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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldJean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 15:00
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

What kind of food? I'm all about food. I'm an omnivore.

international haute cuisine

Really? Wow. Are you the chef(s), too?

we are very good cooks but we have a French chef with whom we discuss the dishes of the day for the next week on our weekly meetings


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote YESESIS Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 15:49
Mine is obviously the great ELP album Trilogy. I consider it probably their 2nd best album behind only the massive prog album Brain Salad Surgery. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DamoXt7942 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 15:55
Mine's my portrait drawn by my friend (and one of psychedelic prog specialists) Eetu.

Anyway, this thread moved into "General Discussions". Wink
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mascodagama Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 16:22
Mine is the cover art from the Flying Luttenbachers album Cataclysm.  I believe it depicts a planetoidal entity known as The Iridescent Behemoth, whose apocalyptic battle with another cosmic being The Void is musically represented therein. This is part of a multi-album conceptual sequence dealing with the total destruction of Earth and its aftermath. An easy-listening classic which you should definitely buy for your granny this Christmas, especially if she's deaf.




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ForestFriend Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 16:26
It's Ian Anderson from the Too Old To Rock 'n Roll music video... right after he stares up a woman's skirt with binoculars. Just too ridiculous to pass up.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jayem Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 16:41
 Lots of surprising explanations !

My avatar promotes... doodling of course. 

Doodling has the power to make you travel simply by looking at an A3-A4 sized paper covered with landscape elements : very eco-friendly and the more advisable nowadays
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The.Crimson.King Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 18:17
I call mine, "space nebula guy" and he appears on a few of my Mutiny in Jonestown album covers.  He began life as one of the "Dance on a Volcano" characters originally found on the back cover of the Trick of the Tail album.  About 30 years ago I redrew him holding a guitar instead of a cross ("Crosses are green and crosses are blue your friends didn't make it through...") and added the space nebula design I put on some of my instruments adopting him as my bands unofficial mascot Wink

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Raff Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 18:30
Mine is the cover of Blue Oyster Cult's 1981 album Fire of Unknown Origin (which is also the name of my almost defunct blog). Though I love the album, the main reason why I chose this particular image is its beautiful shades of blue.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 19:01
I'm actually not that comfortable having a plain picture of a musician I'm fan of as avatar; that's too straight for my taste. But sod it, I'm really a big Holger Czukay fan and I just love this picture so much. Wish I could look like that.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote siLLy puPPy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 19:22
Well, i was gonna go for a zebra or pangolin. They're really cool and all but well, i guess you've figured out why i choose my icons Big smile

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote omphaloskepsis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 19:55
My favorite painting....Kandinsky's "Composition VII "



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote zachfive Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 21:43
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Magnum Vaeltaja Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 21:44
It's been fun reading through people's responses here so far. Mine isn't too significant, just a detail from the cover of Herbie Hancock's Sextant that's centered in on a happy, carefree guy dancing his heart out in some sort of cosmic psychedelic vista, which I see as being not completely unlike me in real life. 



All of my past avatars on the site have also been album covers or cropped sections of album covers, usually with some sort of face in the forefront so as to be a bit more avatar-y. For the most part, they haven't had any real significance other than being favourites of mine for their vivid colour schemes (with a couple of notably uncolourful ones thrown in the mix). Anyone who's interested can look through them here; this is another fun thread in itself that I'd recommend for people to read through:

when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote siLLy puPPy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 21:56
^ That's one of the BEST album covers E-E_E-ver!!! And a mighty fine album as well. In fact it's been too long since i've spun it. Must happen noooooow!

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote HemispheresOfXanadu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 07 2018 at 23:37
Mine is for a band? music project? that's only in my head so far.
It's a leper lily or snake's head fritillary, which is the only thing that Google could find when I checked if anyone was using the band/project/whatever name Leper Snake.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 00:00
Originally posted by Quinino Quinino wrote:

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(Got tired of Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince drawing but someday will eventually get back to it since it's one of my literary fixations)

I loved your Petit Prince avatar, it was unique

my avatar is my cat in her "I'll lay on your laptop" phase. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote someone_else Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 02:23
My daughter calls me "Beaver". I found this picture of a beaver that looks as if it is singing in front of a microphone standard. On the wooden box on the right was written "Bartimeus". I took a section of the picture and shopped it photo a bit: The letters on the box became "Bar" and I put a Big Big Train beer on it (many of the best pictures taken of me, if these ever exist, show me with an alcoholic beaverage).

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Originally posted by Quinino Quinino wrote:

The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear

(Got tired of Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince drawing but someday will eventually get back to it since it's one of my literary fixations)

Your current avatar reminds me of Tony R's:



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tom Ozric Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 02:58
^ That 2 legged horse cracks me up, every time
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BarryGlibb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 03:33
It's a doctored image of me.....altered with a software filter thingy....... so no-one can work out who I am or for that matter how old I am!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote SteveG Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 04:15
It's a dog I put up in order to scare dean's avatar of his cat.
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