Musicians Wearing Capes

Well, show me these glam rock cape wearers, then! :D

could probably fill a whole thread with ABBA photos but bjorn seems to be somehwat of a sceptic

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IzNOPiBCntI/UNMbdE7KcSI/AAAAAAAAAC0/Pw2tKNVqh5Y/s1600/abba.jpg https://www.diehardagnetha.com/gallery/galleries/Color/Outfits/White_and_green_jumpsuit/Abba_000750.jpg

Blowfly

https://observer.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/09/blow.jpg?quality=80&w=876&h=438&crop=1&strip

not entirely sure what's going on here. shirt with a built-in cape?

https://i.ibb.co/r2PqqRp/bolan.jpg

That is quite amazing, and I cannot figure out its construction, but it is a thing of beauty!

isn't it just? and that horse!

but you ain't seen nothing yet...

First thought when I saw this thread was "Pat! Don't wear a cape!"

https://i.imgur.com/HG51ywx.gif

https://i.ibb.co/02ngsM8/khs.jpg

stockhausen! (with olivier messiaen)

https://i.ibb.co/K2vh1v9/khs2.jpg

Stockhausen's cape is so great. Seriously, composers in capes - more of this sort of thing.

The Regal got hold of a load of ex-Police capes in the early 80s when i first started going in there.
& i think it had been a fashion item at some point in the 60s, possibly ceased to be Police uniform sometime mid 60s.

So I assume there musty be photos around with people in those.

Really want to make a caped civil war coat but have been meaning to do that for the last 5 years.
& do love those half caped Victorian coats also the handsome cab/coach coats from a while earlier.

(Sorry, I just got sucked into this hole of Shamen videos, looking for more evidence of cape-wearing, but Colin went through a whole phase of wearing pilots harnesses including personal flotation devices and Kapok life vests onstage, culminating in this thing I can literally only describe as a... well, a Techno-Sporran, and I thought I had found a full video of the Techno-Sporran, but alas, it was only a Kapok.)

((A Kapok is definitely not a cape.))

Sorry, I am not derailing my own thread. No.

Elvis's short cape seems to signify something else again

Elvis's cape was inspired by Captain Marvel, the 1940s comic book character, as was Elvis's TCB logo with the lightning bolt

https://dazedimg-dazedgroup.netdna-ssl.com/640/azure/dazed-prod/1230/9/1239058.jpg

Now that's what I call caping!

there's some photos of her stage outfits where there is sooooo much fabric it's kind of hard to tell whether it's a cape or not

https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/r4N95IJ59myJCWpbJSuHCXf96Ik/fit-in/2048xorig/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2018/06/11/806/n/1922564/9a47cc780c7aa1bd_GettyImages-970625022/i/Making-Entrance-Purple-Cape-Dundas.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/DbQKDqm/pg.jpg

did anyone say peter gabriel yet?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDexOjan1wM/W_8Kdhh0liI/AAAAAAAAPjY/DlGflUDDi6YVoxg8181PnX1T7i5g760IwCLcBGAs/s1600/8f6a61b3aa2d9995e702a5d172821775.png

the bats have left the belltower

thank you everyone for this wonderful marvelous thread

https://media.gq.com/photos/5eb96b63a46438436d82282e/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/GQ-Little-Richie-3-051120.jpg

x-post oh my lord Little Richard's cape is even better than this one, which I always thought was the king of gold capes:

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/e6edfe2c32364d0eb92a87fcdc188072.jpg

i just googled to see what get cape wear cape fly looks like and that guy is a fucking fraud

Thread idea: Yr Secret Poncho Shame

His name is Sam IIRC and he hath no cape at all. Fraud!

he should be called get cardigan wear cardigan sit in a fucking chair afaict. i'm not happy!

(nothing against a good cardigan btw but come the fuck on)

Calm down and look at Colin Shamen's Techno-Sporran instead:

https://chaoscontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/1993/11/shamen.jpg

(Sorry, that is not a cape, but Sporrans are always good.)

Would not be a @cruisetotheedge without cape night! pic.twitter.com/iXtOdUzsvS

— Cruise to the Edge (@cruisetotheedge) February 9, 2018

((Am trying to find a picture of The KLF wearing both Capes and Sporrans, but google image search is not being cooperative!!!))

that sporan looks like just the thing for keeping yer veras in

queen of capes!

https://i.ibb.co/wJJXSMS/gj.jpg https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/1022832/art/4000988/3070842-ITZROSFL-7.jpg https://i.ibb.co/nfc6xvh/gj2.jpg https://i.ibb.co/dGBRBw3/gj3.jpg

Some of those capes reach all the way into another galaxy! Amazing!

The Original

https://alldylan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/screamin-jay-hawkins.jpg

did anyone say The Original?

https://www.thevoxagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/liberace_tile_11.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/7e/f5/f47ef5f5cbef0706caf1fdc9f28d8b62.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/e6/d4/61e6d43b00329fb1f9a56d1e46e49ca6.png

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/85/9a/f6859a685e31e81af167962b13ac21b9.jpg

COUNT FIVE!

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/ar0/3af5571a2e334960c9aacf6b3dffcb16.jpg

Guitarist was an ex-pat Dubliner btw

who else than Young Thug to take this look into the 2020s?

https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/public/styles/full_img_sml/public/images/2020/01/29/Grammys-2020-Music-Feet-2.jpg?itok=kEJnp1-m

https://eonlinethumbs-a.akamaihd.net/images/383/427/glam_2020grammys_thug_302435_560x315_1688403523554.jpg?fit=around%7C1080:1080&output-quality=90&crop=1080:1080;center,top

(I mean, it’s a timid attempt, but it’s one of the few examples from this century - must count for something)

https://i.imgur.com/ird83Rg.jpg
cape? not sure
musician? not sure

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/2c/d6/3e2cd6b2e2f2d292dc3daa56e94e8d11.jpg

Fred Sonic Smith

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/b1/d2/16b1d21597ce94005ec15b4f422a6a8f.jpg

I mean

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/08/01/james-brown_ozy_wide-e94ffca96d7dfde6aaf3a920732d890b3d9a7136.jpg?s=1400

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/987b7f0c21c75fb350997560055d5cef49bb422c/0_369_2652_3313/master/2652.jpg

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/987b7f0c21c75fb350997560055d5cef49bb422c/0_369_2652_3313/master/2652.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=cdc4a8ac8f59b42a1b3c8a0bb50fe973

https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/10574691_web1_elton-cape.jpg

Jagger

https://rollingstonesphotosfromphilly.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jagger_unionjack.jpg

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5c83d6030c54352cc28c00f5/master/pass/740826_ra621.jpg

tonight there's gonna be a cape out

https://66.media.tumblr.com/d44106459b9890f1884d4fe430f70eec/tumblr_plv7ro68P41tsxh9ko1_1280.jpg

I want to pelisse.

Rihanna is extremely cape-adjacent.

It’s hard to be sure: does this “heart-shaped cape” fit our bill?

https://fashion.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/fashion-news/201609065526/rihanna-heart-shaped-saint-laurent-cape/0-41-38/Rihanna1-a.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-normal&downsize=0.75xw:*

Or this “one-sleeved cape”?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/06/24/e306247407ce9cfaee41b0bd6ccadbbc.jpg

However, this one is just perfect:

https://picture-cdn.wheretoget.it/j0drp6-l.jpg

Rihanna's cape skills are so far above and beyond our ordinary mortal comprehension she is totally free to rock any cape, cloak, poncho or space-princess-garment-of-awesomeness and I will allow it!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3ejYYpUwAE0juQ.jpg

https://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/8/8/1/188172_artist.jpg?3045

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f0/56/af/f056afac0e33fd98585a02490156d0bd--capes-concert.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617LAPtEyQL._AC_SY741_.jpg

http://www.tenues-johnny.fr/photos/03-g01-p03_th.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltc6qrKVTW1qhyxxwo1_250.jpg

Os Mutantes looking like mages from Final Fantasy.

I would be surprised if Bjork never wore a cape.

Probably lots of black and doom metal.

Great thread.