Glam Rock Influence

[pamela7]

I've been wondering, that two of my favourite groups duting my formative pre-adolescence/adolescence had crossdressers in their ranks, and this whole glam rock thing feels so CD - being glam! Below is the link to the wiki page on glam rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam_rock

The wiki page refers to the rocky horror picture show as stylistically influenced by glam rock.

wondered if anyone else was strongly influenced by this style?

xxx Pamela

[Rhonda Jean]

Can't say I was actually influenced, but some other people thought I was. It made a plausible excuse.

[CynthiaD]

No, not influenced in the least. A rock show is just that. A show. A work of fiction designed to entertain. Not to be taken seriously. The performers dress up because it's part of the costume, not because of any real inclination to do so. There are a lot of glam rockers who hated the costumes they had to wear.

[Tina_gm]

I was mostly too young at the time of the glam rock movement. The 80's rock and heavy metal hair bands on the other hand..... Hard to tell the female groupies from the band members. In some ways, I think the hair bands might have been more feminine than the glam rock bands.

[AllieSF]

I would think that any influence would be of a liberating type, i.e. they can do it, other groups are doing it, why can't I do it. I would think that it could help the closet dresser maybe be in a better place to accept what they are doing because they can actually see someone doing something similar, and for other more advanced in the dressing, maybe to give them more courage to go out into the real world. For me, there has been no affect besides my earlier thoughts about groups like that, "Boy, they sure dress weird and over the top!".

[AnnaMarie]

Possibly not influence. But I was in a band in my 20's - a glam rock band (listen to the new breed - Poison, Pretty Boy Floyd etc). I wore my girlfriends clothes, eye liner etc and got away with it!

[Shinya]

Glam . yep yep .

Like to add this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei

hope that is ok

Visual kei blows me away ,

[Wen4cd]

No, not influenced in the least. A rock show is just that. A show. A work of fiction designed to entertain. Not to be taken seriously. The performers dress up because it's part of the costume, not because of any real inclination to do so. There are a lot of glam rockers who hated the costumes they had to wear.

And yet there are a lot who invented the genre specifically because they were being true to themselves and their inclinations, and finding a healthy creative outlet for them.

What I can't take seriously is someone who demands to be taken seriously. I have a lot more respect for those who respect the worth of absurdity and nonsense.

[Ally 2112]

When i seen a picture of the band sweet back in the 70's they were very glam .Then it came back in the 90's with bands like poison .It is not like these bands inspired me i was already there :)

[Nikkilovesdresses]

I've read in a number of different sources that it wasn't uncommon to see a man wearing kohl (eye liner) in the 1920s, at the right kind of party. Debauchery and excess, vice in general, were mostly the prerogative of the upper class, and crossdressing certainly took place at that time too- m:f and f:m. Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, the story of a transitioning f:m. The 2nd World War drove a lot of exhibitionist behaviour back underground, and the 1950s were an ultra conservative era of social wound-licking, but the 1960s saw the reemergence of self expression and extrovertism, gathering momentum to the '70s, with its full flowering in the likes of Marc Bolan, Sweet, David Bowie et al.

Speaking of the Thin White Dude, I wonder how many members know that anorexia has flourished for centuries, if not forever. The tradition of Elizabethan ladies swooning didn't come about because they were more timid then, it's because those ladies starved themselves to fit into corsetted dresses, following the example of good Queen Bess, who had a 21" waist. This was still going on in the 1920s- the Flapper look was thinness to the point of androgyny- and the tradition continues to flourish. There were a few Glam Rockers who liked their bacon sandwiches, but the coolest ones were generally the thinnest.

We're a long way from the Venus of Willendorf.

[bimini1]

Yes I've been influenced by the original glam rockers. Bowie, New York Dolls, early Alice Cooper, T Rex, the lesser known Jobriath. When I first saw these folks as a child I was drawn in by the visual impact and almost certainly both inspired and influenced by it, even though it was entertainment it still had an effect on me.

[LexiNexi]

The band poison was a bit too girly. I always wondered about them...