We have lots of threads for clowning on band promo photos (and I love them all) but I'd like to see some that are truly inventive, cool, interesting, etc. This is actually a pretty difficult thing to accomplish, I think.
I'll go first: I've never liked Vetiver's music, but I always thought this was a relatively good promo photo:
https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/ar0/5ac841643d104a808a75b663ee45d667.jpg
― alpine static, Friday, 15 September 2017 03:51 (eight years ago)
https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/2012/12/04/71_Cover_iPad_Interpol.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 September 2017 04:10 (eight years ago)
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6860/639/1600/53_257.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 September 2017 04:13 (eight years ago)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2017/01/ARAB_yahweh_pic_21.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 September 2017 04:17 (eight years ago)
http://pitchperfectpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Protomartyr_DanielTopete1.jpgProtomartyr
― alpine static, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:46 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/OrtdEmx.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:37 (eight years ago)
http://badrobotbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Retro_SkinnyPuppy.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:38 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/ejAZuY8.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:39 (eight years ago)
http://images.theage.com.au/2012/10/11/3704714/aw-THEESatisfaction_20121011110658384639-620x349.jpg
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:40 (eight years ago)
richard hell era television otm
― flopson, Sunday, 8 October 2017 02:08 (eight years ago)
tera meloshttps://f4.bcbits.com/img/0001003759_100.png
deerhunterhttps://media.npr.org/assets/music/firstlisten/2010/09/deerhunter_wide-e6fc329a9fe9985797e887c1b3978a7f3930eadb.jpg?s=1400
― flopson, Sunday, 8 October 2017 02:12 (eight years ago)
it seems like looking kind of dumb and just completely owning it is a good way to take a good band photo
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:28 (eight years ago)
controversial (this band promo pic was trashed on ilx at the time but i like it)
aids wolfhttps://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/770x0/3d7e5d8bcd5045aaa981f0ab4e2c31f7.jpg
― flopson, Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:44 (eight years ago)
ehm, nsfw sorry
― flopson, Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:49 (eight years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ed/8b/87/ed8b87645d97d4c0799e287aa043bd35.jpg
been long looking for a better version of this picture. i think it's the only one from Belfast 77 that is in colour.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:50 (eight years ago)
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/files/2014/08/GROUPER-RUINS-5-BW.jpg
grouper
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 October 2017 05:05 (eight years ago)
http://payload317.cargocollective.com/1/5/175689/8643023/girlpoolpolaroid.jpg
girlpool
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 October 2017 05:06 (eight years ago)
mk 1 Human League
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2835/12933341384_ef8625f531_b.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 8 October 2017 08:42 (eight years ago)
http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgdfzyUSVN1qagxv6o1_540.jpg
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 8 October 2017 15:59 (eight years ago)
godspeed you! black emperor, also photographed by Yannick Grandmont as per the aids wolf photo above
There was a much older version of this photo from the 90's that I was actually thinking of, but this was the first that popped up now, from 2010.
http://cstrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gybe_2010pic_300dpi8x10.jpg
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:52 (eight years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0004030695_10.jpg
Wrangler Brutes promo shot featuring no actual band members
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 8 October 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)
http://beatlesnumber9.com/beatles5.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 8 October 2017 18:47 (eight years ago)
https://media2.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/u/large/19541472/music-cam-rcarecords.jpg
love this photo of Cam
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 December 2017 08:23 (eight years ago)
http://blog.phonica.s3.amazonaws.com/f2d81048f747af85006a442f36eba9df_thumb.jpg
these friendly looking people!
― saer, Thursday, 14 December 2017 08:44 (eight years ago)
https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/03/16/20/24-og.jpg?w=650&h=542
I like this one of Built to Spill
― alpine static, Thursday, 8 August 2019 05:17 (six years ago)
that is good
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 August 2019 05:58 (six years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/pQKfVQx.jpg
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Thursday, 8 August 2019 08:47 (six years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/VAvsg9m.jpg
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Thursday, 8 August 2019 08:53 (six years ago)
hmhb
https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_article_image/public/blogs_2016/03/2016_09_half_moon_crit_lead_new.jpg?itok=MqVp3XOk
― devvvine, Thursday, 8 August 2019 10:17 (six years ago)
https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bonnie-Prince-Billy-I-Made-a-Place-at-the-back-of-the-pit-new-album-song-stream-Christian_Hansen.png
― alpine static, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:13 (six years ago)
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2020/02/0018463735_10-1581433148-640x480.jpg
Coriky
― alpine static, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 01:15 (six years ago)
sub white stripes
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 04:52 (six years ago)
thats awesome
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 06:06 (six years ago)
https://www.thechap.org/wp-content/gallery/press/TheChap_2019_V02_%C2%A9Stephanie_Piehl.jpg
― linee, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:11 (six years ago)
I came here to post that Protomartyr shot from several revives ago, but can at least add this blurb from NPR:
"A random cyclist passes in front of the band during a photo shoot in Los Angeles. (According to the band's publicist, that cyclist turned out to be Hunter Jackson, aka Techno Destructo of the band Gwar.)"
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:19 (five years ago)
ha, wow! i missed this ^
i need to repost the Vetiver one i started this thread with
but for now...
― alpine static, Friday, 6 November 2020 20:15 (five years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0009152926_10.jpg
David Nance
― alpine static, Friday, 6 November 2020 20:16 (five years ago)
https://media.apoplife.nl/nl/2018/09/Outkast-2.jpg
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2020 05:13 (five years ago)
Both very good
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 November 2020 05:30 (five years ago)
for posterity, here's the photo from the thread's OP:
https://a1-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/52/8fbd13f2136a9cec151e565d2f55ab2e/full.jpg
― alpine static, Monday, 23 November 2020 05:36 (five years ago)
artist, not band, but I love this one of Brandee Younger
https://www.courant.com/resizer/ODjXOwCk5ucu8rSJHWoKkXRolmc=/800x1000/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/E7SQXPTU2ZBK3NU7AV3SJYYGAE.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:02 (five years ago)
thread title be damned, artists are welcome here, too!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 05:36 (five years ago)
I mean unless the kid in football pads is in a band with her but I'm guessing not somehow
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 05:38 (five years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/O9vfFW6.png
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:21 (three years ago)
Why are some of these breaking and some not? Is it simply because the photos linked have disappeared / changed URLs?
I'm not terribly tech-y and just wondering if there's a different way I should post photos that might keep them here longer. Or if this is just the ephemerality of the internet, deal with it.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 20:13 (three years ago)
it just depends on where the linked images are hosted. for a long time, tinypic.com was a primary place to upload images and then easily share them on places like ilx. then tinypic was bought out by x which was bought out by y and then bought out by z, each of which made promises to not delete all the photos or change the links, etc, etc, then, whoops, all the photos were gone. that obliterated a lot of images on ilx and elsewhere.
i've been using imgur to host images for the last several years. surely imgur will last 1000 years! but probably not.
Or if this is just the ephemerality of the internet, deal with it. pretty much this ^^
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 20:20 (three years ago)
https://preview.redd.it/azozngyohky51.jpg?auto=webp&s=9a9f53e04d390b7b272f42fc4a339a77cab76498
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 20:33 (three years ago)
I use imgur as well but end up posting the wrong url 90% of the time
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 20:40 (three years ago)
.·:*¨༺ 𝓁𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓇𝑜𝓉 ༻¨*:·.
― Aloysius's delicious dishes of vicious fishes (cat), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 21:34 (three years ago)
Right. Oh well! I can't even find any evidence of the Vetiver photo that prompted me to start this thread 5.5 years ago.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 23:27 (three years ago)
any pic of the fall
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 23:55 (three years ago)
Seems like it would've been this one (same filename on last.fm as yours, they've just shifted it somewhere else):
https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/5ac841643d104a808a75b663ee45d667.jpg#5ac841643d104a808a75b663ee45d667
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 9 February 2023 17:28 (three years ago)
Nice sleuthin'! Yeah. I liked that one a lot. :)
― alpine static, Thursday, 9 February 2023 17:53 (three years ago)
http://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2013/03/Fall02PR161210-2.jpeg
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:18 (three years ago)
http://https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2013/03/Fall02PR161210-2.jpg
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:24 (three years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/gP5HWOI.png
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:35 (three years ago)
shhh
― sharing is cursing (cat), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:54 (three years ago)
seeeeeecrets!
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:58 (three years ago)
Guess who it's a photo of...
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:07 (three years ago)
https://i.discogs.com/1mx4378bg77gWVdUrT4CaFwy-_GUcUdexFY7U_bK1Ms/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:581/w:580/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3NTY4/OTItMTI3OTQ2MDc5/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg
― ringworm, Thursday, 16 February 2023 22:39 (three years ago)
Always liked this one of Das Damen (a band that tends to look cool in photos):https://alchetron.com/cdn/das-damen-b7e007df-e8bf-474b-a0ee-58fedf62325-resize-750.jpeg
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Friday, 17 February 2023 04:44 (three years ago)
The rear cover of their debut had this great action pic, shot at Maxwell’s in Hoboken:https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54ebf302e4b0feaa477affa6/1596818190904-7NW0QCT1H49WNSG96SWP/Standing-+Maxweel%27s+86+EP+back+cover+.jpeg?format=1000w
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Friday, 17 February 2023 04:51 (three years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpZ4ggCXsAIo8DB?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 February 2023 17:29 (three years ago)
filling in a couple of broken links above ... country singer Cam:
https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo.jpg
― alpine static, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 17:05 (two years ago)
oops
― alpine static, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 17:06 (two years ago)
and Built to Spill:
https://cdn.forumcomm.com/dims4/default/1bad24e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1887x1576+0+0/resize/1486x1241!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffcc-cue-exports-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Finforum%2Fbinary%2F031319.F.FF.BUILTTOSPILL_binary_985985.jpg
and, third time for the thread's OP, Vetiver:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/b5xn-9A5B5Y/0.jpg
― alpine static, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 17:11 (two years ago)
I don’t know if they’re technically promo photos, but they’ve been used that way – these classic Steve Schapiro pics are as good as band photos get:https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?height=544&quality=85&resize_to=fit&src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FIV7DefTuhv-b3odcxHVmmg%2Fmain.jpg&width=800https://bowiepages.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/ctjespxuaaagtvj.jpg-large.jpg?w=825&h=510&crop=1
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Saturday, 9 March 2024 06:49 (two years ago)
thank god i never saw that Built to Spill promo pic
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 9 March 2024 08:22 (two years ago)
why?
― alpine static, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:05 (two years ago)
Style Council looked cool as hell sometimes https://i.imgur.com/MA4fz5o.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/LmjcBUZ.jpeg
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 March 2024 23:45 (two years ago)
oh well
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 March 2024 23:46 (two years ago)
brimstead otm. pw always had some damn fine shirts.
for a more recent one, isn't nabihah iqbal an absolute queen?https://bravorevista.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Nabihah-Iqbal-anuncia-su-nuevo-album-DREAMER-junto-con-el-sencillo-This-World-Couldnt-See-Us.jpg
she reminds me of clark kent poorly concealing the superman identity in this photo. like we, as the audience, are sort of giggling at her inability to keep her awesomeness on the dl at this point. like ya... yer def not a super hero, nabihah. nope! winkwink
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 17 March 2024 15:43 (two years ago)
not bad ... here's Wand
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/AmtBMjbgZReBEmKCkTL1ZA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNQ--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/spin_digital_media/70559d32319814960eebcf7bc12c6aa1
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 23:21 (one year ago)
A photo of a jazz ensemble led by vibraphonist Patricia Brennan:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:lc2wlnvvy4glpigwako5zoty/bafkreievonli4iskk3ldhgdmrldtkjlfmyd4uv2tixrpjfjpx2sltegkpu@jpeg
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 6 August 2024 23:51 (one year ago)
thank god i never saw that Built to Spill promo pic― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, March 9, 2024 12:22 AM (four months ago)
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, March 9, 2024 12:22 AM (four months ago)
wish i understood this comment
― alpine static, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 00:09 (one year ago)
Dr. Feelgood had the best British organized crime thugs
https://images.app.goo.gl/8h3y5dCWjAqAzJpCA
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 02:19 (one year ago)
https://img.pop-music.cz/lyrics/interpreters/lm3/dr-feelgood.jpg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 02:21 (one year ago)
Always like this one from This Heat - though all of their promo photos were good.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peel/images/7/72/This_Heat_.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170308095440
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 August 2024 15:51 (one year ago)
Try that again...
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peel/images/7/72/This_Heat_.jpg
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 August 2024 15:52 (one year ago)
About 10 years before everybody started doing photos with stuff written on the arms, faces, hands etc.
― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 August 2024 15:53 (one year ago)