#russ d

[marsipain]

Norwegian Mikus :)

Left is Miku as a russ and right is Miku in a bunad!

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[oldschoolfrp]

Elegantly draped headwear accents the scale armors in this season's collection (Russ Nicholson, White Dwarf 29, GW, Feb/Mar 1982)

[zethsmo]

she eated gasoline ://

[meadow-dusk]

Neil Young (and Russ Tamblyn's fancy footwork) in the music video for "People on the Street," dir. Tim Pope (1986)

[darkcollectornerd]

[veryspecificnostalgia]

plush bendy flowers

original release: 1999

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

Russ Ballard producing Daltrey's album

1975 Interview

Russ Ballard has something special. Call it professionalism, the sure touch, luck, talent, a mixture of the lot if you like, but everything he's involved in seems to turn out pretty good, even when it's something completely new to him, like record producing.

When he was fourteen, he wrote his first song and sold it to The Shadows after having had the sense to demo it after their style. Having mastered the guitar and scored quite a bit of acclaim for his playing, he turned to keyboards and now nobody hearing him play would think he hadn't been brought up on them. Argent reached the height of their success when he was with them, he gave Colin Blunstone a monster hit with I Don't Believe In Miracles and now Ride A Rock Horse is enjoying considerable favour. Its producer? Russ Ballard! The man, wearing his customary shades, exudes an air of quiet confidence. He can afford to. He's well respected as a musician and as a writer and he's now in a position many people could envy. After all, a singer of Daltrey's calibre doesn't call up just anybody and say "How about producing my album?"! What is really surprising is that Roger should ignore all the established record producers in favour of Russ, who has only ever produced one album before in his life and that was the solo one he made after leaving Argent.

How did his new role come about? "Well, I worked with Daltrey on his first album, played a little drums and piano on it, but I didn't produce that one, just put in some ideas. He must have liked them because when he was planning his second, he just asked me if I wanted to do it." Russ explained. In an issue of Beat dated April 1966, Daltrey himself described his voice in pretty disparaging terms. "I don't have a good voice, no-one needs to tell me that. I'm a screamer with a group and I'm happy. I'm not worried about my voice, though, it is developing and I can notice the change." He also added "I'd get a real kick if I could have a proper girl vocal group backing." It's taken nine years, but now he's achieved what he hoped for, a voice which no-one can deny is pretty exceptional, and backing singers led by Marsha Hunt, care of Russ Ballard! "I was involved with everything." said Russ. "Going through songs with him, deciding what musicians should be used, who would be good for this and who for that." For a reluctant producer, who admits that "I'm not really into production, even though it's a creative thing, I'd rather be an artist." Russ had some pretty definite ideas as to his treatment of the album. "I deliberately kept his voice well up because in so many recordings I've heard of Roger, he's been immersed in sound. He's got such a powerful and such a good voice which contains many aspects that people haven't heard before. What I set out to do on the album was to expose all those voices for the first time. I don't think it is a good thing for a producer to put his own standpoint on an album, the most important thing is to project the artist." Russ thinks that Daltrey's film work has given a lot more confidence and he also found getting to know him has radically changed the concept he had of The Who. "Many people would imagine Daltrey as an ego tripper, but he's not in the slightest. Before I got to know him well, I was under the impression that The Who were Pete Townshend's baby. But speaking to Roger, listening to his ideas, I think that a hell of a lot of his ideas must have always gone into The Who, a lot more than people think."

It was originally Roger's idea to record an album of his early influences. Then he changed rock horses in mid-stream. "By then we'd already recorded Walking The Dog and that Beachboys sounding song, so we were lumbered with them." The second idea was to project the different sides of Daltrey's voice in a collection of mixed rockers and ballads, including three songs of Russ's, Come And Get Your Love, Proud and Near To Surrender. "We didn't actually discuss the point but I felt he wanted to make a heavier album than the one we'd originally planned. Yet not totally heavy, but a record which would compliment the heavier stuff with lighter stuff. Right from the very first session when he sang the first song I could see his voice was so much better, I feel it's improved tremendously since the early Who days even though I think he had a good voice in 1964."

The next thing to decide on was the overall sound and the arrangements. Ex-Shadows drummer Tony Meehan was the man who worked on these. "I decided to make the sound quite sparse,-" explained Russ, "- rather than over-producing it. Some people just don't know where to stop. I decided that if a song called for piano and nothing else, that's what I was going to do." (Hence Phillip Goodhand Tait's beautiful slow rocker Oceans Away with the composer on piano.) "The most important thing in an arrangement is the song. If it's a good one you should be able to sing it with no backing at all and it should still sound great. If it's not, no matter how many extras you add it won't work." Russ reckons that having been in bands himself definitely helped him as a producer, enabling him to put himself in the artist's shoes. Yet he doesn't think he'd like to produce his own next album entirely alone. "When I was in Argent I found being produced by somebody else was very frustrating because I could tell people were veering away from the original ideas I'd had for my songs. That's why I decided to produce my first solo album, which turned out a bit of a mixture because I had a backlog of work to get out of my system. My next album will be slightly deeper, not so light-hearted. I hope to be co-producing it with Muff Winwood, whom I really admire because he's got such a good ear and can really make a musical point."

At the moment, Russ is doing very well with songs of his which are being covered by other artists. One called Heartbreak, has recently been recorded by Olivia Newton-John and yet another is currently being recorded in L.A. by Stevie Wonder's band. Russ has got a new band together consisting of the ex-drummer from Curly, Alan Wickett, bass player Tony Lester and guitarist Alan Skates- "He really does!" joked Russ. He's got three weeks booked in E.M.I. Studios to get the album done. As for his producing career, it looks like Ride A Rock Horse may be his swansong. What if Roger asks him to produce his third album? "Well… if I want to do what I want to do, that is, sing, play, write and record, I just won't have time to produce anybody." said Russ. There's nothing like getting out when you're on top!

[kit-williams]

Love Letters

Male Lead: Leman Russ Universe/Au: Warhammer 40k/D&D au Canon Status: Yes

So some angst like feelings? It's fluffy for the most part but like Leman is painfully aware of him probably outliving his wife so I guess the whole point of why he's writing a Ballad is kinda sad?

How can one not love you? How low you've brought me to bear... There's a fire in your eyes my sweet...

Leman frowned as he was hardly good at these sorts of things. As another page is tossed across the room and his mind just wanders. He wants to leave an epic of his love... a prose that even if it is all of the mark he leaves upon this land is what is his lasting impression. He is not seeking to replace the kingdom of the Russ he left back home... this is new and different.

How can he put into stupid ill-fitting words the feelings he feels for this mortal woman. He can't help but bark out a laugh at how the Emperor would probably look at his Executioner being in such a tizzy over a mortal. But she was his mortal.

He tried again and again to put into words how his Ylva was so smart... how she was funny... how she didn't flinch away from him when he came out of the woods like a wild man to help save her people. How she gave him respect when he told her I am the last great Jarl of the people of the Russ when others had guffawed at the fact he still called himself the Jarl or the High King of a people that were no longer there.

The way she told him... You'll just have to find more people willing to call themselves Russ.

His blundering tongue just growling out affectionately, How about you?

Only to be met with a laugh and a warning to not push his luck. Once more Leman found himself adopted into a clan but he was unwilling to shed his name of Russ but Leman was always one willing to push his luck and push her buttons.

He ran his tongue over an old scar on his bottom lip as he stared into the fire trying to think of words to tell her. Why was this so hard? Wooing her felt easier then him trying to figure out words to tell her... to capture her essence in prose. How anything he carved for her or plundered for her was just pretty on her.

How her hair is decorated with carved bone beads and other such things made by his hands all little things to show how he felt. How alive he feels when he makes love to her... both sober and drunkenly. She fit a piece that he never knew he was missing or was this just part of Magnus' magic that made them crave things that mortals desire.

His ear twitches as the door opens up and a tired and swollen looking Ylva enters. "I can hear you pacing across the village." She teases glancing at the papers strewn about. "What's gotten you in a tizzy?"

"Bah nonsense really." Leman tries to deflect as he can hear her pick up some papers and before he can chide her for bending over.

"Didn't get very far..." She says looking over as all Leman can ever put to paper are only a few lines of prose.

"No..." He rubs the back of his neck, "I'm not very good at that. Boisterous song and calls and tales of deeds are something I'm better at."

"Always a knack of talking about yourself." Ylva says with a smile sitting down and then just laying back as like with her past babes... always so big.

Leman chuckles sitting on the bed besides her, "Aye." A pregnant pause filled between them as Ylva could tell he was thinking. "I wanted to write about you. Like a love letter I've heard about mortals doing." He looks down at his hands pushing back the cuticle of a nail as he feels silly saying it aloud. "I want to put to word..." He starts slowly and thoughtfully, "How much I love you. What you mean to me and yet I can hardly think of the words... they all feel like shallow descriptions of how I feel. Even putting it into the tongues I know can't fit the way I feel. The way I look at you even at your lowest point... I want my love for you to live as a poem... I want my love for you to outlive us... to have people use it as a tale or song to tell their loved ones their feelings." Leman looks down at her as he pulls his pregnant wife into his lap and rests her head against his chest. Thankful of the ring Magnus gave him to not utterly dwarf his wife though he was still seven feet tall and some change it was still a normal height here.

"Leman..." She whispers softly looking up at him surprised.

"Now don't you start saying that it made sense to you or that it only felt natural to love me. Nothing about me is natural. I want to preserve my love for you because I don't know how long I might live... and I don't want to forget you." Leman says mournfully but he was always one to know how tightly death holds life's hand. Fenris was the picture of that.

"Oh you big loveable oaf." Ylva says pulling him into a hug. "How many times do I have to tell you not to think like that? I know it's hard being a demi god or whatever you are but if you live I won't really truly die."

"I hope not... a wonderful ghost to haunt me. One of these days I will write a ballad of my love for you!" He boasts his mood swelling back.

"Mhmm exactly. See just like this line right here saying how smart and wonderful I am is very much true." She grins as she flips through pages as the two of them cuddle close as they go over the dozens of drafts for this eventual ballad.

For as long as the kingdom of the Russ will exist... the ballad of Ylva never truly dies.

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[starky1d]

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[oldschoolfrp]

Wizard and minions (Russ Nicholson from "Strangers in the Night: Wandering Monsters in D&D" by Phil Palmer, White Dwarf 46, October 1983). A common motif in Nicholson's illustrations is one main figure glaring directly at the viewer.

[sad-leon]

1, 27, 29, 35

1.) What was your first exposure to TMNT?

Ill go more into it: so i found Rise about 2022 into 2023 because I was watching Ducktales 2017 and really loved Ben Schwartz's voice as Dewey (and as Randy from RC9GN) so when I learned he was Leo in Rise I decided to give it a shot

27.) What is something you love to see in TMNT art/fics?

Dissociation!!! Love me some good dissociation and learning to cope with it (death wish beloved- and theres a little system leo series that updates rarely, but I love whenever I see the notification)

29.) What is one headcanon that you have?

Russsss you can't make me pick just one!!! /dramatic

seriously, though,,,, branching out past the ones I am pretty vocal about- I love to headcanon as Leo needing glasses and just,, not having them- whether because he didn't realize he needed them or because he just never said anything- I love projecting my bad eyesight onto the silly blue turtle

35.) Which character relationships are your favorite to write/draw?

Disaster twins- all the way

I don't know what to say other than just look at them

I do also love some good Raph and Leo moments- especially them dealing with the fallout of the whole "leader" and kraang situations

[vintagerpg]

We lost a real legend in Russ Nicholson this year. I can honestly say that Russ and his work sneak into my mind in short order whenever I talk about fantasy art at length, no matter the period. When we recorded this interview back in 2019, it was apparently his first appearance on a podcast, which seems bizarre considering how large his work looms over the hobby, then and now. I’ll never not be bummed about a lack of Russ Nicholson in the world. Anyway, we couldn’t record last week, so we thought it would be cool to bring this one out from the vault, a little in memoriam for his passing earlier this year.

[bajaja-blast]

what happened when Murdoc found out 2-D sold the geep?

[goofybeatrix]