Logo #248: Twisted Sister

Designed by Dee Snider and Suzette Guilot-Snider in 1984.

Logo #247: The Ex

Jos Kley of The Ex: "We designed it ourselves, soon after we started the band in 1979...together with some other bands, we were putting out buttons with our names on it and we decided to make ours look a bit different. So the "various straight angles" are basically an "E" and an "X"."

Logo #246: D.R.I.

Eric Brecht, the original drummer for punk band D.R.I., designed the skanking pedestrian in 1982. From D.R.I. Central: "It was actually an art school project - the project was to design a logo for a company. The company was our record label Dirty Rotten Records, but we just absorbed it as our bands logo."

Logo #245: Red Hot Chili Peppers

The so-called "angel's asshole" was designed by Anthony Kiedis for the Red Hot Chili Peppers sometime around 1984.

Logo #244: Shelter

Shelter's Disc of Vishnu Chakra was adopted by the band in 1990.

Logo #243: Miles Davis

It took me forever to find out that Joe Eula drew this famous silhouette of Miles Davis for the cover of the "Sketches of Spain" LP in 1960. You'd think people would know these things! Apparently not. Few are the performers that become logos unto themselves - only the giants like Davis and possibly The Mentors - cut such distinctive figures that creating a symbol from those figures is the logical thing to do. I can very vividly recall driving through the beauty of the Coast Highway in central California in the distant past, with an otherwise lovely woman (who shall remain unnamed), and hearing "It Never Entered My Mind" in one ear and her Technicolor inconsequentialities in the other and becoming very sad that we were doomed to separate because she couldn't hear how beautiful the music was and just stop. Just be. Is there such a thing as objective beauty? Miles Davis is as objective a beauty as can be - and I like knowing that that's something that'll never change.

Logo #241: Hawkwind

Created by Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher, June 30, 1942 - November 14, 1983) in 1972 for the cover of the brilliantly titled "Doremi Fasol Latido" LP. An overview of the endlessly brilliant Bubbles is well-worth re-viewing and can be found here. Still wish I knew when his dates of birth and death were - the reason for that can be found here. Yes, I do work very hard at these things - thank you for noticing. Apparently Bubbles also directed the "Ghost Town" video by The Specials, which makes his passing all the more depressing for knowing it. Oh, yeah - Hawkwind. In business for four decades with one propulsive force - guitarist singer Dave Brock - thirty-five years on they're still performing their "Space Ritual" around the world and melting minds in the process even in this jaded day and/or age. They also gave birth to Motörhead. I'm deeply square and clueless but even I have to respect something like that. Also: Robert Newton Calvert of Hawkwind, March 9, 1945 - August 14, 1988. Lest we forget!

Somewhat sideways, the Song of the Moment is "Wehe Khorazin" by Popol Vuh.