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Big Country
― cock chirea, Saturday, 4 July 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
anton corbjiuoinjknkjngrgrdn
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Saturday, 4 July 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Status Quo
http://fondosdeestrellasdelrock.com/wp-content/uploads/images/71/status-quo-0.jpg
second dude from the left - omg!
― cock chirea, Saturday, 4 July 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
i don't know where i was going with this
http://i.imgur.com/wNCOcas.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
"the gravitas of the matrix without the camp value"
http://i500.listal.com/image/2961731/500full.jpg
― jmm, Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
lol pplains
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
http://renownedforsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Hanson1.jpg
On the way there: Hanson.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:40 (eight years ago) link
middle hanson has a real "luke in ROTJ" vibe
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Band photos where one member refuses to play along
http://hansonguy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/promopic.jpg
― cock chirea, Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
The Rubinoos
http://i.imgur.com/pfPj1pl.jpg
― skip, Saturday, 4 July 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Trying to think of bands that will be forever impervious to this route, Primus maybe?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 4 July 2015 09:50 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/35/590x/del1-455816.jpg
del amitri
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 4 July 2015 10:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hue-and-Cry-Press-Shot-4.jpg
hue & cry
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 4 July 2015 10:09 (eight years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46836000/jpg/_46836983_deacon_blue-1.jpg
deacon blue
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 4 July 2015 10:10 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/35/590x/wetwetwet-446872.jpg
wet wet wet
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 4 July 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
Bands are so stupid sometimes
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/48809/3afd3183.jpg
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link
Don't they realize EVERYONE does this? It's like "I tell you what, we had strings on our last album so when we come to play live, how about having a string section which is exclusively made up of attractive young women dressed in black?" (Actually not sure this is as much a thing as it once was).
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link
Spandau Ballet look like a pissed-off board of directors. Kajagoogoo, otoh, look like they fleshed out the lineup with a couple of bikers. Off topic but I wonder what it's like to be the new recruits in a reformed band on tour. a paycheck, if nothing else, and maybe wish fulfillment. "man this is it, now I can die happy after playing with Simple Minds!"
― got the club going UP on a tuesday (m coleman), Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
I cant fathom what its like to be 20-30 years younger and playing for Mike and the Mechanics in 2015
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 4 July 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Rancid look like a group of prison inmates about to give some teens a "Scared Straight" lecture on the dangers of the drugs & crime lifestyle
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 July 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
It's just a job. And for a lot of jobbing musicians like this it's a badge of honour that they're 'pros' (calling someone 'semi-pro' is a putdown). Plus their tastes in music may be relatively similar.
― dubmill, Saturday, 4 July 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
That photo might well have been the photographer's idea, but of course the band ultimately approved it.
I don't understand exactly why these bands all keep going. I suppose they make a living touring (not from the awful albums they record) and get some ego validation from their fans. Better than just being a nonentity doing some soul-destroying job. But is it? Maybe some of them actually do feel trapped, but they have no alternative financially.
― dubmill, Saturday, 4 July 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
omg, del amitri
tbqh it's easy to mock the sad image-making but I'd rather be most of these bands than be middle management, assuming the same pay and that you have some clarity/humility about what you do... whether that's making the fans happy or just filling out the bill under a more popular nostalgia act that actually has fans. on the bus, balancing the checkbook, having the family meet you at the end for an unforgettable trip to the grand canyon. the only trouble is how much the band's established youthful/rebellious image clashes with your own sense of how much dignity you think you require. hence these pictures I guess?
mind you, I was really charmed by that hugh grant movie where he played an andrew ridgeley type, mugging through the hits and giving thrilling winks to once-teenage idolizers. it was supposed to be the low-point rut from which love would lead him into a comeback, but I dunno, seemed okay.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 July 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
I don't understand exactly why these bands all keep going. I suppose they make a living touring (not from the awful albums they record) and get some ego validation from their fans. Better than just being a nonentity doing some soul-destroying job. But is it?
Too fucking right it is.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
i always think of these posts on that stage where you think they aren't popular anymore but are actually way more popular than they were when they had "buzz" :
this is sorta like the dream rocker retirement plan, though, isn't it? keep on doing yr thing, financial security and no media spotlight bullshit― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmarkyeah i mean we're mainly being snarky but for the most part i feel like these kinds of acts have really just had admirable career arcs, catering to a fanbase that stuck with them well after the tastemakers and the industry machinery kind of forgot they existed― bile al (some dude), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkjust fyi every band I know dreams of getting to this stage. this stage represents total arrival. you don't have to worry about your haters and you don't have to be constantly trying to win over new people.― w of in the attic (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah i mean we're mainly being snarky but for the most part i feel like these kinds of acts have really just had admirable career arcs, catering to a fanbase that stuck with them well after the tastemakers and the industry machinery kind of forgot they existed
― bile al (some dude), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just fyi every band I know dreams of getting to this stage. this stage represents total arrival. you don't have to worry about your haters and you don't have to be constantly trying to win over new people.
― w of in the attic (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i am not a rock n roll artist but i think lots of fields have their version of this and i dunno, maybe just healthy to think about different viable models of aging gracefully. not that i think all the bands have necessarily found that sweet spot, or that i will stop lolling at del amitri.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 July 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Mott
http://listeningroom.lohudblogs.com/files/2009/10/09mott_the_hoople1.jpg
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
OMD
http://www.omd.uk.com/images/sized/images/uploads/photos/img_3266-0x600.jpg
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
http://showbizgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-29-at-21.21.57.png
East 17
― Tuomas, Saturday, 4 July 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
the pictures with multiple scarves are always my favorite
― some dude, Saturday, 4 July 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.acdc.com/sites/acdc/files/imagecache/600wide_max/dotcom_0.jpg
there’s still trace of restrained, suppressed, incipient not quite sneer on angus young’s face
― drash, Saturday, 4 July 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
pop group
http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/TPG22July.jpg
― Cory Sklar, Saturday, 4 July 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Why is the middle guy so disgusted by the packet of rouge he found?
― Tuomas, Saturday, 4 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
It's Thatcher's rouge.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
the guy in the white shirt is totally fucking it up for the rest of them
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Saturday, 4 July 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
"Trying to think of bands that will be forever impervious to this route, Primus maybe?"
chili peppers. they are still pretty damn goofy looking in promo shots.
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 July 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
more like sad religion
http://saltroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Bad-Religion-750x400.jpg
― Cory Sklar, Saturday, 4 July 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
just catching up to this thread and wanted to say: that Rancid photo near the top totally fucked w/ my head. wow.
― alpine static, Saturday, 4 July 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
EMF
http://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/legacy/files/emf.jpg
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 July 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
unbelievable
― feargal czukay (NickB), Sunday, 5 July 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
Best of these are obviously those where new, often younger, members almost outnumber the classic/heyday line up
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 5 July 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
I dont understand why Metallica didnt just keep their 1996 look. They never looked better before or since
Maybe all the subtlety and late 90s maturity went with Newsted
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 5 July 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbkingblues.com/inc/artists/652.jpg
Mr. Big
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 5 July 2015 04:15 (eight years ago) link
wow
― pplains, Sunday, 5 July 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
that photo retouching is really creepy
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Sunday, 5 July 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
http://41.media.tumblr.com/ee2e071cbd4057a5ba7ede4574bf4d93/tumblr_nvgrc2y8kJ1twx6hqo2_1280.jpg
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 5 October 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Interpol
http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/51871696-interpol-pose-backstage-during-live-105s-not-gettyimages.jpg
vs.
http://images.vogue.it/gallery/25921/Big/bf7c4a51-34be-439e-b0a5-32cc15d9c0aa.jpg
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 October 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
vs.*
http://www.downcastmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Interpol.jpeg
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
There must be a whole new set of these for 2016 summer tours.
http://media1.fdncms.com/sacurrent/imager/u/original/2521348/cultureclubhero.jpg
― King Nagl (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
why do old guys like black leather so much
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm not totally sold on Boy George's wisdom and sobriety in that pic.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link