Motley Crue

 Here are some shots we got of Motley Crue on their "final" tour that turned out to be just another cheap marketing gimmick. But at least this was before they decided to cheat and insult Mick Mars, so he's in there. (If you can't tell, I don't care for the way the band has treated Mick lately, or the way they promised they would never play together again after the final tour but didn't even wait 5 years to break that promise.)









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Alice Cooper

Image
Alice Cooper has been an institution in rock music for decades. He was shocking parents and spawning both urban legends and controversy before Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osbourne or even KISS. His look has morphed from transvestite to horror movie host over the years, and with the look both the stage show and the music began to lean more into the horror aspects. Now he is considered the father of shock rock, and I have to say he still puts on a great show. I have seen him 4 times, and will be seeing him for the 5th this fall. The following pics were from a show he did with Rob Zombie about a decade ago. Nita Strauss was making waves as his new guitarist, mainly because some neanderthal rock guys were still shocked every time they saw a woman who could rock. He did a lot of his bits that night, including getting his head chopped off in a guillotine, creating a giant monster that got up and chased him around the stage, getting injected with poison from a giant hypodermic needle, dancing with b
Read more

Dark Sirens set 1

Image
This is from a shoot that was named Dark Sirens. It was done at a river, and was supposed to be sort of an evil mermaid theme but expanded out beyond those original perimeters. I leaned into the "dark" of the name in my editing. I tend to have an aesthetic preference for darker, moodier, less well defined than many people. But the great thing about art is that you can make what you like, and people can enjoy it or not. I don't feel there is any one "right" way to either make or enjoy art. There is just art and audience, and the art may connect with some or all of the audience, or it may miss it's mark completely. Sometimes this will happen for reasons that have nothing to do with the art itself. It may be the mood of the audience at the time, it may be the context in which the art is presented, it may even be due to some feeling for or against the artist responsible quite aside from the art itself. Hopefully my audience will get the mood I was going for here
Read more