Do most band photos annoy the hell out of you?

yeah, this style isn't really new but publicity photos are generally awful. i wish the trend would swing back to 'action' shots from concerts, maybe b&w Sub Pop/Charles Peterson style. or at least include the artists' instruments/equipment in posed shots more often.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jayfoxband.com/band/images/jf_band_pic_low.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/gallery/d/6967-1/immortal.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.backstage089.de/presse_files/24/KORPIKLAANI_PR.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.last.fm/proposedimages/original/6/1036091/1613.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

viking metal image flood in 5... 4... 3...

― Edward III, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

but, yeah, most indierock band shots are as boring as the music. truth in advertising!

― scott seward, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

otm, thanks for the great photos too.

― Mark Clemente, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thediyrockstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/decemberists.jpg

― Mr. Que, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://autopia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/polyphonic_spree.jpg

― gman, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know what's worse: the grossly serious indie photo or a band in jesus christ superstar costumes with their hipster haircuts intact

― Mark Clemente, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

what a bunch of assholes

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

(apply to last two pictures. nantucket looks like a bunch o'bros though)

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

"we are a bunch of dudes in a band"
"we are a bunch of INTENSE dudes in a band"
"we are a bunch of BORED dudes in a band"
"we are a bunch of WACKY dudes in a band!"
"we are a bunch of ostensibly serious dudes in a band but one of us is making a funny face!"

― Hurting 2, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

or "we are a bunch of rejects in a cult"

― Hurting 2, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lyricsdirectory.com/portal/bnl/gordon.jpg

― Finefinemusic, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

(apply to last two pictures. nantucket looks like a bunch o'bros though)

Hell yeah, I'd have a pint with them... and maybe more. Not sure they'd all fit in that car, though.

http://www.kw-berlin.de/img/TG_CheckPointCharlie.jpg
I reckon they started it...

― Rombald, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

or "we are a bunch of rejects in a cult"

http://www.trussel.com/lyman/aa2.jpg
American Avatar
-- Love Comes Rolling Down
The Lyman Family with Lisa Kindred
Liner note (unsigned):
This is CONTEMPORARY music. In this new age whose keynote is the destruction of old forms and the birth of new spirit our ears are still constantly insulted with the musical establishment's attempts to "hold on" to the old traditions whatever the cost. Music is neat and clean and void of real life. We say fuck those people, we just want to blow. Folk music is dead, it got too fond of itself. Jazz is dead, it got too lost in itself. Rock is screaming its brains out trying to make up for the loss. But there is a new sound known only to a few, a sound of death and conflict and reconciliation and fresh air. It fits no categories, it just IS. And that is what we are presenting you with, a whole sound. Not clever parts, not individual achievement, this is the sound of a GROUP SOUL being born...
Liner note by Mel Lyman:
I've been waiting to get this record released for three years and it is finally only possible now because I played the tapes for Mo Ostin a few months ago and be loved them. Everyone I have ever played these tapes for has been deeply moved, it is great music. The force that drew us together to record this music is the same force that is always evidenced in great works of art, and like all great works of art this music was created to elevate men, we were merely the instruments. We played this music but we didn t make it, it passed through us like light through the darkness. And like all great works of art this music had to await its time, it even took awhile for us to appreciate it. I have marveled at these tapes for years and have never ceased to find more and more in them, more grace, more perfection, more magic, more God. And now I have passed them on to Mo and he is passing them on to you in the form of a record album. This is no album, it is a miracle.

Mel Lyman

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Korn-vi02.jpg

http://www.brianz.org/images/Misc/FaithPlusOne_tn.jpg

― gman, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

TS:
http://www.popmatters.com/images/features_art/a/akron-family-perpetual.jpg

VS.

http://www.popmatters.com/images/features_art/a/akron-family-perpetual.jpg

― bernard snowy, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

aw damn I meant for one of those to be http://www.popmatters.com/images/features_art/a/akron-family-perpetual2.jpg

― bernard snowy, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3076/compcopyfy1.jpg

― nickalicious, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

time was iscariots gospel would have been a band running around covered in cows blood and holding guitars which resemble machetes, and now they look like kottonmouth kings.

― félix pié, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Um, we are getting some gnarly no-hotlinking images dude. You might want to stop.

― nickalicious, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

ugh fuck the internet fuck it fuck it fuck it argh argh ugh argh ughragh

― latebloomer, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

such a pissy week, this last straw

― latebloomer, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/arthistory/1/7/V/F/leibovitz_dia06_01.jpg

i actually like this one

― gman, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://libsyn.com/images/cakedonstripes/manowar.jpg

― van smack, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/redstick/case06a.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/jinxincorporated/images/Coven_5line_Up_1970_www.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Solution: stop listening to such shitty bands.

-- The Reverend, Thursday, May 3, 2007 11:23 PM

UH
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://pulsetc.com/image/2004/0728/sonic-youth.jpg
http://www.genkizenki.net/images/radiohead.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://perso.orange.fr/kraftwerkonline/images/visuels/kraftwerk.jpg

― poortheatre, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

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