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GRRRegory is becoming off topic here. This Douche wanted to stick it to us.
‘How cool that I get an opportunity to piss their fans off?'
That's the line, remember it.

So, mission accomplished then, right?

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GRRRegory is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad gimmic. Most of the people I know in daily life strongly disliked the cover. The reaction was not one of 'oh thats funny, very tongue n cheek.. punny, etc..', instead it was one of 'Did the Stones really think I would like this??' Dignified offense is how I would describe it.

Most of us are not 12 year old kids. I'm 30, most dedicated Stones fans I know are 45+, and honestly, none of us are too pleased by the cartoon crap...

Someone who was around, tell me how the Harlem Shuffle music video went over back in the day...










1. As a concept is it just very demeaning. That is the bottom line. I remember the reveal and seeing the cartoon eyes and my heart sank. Really guys... Do you need a mascot on this tour? Do you plan on selling plush toys for the kiddos? It reminds me of baseball games and how it was all about the game when I was a kid, but now it is all about the mascot going through the audience for the kids. Is it still about the music?





2. Happy to piss off fans? Seriously? That is certainly a very punk way to look at criticism... Maybe Walton Ford just did a terrible job on this one? The best artists in the world can take criticism with a grain of salt. If most people strongly dislike your work, you might want to re-think it.

3. I feel the same way about GRRRegory as I do about the previous animation attempts...













I am not 'angry' but certainly disappointed that the Stones would pick something so childish as a logo/artwork/mascot/promotional design. They are better than this. If they ever do a final album I hope they put more thought into the artwork than Walton Ford did.

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I still don't like it. I believe it was easier and quicker to come up with something silly(wellcome to the 21th century!) than something meaningful

With respect what would you define as "meaningful"

If I may jump in here, the GRRR! set (such an unoriginal, overused title) should have been called 50 & Counting--that's what they named their tour right? For the first time ever--at least in recent memory--a Rolling Stones tour has been named something other than what their current album or compilation release is. Even the tour accompanying Forty Licks was called the "Licks" tour. Yes, you may be saying that No Security was part of the Bridges To Babylon tour, but it was actually a separate arenas-only tour supporting the No Security live album which developed from the B2B tour.

Both the title of GRRR! and the cover concept suggest that not a lot of thought went into the initial planning of the 50th anniversary celebration, especially not the title and cover concept of the recent compilation. In fact, we now know that Mick was not on board with the idea of touring until the last minute, and even into the spring of 2012 it looked like even to the band--as Charlie Watts revealed in an interview later that year--that a tour might not even happen at all. It seems that GRRR! was hastily conceived and compiled, and the art work is uninventive and third rate--a grammar school student with a box of fingerpaint could come up with similar results.

If given a bit more time on conceptualization, they (or Mick) might have come up with something better, like 50 & Counting. If Mick can't even be bothered to come up with an original title for a compilation album, or a dull, amateurish King Kong rip-off for a cover concept, then it doesn't bode well for a prospective new and original album down the road.

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...for all the nay sayers...I wonder where you were when the inflatable penis came around...or the inflatable wolf...or honkey tonk women.....

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...for all the nay sayers...I wonder where you were when the inflatable penis came around...or the inflatable wolf...or honkey tonk women.....

The inflatable penis was of course self-mockery by Mick, hinting at his tiny todger. The man has certainly sense of humour!

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It's boring, ugly and tasteless. A missed opportunity to create something elegant and timeless.

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It's boring, ugly and tasteless. A missed opportunity to create something elegant and timeless.

Good taste is art enemy.

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It's boring, ugly and tasteless. A missed opportunity to create something elegant and timeless.

Good taste is art enemy.

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It's boring, ugly and tasteless. A missed opportunity to create something elegant and timeless.

Good taste is art enemy.

'Good taste is the enemy of art' - I love that.

The fact that no one wanted to buy a tour t-shirt with the gorilla on it says it all, though.

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Rolling Stones Gorilla Logo Artist Slams Critics

Walton Ford offering limited-edition etching of widely seen gorilla logo


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By Patrick Doyle
August 5, 2013 12:30 PM ET

When the Rolling Stones were organizing their 50th anniversary celebrations, Mick Jagger approached his friend, contemporary artist Walton Ford – who has made a career painting naturalist scenes – to design a logo. In the Seventies spirit of the National Lampoon magazine and "grotesque ungerground comics," Ford repurposed one of his sympathetic paintings of King Kong, adding the band’s famous tongue-and-lips logo. "I saw the Rolling Stones as a sort of silverback,” Ford tells Rolling Stone. “All the metaphors of King Kong and all of that are applicable – their kind of enormity of their accomplishment over the period of 50 years.”

The band loved the image. “The irreverence of Walton Ford’s imagery captured the spirit of the tour,” they said in a statement. They used it on the cover of their 50th anniversary compilation GRRR!, and in marketing their massive "50 and Counting" tour, at one point displaying the piece at 50 locations around the world.

But some fans weren’t as excited about the logo. “A lot of people didn’t like it at all,” Ford says. “That was good. I was glad that they didn’t like it. I mean, the last people who I wanted to please were Rolling Stones fans.”

Ford continues, “They are really nasty. It’s a general rule they have a fan base that just seem to be always angry at the Rolling Stones for a lot of reasons. They’ve got their own grudges. I shouldn’t say that I didn’t really care. I probably did care, but when the Rolling Stones were doing their best work, they were a step ahead of the people that loved them so much. I thought, ‘How cool that I get an opportunity to piss their fans off?'"

The logo is now for sale as a limited-edition etching of 1,000 signed and numbered by Ford, available at the Paul Kasmin Shop. “They are really beautiful,” says Ford, who has made a practice of creating etchings for the last decade. “I just go and work at this print shop and we use all the old tools that were used by Rembrandt, you know, this is a very ancient technique of marking on copper plate and making prints by hand. It seemed appropriate to do sort of an anachronistic tribute print to the 50th..”

The piece doesn't come cheap though; the price, available upon request, is over $5,000. “It’s just this is going to be an elitist, kind of expensive thing because the processes are expensive," says Ford, who's still buzzing about the experience. "I was born in 1960 and I had an older brother who collected records. The Rolling Stones were pretty much it for us growing up. That’s what we aspired to be – that sort of attitude."

[www.rollingstone.com]

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Good taste is art enemy.

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Good taste is art enemy.

Correct BUT when the band looked for "tastelesness" they went for Warhol and R. Frank.