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

Sunglasses guy needs a keyboard skinny tie if he really wants to look cool.

I am the math teachers

― Øystein, Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:04 PM

Underrated post imho.

Danny McNamara's haircut worked quite a bit better at 27 than it does at 47

Tucked in shirts are annoying and make me feel more bulbous

If u fly on airplanes, you may have seen ads for these: https://www.untuckit.com/

(I think their length looks weirdly abbreviated)

Yeah that's a solution to something that wasn't a problem really

See also the back cover of Karyobin. They look like a firm of solicitors. Yet they're way more radical than "you."

— Ferrante Spartacus (@marcellocarlin) November 23, 2018

feeling this Marcello tweet today.

Judging by the creases running across the fabric, it may have been purchased en route to the photo shoot, unpackaged/unpinned, and donned... (Wrong size? Too late now.)

― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Thursday, November 22, 2018 12:09 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The creases indicate that he's got his thumb hooked on his pocket from the OUTSIDE of his untucked shirt. This man plays by his own rules.

Yeah I meant the horizontal chest creases; but you’re right, too — he’s thumbing the fabric into his pocket, very cool

So how do we promote this new album? Tell you what, why don't we take some moody b+w photos of us dressed in black? I bet no-one's done that before.

https://www.officialcharts.com/media/654699/suede-2018.jpg

Teenage Fanclub

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5XYiqHni398/S72054Z5MOI/AAAAAAAADGg/v23yWYDi87c/s1600/41EXKD6MBKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/34xso.jpg

This is a gem

https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Live-and-BUSH.jpg?quality=80

great find. and in case anyone was wondering how the special guest was doing these days:

http://www.canadianamphitheatre.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1000-x-580.jpg

Our Lady Peacoat

Look forward to seeing them in their 70s.

there's no one laughing

Cherry Poppin Daddies

https://img-dev.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F68371289%2F302496356207%2F1%2Foriginal.20190812-183857?auto=compress&crop=top&fit=crop&h=333&w=500&s=e879736489f7e99ec133bd37ed604406

Hahahahahahaha

Milady Respectin' Daddies

flavor-saver toward the back still a bit "I'd hit that"

I guess that's more of a soul patch

great find

are the Jayhawks doing this right

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJSGLXZVAAAHb1m?format=jpg&name=large

https://cdn.wegow.com/media/artists/candlebox/candlebox-1492554434.97.2560x1440.jpg

is there an equivalent thread for like old hyped-up Gen-X internet celebrities? because i just googled "Seanbaby 2019" and found a listicle he wrote entitled "5 Annoying Things They Don't Tell You About Being A Parent"

just looked that up and tbh respect for carrying over the exact same voice and style for two decades into daddy concerns

while still working Star Wars jokes in to keep it real

and still got the mohawk i see

my capacity to find him hilarious and cool at age 16 versus 38 is one of the biggest gulfs of unrecognizability between me and my youth, but so it goes with that kinda thing i guess - Jerky Boys probably occupy a similar niche for a lot of people. hats off to him for seemingly managing to make this a career tho.

State of these nobheads

https://mm.aiircdn.com/5/5ddcf739a80a7.jpg

Not really getting a lot of sobriety or wisdom from that pic.

Alice / Vincent has been sober for 35 years tbh and seems to be fairly together

dunno about Perry but I wouldn't go to him or Depp for wisdom

I have always read this thread title as entirely ironic

The Metallica photo is hilarious. Should've called the album, i dunno, Voodoo Lounge or something

why oh why do people in bands STILL think sunglasses are cool?

sunglasses are cool! they are!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunglasses, ammo belts, fur hats, etc do not look cool when a stylist puts them on a veteran badboy in an attempt to look tough when he'd really rather be practicing his putting or detailing his Mustang or whatever.

so cool

It's surprising how un bendy they are of gender these bands. What a crap era it's been for rock fashions this last 30 years.

when o when will Alice Cooper relax his unbending stance on gender norms

p sure these guys are not sober by any definition but
https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/los-lobos-cr-bmi-2017-billboard-1548.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOgi1SpW4AAiASM?format=jpg&name=large

Who is that?

Not much sobriety there

sobriety is relative

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=45848

Thought for a minute that it was Bowling For Soup, and how great it was that one guy had lost so much weight... except:

https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/bfs-768x435.jpg

image filters that attempt to convey a sense of oozing sobriety and wisdom in the present day

This has just reminded me that about a year ago I was introduced to a member of the Barenaked Ladies at a gig and *all* I could think about was *that* thread.

We're jumping on the road with @Nickelback this summer.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
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— Stone Temple Pilots (@STPBand) January 21, 2020