Anyone ever seen the crap on the web about the classic "band in front of a brick wall" photos? I just found out about it today and realized that 5MS meets 7 of the 9 requirements:



No band’s press-kit is complete with out the obligatory photo of the band posed out in front of a brick wall. There are several important rules that every band should follow when posing in front of a brick wall.

1. At least one member of the band has to be crouching over. A hand on the knee gets extra points.

2. Two or more members must look very serious. Adversely, one member needs to be grinning like an absolute moron.

3. The drummer must be holding drumsticks. All the great drummers like Peter Criss and Tommy Lee started out using this technique.

4. Head tilting is very important. An angle of 10 to 15 degrees is perfect for showing that "I don’t care attitude."

5. Attire—leather jackets, ripped jeans, wife-beaters and 3 dollar sunglasses are all good choices.

6. One member should have a shaved head. Also, a good combo with a shiny head is "The Mook".

7. At least one band member should have their arms folded. Arm-folding is a great way to show defiance—stick it to the man!

8. No one should stand straight. Body weight must be distributed to one leg. This can be managed by leaning against the wall or possibly a nearby garbage can.

9. Get your mom or girlfriend to take the photo. An off-balance photo with bad composition and color is the only way to the get an authentic look.

Visit the band photo hall of fame at Rock & Roll Confidential.

along those same lines I highly recommend this site:

Hall of Douche Bags

How 'bout dumpster photos? In front of the band van photos?

"The Hall of Douche Bags".........Fucking hilarious, but i was a tad nervous our band would end up on the last page..........

I always though the Grand Trifecta would be a band photo in front of a brick wall with a chain link fence and railroad tracks. Anybody know a location that fits the bill? We need to take a new band photo...

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Originally posted by Five Minute Sin:
along those same lines I highly recommend this site:

Hall of Douche Bags

Wow, I actually KNOW band #17 (with the "The Guy on the left didn't get the memo" comment)on the first page, from when I lived in St. Louis. The band name was Pale Divine, all a pretty good bunch of guys and great, tight as hell band. Notable was the guy second from the right, That's Rich Fortus who has the "Izzy" role in the new Gn'R.

Well, the drumsticks thing is sure easy to fix.

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Originally posted by Five Minute Sin:
6. One member should have a shaved head. Also, a good combo with a shiny head is "The Mook".

So.. who of you is going to volunteer to get that final point, for a perfect score?

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Originally posted by Five Minute Sin:
along those same lines I highly recommend this site:

Hall of Douche Bags

This is the greatest site ever. I've seen it over and over again. The captions are good too. they won't let you link to the pics though, and I guess they aren't updating it anymore?

We had just done photos when I first saw it, and I had never really seen any press kits before then. I got to find out I was a douchebag two days after getting back the pics.

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Originally posted by 56DeSoto:
I always though the Grand Trifecta would be a band photo in front of a brick wall with a chain link fence and railroad tracks. Anybody know a location that fits the bill? We need to take a new band photo...

Yeah... Lomas right by the tracks there between first and Braodway. They even have barbed wire on the fences, and the brick walls are on abandoned warehouses... *sigh*. the pics came out well too. We looked like we were really selling the douchbaggery.

Another one for that list of typical band photos: every band member is looking in a random direction, except the king douchebag, who is staring intently into the lens.

For the next shoot we did, we did the Wal-Mart Glamour Shots knockoff with a forest background. Awesome.

i have logged so many hours laughing at that shit ...

what is weird is i just told someone about it at the Ac last night .

can't even remember who it was ...

i just know those do.5 pics are in there somewhere

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Another one for that list of typical band photos: every band member is looking in a random direction, except the king douchebag, who is staring intently into the lens.

For the next shoot we did, we did the Wal-Mart Glamour Shots knockoff with a forest background. Awesome.

yes, king douchebag! actually, if you go to the 56desoto post 'not to beat a dead horse, but' and look at the craigslist link there's a great shot at the end with a band posing that's more my style. king douchebag is right in the middle of the picture and FACING AWAY! 'you fuckers deal with this photoshoot, i'm just concerned with the next song i'm going to write.' i hate getting my picure taken (i'm a mennonite) and i hate stupid band photos. i don't really like looking at pictures for sentimental value, and only if a picure is funny can it hold my attention. why does everyone in the band suddenly show up at a warehouse to stand around doing nothing, or go to the train tracks?...they haven't had a stop at that station for 60 years!...band photos don't make sense to me, i don't give a shit what the people in the band look like. i like the wal-mart photo shoot idea. i want my next band photo to be of clay representaions of band memebers.

Hehe...losers!

We used to just draw band photos. That was fun cause we would make animal representations of ourselves like our first tshirt was us as monkeys. Then the gorillas came out and stole our fire. I also drew comic (like sunday jornal not comic book) representations of our selves getting Hit by a Bus. I'm gonna try to find that drawing and post it.

I found this ridiculous old pic of the Shins with a brick wall: