View Full Version : Your Favorite Rock Stars, Then and Now


similost
09-26-2008, 04:18 PM
I thought this might be interesting. Post up pictures of videos with your favorite stars then and now. Let's see how they've changed...

I'll start with Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo....
Then:
http://img.skitch.com/20080518-e9yx2nsktcjewjpx3xxnpq771n.preview.jpg

Now:
http://www.franchisepick.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/devo2-nc.jpg

grillebilly
09-26-2008, 04:24 PM
I guess doing the sound track from the kids cartoon "Rugrats' has mellowed him a bit.
The pic with him and the chick is borderline for this site, Grumpy may have to put you across his knee!!

similost
09-26-2008, 04:27 PM
aw.. she's dressed... It was the best picture I could find of him looking like he really used to.. and thought seeing him with an "adult entertainer" was actually kinda funny..

similost
09-26-2008, 04:35 PM
OK.. I changed it.. Happier Rick? :p:

ANd.. to make up to you for it, I'll include a video of him long time ago playing my favorite DEVO charecter.. Booji Boy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psz8yiW_jos&feature=related

ponderbear
09-26-2008, 04:40 PM
Still give his Music for Insomniacs, vol. 1 and 2 ocasional spins- it really does work..

similost
09-26-2008, 04:56 PM
Sure do wished I had those.. gotta be great...

OK.. just waiting for some other then and nows..

grillebilly
09-26-2008, 05:03 PM
OK.. I changed it.. Happier Rick? :p:

ANd.. to make up to you for it, I'll include a video of him long time ago playing my favorite DEVO charecter.. Booji Boy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psz8yiW_jos&feature=related

No, I happen to like women in different states of (un)dress.
What are ya trying to say, anyway? ..........lol

OvenMaster
09-26-2008, 07:03 PM
Ann and Nancy Wilson in the 70's:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9797/heart70sjz9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Ann and Nancy Wilson today:
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3076/heart99he3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

similost
09-26-2008, 07:09 PM
WOW.. what a difference.. some still got it.. and the other half don't...

chuckworkb
09-26-2008, 07:12 PM
Ann and Nancy Wilson in the 70's:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9797/heart70sjz9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Ann and Nancy Wilson today:
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3076/heart99he3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Holy Cow
Holy Nancy

Did I just say that -sorry
I heard them in concert recently and Ann seems to have lost the power in her voice, back in the day she was one hot singer.

similost
09-26-2008, 07:12 PM
WOAH.. Grace Slick...

http://i.a.cnn.net/money/galleries/2007/moneymag/0702/gallery.pop_icons.moneymag/images/grace_slick.gi.jpg

mhardy6647
09-26-2008, 09:15 PM
http://www.altmanphoto.com/PeteTownsend.JPEG
http://homepage.mac.com/townshend/.Public/PeteTownshend.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/mhardy6647/LRdontcrynow.jpg
http://www.scott-smith.com/images/topical/linda_ronstadt.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/mhardy6647/dead.jpg
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/2/5/3/0/14410352-14410354-large.jpg

(you wouldn't want to see "the other one" of these two guys anymore...)


http://mars.prosoundweb.com/index.php/fa/4188/0/
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/0/6/6/3/15733660-15733663-slarge.jpg

clydeselsor
09-26-2008, 09:38 PM
Ginger Baker

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm40/clydeselsor/Ginger-Baker-Press-Photo.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm40/clydeselsor/gingerbaker2.jpg

RayW
09-26-2008, 09:45 PM
WOW.. what a difference.. some still got it.. and the other half don't...

Or...some still got it, and the other half got more of it.

Mark, when I saw the first GD picture I was afraid of what you'd pull up for the "now".

Ray

vons
09-26-2008, 09:51 PM
http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/David-Bowie---Aladdin-Sane-Poster-C10034689.jpeg

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/men/david-bowie/pictures/david-bowie-picture-1.jpg

Amazing.

RussinOhio
09-26-2008, 09:59 PM
Don't have any pics right now but I'll say I have WAY too many favorites that it is impossible to pick even a few . As far as Nancy Wilson is concerned....I have to say that I just adore this woman for her singing voice!

Russ

OldSkool
09-26-2008, 10:07 PM
http://www.greggallman.com/gallery/gaf/stuff/promos/Gregg-Vogue.JPG

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09m6fFI7wu0rv/610x.jpg

Urizen
09-26-2008, 10:10 PM
Bonnie.

OvenMaster
09-27-2008, 12:52 AM
Don't have any pics right now but I'll say I have WAY too many favorites that it is impossible to pick even a few . As far as Nancy Wilson is concerned....I have to say that I just adore this woman for her singing voice!

Russ
I always thought that Nancy sang better than Ann; remarkable that Heart's biggest-selling single ever, "These Dreams" had Nancy as lead vocalist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_discography

ponderbear
09-27-2008, 01:16 AM
The other Elvis.
http://media.drawerb.com/wp/2007/11/costello-elvis-photo-xl-elvis-costello-6230868.jpg
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/03/Elvis%20Costello.jpg

ponderbear
09-27-2008, 01:20 AM
Jonesy

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk235/kashmircoverband/johnpaulJones.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/John_Paul_Jones.jpg

similost
09-27-2008, 06:29 AM
LOL.. Jonesy looks like he could stand a couple prunes... It really is interesting to see how people change, and especially people that have lived some pretty hard party lives (for those that did, or still do.. (Keith?))

My wife and I will watch a movie, and comment about how people have changed so much, and wonder what it is like for a person that has been in the media a lot, or movies, and to sit and watch one of their old movies (or videos) and see their selves how they have changed..

Madman007
09-27-2008, 06:53 AM
Not exactly a favorite although some of the older stuff is ok pop, Yes, I had to put this one up for sheer Shock and Lol factor.

THEN:
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n256/Jem_1/permanent/mj70s1.jpg http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n256/Jem_1/permanent/Michael-Jackson-p051.jpg



NOW:
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n256/Jem_1/permanent/Michael20Jackson-11.jpg http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n256/Jem_1/permanent/Michael-Jackson-p011.jpg

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

similost
09-27-2008, 08:26 AM
Let's take that one even further back...

http://www.opposingdigits.com/racistparadigm/michael%20jackson%201.jpg

theWB
09-27-2008, 09:00 AM
Party Hard

chuckworkb
09-27-2008, 12:15 PM
I looked at all these pics, and I think.......

What the heck happened to Ann Wilson and Linda Ronstad - girls put down that twinkie, please!

Grace looks like a completely different person - no other words come to mind

I actually think Ginger Baker looks better old, and that is probably because he isn't taking hits of acid any more.

Keith Richards - he looks like he was hit by a truck

Michael jackson - I agree with the poster - WTF?????

Elivis Costello - why is it when you get old your head always seems to get bigger?

David Bowie - He looks like he is 30, but that is probably due to some kind of surgery

Pete Townsend - looks better now that he isn't high at the time of the photograph, or at least he is hiding it better.

Aging agrees with some, but others - hmmm - maybe not so much!

tboat4
09-27-2008, 12:28 PM
I saw Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Ponies on a U.S.O. tour when I was stationed in Korea late in 1967 or early '68. She was really hot, and took the time to talk with a lot of G.I.'s.
She doesn't quite look the same now, but then, neither do I.

similost
09-27-2008, 02:03 PM
Some even grow up and look respectable...

Peter Frampton

http://confusedtwenty.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/c57588peter-frampton-posters.jpg


http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0f3efnvd2ffIj/340x.jpg

ScramMan2
09-27-2008, 10:13 PM
Jerry Garcia, 1st pic Sept 28, 1975, and second pic the last show at Soldier Field, Chicago, July 1995 2-3 weeks before he died. RIP Jerry, we miss you a lot. I know you're smiling since the music has never stopped.

Doctordirt
09-27-2008, 10:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c85hVUCpxc&feature=related

Not really then, but hey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUrAYsUz6Y&feature=related

Aage
09-27-2008, 11:11 PM
Well, I dunno about youse, but I gotta admit that I think most folks looked better "then" than they do "now"...

Windwalker
09-28-2008, 02:49 AM
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/old-skool-brit.jpg
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/big-winner.jpg

Pop rock counts, right????????

OldSkool
09-28-2008, 11:14 AM
Pop rock counts, right????????
Youre kidding, right?

:yuck:

Proconsul
09-28-2008, 11:22 AM
Not that this is a music criticism posting, but I gotta say -- I never liked Heart at all, at all. Not my cup of tea. And despite growing up just south of San Francisco, graduating from high school in 1969, and all that, I never got into the Dead. Heck, I was even a college radio DJ in the early '70's and I never go into the Dead. Not that I disliked them, maybe I never was exposed to their music in the right circumstances. The Who, yeah, I wore out Tommy and later Who's Next, don't know where I missed the boat on the Dead. Anyone got a suggestion for THE Dead record that will convert me?

ScramMan2
09-28-2008, 11:34 AM
Not that this is a music criticism posting, but I gotta say -- I never liked Heart at all, at all. Not my cup of tea. And despite growing up just south of San Francisco, graduating from high school in 1969, and all that, I never got into the Dead. Heck, I was even a college radio DJ in the early '70's and I never go into the Dead. Not that I disliked them, maybe I never was exposed to their music in the right circumstances. The Who, yeah, I wore out Tommy and later Who's Next, don't know where I missed the boat on the Dead. Anyone got a suggestion for THE Dead record that will convert me?

I didn't get into them the first time I saw them live either. It took another show to convert me. A lot of it depended on the "mood" of the show.

The best two studio albums IMO are American Beauty and Workingmans Dead. They built a 30+ year career on those songs from 1970. The live shows were built around those songs and covers.

I'm your age, and was a PT DJ in HS/College too. In between there was Vietnam.