

 

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I don't consider playing in bars to drunks "all the way" professional!

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BTW: Fuck all that! If you get paid and people come to see you, you are a pro! End of story.

 

My '74 Commando.

 

Damn, that's a beauty!!!

 

Great to see you here I remember when Tony first put a link to your stuff on pinstriper.com I had to check it out to see if the drummer and pinstriper were the same guy . I didnt know till now who you learned from thats great I love his work.and your stories about pinstriping the toilet seats in hotels instead af trashing the room show you have class but watch out barnett is the rockstar of the HAMB

 

Nice stuff Rikki! By the way if you were thinking of coming out to Shundo's, hold off. The place got flooded and he had to close up for a short time. He should be back in business soon. Satin (Troy)

 

Rikki I saw your stuff on pinstripper.com also, very good stuff man welcome to the H.A.M.B. By the way my wife hasn't shut up since I told her you made a post she's a big fan!

 

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another cool band from the 80s that were in to hot rods were zz top

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You saying that ZZTop was from the 80's? ZZTop has been together since the dawn of time.

Oh - hey, welcome to the HAMB. Sometimes we talk about cars.

 

rikki-
Where do you guys get those mirrors that fit in the end of the handlebars? I assume those brit bikes have 7/8 bars? Thanks-

 

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I used to rock and roll all night and party every day.


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I always tought it was rock and roll all night and part of every day? Now it makes more sense.

 

Always wanted a "Snortin' Norton" myself. I did have a beat-up Bonnie for a while. They were too hard to get parts for so I switched to the Japanese copy Yamaha 650. I turned over the odometer on that one. Flat wore it out. Never got into the little Hondas. I went for the Hodakas, Had an Ace 100 and a "Combat Wombat". Loved those Chrome tanks and fenders. Moved up to Greeves and I think I can say there aren't too many deer trails within a couple hundred miles that I didn't ride. If I could have any bike I wanted, it would be a Norton Commando tho. It's the "Deuce" of the bike world to me.

 

I graduated in '87 so needless to say, I listened to your Music. I was more into DIO, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, etc, but the Girls didn't want to listen to that stuff. They wouldn't even get in the car with you unless you had a Poison or Cinderella tape....

 

Welcome to the HAMB.

If for some reason they made a movie of my life, the soundtrack would include some of your music. Good times...

LP

 

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I don't consider playing in bars to drunks "all the way" professional!

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BTW: Fuck all that! If you get paid and people come to see you, you are a pro! End of story.

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Haha, we got paid $30 (total! divided by 4 guys...) to play to 20 people last night. It was fun though!

That Commando rules.

SO, since you're selling your truck, what are you gonna look for next? Hot Rod? Kustom? 10 more trumps?