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Rupert 12:10 pm UTC 03/16/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Bat Out Of Hell Cover Art - Marvello 01:19 am UTC 03/14/09 |
| The hard bit for Jim with the BAT Out of Hell Musical is that he will have to reduce down the time that a lot of his masterpieces run for. If he can do that successfully then I will take my hat off to him because that is like the SAW scene(film) of cutting off your arm exercise.... For Jim, if previous stories in the music press are correct, then he rejected the pressure to reduce the length of his songs for radio airplay listing, being older and wiser might help or hinder this for this venture? A sign of a great artisit is if he can live with these new creations without dispising the people who asked him to shorten them. > You can find the Bad For good videos on the Dream > Pollution site, in the multimedia section. > > > 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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