#jon young band

[bkandtheunderstanding]

I haven’t posted on here in a while, so here is a clip-video that I recorded of the Jon Young Band last week. Jon Young and I grew up in the same town. I went to school with his younger sister. Jon has been successful performing Americana music around the north Texas region in the local Red Dirt scene. Look his music up on your favorite streaming service—I recommend starting with his sophomore album, Relic, as the opener is still my favorite song of his.

Here are some photos as well:

[headachesforhalos]

yall fw ray ross??

[gaykornography]

bitch of the band

[r-u-b-y-18]

“Name three songs”

Lists entire discography and all the unreleased demos/songs/b-sides

[viccharine]

do you guys ever listen to a band so much that you end up making fake merch for it?

(reblogs greatly appreciated!!!!)

close ups and commentary under the cut!

about the poster itself: do you guys know how hard it is to make art for a band that hasn’t been active in 13 years? the answer is HARD (yes, i probably could done research and looked for old interviews for inspiration but who has time for that)

—> the icons related to “take a vacation!” are inspired by lyrics from the song “take a vacation!” (haha, did you see what I did there?) specifically, the lines “we’ll leave the waves at the ocean” and “we’ll leave the sand in a suitcase”

—> the Jon Walker and Ryan Ross icons are taken directly from the album cover (it took ten years off my life trying to figure out how to get them on here w/ the color palette—graphic design may be my passion but I never said i was GOOD at it)

—> the heart imagery comes from the fact that the band’s called “the young VEINS”—although it annoys me IMMENSELY that i technically drew more arteries than veins in the icons (my anatomy teacher would be so disappointed, but alas, anatomical accuracy had to be sacrificed to make it. yknow. look nice)

—> i did hand-lettering for all the text except for everything that’s in Helvetica (i did THAT in canva). the art program i use has a basically unusable text tool so I was forced to draw all of it, so I choose to believe that the reason why it doesn’t look. the best. is because of the caffeine shakes

some extra commentary: am I the only one who’s genuinely REALLY bad at listening to music? i don’t really get into bands as much as i just find songs that sound nice—to illustrate the extent of this issue: i did NOT know that Brendon Urie was a part of Panic! At the Disco. I’m not even kidding, I thought the artist who made Death of a Bachelor and the artist who made A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out were completely different and just. didn’t bother to check if I was right.

also, I’m not the type of person to be interested in band lore???? I rarely know the names of band members if even I’ve listened to the band for years (I really couldn’t care less in most situations)

case in point, i did not know who the FUCK Ryan Ross was!!! i knew he was in p!atd but that’s literally about it—before a couple of days ago if you asked to me pick out either Ryan Ross or Jon Walker from a line up I would not be able to get even CLOSE

anyway, my friend/manager is really into band lore, so I basically got a crash-course in all things “early to late 2000s emo band” and subsequently found out about the Young Veins (i was also extremely disappointed when I found out they only had one album and hadn’t been active in over a decade) THEN I realized that decade old, inactive bands don’t usually have merch, so I made my own! “merch” used lightly—i don’t think this is actually fit to sell lol

anyway that’s all k thanks byeee :D!! (and go stream the young veins!!)

[metal-sludge]

Miscellaneous photos from the MONSTERS OF ROCK Festival at Castle Donington, England held annually from 1980 to 1996 | RAW, August 1991.

[criminallyoverrated]

Posting a man I've been gay about this year for each day of pride, day 30:

HONORABLE MENTIONS!!!*

These are all guys that are not like- consistent enough for me to make a whole post, but I still like them!

1. Brendan Fraser but specifically as Chazz in Airheads

I kinda only like Brendan with long hair. George is sweet, but not really my thing. Also Airheads is a great movie, go watch it.

2. This specific picture of Alex Skolnick

This photo is so insanely pretty for no reason.

3. Axl Rose

Hate him or am indifferent most of the time, but when I'm on my period I absolutely cannot allow myself to look at him cause I start considering.

4. This specific photo of Nikki Sixx

His. His arms. His arms are too fucking good in this, it should be illegal.

5. Lars Ulrich

He's a really big hit or miss, like most pictures of him I go "Cute! But not for me" but sometimes I think he's REALLY attractive, idk.

6. Velvet von Ragnar

Ok so Gene Simmons is like a very occasional treat, but VELVET?! Idk man she's just- they're just.... hi, I am a queer if you couldn't tell.

7. This photo of Jason Newsted... and Jason in general

Honestly Jason is slowly becoming a more consistent crush, but most of Metallica at this point is in the "Once in a while I see a REALLY good photo and woah"

8. This gif of JBJ someone posted recently (sorry I forget who 😭)

The way he like moves and the lighting and honestly just overall Jon is hotter than I'd like to admit. Just, woah 😳 this gif.

9. Ace Frehley kissing this man (Jim Orem)

This photo feels like it should be in a museum or something. It's just so good, the kiss feels so tender. I just wanna know how it feels to be both of them in this moment. Also Ace is beautiful here.

10. Nick Menza

I'M JUST RECENTLY REALISING HOW FUCKING BEAUTIFUL HE IS OMFG. RUFF RUFF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK RRRRRRUFF RRRUFF- *ahem* Excuse me.

*None of these are in any particular order. I put all of these in as they came to mind, same with the individual posts. Many other men could be included but I have to keep it limited.

[youngveinsworld]

polaroid shared by jon of ryan on the band's first day on the road for the spring tour

16 march 2010 (travelling from nashville to houston)

[ms-believer-2181]

HAPPY MAN CRUSH MONDAY TO RYAN ROSS <3

Ryan, please come home. The kids miss you.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Jonathan Young I owe you my life for making this

[darlinhutchence]

Clever words on smooth tongue talking. Shove it brother, just keep walking.

Credit if reposted.

[lovesgoneinsane]

ive found so many new pictures of the young veins tonight oh my god i am thriving

[gaykornography]

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

[r-u-b-y-18]

Me when I realize I’ll probably end up dating someone that I meet here on Tumblr in the future because no one I’ve met irl except for like my best friend likes the bands and the silly boys I do

(what I want in a relationship btw)

[viccharine]

@ everyone interacting with my “the young veins” fanart. i see you guys. emo people are alive and well i guess

anyway here’s an alternate version of it (reblogs appreciated!):

ok that’s it k thanks byeeeeee (and go stream the young veins!!!!)

[stuck-in2008]

Ran out of the first band practice at my new school lol

I shared my name and decided that was enough so I walked out

Flight won today

The funny things that anxiety make you do