A General Beard Thread

[adorshki]

IN response to 5thumbs' suggestion, here:

Sweetwater sold!

Their "biz casual" look is pretty forced. Looks like they had a tie on, and took it off! All white and light blue shirts - they all NEED a nice tie!! walrus

letstalkguild.com

Well, I definitely don't qualify: I started mine in 1972!

How about a general "beard" thread? That could be interesting.

ZZ Top references would abound in that thread.

From here:

Sweetwater sold!

Their "biz casual" look is pretty forced. Looks like they had a tie on, and took it off! All white and light blue shirts - they all NEED a nice tie!! walrus

letstalkguild.com

I said: "Terry, just noted a new avatar. You haven't shaved since the start of the pandemic, have you? "

Nope!

And proceed to post #28

Yeah beards have had a hard time living down that pirate thing.

And then there's these guys who wouldn't even shave their guitars

And let's face it, would you buy a used guitar from this man?


But I do miss being able to show off my tie collection.




And especially the Garcias:


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[MojoGuild]

IN response to 5thumbs' suggestion, here:

Sweetwater sold!

Their "biz casual" look is pretty forced. Looks like they had a tie on, and took it off! All white and light blue shirts - they all NEED a nice tie!! walrus

letstalkguild.com

From here:

Sweetwater sold!

Their "biz casual" look is pretty forced. Looks like they had a tie on, and took it off! All white and light blue shirts - they all NEED a nice tie!! walrus

letstalkguild.com

I said: "Terry, just noted a new avatar. You haven't shaved since the start of the pandemic, have you? "


And proceed to post #28

Yeah beards have had a hard time living down that pirate thing.

And then there's these guys who wouldn't even shave their guitars

And let's face it, would you buy a used guitar from this man?


But I do miss being able to show off my tie collection.




And especially the Garcias:

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LOL...love it

 

[walrus]

OK, I'll play. I'm still teaching, so I like to keep my beard trimmed, and more importantly my wife is much happier when I do. It's a little ragged on this Saturday morning.



And while we are at it, here's my hair before I got my first haircut after the pandemic hit. Category 2 hurricane (or a bird's nest, take your pick!).



And just to link it back to the DNA thread, here's a photo of my late father, including a beard. Clearly, hair is genetic.





walrus

 

[dreadnut]

Sorry, kinda fuzzy - the picture and the beard.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I can never get past the first 3 weeks. Of growing a beard. But gonna try to go till end of September without shaving. If I can go 4 weeks, maybe I can get over the hurdle.

 

[fronobulax]

Ambrose E. Burnside. Not Covid related. He is generally credited as the reason some beards (and facial hair) are now called sideburns instead of mutton chops. No Guild content but he was both Governor of and Senator from Rhode Island a few decades before Guild moved to Westerly.

 

[adorshki]

Ambrose E. Burnside. Not Covid related. He is generally credited as the reason some beards (and facial hair) are now called sideburns instead of mutton chops. No Guild content but he was both Governor of and Senator from Rhode Island a few decades before Guild moved to Westerly.

Double points for a general's beard in a general beard thread.

 

[JohnW63]

My wife won't let me get all facial hair on parade at all. I'm not that put off by that. I'd be afraid of how much older I would look with one. I suspect it would come in mostly a grey color. It does get darn itchy when it get going. I wonder if there is a web site for " What you would look like with a beard ? " ? Use a web cam to get your face and base the beard color off high highlights.

Update: There appears to be an App for that. I'll report the results.

The Groomtribe app from Philips. Fun. It puts a beard on your face and keeps it there even if you move your face around. The wife found it funny on my face as well as hers.

 

[JerryR]

I've had a beard since 2007 when I grew one for a Shakespeare play. Occasionally shave down to moustache or clean shaven for certain roles but here I am today - beard trimmed last week.

 

[Brad Little]

I've had facial hair pretty much since my first year at college ('66). Most often a full beard, occasionally trimmed or just a mustache. About ten years ago I went clean shaved because my facial hair was mostly a non-descript grey and I didn't like the way it looked (my scalp hair was still mostly brown for some reason). Strangely, after my chemo related depilation, my hair returned with a hew changes. First, my scalp hair, previously strait as an arrow, now has some curls, and my beard lost its gray and is once again brown, so I am back to a full beard and mustache!

 

[gjmalcyon]

I pretty much never shaved my upper lip.

Long haired, parka-clad,13 years old and walking to a friend's house one winter day, I passed a mother and small child walking in the opposite direction and heard as they passed behind me, "Mom! Mom! Was that a boy or a girl???"

Never shaved my upper lip again.

Added a goatee about 20 years ago which added a certain luciferous aspect to my countenance, according to She Who Must be Obeyed.

 

[Nuuska]

Since my beard and moustache started to grow I only once shaved them completely. What an enourmous mistake. Can't remember why I did it. Anyway - I went to friends place - he opens the door and bursts into laughter - her wife did the same. I spent maybe an hour there - not much conversation because they both were just hysterical. lesson learned

 

[rampside]

I haven't cut my hair since the heart attack a little over three years ago, and I've only trimmed damaged and uneven ends on the beard since the Fall of 2016.
If I could play Bass, I'd consider an audition for the vacancy with ZZ TOP!
I'm the right age too!

 

[Stuball48]

Rampside:
If I were a producer or director, I would hire you as a double with the OakRidge Boys - William Lee Golden.

 

[JohnW63]

A number of years ago, my wife, my son, and I saw James Taylor at the Hollywood Bowl. The band comes out and when my son spots Lee Sklar playing the bass, my kid says, " I didn't know Professor Dumbledor played the bass. "

 

[adorshki]

I pretty much never shaved my upper lip.

Me neither.

Added a goatee about 20 years ago which added a certain luciferous aspect to my countenance, according to She Who Must be Obeyed.

I've shaved mine about 8 or 9 times since the start of Covid, but the GF doesn't like it, says I look better without it, and actually she's right. It's kinda sparse and scraggly anyway.

Anyway, I now realize there's more than one reason they invented shaving, and this is one of them:


"The Halo"

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

When I was a young man my friends and I would always grow beards for the Winter. It makes a lot of sense as it keeps your face warmer for the cold season. I then started setting dates. The last day I would shave would be for Thanksgiving Dinner. Then I would shave at Easter. But instead of removing the whole beard at once, I would remove it in sections. First it would go down to a Van Dyke, then just a mustache, and then finally clean shaven. I would also let my hair grow for the winter with just a trim at Christmas. When you look at one of our photo albums you can always tell what time of year it is by my hair and beard!

When my beard began to turn gray I started dying it. The problem with that is the dye made my face itch like crazy for a week! I finally had enough of that and just let it go white!

This photo is from a couple of years ago:




This is from quite a few years ago in the Spring: (With Guild content!)




Then some years I'd do something really fun: (Much to the chagrin of my wife! And more Guild content!)




This past Winter since I lost all the weight I decided to give up the beard and long hair and stayed clean shaven and keep my hair relatively short:




Then as I always do in the Summer, I go with a buzz cut. Here is a recent photo:




As it stands right now, I think the Winter beard will be a thing of the past!

 

[GGJaguar]

Then some years I'd do something really fun: (Much to the chagrin of my wife! And more Guild content!)

The Lemmy look!

 

[Stuball48]

GofG:
Looking good in all but, certainly, different. Enjoyed that

 

[Brad Little]

When I was a young man my friends and I would always grow beards for the Winter. It makes a lot of sense as it keeps your face warmer for the cold season.

One cold January, when I lived in Nova Scotia, for some unremembered reason I shaved my full beard. I immediately went into a clothing store and bought a scarf.