A Real Tasty Geezer

A90Six

A Real Tasty Geezer

A Real Tasty Geezer
This was me sometime back in late 78. I had left my old job in a timber yard where I was earning £45 a week for a new job working on a building site on Oxford Street as a labourer for £75 a week. It was mega-bucks at the time.

The only problem with the job was that my glorious hair (not back-combed – that’s just how it looked when brushed down), which came halfway down my back when wet and in natural ringlets, would get full of bits of brick and cement and I just couldn’t get it out.

The hair or the money? The hair or the money? The hair or the money?

The money won and I had to say good bye to the hair. Before visiting the barber, I went to Harrow-on-the-Hill station to use the photo machine so I could have this shot of my crowning glory for posterity (and to look at and lament on cold winter nights).

The removal of all this insulation was a great shock! I couldn’t believe how cold the head could get. I decided to get a hat and the choice I had was between a blue bobble hat or a trilby. I went with the trilby and I still wear a version of it to this day – see profile pic.

Featured in the Self Portrait group, 12th Nov ‘08.

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A Real Tasty Geezer by A90Six
A Real Tasty Geezer by A90Six
  • midzing

    midzing

    omg… look at that hair….great 70’s… image,,,

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Wendy! Note the collarless shirt too!
                                            :) Tony.

  • georgieboy98

    georgieboy98

    There must be a comment I can make….............there MUST be! But I have a photo of my eldest son similarly coiffeured so I can’t say TOO much. And you have a shirtless collar too! Crikey mate, you WERE with it! Peter

  • A90Six replied

    It was so in back then with all the footballers, pop and rock stars all having huge curly hair. Women would stop me in the street wanting to touch it. How things change!
                                            :) Tony.

  • Pip Gerard

    Pip Gerard

    That’s an af to be proud of!!!
    I love the wear and tear to the pic too… as though it’s been in your wallet for 30 years (perhaps it was…. to periodically lament over?)
    Very serious face… was it because you felt angry over being practically forced to cut perhaps?

    And the hands are intriguing? Judging by the height… I would assume they’re not yours? (could be wrong)

    so much character here.

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Pip! They’re my hands (don’t know why I did it) and the moody look was just a teenager moody look showing how cool I was (although cool wasn’t used here in the 70s unless it referred specifically to cucumbers – tasty was the word of the day).
                                            :) Tony.

  • Pip Gerard

    Pip Gerard

    how funny – maybe tasty will make a comeback.
    the hands show your creativity.
    Pip

  • A90Six replied

    Maybe it will! “Tasty” was cool, but with a hint of moody, tough and “don’t mess with the best” thrown in!
                                            :) Tony.

  • hilarydougill

    hilarydougill

    shades of Marc Bolam, haha Wonderful capture, wonderful imagery, wonderful hair. hugsxxx

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Hilary! Yes, very Bolanesque! I was a big fan of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, Roy Wood in Wizzard.
    :) Tony.

  • vadim19

    vadim19

    The hair is great. Love the story.

  • A90Six replied

    thanks vadim1
                                            :) Tony.

  • izzybeth

    izzybeth

    Yes. Now that is big hair. Boooo… whoooo… sometimes we have to choose between two evils!!! And I too had Super-big hair.

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks izzy! From the back it looked like I had a giant head!
                                            :) Tony.

  • SaRaHKnOwDoG

    SaRaHKnOwDoG

    You look like King Buzzo from The Melvins !!! : o
    If i didn’t have such a wierd shaped skull i would shave all my hair off in a flasH ! It just gets in the way. And like you say a hat fixes that. I’m glad i chopped off my daggy old Long hair.

  • A90Six replied

    Shave it off! It’s cool to be different! There is a shot of your Skull in the Odd Heads group.
    http://bp1.blogger.com/_scQG3wZxdPI/RsMq3iS2JeI/AAAAAAAAArk/DignJmQYVaM/s1600-h/mikey-skullLG.jpg

  • Squealia

    Squealia

    OMG LMAO WHAT HAIR THAT WOULD HAVE WON THE NIFFIEST HAIR DO>>>>> GO SO FUNNY!!!!!

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Celia! My Pride & Joy has you in fits! Good thing I had it all shaved off, ay!
                                            :) Tony.

  • SaRaHKnOwDoG

    SaRaHKnOwDoG

    Yep ! Thats me brother. Thats a friggin Cool mikey skull : ]

  • sigfusson

    sigfusson

    Oh, I never thought I’d ever see this Tony. I remember you telling me about the wild hair of your youth and I thought you were exaggerating simply to entertain me. I was in London around that time, but had I seen a fellow with hair like that I’d have remembered it for a lifetime. I love that you found this old shot and shared it here. Maybe you’ll start a trend and we’ll all find images of ourselves from our youth to share!!!! You are a brave man Charlie Brown. Hugs, 30 S.

  • A90Six replied

    thanks Sandra! I knew I had it somewhere and had to do a lot of digging around to find it, but here it is! I wonder if there’s a 70s group with tank tops, platforms and bell-bottom trousers?
    :) T

  • Tessa Bishop

    Tessa Bishop

    You haven’t really changed all that much Tony – you still have that worn, crumpled look. Actually, for all we know you could still have all that hair under the hat …...

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Tessa! Yes not much of a change I suppose, still have the sepia coloured skintones too! I was wearing the hat at the time – it was the hat that was under the hair.
                                            :) Tony.

  • Mayina

    Mayina

    This is awesome Tony. Even I never saw anyone with that much hair in that era, great photo…............

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Gwenda! I was always the rebel!
                                            :) Tony.

  • Pamela B

    Pamela B

    Excellent Tony! My hair looks like that now when I wake up in the mornings lol
    Love that 70’s look and great story! How oftentimes we try to forget the old days, don’t we?

  • A90Six replied

    Never forget, never surrender, never say die, never the twain, never say never! I’m all nevered out!
                                            :) Tony.

  • andreisky

    andreisky

    Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! So cool! just wonder where I can find my photo with hair :(

  • A90Six replied

    Ha! I’m sure you’ll find it somewhere just as I did! Thanks Andrei!
                                            :) Tony.

  • mrscarlotta

    mrscarlotta

    OOOHHHHH MY HON THAT IS SOME SHOT, AMAZING HOW THINGS CHANGE, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Carlotta! One day you’re cool, then you’re hot and before you can work out what the temperature change means, you’re luke-warm!
                                            :) Tony.

  • mrscarlotta

    mrscarlotta

    LMAO, Well said hon, lol xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Carlotta!
                                            :) Tony.

  • Sharon Mau

    Sharon Mau

    I love the bio and learning about the story behind the image. Your hair was amazing and I love how you processed this image, it is fascinating. Congratulations on your feature!

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Sharon!
                                            :) Tony.

  • DavidMark

    DavidMark

    Man, what a hair-do!! Didn’t you just love the 70’s!!! I guess you also had impossibly tight jeans to go with it too?? (nice vintage treatment on the shot) =)

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks David! Everything needed to accompany the look!
                                            :) Tony.

  • syd baker

    syd baker

    Great story, great look, my own long-locks-sheared decision came after being mistaken for a filthy-dirty Dead Head (fanatic Grateful Dead followers who stop washing or trimming or brushing or bathing period) quite unpleasant. Kept a picture, never really regretted it, now watching the exodus of the hair like the migration of the wildebeests!

  • A90Six replied

    Mine went like the migration of the swallows. Just up and flew away one fine day!
                                            :) Tony.

  • barnsis

    barnsis

    Oh Wow, now that is what we call a “fro” short for “Afro”

  • A90Six replied

    Thanks Barnsis! Pretty fly (for a white guy)!
                                            :) Tony.

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