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35love
Don’t you love the art world?
If Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup cans can fetch millions,
how’s about an artist that truly means something to you - priceless.
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35love
Don’t you love the art world?
If Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup cans can fetch millions,
how’s about an artist that truly means something to you - priceless.
But its a book of setlists, it's not art, because we are Stones fans does that mean we cant see when one of them is being greedy.
Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists.
Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book.
If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
I see Ronnie as this down to earth guy, one of us, still a fan himself, this just shows that he is not really that guy anymore.
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JJHMick
Ronnie's Voodoo Lounge Shirts are on a Special t-shirt thread. I think those setlists would make another set of marvellous shirts, too!
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keithsman
Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists. Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book. If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
Yes, now that would have been a very good idea. And "if it's money he was after", then he may have actually ended up with close to the same take.Quote
JJHMick
Ronnie's Voodoo Lounge Shirts are on a Special t-shirt thread. I think those setlists would make another set of marvellous shirts, too!
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keithsman
Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists. Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book. If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
As already mentioned here: [iorr.org] it could be that there will also be a 'plain' edition for £15-£20.
Comparison:
Ronnie Wood: Artist - limited 250-copies 'Deluxe'-Edition by Genesis Publications: £695 - [www.Genesis-Publications.com] .
Ronnie Wood: Artist - 'plain' Edition by Thames & Hudson: £15.78 - [www.Amazon.co.uk] .
Ronnie Wood: How Can It Be? - limited 1615-copies 'Collectors'-Edition by Genesis Publications: £295 - [www.Genesis-Publications.com] .
Ronnie Wood: How Can It Be? - 'plain' Edition by Genesis Publications: £20.35 - [www.Amazon.co.uk] .
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Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists. Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book. If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
As already mentioned here: [iorr.org] it could be that there will also be a 'plain' edition for £15-£20.
Comparison:
Ronnie Wood: Artist - limited 250-copies 'Deluxe'-Edition by Genesis Publications: £695 - [www.Genesis-Publications.com] .
Ronnie Wood: Artist - 'plain' Edition by Thames & Hudson: £15.78 - [www.Amazon.co.uk] .
Ronnie Wood: How Can It Be? - limited 1615-copies 'Collectors'-Edition by Genesis Publications: £295 - [www.Genesis-Publications.com] .
Ronnie Wood: How Can It Be? - 'plain' Edition by Genesis Publications: £20.35 - [www.Amazon.co.uk] .
Doesn't change the fact that most of these first edition books containing Ronnies early diary's and already known set lists come in at between £300 and £700 to poor vulnerable unsuspecting anoraks. The new sober Roonie loves money, that's probably the real Ronnie
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35love
Don’t you love the art world?
If Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup cans can fetch millions,
how’s about an artist that truly means something to you - priceless.
But its a book of setlists, it's not art, because we are Stones fans does that mean we cant see when one of them is being greedy.
Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists.
Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book.
If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
I see Ronnie as this down to earth guy, one of us, still a fan himself, this just shows that he is not really that guy anymore.
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35love
Don’t you love the art world?
If Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup cans can fetch millions,
how’s about an artist that truly means something to you - priceless.
But its a book of setlists, it's not art, because we are Stones fans does that mean we cant see when one of them is being greedy.
Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists.
Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book.
If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
I see Ronnie as this down to earth guy, one of us, still a fan himself, this just shows that he is not really that guy anymore.
Why do some people think that artists should sell their work cheaply.
What Ronnie or anyone else does with the money they earn is their business and who knows maybe he even gives some away to charity or just wants to secure a great financial future for his family.
No one has a gun to your head forcing you to buy.
Nate
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I guess this is what a painter paints when he runs out of any inspiration. Is this not a riff on "I'd pay to hear [fill in name of singer] sing the phone book"? Ronnie must get a good laugh, people paying for pictures of paintings of set lists.
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Rokyfan
I guess this is what a painter paints when he runs out of any inspiration. Is this not a riff on "I'd pay to hear [fill in name of singer] sing the phone book"? Ronnie must get a good laugh, people paying for pictures of paintings of set lists.
Along with that, he might view himself as an artist at a much higher caliber than he really is which shows a lack of humility and is a bit narcissitic.
Whats next? Can we expect to see him to start selling copies of his hand written grocery lists compiled in a £700 limited edition book?
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Hairball
Whats next? Can we expect to see him to start selling copies of his hand written grocery lists compiled in a £700 limited edition book?
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Hairball
Whats next? Can we expect to see him to start selling copies of his hand written grocery lists compiled in a £700 limited edition book?
If they come in psychedelic colours there might be a market.
Seriously now: if someone needs Ronnie's setlists so bad s/he would even pay £700, so be it. I'm not among those people.
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doitywoik
If someone likes this stuff (no matter whether for exclusive £700 or 'plain' £15.99) why shouldn't they have it? There's nothing wrong with that. Money aside, it's simply not on the list of my artistic priorities.
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doitywoik
If someone likes this stuff (no matter whether for exclusive £700 or 'plain' £15.99) why shouldn't they have it? There's nothing wrong with that. Money aside, it's simply not on the list of my artistic priorities.
Agreed - seems silly at any price, but that's just my opinion. One man's trash is another mans treasure...
That said, it would be cool to have an original from a particular show I was at, but only if it was free.
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35love
Don’t you love the art world?
If Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup cans can fetch millions,
how’s about an artist that truly means something to you - priceless.
But its a book of setlists, it's not art, because we are Stones fans does that mean we cant see when one of them is being greedy.
Does Ronnie need 500 pounds or what ever for a book of setlists.
Just seems a bit pathetic to me, £700 hundred for an art pictures book.
If there is someone silly enough to buy them then Ronnie's only too happy to add to his £80 million fortune.
I see Ronnie as this down to earth guy, one of us, still a fan himself, this just shows that he is not really that guy anymore.
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doitywoik
If someone likes this stuff (no matter whether for exclusive £700 or 'plain' £15.99) why shouldn't they have it? There's nothing wrong with that. Money aside, it's simply not on the list of my artistic priorities.
Agreed - seems silly at any price, but that's just my opinion. One man's trash is another mans treasure...
That said, it would be cool to have an original from a particular show I was at, but only if it was free.
Again, a good idea. I think there is a charm to these lists. (And that is what they are: LISTS). And I could see how someone would want to do something with them.
Something like this would make a great benefit item. A giveaweay with donation, or something.
No I don't think an artists should give away their work for free. But surely Ronnie doesn't see this as his "work".
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"Since 2005, Ronnie has been painting the set lists of The Rolling Stones rehearsals. The resulting canvases document sell-out tours, historic concerts, as well as closed-door sessions. Genesis Publications announce an upcoming artist-signed book, plus accompanying art prints, that will present Ronnie's Rolling Stones set lists for the first time. Sign up now to [www.genesis-publications.com] for updates and to be the first to hear more..."
He used to scribble them on plain poster board w/colored marking pens basically as one off throwaways, but once I started seeing him "paint" them on actual stretched canvas I had a feeling he would try and make a bundle off of them. Seems a waste of good canvas to me, but if he can take pictures of them and sell them in a fancy book - and people are willing to pay the exorbitant price - more power to him. Maybe he'll have all the canvases displayed in a gallery some day so people can worship them in person....