a promo photo thread for '80s/'90s bands oozing sobriety and wisdom in the present day

It's like they showed up to state fairs and street feats in 2013'in suits, watching everyone in shorts and flip-fops, and said fuck it.

http://i.imgur.com/kndqr4m.jpg

From 2012. They've since hit closing time again.

I would totes see a Penetration reunion!

level 42 were always kinda dour though, weren't they?

woah, okay, maybe not...

http://www.level42.com/wp-content/uploads/level42-bbc2.jpg

i don't think i've ever listened to a level 42 album. got so bored of that one video they would play on mtv.

they had a grand total of two hits in the u.s., right?

maybe they had a later one that i'm not aware of.

http://s4.evcdn.com/images/edpborder500/I0-001/004/255/571-2.jpeg_/tears-for-fears-71.jpeg

Tears for Fears

Big Chair II

"Yes. It is funny how time flies."

TFF have aged well

Still trying to wrap my head around the red shirt the Level 42 dude is wearing in the pic above

those are some wrinkly shirts

Didn't tears for fears always ooze sobriety and wisdom?

pearl jam looking like a bunch of gun runners from an episode of 24

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-19-at-11-19-16-am.png?w=807

Tears for Fears were always pretty dour, though it looks like Roland succumbed to the 80s "wearing too many belts at once" craze for a time

http://bettylou.zzruss.com/tearsforfearscenter1.jpg

Hoo boy, I don't think I've ever noticed this before.

http://i.imgur.com/2iFB0kz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/457VNqQ.jpg

Wwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllll, yyyyyyyyeaheaheaheah

Son, she said, have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a...

http://www.npacvw.org/assets/img/REO-10-83f39016e4.jpg

... REO Speedwagon, not the Paul O'Grady band, in case of confusion.

the backlighting is doing no favours to the guy on the right there, holy shit

yer man in the middle is a shoo-in for the 'men who look like old lesbians' thread

Exactly.

claudia winkleman's gonna need to get her hair back from the fella on the left there before she films this week's episode of strictly

You mean Dee Dee Ramone's uncle? To be fair to them, they were never a band of lookers in their prime, they probably look better now.

http://www.montres-de-luxe.com/photo/art/default/5732406-8546190.jpg?v=1415264521

The REO photo is such a beautiful and pure expression of generations working together, Boomers dressed by a Gen X stylist who doesn't realize it's not 2004, back when the stylist last had a good paying gig overseeing a bunch of Millennial acts. How many have worn those chains and skull rings!?

yer man in the middle is a shoo-in for the 'men who look like old lesbians' thread

You mean Kevin Cookin'?

https://i.imgur.com/9lEkZER.jpg

Echo & the Bunnymen:

https://images.sk-static.com/images/media/profile_images/artists/46227/huge_avatar

echo and the blurrymen

vg

"look at the camera Mart.. "
"no"

http://diffuser.fm/files/2017/02/dm_tour_dates_announce.jpg

better with shades these guys

http://www.billboard.com/files/media/depeche-mode-press-photo-cr-Anton-Corbijn-2017-billboard-1548.jpg

lol, echo and the blurrymen is at the level of the Stillwater t-shirt in Almost Famous

http://cdn3-www.musicfeeds.com.au/assets/uploads/cf2bf5e939e1483928a1813b8a271fe7.jpg

Silverchair

Ian Astbury much improved without the long hair imo

a goth Will Ferrell

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:06 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha we were watching some doors footage a few weeks ago and a friend pointed out that jimbo resembles ferrell a little bit too

https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/promo_650/public/media/Eagles-2017-press-photo-cr-Myriam-Santos-billboard-1548.jpg

Yeah, the world doesn't need yet another Full House reboot.

Why is there a teen in the Eagles? Is he one of Glenn Fry's love children?

No, that's Timothy B. Schmit. Been with the band since '77.

Ha, I think that literally is Glenn Frey's son.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mVfzh7wtz_I/TLmXwdQjQgI/AAAAAAAAATY/m950deIea_0/s1600/ABBA2010.jpg

http://loudwire.com/files/2016/04/Ihsahn1.jpg
I am the math teachers

Why is there a teen in the Eagles? Is he one of Glenn Fry's love children?

― Moodles, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and the prize for grossest headline goes to

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/eagles-deacon-frey-family-blood/

aww abba look great imo, good model of how to age gracefully

https://i.imgur.com/Zo0JqGi.jpg

Ugh, I said it upthread but bands are so stupid.

The The never oozed gaiety and playfulness in the old days either tbf

(actually I don't know if I've ever seen a promo photo of any live lineup before!)

the lighter side of Matt Johnson

https://cdn-img.pressreader.com/pressdisplay/docserver/getimage.aspx?regionKey=xo3M5BidPnc2b21dN8Jq3Q%3D%3D&scale=100

http://www.insidehampshire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Matt-Johnson.jpg

ha ha

http://diffuser.fm/files/2017/02/dm_tour_dates_announce.jpg

saw ESPN the other night, they had Dave Gahan on!

l-r

Steve Nicol, Dave Gahan, Steve Mcnanaman