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steven_stuart 12:58 am UTC 03/14/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Bat Out Of Hell Cover Art - Marvello 12:25 am UTC 03/14/09 |
| I am not sure if I've seen the cheesy videos you mention. Can you give me more information? The only terrible Jim video that I have seen was the Pandora's Box video for It's All coming Back To Me Now. There are two versions. The original and the one that the record company edited. This can't really be blamed on Jim because Ken Russell directed it. Jim probably thought he was going to get something like one of the really cool scenes from Russell's Tommy. But by the time Russell directed Pandora's box, he must have been bonkers. I don't know what he was thinking of. It was a very ugly orgy and the record company tried to edit Russell's vision out. As far as Jim being influenced by the movie you mention, it is always possible. Although the album cover is more complicated then that. Especially if you consider the importance of the bat. The cover for Bat 2 is also very Jim because it's his Obsidian vision. He used to have Obsidian as a post-apocalyptic city in California but he changed it to post-apocalyptic New York. The bat on the Chrysler building is a brilliant image. He couldn't have picked a more iconic building. It's like the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes. I am sure you are right that Jim has been influenced by various things but I think a genius is allowed to do that. I saw an old cartoon video from 1972 for Leader Of The Pack and it featured a guy on a Harley, with enormous wings, rising up into heaven. I immediately wondered if Jim had been influenced by that. > Although the cover image concept for the album was > reputedly Jim's, the idea had been used before albeit in a > film. The late sixties british film Psychomania has a > scene where the reborn biker surges out of a grave on his > triumph, maybe Jim saw it. > Jim's vision also spawned the cheesy BFG videos i believe, > hmmm how "gay" are they? > > > > I recently purchased the sheet music for Bat Out Of Hell. > > Amongst the various credits it says that the album's cover > > art was Jim's concept, even though they had to use an > > artist to bring the vision to life. If Jim's genius was > > limited to just music, he would still be very impressive. > > Music and lyrics is even better. But there seems to be no > > limit to Jim's creative power. This is one reason why I > > believe that Bat Out Of Hell The Musical will be a great > > show, as long as Jim is the master and nobody tries to > > interfear with him. As they did during the DOTV > > preperations. I think that the cover for Bat is one of the > > greatest covers of all time. I was actually surprised to > > find out that it was the vision of the same person who > > came up with both the lyrics and the music. | |
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