The thing that's hard for you youngsters (
) to grok is that we didn't really know what bands looked like back then.
Maybe you get some really crappy B&W stills in a Cream magazine or something, but seeing them live on TV was brand new.
Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert got 'em right in our basement den - amazing at the time!!!
And, this was a shitty console, cathode-ray tube tv that you had to get up and turn the knob to change channels.
If the wind was blowing right, we could pick up Chattanooga, which seemed much more cosmopolitan than Knoxville... to us.
Your dudes are ugly, no doubt, but Shane was born the same year I was, so he was also in school.
Lemmy was old enough, but was just the bassist in Hawkwind at the time - not a front man.