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Back in the 80′s heavy metal ruled the world. It was an era of the hair band and the metal head. One band that fell into the metal head camp was Anthrax. Aggressive driven, heavy riffing, hard and fast, Anthrax was one of the first bands to emerge from the early heavy metal scene. Anthrax’s founding member and guitar player is one very bald Scott Ian.

Scott on the far right with his kinky fro like hair.

Scott Ian pictured second from the left

Scott wasn’t always rocking the bald headed look. Back when the band first started in 1981 Scott was just 18 years old and actually had hair. In early pictures of Scott you can see he grew his hair out long like every kid who joined a band did. He had that, never get a haircut for 2 years style. Basically a mop of straggle mess. Unfortunately for Scott he wasn’t born with good genes for growing rock star hair, his attempt resembled a head full of thinning pubic hair. Not Good! You can imagine how disappointed Scott must have been to be surrounded by his long haired band mates with their awesome rock star hair. Poor Scott, he only had few wisps of kinky hair on his dome to head bang to. Back in those days your coolness factor depended on your hair, it wasn’t looking good for Scott. Well he must have gone through a denial phase over his emending baldness because he still kept his hair long, even when it was obvious he was going bald.

Scott Ian with hair - Still holding on to the dream

Luckily for Scott the hair metal bands started dying off when the grunge music scene took the world by storm. This gave the average ugly dude a chance to look cool on stage just standing there in a t-shirt and jeans. Having long hair was actually becoming un-cool. Scott then went and shaved his head for the Mr. Clean look, he got a bunch of tattoos, and he actually looked cooler than when he had hair! He has made the completely shaved head rocker look his own.

Let Scott’s coming out and admitting follicle defeat inspire the thinning guys reading this. This man is an example to all balding rockers out there that you can shave it all off and still rock! Now you might have to work out a little and get a bunch of tattoos, but so what, you will be cool. Scott Ian… We salute you!