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January 7, 2005 3:31 PM   Subscribe

Babies Who Rock! (and here's Part Two)
Somehow I don't think Tommy Lee shows these photos off very often...
posted by miss lynnster (42 comments total)
 
Thanks, miss lynster. Now I know how to mock people in Portuguese.

HUAUHAUHAUHAHUAHUAHUAHUHUAHUAHUA!
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:40 PM on January 7, 2005


Hilarious. Metallica were wh*te trash even back in junior high.
posted by interrobang at 3:40 PM on January 7, 2005


in all fairness, miss lynnster, you should self-link an image of your own youthful fashion superiority.
posted by NationalKato at 3:47 PM on January 7, 2005


Why?
posted by miss lynnster at 3:48 PM on January 7, 2005


Gene Simmons looks like Mr. Thorne, my grade school principal.
posted by davebush at 3:54 PM on January 7, 2005


Won't someone please think of the rock stars! I think my new favorite phrase is "bebes do rock".
posted by helvetica at 3:54 PM on January 7, 2005


Hilarious. Metallica were wh*te trash even back in junior high.

I don't see why these photos show them as white trash. Of the three photos that have current Metallica members, two of them feature Kirk Hammet, who is not even white.

The comments here are very hostile.
posted by whoshotwho at 3:58 PM on January 7, 2005


Anyone think Lars Ulrich kept growing past age 12 while his face remained in stasis?
posted by TeamBilly at 3:59 PM on January 7, 2005


By what accounting do members of Motley Crue, Skid Row and Metallica "rock"?
posted by eustacescrubb at 4:02 PM on January 7, 2005


I don't think Tommy Lee shows these photos off very often...
Na…he went to Beverly Hills High so I’m guessing the photos were taken during drama class/club/production.
posted by thomcatspike at 4:21 PM on January 7, 2005


Holy shit! Lars really DOES look the same as when he was in elementary school!

As does Ozzy Ozbourne.

I don't know about the white trash part, but (other than the Gallagher brothers), they are all so cuuuute!
posted by Bugbread at 4:23 PM on January 7, 2005


The shot of Paul Stanley is wicked. I'm also amazed at how much some of these photos look like they could have been pulled from my own yearbooks.
posted by sharpener at 4:25 PM on January 7, 2005


*was just using the hilarious wh*te trash epithet from a certain deleted metatalk thread as a joke*
posted by interrobang at 4:28 PM on January 7, 2005


It is interesting how some people, in their baby/childhood pictures look so much like they do as adults (Paul McCartney, The Edge) while other people change quite a bit (John Lennon, Bono).
posted by kayjay at 4:35 PM on January 7, 2005


Seeing the first photo of Kurt Cobain made me sad. It's always strange to look back knowing what you know now, I guess.
posted by theFlyingSquirrel at 4:40 PM on January 7, 2005


Interrobang: See, it's "wh*te trash", not "white trash". You got us all confused.
posted by Bugbread at 4:41 PM on January 7, 2005


This...is...ADORABLE!!!
posted by fungible at 4:53 PM on January 7, 2005


Adorable? Hmm. That picture of Layne Staley is very sad.
posted by jimmythefish at 4:57 PM on January 7, 2005


Baby Slash = teh cuteness.
posted by John Shaft at 4:59 PM on January 7, 2005


Good lord, noel gallagher's eyebrows are terrifying.
posted by philscience at 5:49 PM on January 7, 2005


What's bothering me is Shirley Manson being cute. That's a bit of a clash with the current image.
posted by eriko at 6:11 PM on January 7, 2005


great post. the photos were amusing, but what I really enjoyed was the commentary. eg,
"Nikki Sixx... HUAUHAUHAUHAHUAHUAHUAHUHUAHUAHUA! Só a metal Sludge pra publicar uma foto dessas.. eu amo esses caras!"
posted by ella minnow pea at 6:17 PM on January 7, 2005


Shirley Manson back circa 1996 was hot as hell... Now, not so much...
posted by SweetJesus at 6:31 PM on January 7, 2005


I'm just surprised that Tommy Lee had trouble stuffing his package into his tights even when he was twelve.
posted by jonp72 at 6:51 PM on January 7, 2005


I must be old; I don't know who most of those people are.
posted by Doohickie at 6:55 PM on January 7, 2005


Doohickie: If you're around 40 or under, you're definitely not too old to know more than half of them, and if you're around 30 you're the right age to know all of them, but you may not have been enough into metal / rock, or know enough actual band member names (nothing wrong with that).

Since the names are on the page, but you don't recognize the names, the bands are (partial selection):

Poison, Kiss, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Guns 'n' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Marilyn Manson, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, U2, Green Day, Metallica, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, Queen, Bon Jovi, Jane's Addiction, Iron Maiden, The Ramones, Aerosmith, Sex Pistols, etc.
posted by Bugbread at 7:16 PM on January 7, 2005


This post certainly rocks.
posted by euphorb at 7:59 PM on January 7, 2005


Why?

i wasn't trying to be hostile, really. i mean, everyone has terrible photos of their youth, especially if you grew up in the 70s or 80s...i guess i just read the website comments as a bit snarky.
posted by NationalKato at 8:05 PM on January 7, 2005


theFlyingSquirrel: Seeing the first photo of Kurt Cobain made me sad. It's always strange to look back knowing what you know now, I guess.

jimmythefish: Adorable? Hmm. That picture of Layne Staley is very sad.

I was just coming in to say the same thing with respect to both. For some reason looking at those toe-headed kids feels like a punch in the gut. Maybe it's because I have a son of my own who bears some resemblence to both.

Sad, indeed.
posted by pardonyou? at 8:05 PM on January 7, 2005


Seeing the first photo of Kurt Cobain made me sad.

I've never been a fan of Kurt, but his death angered me more than it saddened me. A young man burdened with success kills himself? WTF?

I am generally a sympathetic person, and I know that mental illness is inexplicable to those who are not suffering from it, but the whole heroin thing still rankles me. Using heroin is like sticking your penis in a light socket. There are just some things you don't do, no matter how much of a tortured narcissist you are.

Most of the suicidal teenage boys I've ever known have been Kurt fans. What was his appeal, to those MeFites who appreciated him? And, no, that is not a disingenuous question.
posted by Chasuk at 8:44 PM on January 7, 2005


Kurt Cobain's appeal? Um, his music?

Hank Williams was also a self-destructive asshole, but he had a knack for writing songs that took a core sample of the human spirit -- they drilled right down to the heart of things, and the songs hurt in a very sweet way.

I don't find either man appealing, but I do find their music just about necessary to my life. (Hank especially.)
posted by argybarg at 9:12 PM on January 7, 2005


Chasuk, I was happy to see popular music turned upside down when "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came out. It was fun to watch MTV try to deal with counterculture becoming popular. Nirvana's music is pretty simple stuff; some of it is rather good, some of it is lame. There is an undeniable emotional appeal to Cobain's voice. I was disappointed, but not terribly surprised when he killed himself. Success is going to mean little if you have an emotional disability, especially if you're shooting heroin.
posted by Loudmax at 9:25 PM on January 7, 2005


Using heroin is like sticking your penis in a light socket. There are just some things you don't do, no matter how much of a tortured narcissist you are.

Some people will stick their penis into a light socket because a) they're curious if it's really as big as people say it is, and b) they're told not to.

That's one thing. narcissism has nothing to do with it.

Addiction is a whole 'nother thing, and is not so easily dismissed with "that behavior is stupid" logic.

(This from a penisless person. Still....)
posted by mudpuppie at 10:27 PM on January 7, 2005


What was [Cobain's] appeal, to those MeFites who appreciated him?

Let me take a stab at this. To some people, myself included, the fight for notoriety is also an internal war. I write for public consumption, but the idea of ever attaining any fame is terrifying. Like most others who "perform" on a public stage, I would love for my work to become popular, but bristle at the thought of ever being popular.

Recently, I was asked to write using my real name and with a headbox picture, and I didn't sleep at all the night of my first issue. I've been writing for almost ten years, why is this any different? It's too personal, that's why. As remote of a possibility as it obviously is, I would probably never leave the house again if I were approached for an autograph or whatever on the street. If I were on MTV every half-hour, I'd probably never get out of bed.

Yet, I pound out thousands of words in hopes of being the next [fill in your favorite author here], despite the fact that I don't want his/her lifestyle. I am a fan of Cobain (as well as Layne Staley), and have read numerous interviews with these two and several other "tortured" artists. It seems to me that artists who wind up killing themselves mistakenly search for personal fame when it's really their creations that they wish to see chiseled in history while they stand back in the shadows and beam with parental pride. It's certainly what I want. Cobain actively engineered the popularity of his music, but wasn't prepared at all to have his personal space molested by a salivating media.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of Paul Stanleys or Mick Jaggers in this world who revel in the spotlight, but not everyone who has an artistic gift is an extrovert.

I could go on about this for days, but in the interest of Metafilter's drive space and your patience, I'll leave it there. I admit that it all sounds like the typical bullshit Poor Little Rich Kid syndrome, but I can't explain why else I wear out keyboards and then literally cringe when someone wants to compliment my work.
posted by Electric Jesus at 11:11 PM on January 7, 2005


Kurt Cobain's appeal?

Personally, I agree with Argybarg:

I like the music.
posted by Bugbread at 4:04 AM on January 8, 2005


My girlfreind thought baby Dexter Holland was cute. I hate to admit it, but Courtney Love was an adorable kid.
posted by jonmc at 6:58 AM on January 8, 2005


Metal Sludge has a load of these as well, including Avril with braids, Lemmy looking like he belongs in The Hives, and the evolution of Ronnie James Dio.
posted by TheDonF at 7:32 AM on January 8, 2005


That Sebastian Bach picture is really amazing. Who would ever thought that this young guy would end up looking like this when he got older?

On preview: I'm too old.
posted by kika at 8:07 AM on January 8, 2005


One more thing, Chasuk: if you weeded all the self-destructive people out of your personal media/art collection, there'd be significant holes all over the place. Not just Cobain but Hendrix and Coltrane. Kerouac and Faulkner and Rimbaud. Jackson Pollack and Van Gogh. Etc.

Back on topic: never mind the cute, I like how even as a tot Dave Navarro looked like a bit of a headcase.
posted by gompa at 11:01 AM on January 8, 2005


completely disturbing. especially since the billie joe/green day guy looks like he started playing when he was 10 or something.
posted by crabcakes at 4:17 PM on January 8, 2005


Using heroin is like sticking your penis in a light socket. There are just some things you don't do, no matter how much of a tortured narcissist you are.

A narcissist? Maybe. But the reasons for his heroin abuse had nothing to do with self-image or fashion; he was self-medicating. He suffered from an extremely painful and incurable gastro-intestinal disorder called ulcerative colitis. My dad has the same thing and is constantly on heavy opiates, albeit the doctor-prescribed kind. However, unlike my dad, Kurt was a piss-poor punk-rocker with no medical insurance when he started showing symptoms.

So imagine you're poor and in a small mill-town where it's easier to score drugs than it is to find a gastro-enterologist who will treat you for free: what's the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to keep yourself out of debilitating pain?

Of course by the time he made it famous he could have had any number of doctors treat him properly - too bad it's not that easy to kick heroin.
posted by kidhuevos at 7:54 PM on January 8, 2005


bugbread: Thanks for the listing of artists. I got some of them, but as you suspected, as an over-40 guy (not by that much, mind you), a lot of those guys are after my time. The artists I knew: Kiss, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Ramones and Aerosmith. The rest of them, while I may recognize the band names and the music, are anonymous to me as individuals. Bono was on the border.
posted by Doohickie at 5:37 AM on January 10, 2005


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