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richardh
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 14:15 |
I voted Paul Whitehead because you can actually spend time looking at his covers. Roger Dean is obviously important and I love the fantasy element of course. Marillion album covers never did a lot for me I have to say.
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Michael678
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:11 |
The.Crimson.King wrote:
Roger Dean for me...not only for the album covers but the fantastic Yes stage sets. The 1st prog concert I saw was Gentle Giant/Yes in '76 and they had the incredible 3 headed hydra stage...fantastic!
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god, i wish i lived in the 70's and was able to go and see something like that!!
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Man With Hat
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 18:24 |
Dean
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Xonty
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:02 |
Roger Dean's definitely done more great covers, but I'll have to go for Whitehead. I love the surrealism, and the covers seem to go better with the music than Dean's (except Relayer). I don't think my life would be quite the same without those VDGG and Genesis artworks (especially Trespass)
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Walton Street
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:05 |
Xonty wrote:
Roger Dean's definitely done more great covers, but I'll have to go for Whitehead. I love the surrealism, and the covers seem to go better with the music |
that's a really good point .. for me - Yes didn't live up to the covers .. they didn't convey the same sense of fantasy the covers suggested. The Whitehead covers did .. not just the visual representations of the actual songs, but the mood.. sort of a dusty, haunted, creepy, classical vibe
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Cristi
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:46 |
this is one of my favorite covers, don't know who the artist is; the album is great, too.
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dragonflight
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Posted: January 30 2015 at 06:45 |
I love the fantasy art of Roger Dean so my vote goes to him though I much prefer Rodney Mathews.
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Dellinger
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Posted: January 30 2015 at 22:39 |
twosteves wrote:
I think Dean has influenced so many people who followed him---not just in art but design in film etc---James Cameron ripped him off big time in Avatar whether Dean won the lawsuit or not----Cameron is a thief who takes stuff and then acts like he thought of it. Cameron was a Yes fan from childhood and grew up seeing those Dean album covers. That whole thing got me so ...... | I never knew that Roger Dean actually put a lawsuit against Cameron... I guess it would be hard to prove anything besides Cameron being influenced by Dean's artwork. However, it would make me thin why Cameron didn't go one step further and get in touch with Roger Dean to design his world? That would have made sense... and I guess it could have worked... very beautifully. And now, coming into a more wishful thinking, and unlikely possibility, he might actually have gotten some Yes related artist to help him with the soundtrack (I still believe prog could do wonders on a film score... you could do the songs, perhaps even poppy songs, for pleasing the audience, and then go into the dramatic music for the action scenes with the same band... and perhaps the very same song).
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twosteves
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Posted: January 31 2015 at 09:22 |
Yes Dellinger--There was a lawsuit and Roger lost---I have heard that Cameron is a notorious stealer of other peoples ideas and then passes them off as his "genius"---if you saw the movie he clearly stole scenic ideas all over the place and surely he has enough money to hire Dean and include him---but he wants to act like he came up with the floating islands for example.
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 00:30 |
twosteves wrote:
Yes Dellinger--There was a lawsuit and Roger lost---I have heard that Cameron is a notorious stealer of other peoples ideas and then passes them off as his "genius"---if you saw the movie he clearly stole scenic ideas all over the place and surely he has enough money to hire Dean and include him---but he wants to act like he came up with the floating islands for example. | Yeah, I saw the movie. Still, he must have hired someone to design the world and the landscapes... it might just as well have been Roger Dean. And I bet he would have agreed. Obviously I had noted the similarities before, and I had thought since then that it would have been great if Cameron had teamed up with Dean to do the landscape... I didn't really know if he really knew of Dean's work, but now I see it wouldn't have been so far fetched that it could have happened.
Edited by Dellinger - February 01 2015 at 00:36
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Walton Street
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 01:16 |
i can't believe that the person who would steal the plot elements of Dances With Wolves and Ferngully would steal someone's creative designs as well?!
heaven forbid!
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richardh
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 02:53 |
Sci-fi/Fantasy genre is extremely incestuous. If everyone sued anyone who had a stolen an idea then they would be spending all their time in court and not doing anything. I sense a bit of a James Cameron backlash going on.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 16:33 |
And the winner is : ANITA !!!
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Rick Robson
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Posted: February 01 2015 at 16:58 |
Who made this drawing is the winner for me.
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Walton Street
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Posted: February 03 2015 at 13:12 |
Roger Dean may not have been entirely original himself. I have this book at home - I thought it was a Roger Dean work until I looked a little closer - it was Jeffery Catherine Jones - an artist many other artists admired and took inspiration from ..including Roger Dean Probably not noticed before because I don't believe the artist did album covers
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twosteves
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Posted: February 03 2015 at 18:29 |
haven't seen the book but that cover doesn't say Dean to me
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Walton Street
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Posted: February 03 2015 at 19:11 |
really...
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proggman
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Posted: February 08 2015 at 22:14 |
Roger Dean.
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When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night.
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Kati
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Posted: March 22 2015 at 01:01 |
Evolver wrote:
Dave McMacken Plus many other Zappa illustrations And other albums As well as other weirdness That Sonya chick who did the Corvus Stone covers is no slouch, either
| Evolver! thank you! Awwww I love you, again thank you so much for making me so happy right now really I am not a real artist, I take months to make an album cover <3 thank you very much. A massive thank you hug to you my wonderful awww smwoochie aww mhwoaaahhxxx friend :) again thank you very much, so much! :) xxxxx
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