Because the file manager has limited size, pictures in forum threads get eventually deleted or the thread sinks into oblivion.

Has it ever been considered to have a permanent section in PA for a Prog Pictures Gallery?

I guess that a concern might be having to constantly battle with copyrights? (people adding pictures without knowing that they are copyrighted and then having the copyright owner requesting the pic to be deleted or even claiming for compensations?).

 

And my pic of Steve Hackett certainly uses up valuable space on my filemanager allocation and was probably seen by 3 people in total:

Nice pic indeed. The confinement to pics taken by members would be a real pity though. Can't the issue be worked around by some disclaimer saying that if any © owner wishes to have the pic removed he just has to say so? I think I have seen similar statements in other sites.

The idea came when I posted a couple of pics of the Tarkus 'creature' ELP used on stage on Richard (richardh)'s thread about Greg Lake's recent concert review. I know he is an ELP fan so I was surprised when he said that he had never seen a pic of the creature before.

We would never be able to share these kind of historically interesting pictures in that case. Few member were around with a camera in the classic Prog period (not to mention that cameras were often forbidden in the venues for the normal audience) so a lot of historical pictures would be missed and we would get a Gallery mainly full of only contemporary bands (nothing against them of course).

I hope space in server wouldn't be an issue? (plenty of websites with extensive galleries all over the place)

I don't know for others but in my case, knowing how the band looks (looked) like gives a more complete dimension when hearing their music. Sometimes I listen to a band and I have no idea how they looked like and I feel a sense of incompleteness. 

Ok I look really bad here but I don't care I had great fun plus Ken Hensley (from Uriah Heep Fame) the man the legend made me laugh a lot

This must have been the first version, a rather poor rendition and the head looks to me more like a sweet and friendly kangaroo than a killer armadillo 

They developed a more refined version, the head and eyes looked more menacing, the side guns are also much better. This one was "driven" by a roadie concealed inside it, it released smoke and fired a charge of polystyrene snow. A pic of it releasing smoke, another one of the thing being repaired, and an article about it.

and to put an end to it, a Lego Tarkus 

Renaissance

Klaus Schulze

Phil Ehart (Kansas)

Kerry Livgren (Kansas)

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and Jeffrey Hammond 

Genesis

UK John Wetton and Eddie Jobson

Geddy Lee

Neil Peart

Queen's Roger Taylor performing '39

Yes 1977, Going For The One Japan promotional poster

Bugeyed Ian

Martin the Red

John Evan & David Palmer

Barriemore Barlow Introduction

Ian the Trousersnake

Minstrels in the Gallery

Chris Squire

Steve Howe Spotlight

Steve Howe Closeup

While on this side of the pond the keyboard wizards were wearing capes and horse-riding boots, in the States they were nearly naked, but the acrobatics were pretty much the same 

I just looked it up in my "Genesis I Know What I Like" book and unfortunately it doesn't mention what Italian bands they toured with, but it says, "By February 1972, Van Der Graaf's Pawn Hearts was No. 1 there, and by April, when Genesis crossed over the Alps for their first seven-date Italian tour, Nursery Cryme was No. 4."  It also mentions a second Italian tour in Aug 1972.  

A couple of other fun facts from the book...

1)  "Watcher of the Skies" was written during the first Italian tour.  Banks saying he wrote the lyrics with Rutherford in Naples, "We were sitting out on top of this building, and it was a hot sunny day, and we were just looking out across a vast area of buildings and fields, and there wasn't a soul to be seen.  It looked like the whole population had just deserted the planet, and that's what 'Watcher of the Skies' is all about...an alien being coming to the planet and seeing it completely deserted."

2)  In March 1972, the top 5 albums on the Italian charts were:

1) Van Der Graaf - Pawn Hearts

2) PFM - Storia di un Minuto

3) ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition

4) Genesis - Nursery Cryme

5) King Crimson - Islands

Brian May in Queen's good period, wearing one of his semi-capes

Bill Bruford endorsing the Simmons electronic drums

PFM early days

Lifeson and Lee squeezing their double-necks

Bowie and Mick Ronson in the train, not sure if that's a tie or a bib 

Coffee time

Led Zeppelin had a dedicated plane too

Todd Rundgren as Venus in 1972, can you get any more glam than that? 

Queen in 1976, who would have said then that these same guys would release songs like Another One Bites The Dust and Radio Ga-Ga...

BTW, a sunburst Gibson Les Paul is standing behind Brian May, I think I never saw him playing one.

Jimmy Page getting ready to play, 1975

And another one from 1971, The Man Who Sold The World, those who have seen the movie Velvet Goldmine can easily make the link to that part of the story, at the concert just when he first meets Iggy Pop / Lou Reed.