Archive for November 24th, 2009
Just as electric guitars and bass guitars have their place in music so does outrageous outfits or costumes. Earlier bands were very neat , normally wearing matching suits and ties, some groups would wear the same style jacket or suits while everyone would have coordinating colors it was like going to a wedding.
Today everybody is familiar with AC~DC, watching Angus Young with his familiar Gibson electric guitar and his likewise familiar schoolboy uniform, however he isn’t the first one to don the knickers. In the mid 60′s there was a band known as The Young Rascals today they are called The Rascals, they were the first to wear school uniforms but with them the whole band would be wearing knickers.
In the 70′s there was and still is a band perhaps you have heard of them Kiss. They are known for their highly entertaining stage performances along for their outrageous costumes. A group that shared the music scene with Kiss during the early 70′s but actually started during the mid to late 60′s is Paul Revere and the Raiders, like the attention getting costumes of Kiss and as their name implied Paul Revere and the Raiders wore colorful soldier outfits from the American Revolutionary War.
For the bands or music acts today such as Lady Ga Ga, wearing what could be called outrageous costumes today, it is not much different than some groups of earlier times.