Cool Pictures of Music Icons

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Get back...honky cat.....

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A few fellow Tulsa boys... Maybe some lesser known icons to the general public, but icons nonetheless given their contributions to rock.  

 

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On 9/12/2018 at 11:15 AM, Cheeseweasel said:

Didn't realize Elton ever played college station.

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[Grandioso 2592]

Youngsters

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Hammer of the Gods

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Rock stars doing AARP stuff

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9 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

anyone else do a double take on ringo's cuff?

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9 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

So Rod's wearing a two-piece.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

So Rod's wearing a two-piece.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

He's also sitting with his hand on the best part of one of the finest women in the world.  

Advantage:  Rod. 

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5 minutes ago, strangulation! said:

anyone else do a double take on ringo's cuff?

Yes.  I was struggling for an early version of dick-butt joke.  

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On 4/4/2018 at 6:54 PM, yoshi said:

Layne Staley

 

I didnt know Brecklyn was a musician.

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1 hour ago, drifter379 said:

LMAO Robert in full on skeeze mode.

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No doubt they’re talking hair products. 

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On 11/30/2018 at 9:22 AM, Chad Fuck said:

He's also sitting with his hand on the best part of one of the finest women in the world.  

Advantage:  Rod. 

Still know for having his stomach pumped (false rumor), people don't forget.

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So which one of them did she bang that night?

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imgur

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For my fellow gearslut community, that device on Rick Wright's organ/keys is this:

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At the risk of sounding retarded, who is that with Stevie?

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Stubb

 

 

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This has a lot of great pictures.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/g13810806/musicians-backstage-in-the-1970s-the-photos/

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On 12/9/2018 at 12:41 PM, BoomMF said:

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The treasures on that workbench have to be glorious.  Someone once said that the only 2 people in the world that know how to build guitars are Leo Fender and Eddie Van Halen.

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There might be one or two others. But I get the point.

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A young Piano Man playing in Memphis...

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Back story...

"

Oakland, California, April 1980

Pete Townshend

Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

“I bash away at my guitar as though it were a veal escallop I’m trying to thin down,” says Pete Townshend. “I break my nails, I tear flesh from my fingers. I make minor cuts. Then I swing my arm at high speed, and all the blood rushes to the tips of my fingers and pours out profusely under the centrifugal force. My hand always bleeds, even today. But now I have a spray that stops the bleeding and the pain immediately.”
In the spring of 1980, Annie Leibovitz traveled with the Who for a few days and readied a studio around the corner from one of the shows in Oakland, California. The idea, Townshend remembers, was to have him arrive “drenched in sweat and still shaking from the exertion of the gig.” But once Leibovitz noticed his bleeding hand, she became transfixed.

“By the time we got to start taking pictures, the blood was badly congealed,” says Townshend. “Annie got me to swing my arm afresh to generate more blood. Then she actually found some fake blood and added a little to create the runny effect. But I have to say, my hand was a fucking mess before she started to embellish it.”

The studio, Townshend says, had been used in the past for porno flicks. “It had a surprisingly nice atmosphere, as though the room had seen many happy times,” he recalls. “But then, in my condition, I probably wasn’t geared up to divine the true essence of things.”

The Who were wrapping up their second world tour since drummer Keith Moon had passed away two years prior. They were also coming off one of the most tragic events in the band’s history: the deaths of eleven fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum in late 1979. “I was drinking a fair bit at the time,” says Townshend. “By 1980, I was also doing a bit of cocaine every now and then. I was often very happy and content on a rock & roll tour. Where my head was at felt like a real rock & roll condition.”

Leibovitz says that her original idea was to have Townshend do his legendary guitar-smashing routine and some airborne leaps. “The hand was just an afterthought,” she says. “It was just to show that he beats himself up when he plays. What’s so beautiful about the Townshends and the Dylans is, we rarely got to see who they were. And that made them at some level more interesting.”

Says Townshend, “I loved how that photo turned out. I look like someone from Fight Club. Annie was already a great artist. I was honored to work with her. It’s incredible I’m still here, that Rolling Stone still writes about real music and that Annie is now properly recognized by both cool and art establishments in the States and around the world.”

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From left to right - Kenny Cordray, Steve Perron, Billy Gibbons, and that blurry, shirtless,  half kid running is yours truly.

Edited December 27, 2018 by Cajun

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6 minutes ago, Cajun said:

From left to right - Kenny Cordray, Steve Perron, Billy Gibbons, and that blurry, shirtless,  half kid running is yours truly.

For reelz?

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Yessir.  Dad wrote Francine.  He and Billy grew up together and back when ZZ was called the Moving Sidewalks they used to open for my dad's band, The Children.  I'll see if I can find some more pics.

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From left to right - Jim Newhouse (The Children's drummer), Billy Gibbons, Steve Perron...

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A guest at one of my parent's hippy smoke out parties in San Antonio...

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2 minutes ago, Cajun said:

Yessir.  Dad wrote Francine.  He and Billy grew up together and back when ZZ was called the Moving Sidewalks they used to open for my dad's band, The Children.  I'll see if I can find some more pics.

That's pretty bad-ass Cajun.  Hadn't heard that story before.  

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Pal of my father's, Chris Holzhaus with, well, you know...

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All out of rep, bro.  Keep 'em coming.

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Original copy of Francine written at a Jim's Coffee Shop on Loop 410 and Broadway in SA complete with coffee stains...

 

Threadjack over.  Sorry fellas.  Good thread.  Struck a chord.