BAD ASS JOHNNY
This Shannon painting of John Lennon is a "Fantasy Portrait". It is a "What if?" piece. What if John andThe Beatles never shed their leather and cowboy boots and stayed the course of Mighty Bad Asses? Shannon’s vision portrays John around 1965, still garbed in leather, gripping a G-major bar chord while holding his brand new Rickenbacker 325. Although just the purest of fantasies in blatant art-form… Would they have been as successful? Would they have kept musical-time encased in their hypnotic grip? Would they have rocked the world just a bit harder and, perhaps, with more raw attitude? Would the “garage-bad-boy” climbed through their music and choke-held us into a different kind of Beatlemania? These are questions that can never be answered - but certainly tickle the mind. History tells us, with the utmost proof, The Beatles changed the direction in which the world was turning… What might WE look and act like today… if The Beatles remained… “bad-ass”?
This painting resides in Shannon’s Personal Collection.
This Shannon painting of John Lennon is a "Fantasy Portrait". It is a "What if?" piece. What if John andThe Beatles never shed their leather and cowboy boots and stayed the course of Mighty Bad Asses? Shannon’s vision portrays John around 1965, still garbed in leather, gripping a G-major bar chord while holding his brand new Rickenbacker 325. Although just the purest of fantasies in blatant art-form… Would they have been as successful? Would they have kept musical-time encased in their hypnotic grip? Would they have rocked the world just a bit harder and, perhaps, with more raw attitude? Would the “garage-bad-boy” climbed through their music and choke-held us into a different kind of Beatlemania? These are questions that can never be answered - but certainly tickle the mind. History tells us, with the utmost proof, The Beatles changed the direction in which the world was turning… What might WE look and act like today… if The Beatles remained… “bad-ass”?
This painting resides in Shannon’s Personal Collection.
This Shannon painting of John Lennon is a "Fantasy Portrait". It is a "What if?" piece. What if John andThe Beatles never shed their leather and cowboy boots and stayed the course of Mighty Bad Asses? Shannon’s vision portrays John around 1965, still garbed in leather, gripping a G-major bar chord while holding his brand new Rickenbacker 325. Although just the purest of fantasies in blatant art-form… Would they have been as successful? Would they have kept musical-time encased in their hypnotic grip? Would they have rocked the world just a bit harder and, perhaps, with more raw attitude? Would the “garage-bad-boy” climbed through their music and choke-held us into a different kind of Beatlemania? These are questions that can never be answered - but certainly tickle the mind. History tells us, with the utmost proof, The Beatles changed the direction in which the world was turning… What might WE look and act like today… if The Beatles remained… “bad-ass”?
This painting resides in Shannon’s Personal Collection.
