That awful poster with Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc

Okay, a young Entwistle makes sense. Thanks. I will rest easier tonight.

Yep.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEpIKydwfHI/mqdefault.jpg

Sid's legs are wild.

Is that Mariska Hargitay delivering a cheeseburger?

Is that Richard Manuel in the back row? And who's the lad inbetween Bob, MJ, Freddie and Moonie?

John Bonham and Marc Bolan?

I initially thought it was Harry Nilsson, but yeah that's Bonzo.

Are there two Jim Morrisons? Or is one Hutchence?

One of them is Rick Parfitt.

I've just noticed Amy Winehouse's glass of red.

xxp: if you're talking about the shirtless dude top right, that's Bon Scott.

Sid's legs are wild.

― peace, man

That's because of Kurt manspreading, asserting his dominance over Sid.

it's weird that this iconography has moved from "Died in their prime" to just dead, with Zappa, Entwisitle, Joey Ramone, George Harrison. Like, everyone is gonna be there soon. How'd they leave Strummer out, say?

I'd like to see a "27 Club" illustration with Jimi, Janis et al at a collective 28th birthday party in heaven, candles and cake and all. Maybe Jim'll Paint It would oblige.

Will a donut do?

https://i.imgur.com/PEfa4pK.jpg

https://www.etsy.com/listing/675985582/the-27-club-diner-jimi-hendrix-janis

Quite into this one:

https://i.imgur.com/uIHe3OK.jpg

https://i.etsystatic.com/25889005/r/il/a1f6c3/2645693454/il_1140xN.2645693454_thkv.jpg

I actually like the art in that donut one (except Morrison)

Which one is Rupert Brooke?

I wouldn't want to eat at a donut shop that allows shirtless customers, that's for sure.

Poor old Ian Curtis, maybe he's too difficult to paint.

lol

something so creepy about this style of art. guess it's the subjects

the club 27 one is cursed, particularly amy and jimi's heads, an inch from touching eyeballs, yet completely unaware of each-other.

It's bad enough when it is at the regular pizza parlor nostalgia level, but the rock and roll heaven thing is really creepy.

I think it would be helpful if each poorly drawn person were holding something to identify them. In the manner of medieval saint paintings or the way, in the first picture, Amy WINEhouse is holding WINE.

Marc Bolan: smoking a bowl

John Bonham: eating a bon-bon

Jimi Hendrix: holding a live hen

Kurt Cobain: eating corn on the... cob

etc.

Marc would be spinning in his grave at that suggestion.

Fairly sure this one is out of date now re dead Skynyrds

https://live.staticflickr.com/1222/727112750_dc42629130_n.jpg

https://img.joomcdn.net/92ecf35d66750adc7c2c288e0ec3b19e18fda258_original.jpeg

Who's that lady? She's pretty cute.

If Cobain knew he would be immortalized in these shitty paintings, he would have thought twice about checking out.

Mercury putting Hendrix in a headlock and pointing with a "This guy! Am I right?!" is a nice new spin on the genre

This has been a good test for AI art generators

https://i.imgur.com/ZDwXojL.png

Expanding previous ones is also fun

https://i.imgur.com/Ouhu03l.png

Oops, wrong photo

https://i.imgur.com/1xQx7Oo.png

I just gotta know what you told the AI. those are amazing, lol

https://i.imgur.com/Zs5x1Ux.png

lol

lol they remind of these wombo things I made inputting band names

Beatles
https://i.imgur.com/3eZJ2m8.jpg

ZZ Top
https://i.imgur.com/tS7aUiH.jpg

Led Zeppelin
https://i.imgur.com/hA0o2m9.jpg

Guns N Roses
https://i.imgur.com/VmUv3oB.jpg

oh well, well they’re all there

For the first I think I put in “a cheesy poster of Janis Joplin jamming with other dead rock stars in a bar” or something. I originally had Hendrix and Cobain in the prompt too but it rejected that on the “no famous people” rule (sorry, Janis).

The expansion on the second one was similar but without the name I think.

fascinating, thanks! the results are excellent, imo.

TIL: the artist who first painted the Elvis, Bogart, Marilyn, Dean version of Nighthawks At The Diner was the same artist who painted the album cover for The Scorpions' Blackout. More about the perverse/dumb cultural history of that painting here: https://www.thebeliever.net/the-hopper-consani-connection/

A painting that has a ton of meaning to me. One of these days I will explain the meaning behind this painting.
https://i.imgur.com/eKcEm2p.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/PatrickBetDavid.Valuetainment/photos/a-painting-that-has-a-ton-of-meaning-to-me-one-of-these-days-i-will-explain-the-/1529223233858714/

Having a closer look, I'm sure one of the bust is Socrates, and Plato possibly, in a vault surrounded by incredible knowledge (books )

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." -- Bob F. Marley

https://i.ibb.co/nrrDfGL/IMG-0841.jpg

those guys are pretty much contemporaries tho

Ghosts don't reflect in mirrors, but they do cast shadows.

if there is a jazz heaven -- and i think there is -- then jesus definitely spins his vintage blue note pressings on $12,000 clearaudio innovation chrome turntable