That awful poster with Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc

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You know which one. This embarrassment is called something along the lines of "Legends Lounge" and depicts a kind of rock'n'roll heaven jam session wherein Elvis sings; Lennon plays (presumably) rhythm on a Rickenbacker; Buddy Holly strums an acoustic; and Hendrix obliviously tortures a Strat stage right. Jim Morrison just stands off to the side looking lost; I'm assuming he's on backup vocals. There is no bass player. Keith Moon is on drums, I believe.

Anyway, it had just occured to me that the music made by this particular assemblage of personalities would be unbearably awful. Anyone care to comment?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

too much ego!

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Link please!

― de, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

These things are so gorgeous! "Spirits of Rock"! Is another fine variation

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Newer ones even have Kurt on them sometimes

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you fucking kidding? What on earth would be awful about: Lennon + Elvis?? Lennon + Holly?? Hendrix + Morrison (already proven great!)?? Hendrix + Lennon (already proven great!)?? Holly + Hendrix (two greatest Strat guys)?? Keith Moon + ANY of these party animals???

This aggregation would greatness upon greatness upon greatness, and I'd like to see anybody paint a black velvet image that proves otherwise.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.asama.org/SIMON/RocknRoll.jpg

― huk-l, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ohgod, huk, that's beyootiful.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Think we can name them all? I'll start with The Everly Bros.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"$10,000 dollar bill eh? Which musician's on it?"

"All of them, they are having a party. Little Richard's passed out on the couch"

"Wow, this I gotta see"

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Top left appears to be Eric Burdon, with Simon & Garfunkel over his left shoulder (now THAT might be an awful group!).

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Top left appears to be Eric Burdon, with Simon & Garfunkel over his left shoulder (now THAT might be an awful group!).
-- briania (lyriclas...), June 30th, 2004.

Or, actually, the only good group out of any of the combinations listed thus far.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

In a crazy, backwards, bad-is-good aesthetic universe, absolutely.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

With all due respect, that poster makes we want to puke.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: these posters vs those posters showing marilyn, marlon, james dean, bogie and elvis all hanging out by the swimming pool.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: these posters vs those posters showing marilyn, marlon, james dean, bogie and elvis all hanging out by the swimming pool.
-- J.D. (aubade8...), June 30th, 2004.

vs. Dogs playing Poker!

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Marilyn, James Dean et al don't mean shit to me, but rock-god idolatry definitely does. Same with Pac & Biggie T-shirts. It's like folk-art inspired by folk-art.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like black t-shirts bought from market stalls that have pictures of soft-focus wolves on them DOES THIS ACTUALLY REPRESENT WHO YOU ARE YOU CRAZY FUCK?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't lookalikes for dead celebrities hire themselves out as porn stars? It makes perfect sense, and there's a lot less chance of being sued.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Dusty Springfield and Bobby Darin ... together again.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

right above Ray Charles is Christopher Moltisanti from the Sopranos.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the idea of Buddy and Moony hanging at the bar. Reckon they'd get along just fine.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like black t-shirts bought from market stalls that have pictures of soft-focus wolves on them DOES THIS ACTUALLY REPRESENT WHO YOU ARE YOU CRAZY FUCK?
-- Sick Mouthy (sickmouth...) (webmail), June 30th, 2004 9:04 AM. (Nick Southall) (later) (link)

Hey, it does!

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I see people wearing those shirts all the time, and it seems to represent EXACTLY the type of person who would wear one. And as a sartorial choice, a silkscreened wolf on a black T-shirt doesn't seem all that "crazy."

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And as a sartorial choice, a silkscreened wolf on a black T-shirt doesn't seem all that "crazy."

Maybe not "crazy" so much as "lost".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man this reminds me of that crap "boulevard of broken dreams" poster, in which james dean, humphrey bogart (!), and marilyn monroe appear in a version of hopper's "nighthawks at the diner." it never fails to show up in half-assed "50s diners" and bad college town used bookstores.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://store1.yimg.com/I/jimcds_1777_806194
http://store1.yimg.com/I/jimcds_1779_0

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i love these "all-star party" pictures! yeah amateurist otm with the bogart, and the marilyn monroe, and sometimes eric clapton and shit, charlie chaplin etc etc

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

they're so weird!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

omg LOOK at the weird neon thing attached to that version of the poster! can you get any tackier?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would James Dean be hanging out with the Three Stooges?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the only thing worse are those hand-coloured b&w posters of kids in adult clothing making out in old mustangs and stuff

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i think we need robin to explain that one

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.detroitsrvfanclub.com/Images/srv%20Rock%20N%20Roll%20Heaven%20Tshirt.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

shudder

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://kmkservices.com/krissask/rmm/rmm%20web%20pix/diarama_rock_n_roll_heaven.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://coolstamps.com/star-marilyn-elvis-dean-bogart-sing.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

now THIS is a bar i want to visit!

http://www.midwest-plaza.com/images/ElectricArtImages/javadrms_lg1mini.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

http://www.midwest-plaza.com/Electric_Art/legendarycrossroads_lg1neon.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jrdclassics.com/images/neonpicture1.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

How creepy is this?

http://www.nachshon.org.il/~yatz/images/tn_3j_s.jpg

Is the suggestion here that Joplin is having a MMF threesome with Hendrix and Morrison?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

now THAT would look great in the game room.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

why is james dean singing in that one poster? do they have him mixed up with the country music james dean?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.heavenshouseband.com/images/color_small.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

aww, "heaven's house band"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~slesko1/sjk.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

there should be a t-shirt of sid vicious helping kurt cobain to shoot up. while they are sitting on a cloud.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is Woody Allen in Rock and Roll Heaven?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"heaven's junky crash pad"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Woody is in cos he fucked his adopted daughter, c'mon NTI, surely that's obv.?!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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Is that Harry Reid on the right?

― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 July 2024 00:29 (one year ago)

lol that is 100% RBG

― the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 July 2024 01:28 (one year ago)

I didn't want to post this. You didn't want to see it.

https://i.imgur.com/llSFqxw.jpeg

― pplains, Sunday, 28 July 2024 03:53 (one year ago)

that's terrific too, plains, but in that one man alive posted i'm getting 'tears of joy face' from john lewis and i don't like that.

(amongst everything else happening there)

also this-

what's with her ear?

i noticed it too, but the more i examined, the more it became clear: the ear is fine, it's the hair around the ear that's totally off. am also wondering about intentionally(?) not including biden's face lol.

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 28 July 2024 06:14 (one year ago)

otherwise, yes: these are remarkable and hilarious for both good+bad reasons. i love them.

(nice hillary snub in that latest one!)

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 28 July 2024 06:17 (one year ago)

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which one is john lewis

― bae (sic), Sunday, 28 July 2024 11:57 (one year ago)

I think it's nc_sid=833d

― Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2024 12:01 (one year ago)

eleven months pass...

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― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 24 July 2025 22:23 (six months ago)

What a weird way for me to learn that Chuck Mangione died.

― pplains, Friday, 25 July 2025 01:09 (six months ago)

same

― z_tbd, Friday, 25 July 2025 03:59 (six months ago)

that picture of Hulk Hogan is giving me brain damage

― frogbs, Friday, 25 July 2025 04:00 (six months ago)

he seems so happy

― z_tbd, Friday, 25 July 2025 04:03 (six months ago)

I saw that on fb today and thought, "I should post that in the dead rock star poster thread."

― nickn, Friday, 25 July 2025 04:22 (six months ago)

I thought that was Judge Judy at first. Connie Francis?

― Cow_Art, Friday, 25 July 2025 04:37 (six months ago)

yep, Connie.

― nickn, Friday, 25 July 2025 05:12 (six months ago)

wait is that AI or

― czech hunter biden's laptop (the table is the table), Friday, 25 July 2025 11:05 (six months ago)

no it's real

― Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 July 2025 11:18 (six months ago)

oh Connie Francis right. i couldn't place her and i cropped and did a Google reverse image search and it told me it was Barbara Hale from PERRRRRRYYYY MAAAASON (d. 2017).

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 25 July 2025 11:45 (six months ago)

the photographer was like “you all are in your prime, baby! and you’re all going to die within a few days of each other in like 40 years! sweet dreams celebs! say cheese"

― z_tbd, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:04 (six months ago)

I think the question is more are these actual photos mashed up together or did AI just generate all that, I think the answer is the latter

― frogbs, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:06 (six months ago)

Yeah the faces are all a little off.

― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:18 (six months ago)

that’s just how people look when you photograph them in heaven

― budo jeru, Friday, 25 July 2025 15:42 (six months ago)

https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/518369979_1317036496454284_6075432822262398718_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=nEIbjdBs5rIQ7kNvwGQWv5t&_nc_oc=AdmOrskIAIMhaCCx1uULzRXynsYDf0Usi7tqBH_Xrbvu9sMPaAbcdiT_lsCQDr2Ifz9GDRD7NAFbUGp3SyILosGJ&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&_nc_gid=VkPjq9FpMKCDPE4CYyEiuQ&oh=00_AfQgjo0ttZC1HKjjgXeyZO4EnJEPqln5XRC0gpdOcGRUAA&oe=688B60AA

― mirostones, Sunday, 27 July 2025 01:36 (six months ago)

Is that Chuck Mangione on the left there?

― business, Sunday, 27 July 2025 02:23 (six months ago)

He's left his stuff while he ascends but crucially is also wearing it,a strange way to square the "do your clothes come with you when you're raptured?" debate.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 27 July 2025 07:08 (six months ago)

I think it's in agreement with liturgical orthodoxy in that we leave behind our t-shirt, boots and worldly bandana, and enter the gates of heaven barechested, in long yellow socks, and wearing our spiritual bandana.

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 27 July 2025 07:26 (six months ago)

I think the question is more are these actual photos mashed up together or did AI just generate all that, I think the answer is the latter
― frogbs, Friday, July 25, 2025 11:06 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

really? i mean really?

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 27 July 2025 07:33 (six months ago)

one month passes...

Just getting you all prepared for the inevitable:

In a powerful celebration of culture and history, the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) and the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) proudly announce that the new iconic Interstate 55 (I-55) bridge spanning the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee, will now be known as Kings’ Crossing.
This new name, officially adopted by the Arkansas Highway Commission and the Tennessee General Assembly, honors three transformative figures known as “Kings”: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; B.B. King; and Elvis Presley.

― pplains, Tuesday, 2 September 2025 17:09 (five months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/XBvRUB1.jpeg

Don't ask me because I don't know, and I never want to speak of this image again anyway.

― pplains, Friday, 5 September 2025 01:42 (five months ago)

Is that Fran Drescher on the left?

― Dumpy's Rusty Nuts Gimmick Poster (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 5 September 2025 02:18 (five months ago)

The Joplin quadruplets

― corgan – a suitable case for treatment (Matt #2), Friday, 5 September 2025 02:18 (five months ago)

Ugh

― Reggie Clanker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 September 2025 02:49 (five months ago)

Cool that AI ranked Steve Marriott important enough to be Ozzy's left-hand man there

― pseudo echo "funkytown" /dev/null (bendy), Friday, 5 September 2025 14:25 (five months ago)

Over the shoulder is this guy

https://cdn.printerval.com/image/960x960/t-shirts-men-heavyweight-t-shirt-1,black,print-2024-05-03_77774611-107a-431a-98ac-719d05cc3898,191919.jpeg

― pseudo echo "funkytown" /dev/null (bendy), Friday, 5 September 2025 14:30 (five months ago)

the fact that this thread is all AI now, and likely will be forever, sort of robs the fun for me

― budo jeru, Friday, 5 September 2025 14:46 (five months ago)

How come AI can't do a convincing Freddie Mercury though? In fact a lot of these people look slightly like someone else, can't quite work out who it is Fred looks like.

― AI Jardine (Tom D.), Friday, 5 September 2025 14:53 (five months ago)

the fact that this thread is all AI now, and likely will be forever, sort of robs the fun for me

Totally

― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 5 September 2025 14:57 (five months ago)

xxp yeah no more amateur artists slaving away with the airbrush :-(

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 5 September 2025 14:58 (five months ago)

can't quite work out who it is Fred looks like.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Mario_by_Shigehisa_Nakaue.png

― corgan – a suitable case for treatment (Matt #2), Friday, 5 September 2025 15:10 (five months ago)

who is Scott?

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 5 September 2025 15:18 (five months ago)

Weiland? the STP guy? (I am guessing)

― sleeve, Friday, 5 September 2025 15:23 (five months ago)

oh right
i was like it can't be Bon Scott. I forgot Scott Weiland died.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 5 September 2025 15:28 (five months ago)

I'm simultaneously aggrieved and relieved that there is no & Mark

― peace, man, Friday, 5 September 2025 15:30 (five months ago)

“can't quite work out who it is Fred looks like.”

thought you meant Fred durst for a second there.

chill photo, they look like they’re about to eat me alive

― brimstead, Friday, 5 September 2025 16:52 (five months ago)

Cool that AI ranked Steve Marriott important enough to be Ozzy's left-hand man there

Touch of the Willem Dafoes too.

― AI Jardine (Tom D.), Friday, 5 September 2025 17:15 (five months ago)

The Freddie Mercury depiction reminds me of when you see those clickbait articles about some guy in a small town in the UK who 'looks just like Freddie Mercury', but then you open up the article and you don't see much resemblance.

― mirostones, Friday, 5 September 2025 17:27 (five months ago)

he looks a lot like my 8th grade science teacher

― brimstead, Friday, 5 September 2025 17:30 (five months ago)

four months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/mrjkWVGF/ecc9fc263a50d5c31705a21fefa41d0d5829cf33.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 12 January 2026 03:02 (one month ago)

sometimes a work of art speaks to our times

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 January 2026 12:38 (one month ago)

— Bob Marley

― pplains, Monday, 12 January 2026 14:37 (one month ago)

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