Art of Music (Post your music related art!)

[Bronty]

I don't have any album art mostly concert poster art. To of my favorites are

 

Rolling Stones 1969 Let It Bleed Tour Poster pencil prelim by David Bird

 

 

Cream Saville Theatre poster 7/2/67 by Bob Masse

 

 

 

 

This is the prelim for the Pink Floyd "Backs" Poster 1995 by Finlay Cowan

Finlay Cowan and Storm Thorgerson came up with the concept (back catalogue should be literally "the catalogue on the backs"), Finlay did this prelim and photographed by Tony May. Its BIG, 30"x50", and on the back are a bunch of notes and sketches showing the artist's thought process.

 

'Atom Heart Mother', 'Relics', 'Dark Side of the Moon', 'Wish You Were Here', 'The Wall' and 'Animals'

 

 

 

 

 

Final photograph. I understand it took an artist 6 hours to paint each of the women.

great article on it

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/outtakes-storm-thorgerson-designer-on-pink-floyds-back-catalogue-1235343.html

 

The real story is he only needed 30 minutes to paint each woman, but he took his sweet time

[Caltex98]

Here are some Archie pages with music themes from Bill Galvan:

 

 

Archie & Friends #130, p8. (inks by Al Milgrom)

 

 

 

Archie & Friends #131, p11. (inks by Al Milgrom)

 

 

 

Archie and Valerie Love Smackdown. (inks by Rich Koslowski)

 

 

Archie & Friends #141, p19, The Freshman Year story (inks by Al Milgrom)

 

[DeadpoolJr.]

Here's a question, what would people prefer between the album cover to Queen's "News of the World", which was based on a cover to "Astounding Science Fiction"? Both were painted by Frank Kelly Freas.

 

 

 

Or

 

 

[Brian Peck]

I prefer the astonishing science fiction cover. The difference is the scifi cover the robot is looking to save the guy. On the Queen cover the robot is attacking people. expression works best with the astonishing cover.

[Bronty]

as images, I agree, the original just works in a way the others don't.

 

to own though? Tougher question. Queen is/was pretty awesome.

[Brian Peck]

I would love to find the artwork for Iggy Pop Brick by Brick by Charles Burns

 

[mister_not_so_nice]

I'd love to find either of these two pieces or the cover to the FAMILY MAN album.

 

I did find some original covers to Rollins early spoken word albums once. The artist still has a couple and Rollins has one. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon

[vodou]

Here's an absoute treasure trove of DK imagery by Winston Smith. Might give ya'll a new respect for collage art (in case you've not the appreciation already).

 

http://www.copronason.com/winstonweb/

[Monsterhoodoo]

I've always liked the Electric Frankenstein artwork. Tough to find the CD covers, but the handbill poster art comes up from time to time. If it's not too expensive, I snag it. EF is a punk band that has great aesthetics. They've "borrowed" from Famous Monsters, EC, all sorts of horror pop culture references. And usually, the Bride is hot. I'll leave it at that.

 

 

[jick]

I don't really have music-related art that I own, but I did draw some in the comic size 11 x 17 paper.

 

Here's my favorite band U2 using markers. I gifted this to a fellow U2 fan in our country.

 

 

Here's something I did for my nephew who is a fan of The Killers and these are images from their music video Miss Atomic Bomb:

 

[furthur]

I have a second printing of that Jimi Hendrix poster by Griffin and about a half dozen other Fillmore posters that are all first prints plus a dozen postcards and even a half dozen or more of the tickets which reprint the posters. My brother in law is the big poster collector in the family and has 3 or 4 dozen fillmore/Avalon and other 60's posters and has at least a dozen framed on his wall all over his house. He also has two originals of posters he owns and a great Griffin prelim for the Grateful Dead's southern tour shirts-which are now officially "not PC" because they feature a confederate flag.

 

I LOVE Rick Griffin's work and have 3 or 4 preliminary pieces by him, but none are scanned.

[Bronty]

cool. would love to see any of this if you get pics.

cheers

[Bronty]

Just above the star that covers her nipple it says Amorica. Poster was part of the tour to promote their album Amorica, features a woman's crotch wearing a United States flag thong with pubic hair sticking out. (pissed off a bunch of people)

 

 

just googled the album cover.. I like it. Hard to go wrong with cameltoe

[furthur]

Here is one music piece I already have posted. Being a Deadhead, I have always looked for cool Grateful Dead art and they were at the forefront of creating an iconography for their band (which has probably helped their bottom line on merchandising, but has spawned a huge world of bootleg merch as well) These two pieces by Tim Truman are from The Grateful Dead Almanac. They published it for quite a while-even a few years after Jerry Garcia died, but then put it on line.

 

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=16260

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1235069

 

This one is another piece by Tim for a CD back cover from a Grateful Dead New Years concert from 1973

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=413058

 

I will try and scan some of the Rick Griffin stuff-its awesome. Just got one of my favorite prelims framed in fact.

 

 

 

[Caltex98]

Here is a commission by Jeff Shultz where he relocates the Riverdale gang to a Beach Party-movie. Surf music galore:

 

 

It gets bigger if you click it.

[BookofStrange]

I had forgotten about my Jughead page.

 

Jughead's Joke # 18 May 1968(?)

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=387931

 

 

[aqualad34]

Here is The Clash (The Cats) Commission with some of my favorite characters mixed with one of my favorite bands by Brahm Revel.

 

http://comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1104492

 

 

 

 

[Brian Peck]

Forgot I do have art for two album covers.

 

 

 

Iggy Pop bootleg Rare Cuts prelim by Bill Stout

 

 

published cover

 

 

Croweology by Alan Forbes

 

 

 

 

published cover

[Bird]

I was looking for something else but cannot find it. For now this will do.

 

Rick Geary - Frank Zappa

[Bird]

Here is one music piece I already have posted. Being a Deadhead, I have always looked for cool Grateful Dead art and they were at the forefront of creating an iconography for their band (which has probably helped their bottom line on merchandising, but has spawned a huge world of bootleg merch as well) These two pieces by Tim Truman are from The Grateful Dead Almanac. They published it for quite a while-even a few years after Jerry Garcia died, but then put it on line.

 

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=16260

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1235069

 

This one is another piece by Tim for a CD back cover from a Grateful Dead New Years concert from 1973

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=413058

 

I will try and scan some of the Rick Griffin stuff-its awesome. Just got one of my favorite prelims framed in fact.

 

 

 

Hey Now!

 

Awesome pieces you have there. The one I was looking for was a Truman piece. I will try to remember to get a photo up soon.