part of the Alternative Press magazine 25th Anniversary celebrations, the publication of an art exhibition with works of Tool's Adam Jones, Marilyn Manson, Shirley Manson, Pete Wentz, Rancid Tim Armstrong set and many more. The exhibition opens at Los Angeles' Merry Karnowsky Gallery on Saturday, July 10, and there are plans for a show in New York later this year.
"We came with a list of musicians that we knew was the visual arts. We create them from a special that says we are not in the annual art magazine called Brutes," Alternative Press Publisher Norman Wonderly spinner. "Since the opening is based on the magazine's history, we wanted a blend of past and contemporary artists featured over the years. We were also visual artists, include a background in working with musicians."
By John Lennon and the Rolling Stones Ron Wood, John Mellencamp and Iggy Pop, there is a long list of musicians who express themselves in visual arts. Tool's Adam Jones - of a bronze sculpture he had originally intended for the album cover of Peach, a band with bassist Justin Chancellor tool helped - tells Spinner the two media are equally important to him. "If you need to go, music and art are categorized, I have these two things in my life," he says. "I would kill myself if I am not the one without the other."
So why do the two together so well? "It's just how people see the world and its prospects," says Jones. "A lot of musicians, they are a little scholars and it is not just, 'Hey, I wanted to be a rock star." It is about a fire burning in them and how you want to increase the fire? Find different types of gasoline and kerosene, alcohol and acetone and dynamite, gunpowder, what it takes and that is the analogy. It is to spread a different kind of influence yourself and express yourself and get this thing in your heart. "
The success of the musicians supporting him as a visual artist, but many people like the artist to a medium that he finds to limit annoying. "Publications do not get that," he says. "They go," What are you influenced bands with your music? "You go, 'OK, I can list one hundred bands to go with different directions, but I am also very passionate about painting and spoken-word order and novels and comic books and even video games that have a very strong narrative. "I think we are in such a spoon fed headlines world where people do not care. "
One of the people contributing, the show is just as renowned artist Shepard Fairey, himself inveterate music lover. He hopes that this show causes artists to take more of their musical brethren. "The cool thing about can make a lot of music a lot of people have fun and listen to music. It is a reminder to art work in this way," says Fairey spinner. "This is what I really hoped, comes from the show."
