| Author | Message | ||
     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2419 Registered: 03-2006 |
This is extreme trivia, but what the hell. Did anybody ever determine if GM's black eye, featured in publicity pics around the time of Tallulah, was real or just a gag? I've always wondered, I guess, because it seems so incongruous. They seem like such peacable chaps, and have never really seemed like a "beat the crap out of each other" kind of band, like say the Kinks or the Who... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1587 Registered: 04-2005 |
Always wondered that too...kind of assumed it was Lindy who gave him the black eye. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 782 Registered: 10-2004 |
It kinda looks like make-up to me... Grant ironically trying to look like a bad-ass mofo. That's what I'd always assumed anyway. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2420 Registered: 03-2006 |
I guess that would be ironic. I think you're probably right, Jeff, though part of me wishes for some horribly sleazy and sordid story about, I dunno, Grant sleeping with Lindy and getting into a boozy brawl with Robert over it. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 319 Registered: 07-2006 |
the two of them in the same room....alone? hah! | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 43 Registered: 10-2005 |
Have you seen the video for Right Here? In it Grant gets a black eye (not for real of course), which relates to the lyric of the song. I think that the picture in the sleeve comes from the video shooting. I guess that you can find the video on youtube. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 320 Registered: 07-2006 |
vickers' "pony" scrawled on his chin always creeps me out in that video for some reason. one of my favourites nonetheless. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 784 Registered: 10-2004 |
Oh, that's right! I forgot about that detail in the "Right Here" video. So, that's where the pseudo black eye came form. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1859 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant looked very cool in BLACK and white. Him on the cover of Liberty belle, I trie finsing some knee length riding boots at the time, I had a pair of black plastic trousers but could not find the boots, unless you went to an equestrian centre and payed 500 guinaes for a pair, you had to go with the old Dr Martens, which didn't have the same sophistication! I remeber Grant having this suede worker man's jacket too, Edwyn collins had one, and again, even at the great 50's store FLip, unless youwere first in the door on a monday morning, all the bloody yuppies in the 80's would snap them up, poor people like me (ahhh!) could never obtain the clothes of our idols I tell ye! Christ, there was a real shortage of clothes and styles for men in the 80's. unless you went around like Nick Kamen there wasn't anything else going, mind ytouy, had a really nice line in 50's Hawaiin shirts, they were cool for a while, but tit was the boots I pined for I tell ye!  | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 322 Registered: 07-2006 |
i agree....i think circa LB he looked great, but the butch thing he had going on 87-89 was reaching a bit. thankfully he was clearly an awesome bloke who wrote some of the most perfect songs in spite of the attire. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1408 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, you had a Flip in Brum Spence? We had one in LA. I never quite thought of it as a 50s store. It was just second-hand clothing plus a little bit of their own stuff which was maybe vaguely 50s. I used to have this short sleeve seersucker-type shirt in light blue & black that I bought from there that I wore until it finally disintegrated. In LA, on Melrose, the place that was the serious 50s or early 60s vintage clothing place was Cowboys & Poodles. They'd bring in all this great stuff leftover from Woolworths in places like Wyoming. But it was more expensive than Flip. That WAS a fun time. I had hair! I put Tenax in it and back-brushed it to stand up and I wore those mod-revival skinny ties. I loved them and collected a load of them. I didn't stop wearing them for years and years--long after their fashion had passed--because I thought they looked right on my Iggy Pop-like frame. And my electric blue leather shoes! I spilled motor oil on them. :-( And my white bucks! I wore them until their soles were worn through. The 80s was a GREAT time to be a clothes horse. And it was the only time that I ever was such a creature, my normal style being much more of a jeans and t-shirt and maybe Levi jacket sort. |