Need help - awful band photos website

[Ric5]

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Not the website, but it does not get any more awful than this.

They must have gotten ALL the chicks back then

 

[Ric5]

 

[Ric5]

 

[Ric5]

this one here is the worst of the worst

 

[Ric5]

 

[roccobass]

This one wins my "And the point is?" award.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Someone suggested it, so I had to do it. This is a band that I gigged with on bass a bit over a decade ago before I moved out to the desert just south of Death Valley, CA. The fool in leather and a top hat is me. This was a publicity shot.

 

[Michedelic]

murph and the magictones

Those don't count. The Murph thing was contrived parody…you need to find a pic of an actual old-school Holiday Inn band that cluelessly considered themselves all hip and happening. The Stooges thing is weak sauce; their heads are photoshopped onto the Rolling Stones' bodies, whereas I've seen that done in other versions with Iggy and the actual band. But ultimately the point of any of this is to find real bands with unrealistic expectations.

 

[IamGroot]

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Gert Jonnys was a Swedish dansband during the 1970s and 1980s. Its leader, Gert Jonny Hansson left the band in 1982, and since 1988, the three remaining members and one additional member, are known as Freddy's, led by Freddy Pedersen and Chris Bittner. They still perform occasionally in the southern parts of Sweden, in Denmark and on the Canary Islands, although the members also have day jobs.

The band was relatively unknown until a number of old promotional pictures were posted on the Internet and gained instant cult status.

 

[BlueTalon]

Those mooks? I'm just getting started…
Swedish Dance Bands Of The 1970s: Whipped Hair And No Underwear - Flashbak

The crazy thing about most of the bands on that page, with their ridiculous outfits, is that if those bands actually performed in getups like that, then they had to have several changes of clothing. Which means people actually made those clothes, and other people paid them to do it.

 

[rtav]

Just think - these are the promo pics that won out - I want to see the pics that got rejected.

 

[Glennbassmann]

 

[Rib 13]

<- Laughs at funny band photos even though I have been photographed in many

 

[Glennbassmann]

I think those among of us of a certain age have all gone through this
a few times from dickies to tuxes to spandex..me on the left..somewhere in Nevada lol..

 

[Glennbassmann]

How's this for snazzy..yes thats me on the phone..who's idea was this..

 

[roccobass]

The crazy thing about most of the bands on that page, with their ridiculous outfits, is that if those bands actually performed in getups like that, then they had to have several changes of clothing. Which means people actually made those clothes, and other people paid them to do it.

I'm with you on that. Back in 1982, in my Top 40 road band, it was suggested we wear spandex on stage and in our promo shots. I emphatically said no. A compromise was reached.

Being a broke musician at the time, it took some selling of a few things, but I was able to buy a couple of pairs of new leather pants from a motorcycle shop. The owner gave me a discount for buying two, especially when I told him what they were for. He was a former musician and could relate. Whew! Disaster was averted.

 

[sotua]

Yeeeesh!

(the hat really brings everything together)

 

[FirewalZ]

Conway Twitty and Wayne Cochran had nothin' on these hair helmets…
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Yes, but look at that Jazz bass….stack knob?

 

[bassicmike]

How's this for snazzy..yes thats me on the phone..who's idea was this.. View attachment 4891977

like we couldn't tell with the backwards cap.