Joe Satriani talks about his shaved head

“My whole life of losing my hair was leading up to this moment.  I first shaved my head in early ’96. It started to get really thin. To tell you the truth, I never had really good rock ‘n’ roll hair. It was a joke with my friends. I could play and looked all right, but what was up with the hair? When it started to fall out, I had to come up with something new. I was out jogging and ran past a Walgreen, which was having a sale on hair clippers. So I bought one, got back to the apartment, shaved half my head then called my wife and son over. Once you do half, you got to do the other half, but I eased into it. I had about four millimeters of hair for a while. When I was on tour in Portugal opening for AC/DC one night, I took out the clippers, forgot to put the attachment on, and before I knew it, realized I had gone right down to the skin.  I went out there with sunglasses on, and it made me more mysterious than I had been, so I just stuck with it.”

Source: Hollywood Reporter