Our collages are finally done :-)
I promised to post them in here when they were done.
We're so thrilled! It's been a long time coming but well worth the wait. The artist who made them also does freelance work for Bang & Olufsen; and he didn't let us down.
I discussed the basic idea with him.. Five shows, five collages, and the concept was the "event" and not (just) the band (Guns N' Roses). That was pretty much it. I gave him a raw game plan ( the 'thread' for all five frames should be place/date and my personal RS rating in one corner) and supplied the pictures, ticket stubs and whatnot. Both my own pics and others I found from those specific shows online. I'm a sucker for detail. There are only a couple of pictures that aren't from the actual shows - and usually they are then from a show 'around' that date.
Five shows spanning 15 years and tons of memories now deck our dining room wall in our new house.
Good stuff
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Shows/collages are:
Copenhagen 1991, Gentofte (Copenhagen) 1993, Budapest 2006, Roskilde Festival 2006 and Oslo (second show) 2006.The resolution on the pics posted here sucks - I had to scale them all down via MS Paint to upload them, as I have shot them all in SuperFine on my new camera (that has a million buttons and two million useless options).
The collages are ripe with detail and depth though.
The center pic for Copenhagen is from another show. But it was impossible to dig up worthwhile pics from that show. The review was one from Det Fri Aktuelt (the newspaper is no more) but the reviewer is still very much active for Denmark's most renowned (cultural/rock) newspaper, Politiken, today. I pulled som strings and he dug it out for me. He had to photocopy it as nothing from back then was stored digitally - how time flies. The headline reads : "Show of the year". The reviewer calls them the Doors of the 90s.
Gentofte is real cool. It's all red. It sticks out as the five collages are shoulder to shoulder on a crisp white brick wall. Also, only that and Oslo have "GUNS N' ROSES" written across the center; really pulls them all together without overdoing it.
The statue in Budapest is one my wife and I stumbled upon while strolling the streets. So is the billboard. We had a great little vacation down there.
That middle picture in the top line from Roskilde is the only one I'd wish he would have enlarged somewhat. A great tilted overhead shot from the tower just as the sun had gone down.
The center pic of Axl on Oslo was from the night before (Stockholm). It's just so great - almost jazzy. The shot of two laughing GNR fans (ahem) up in the right hand corner is shot by a camera phone through a mirror, and the "blonde" visible just beneath was a crazy ass fun fan who looked like a spitting image Duff circa 1986. There's some videos on Youtube of him running around - very drunk, very loud - and screaming through the streets of Oslo after the show.
BTW: My entourage and I met up with Jarmo and gang at Elm Street before this show. This concert was so t-i-g-h-t, that extra oxygen was needed. The band was smooookin'. And Izzy jumped on stage. And Axl introduced Finck as "Robin Finck on a Black Beauty [Les Paul]" - my friend sitting next to me plays nothing else and had just got one himself before this show. He lit up.
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