Ron Wood is reportedly bald - his trademark rooster-tail hair is a wig

Elvira · October 21st, 2006, 02:02 PM

Les MacPherson, The StarPhoenix

One last, jarring leftover from the Rolling Stones show: Ron Wood is reportedly bald. His trademark, rooster-tail hair is a wig.

According to the Regina Leader-Post, Wood was seen between concerts without his wig, walking his dog in a downtown park. He was described as "bald." Not balding. Not thinning. Bald. This was more shocking to me than the stabbing at Altamont.

Among the most fundamental of my beliefs was that Ron Wood had the best hair in all of rock. To be told now that it's really a wig casts into doubt everything else I believe. Thus have I fallen into an existential funk, the depths of which have not been plumbed since I learned that the Monkees were not really playing their own instruments.

In retrospect, my naivete amazes me. Ron Wood is 59. For a man that age to have a full mop of jet-black, rock star hair is beyond unlikely. I should have known it couldn't be genuine. That's what stings.

In a world full of deception, sham and fakery, there's only one thing now that I can be sure of: Ron Wood has the best wig in all of rock.

Source: http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarp...b-6b4d80bc9969

buttmunch · October 23rd, 2006, 07:01 AM

Oh, that's kind of cute. He's such a harmless little guy that I can't think of anything shitty to say.

A*O · October 23rd, 2006, 05:47 PM

I watched a docco about the massive free concert the Stones did in Rio a while back and I remember thinking how lucious, thick and dark these 60yr old men's hair was. I think Mick and Keef's hair is all theirs - but dyed, natch. I can imagine Ron in a wig and I'm not sure about Charlie because he keeps his hair cropped short anyway. PS When Keef finally kicks the bucket I think he should donate his body to science to find out how one fragile human body can withstand DECADES of extreme abuse.