tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post1947072741561752187..comments2024-03-13T18:46:01.516-04:00Comments on Go Retro!: A Tale of Two Rock and Roll Band LogosPamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122952408610512684noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-76476320062148403712012-02-28T12:42:32.253-05:002012-02-28T12:42:32.253-05:00JZ--I like The Who's old logo, too. It was qui...JZ--I like The Who's old logo, too. It was quintissential 60s.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122952408610512684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-66832601427681495302012-02-27T18:34:19.464-05:002012-02-27T18:34:19.464-05:00What's interesting is how well both logos have...What's interesting is how well both logos have held up over nearly 50 years. Literally everyone in the Western world has seen them from childhood. Coke a Cola is the only other logo that has had that kind of staying power.<br /><br />I also like The Who's old logo with the long arrow pointing up from the small o and the bulls eye. The Who used it much less after 1967 and that was a mistake, as it still looks very cool. They did bring it back a bit in the eighties.JZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830586696690222760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-50581887485559319832012-02-27T13:41:44.248-05:002012-02-27T13:41:44.248-05:00It is indeed a coincidence. Here's what Wikipe...It is indeed a coincidence. Here's what Wikipedia had to say about the KISS logo: "Frehley created the now-iconic logo, making the "SS" look like lightning bolts, when he went to write the new band name over Wicked Lester on a poster outside the club where they were going to play.[20] The runic letters happened to look similar to the insignia of the Nazi SS, a symbol that is now illegal to display in Germany. Therefore, to avoid controversy, since 1979 most of the band's album covers and merchandise in Germany have used a modified version of the logo instead, with the SS represented by two backwards Zs."<br /><br />I'm not a KISS fan but I would agree that it's a recognizable logo; however, I love that The Stones' is a symbol without any letters.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122952408610512684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-21546059817291283412012-02-27T13:29:25.188-05:002012-02-27T13:29:25.188-05:00Before Keir makes a mountain out of a molehill let...Before Keir makes a mountain out of a molehill let me state the following. There IS such a thing as coincidence - and the SS in KISS resembling the SS of the Nazis is just that - coincidence. Both Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of KISS are Jewish so I hardly think they had Nazis in mind with their logo.<br />Having said that I believe the KISS logo is much more recognizable than either The Beatles' or the Stones' logo and is one of brilliant simplicity and powerful design as befitting a hard rock band.Luishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631388281199815121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-76263872491739835342012-02-25T14:53:34.059-05:002012-02-25T14:53:34.059-05:00I teach near Dachau and was shocked by a student w...I teach near Dachau and was shocked by a student wearing a Kiss t-shirt. This was 2010, mind. I immediately noticed the old 'SS' form of the logo which copies the lightning flash of the Schutzstaffel and which is illegal in Germany. Neither he, a German student, nor anyone else noticed.Keirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17780519140837852601noreply@blogger.com