Has there ever been anything more Afterwordy than this?
“Retired pro wrestler Billy Two Rivers sues Van Morrison over album cover”
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/billy-two-rivers-lawsuit-van-morrison-1.4225637
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That is so ironic as the last couple of Van Morrison gigs I’ve been to have been plastered with posters insisting on No Photography.
I won’t deny the irony quotient, but I think one of the key reasons they don’t want photography is because of all the dipsticks who leave their puny little flash units on, serving no purpose except to distract whoever’s on stage.
Nick Lowe had a good approach when he played Sydney with Ry Cooder a few years back. He invited everyone who wanted a photo to get it over with, here’s your 2 or 3 minutes, then put it away.
Watch out John Darnielle and Luke Haines.
Big Daddy Kane also now lawyered up..
Who Was That Masked Man? Kendo Nagasaki!
Brilliant….
Judge: What is your defence, Mr Morrison?
Van: It ain’t why why, it just is!
I commented elsewhere that this latest album cover continues a recent outstanding run of simply appalling album covers. I can’t think of another major artist who devotes such little effort, such an absence of theme, such low quality in terms of concept and execution than George Ivan Morrison.
This latest is possibly the pinnacle. Those silly birds on the last one did suggest he was building up to something impressively awful. And he has not disappointed.
Yes, this is his worst since the un-see Poetic Champions Compose sleeve, which I still can’t look at without flinching.
At least on that one he’s being true to himself. On ‘A Sense Of Wonder’, he looks full of bonhomie, and is approximating a smile. Smiling! As if…
I’d say Bob Dylan has similar form in this regard.
Many of the pantheon of Greats do, but Richard Thompson surely has the worst great albums/crap covers rating.
Eric Clapton is another one. I well remember this place’s deconstruction of the Old Sock cover.
I’d forgotten all about Billy Two Rivers, but he was quite a hero back when I used to watch “the wrestling” on a friend’s TV (our family set having only BBC at that time). The only other name I remember is Mick McManus.
We had a wrestling show down here. It was on Sundays.
Me and me brothers would come home from Sunday school put the couches in s square and wrestle. It would stop when somebody cried. Usually me. They got told off so I figure I won most bouts.
On the show there was a skinny old yank compete who smoked and had thick glasses Jack Little. Then the wrestlers : Skull Murphy, Brute Bernard, Murphy the Surfie, Mario Milano, the Golden Greek Spiros Arion , the tag teaming Flying Kangaroos etc
Don’t forget Killer Carl Cox.
or going back a bit further Killer Kowalski
What about Big Daddy – Shirley Crabtree to his mom. And Giant Haystacks ?
Kendo Nagasaki mentioned above was another big name I remember, along with Mick McManus.
Pretty sure they were both a generation younger than B.T. Trees …
Shirley you remember Bid Daddy and Giant Haystacks?
Not sure if this has been tackled before but has anyone pointed out that the wrestler is certainly rolling but he hasn’t been punched because punching is not allowed in wrestling. It’s specifically excluded as a thing to do.
“The album’s called ‘Slam Dunk’ and I need a cover”
“How about this photo of WG Grace?”
“Sure – that’ll do..”
Billy Two Rivers, not, of course, to be confused with Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson.
Uncertain whether this is the thread to bring up Brian Goldbelt Maxine who, given the chance, could have been a contender. For Vans crossover pop appeal.
Billy Two Rivers is Red Or Dead founder, Wayne Hemmingway’s father.
That is my favourite fact of the week
I guess Van will just have to ‘roll with the punches’ and pay the fellow something out of court. He might as well have called his album ‘Shoot Yourself In The Foot’ or ‘Hoist Oneself With One’s Own Petard’.
I’d never heard of this Billy Two Trees till now.
Isn’t Billy Two Trees a rugby player whose dad is a tree surgeon?
No – I think his dad was a failed airline pilot who gave up aviation and turned to dog impressions. But he was even worse at that. His bark was worse than his flight.
They’ve changed it.
It actually makes sense now too.
Still a dreadful cover…actually like to know if anyone thinks it has any merit …bring back Hard Nose the Highway, all is forgiven..!
So the last awful cover, which I am assuming will House another mediocre record, will be a collector’s item.
He should called it ‘Celtic Soul With Big Lunches’ – that’s probably a pretty fair description of The Man’s past couple of decades.
He may have changed it but isn’t ver Man now going to have just the same problem with Vinnie Jones?