KEEP ROCKIN'
An idea that I've been dealing with for a long time is a series of (almost) black and white portraits of rock musicians who accompanied me through my life. Not the young, glamorous musicians, but the older ones who show traces of a (hopefully!) real wild life. The aged heroes of my youth (and the rest of my life). I made it my own requirement that I have to had seen the people portrayed live in concert. The beginning was (of course!) Keith Richards.
All portraits are made with pastels on black cardboard measuring 30 x 42 cm. I tried to put a splash of color into each of the otherwise black and white drawings. I#ve finished the portraits of (the images can be enlarged by clicking on them):
t.b.c.
After the series is completed, an illustrated book and possibly another exhibition tour will follow.
Preparing the book I have created a playlist with selected songs in case that one or the other artist is not known by all:
Keith Richards / The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (Let It Bleed, 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeglgSWKSIY
Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath (Aqualung, 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i19d1QnstsA
Peter Gabriel: Wallflower (Peter Gabriel IV-Security, 1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NIqD5Oa-g
Paul McCartney: Live And Let Die, 1973 (Single)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0UmZcf89E
Neil Peart / Rush: Tom Sawyer (Moving Pictures, 1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk
Steve Hackett: A Tower Struck Down (The Voyage Of The Acolyte, 1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8r72tRZO6o
Fish / Marillion: Forgotten Sons (Script For A Jester’s Tear, 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtiUoEbwD7Q
Leonard Cohen: Suzanne (Songs Of Leonard Cohen, 1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svitEEpI07E
Bruce Springsteen: My Hometown (Born In The U.S.A., 1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrGi8ODOWR0
Neal Morse / Transatlantic: Into The Blue (Kaleidoscope, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxeO0iqJ2U
Jackson Browne: Rosie (Running On Empty, 1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5J8wWsYEs
David Gilmour / Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb (The Wall, 1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHhNt6q06_k
Udo Lindenberg: Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria (Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria, 1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgOwfyeMs-0