#Miller beer

[popping-your-culture]

It’s Miller time!

[stone-cold-groove]

If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the beer. Miller Beer ad - 1971.

[bunkerhillbros]

"Champagne of Beers, it is." from Mir Bernheim.

[blackros78]

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, December 19, 1949

[tanambogo2113]

[question2019]

32oz going down

[khaosb]

Miller.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FROM "A MOUTHFUL OF MILLER" TO SOBRIETY IN ENCROACHING MIDDLE AGE -- A B. BOY EVOLUTIONARY STORY.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the BEASTIE BOYS during their "Licensed to Ill" era, on tour, shot just before they went onstage at their first ever Toronto gig, c. 1986. 📸: Rick McGinnis. Also included are portraits of the B. Boys 20 years later, c. 2006, in Toronto, by Rick McGinnis.

OVERVIEW: "HERE’S ANOTHER BUNCH OF NEGATIVES I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE AGAIN. These old pics of the Beastie Boys were in the same old file folder, buried behind old receipts and tax stuff, as the photos of THE MINUTEMEN I featured here a few weeks ago. More juvenilia, back from when I was still learning how to use a camera.

These are not great portraits. They’re not even particularly good snapshots. But thanks to my new Vivitar 285 flash, bought at B&H in New York City the previous fall, they were at least properly exposed – if you like the look of direct flash, which I don’t, and didn’t, even then.

So why even bother posting them? Well, they might not be great shots, but if I’ve learned anything from putting old photos online, almost any picture becomes history when even a minority of the audience for it wasn’t born when it was taken. Especially so, I suppose, when someone in the photo is no longer alive.

I shot them just before they went onstage at their first ever Toronto gig, at a tacky new wave disco in Yorkville called the Copa. I was double-dipping – these shots would end up being used by both "Graffiti" magazine and "Nerve." According to the recollections of Perry Stern, who was writing the "Graffiti" piece, he’d spent much of the day before the show with them, walking up and down Yonge Street trying to buy amyl nitrate poppers, which they’d heard were legal in Toronto. (Apparently not, as far as Perry could tell.)

They were boisterous but likeable goofs, according to Perry, more than living up to their budding public image, which would become gold-plated with the release of "Licensed to Ill" a few months later. Their madcap antics would deflate a bit a few minutes after I took these photos, when they went onstage and threw around some beers that broke one of the neon “sculptures” hanging over the dance floor at the Copa. (An incident I’d completely forgotten about until Perry reminded me the other day.)."

-- RICK MCGINNIS (Toronto-based photographer)

Resolution from largest to smallest: 1500x1500, 1500x1007, 1500x1006, 1500x999, & 1024x624.

Source: https://rickmcginnisphotographs.wordpress.com/tag/beastie-boys.

[maxcollectoruniverse]

A cool 1985 Lite Beer Neon Sign for a bar, man cave, or gaming room that’s now for sale at https://collectiblesandmoreinstore.com/shop/lite-beer-vintage-neon-sign/

[stone-cold-groove]

A vintage Miller High Life place mat.

[josematalobos]

Miller Beer...

... High Life

[blackros78]

[idroolinmysleep]

Man, “Champagne” has been part of Miller High Life’s labeling for over 100 years, and somebody in Europe just now noticed — and didn’t take too kindly to them appropriating the name.

[noahverrier]

My oil painting of Miller Lite