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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 14, 2022
Category: Art
Where the cover art for Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy is from
Cheetos Statue in Alberta
Have you heard this joke?
A guy goes to a doctor because he has an orange penis.
The doctor says “Could you have gotten this from your wife?”
The guy says “No. My wife left me.”
The doctor says “Could you have gotten this at work?”
The guy says “No, I lost my job.”
The doctor says “What do you do all day?”
The guy says “I watch porno movies and eat Cheetos.”
Great Philadelphia wall mural
Soft pretzels are very popular in Philadelphia.
Free Bird cartoons
From Songfacts:
Shouting out “Free Bird!” as a request at concerts became a rock and roll joke, and every now and then a musician will actually play it. The 2007 Mitch Myers book The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling explores this subject in a work of fiction about the first person ever to shout “Free Bird” at a concert.
Here are two cartoons on it.
R. Crumb
R. Crumb is the subject of a fine New York Times article. He is best known for his comic art which was most popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
He also is a musician and plays old blues songs. He designed a deck of cards of blues artists. I have included pictures of a large poster and small print based on them. I bought the poster from his website.
He was also the subject of an excellent 1995 documentary, Crumb, available on Blu-ray and DVD from the Criterion Collection.
Twitter thread on Cats Stealing Food in Still Life Paintings
Wes Freed artwork
Here are examples that I have copies of.
RIP Wes Freed
Wes Freed was an artist best known for album covers, posters, and t-shirt designs for the Drive-By Truckers. His art was a great match for their music.
I’ll update this post with pictures of his work that I have copies of.
9/7 – I made a separate post of Wes Freed art
Joe Walsh owns Klaus Voorman’s cover art for Revolver
Klaus Voorman, an old friend of the Beatles since their days in Hamburg, did the front cover art for Revolver, the Beatles album from 1966.
I didn’t know until yesterday that Joe Walsh owns it. The Rock and Roll Detective, the author of the article I linked to, tracked it down and even told Voorman where it was. It doesn’t say how Walsh acquired it.
Sad! 