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Pomade- it's not easy being greasy

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Apr 2, 2008 11:46 p.m. Zuma:

EVERETT: Hold on there - I don't want this pomade, I want Dapper Dan.

PROPRIETOR: I don't carry Dapper Dan. I carry Fop.

EVERETT: I don't want Fop, Goddamnit - I'm a Dapper Dan man!

PROPRIETOR: Watch your language, young fellow, this is a public market. Now, if you want Dapper Dan I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks.

EVERETT: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity - two weeks from everywhere! Forget it! Just the dozen hairnets!

Later...

EVERETT: And I like the smell of my hair treatment - the pleasing odor is half the point.

And just because it's such a great line...

EVERETT: Pete, it's a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
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Apr 3, 2008 1:53 a.m. Calamity Man:

Layrite for me at the time being. I'm fixin' to get me some of that Sweet Georgia Brown, see how that works out. but I have to say I'm really lovin' this vanilla scent, and it washes out like gel!
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Apr 3, 2008 9:41 a.m. hellbilly:

The Layrite just ain't cuttin' it for me - too waxy - gonna give the Sweet Georgia Brown a try!
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Jul 2, 2008 11:37 a.m. greasykidstuff:

I hear you jukebox, thanks for that advice. My barber just informed me he is moving away. I think I may move away from the pomp and just try to find a barber who can give me a good old fashioned taper-cut with a side parting for less maintanance. I remember this haircut as a kid and how my dad used to drag me to the bathroom on sundays and school picture day to grease my hair down with Vitalis or Groom n Clean and then he would expertly slick it back away from the forehead in a neat little quiff... I hated that haircut back in the 70's/ early 80's... now I kinda think it would be cool.
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Jul 2, 2008 11:46 a.m. bigfoot yancy:

Hey Greasy... Saw you are from Tulsa. Is Deadtown tavern still around?

Tulsa is the closest Whattaburger. Yum.
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Jul 2, 2008 12:00 p.m. sassy:

If I let my "Ring of Hair" grow long and put red Pomade in it and pull it straight out on the sides I think I would look just like Bozo the Clown
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Jul 2, 2008 12:05 p.m. sassy:

Darn....Can't get a pic to load for some reason.
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Jul 2, 2008 12:07 p.m. Beatles6120:

This is all you'll ever need...

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Jul 2, 2008 12:17 p.m. mark t:

I'm back with the grease now, since i found me a proper barber in town.

Anyway, Murrays in the orange can for the base, heated up with hair dryer before applying. Then, Lucky 13 (Murrays with an expensive price tag because it's rockabilly) light pomade for shine and scent.
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Jul 2, 2008 12:27 p.m. sassy:

That's an amazing pic Beatles6120..Thanks for posting it
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Jul 2, 2008 1:17 p.m. Beatles6120:

No problem!
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Jul 2, 2008 3:13 p.m. ruger9:

The best stuff I ever had was called Oribe. Had a rockabilly dude on the can. But it hasn't been made for years, and I haven't found anything like it. It seems like it was 1/2 wax 1/2 jelly, if that makes any sense.

But this thread has me on a hunt for new stuff now!
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Jul 2, 2008 3:14 p.m. ruger9:

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Jul 2, 2008 3:15 p.m. ruger9:

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Jul 2, 2008 3:15 p.m. ruger9:

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Jul 2, 2008 3:16 p.m. ruger9:

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DAMN THESE F'ING PROXY ERRORS ARE GETTING OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 2, 2008 3:44 p.m. billydlight:

Oribe rocked! I use Dax now but I am going to try the sweet georgia brown purple. I used the get my hair cut by an OOOLLLLDDDD Italian guy in south Philly. He learned to cut hair in prison. Now thats a barber!
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Jul 2, 2008 3:45 p.m. billydlight:

oribe pic here
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Jul 2, 2008 4:06 p.m. Rocketman:

I am voting this Greasykidstuff up but he seems to stay on zero.

And that is a big problem because I think this is one of the best threads I read in weeks.

I have a high forehead but lots of hair. I need advise how to look more rock 'n roll. Somebody please
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Jul 2, 2008 9:05 p.m. crowbone:

billydlight:

O I used the get my hair cut by an OOOLLLLDDDD Italian guy in south Philly. BillyD,

Did you used to go to Joe Cerillo on Front and Naudain?

He was Frank Sinatra's barber and he actually invented the DA! He had all the pics and paperwork to prove it hanging in his tiny shop in an alley between South Street and Lombard.

Cool dude too. Use to cut Setzer's hair when the Stray Cats and the Bloodless Pharaohs were based in Philly.
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Jul 2, 2008 9:15 p.m. Matt:

wow... never did I imagine joining the Gretsch Discussion Pages that this thread would pop up. Then again, I'm not a rockabilly slicked back hair Gretsch guy so much as I'm a shaggy haired George Harrison wannabe Gretsch guy... we all have our things.

Sorry, nothing to offer on this front... just thought I'd chime in and share my amusement.
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Jul 2, 2008 10:41 p.m. Rocketboy:

I use Murray's Super Light and that has a good shine to it. If I want a little more shine I'll give it a top coat of the Three Flowers oil.
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Jul 3, 2008 7:29 a.m. greasykidstuff:

The deadtown is still there. I hav'nt been there in a few years since the owner got killed one night chasing off a vagrant, when I'm downtown now, I head to the Mercury Lounge at 18th and Boston...(the owner here used to bartend part-time over at deadtown). It's a cool little Vegas-style lounge.. alotta old roots music-rockabilly and some psychobilly.
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Jul 3, 2008 7:35 a.m. greasykidstuff:

Aw yeah, Murrays Lite has that cool coconut smell. I never purchased tres flores. I got a cut once while in Austin though and he had a jar of the Tres Flores pomade or whatever it's called that he used on my pomp. I remember him goopin up ever strand of hair on my head, that stuff didn't come out for days and you could smell me from a block away, wasn't a bad scent though.