Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Aerosmith's Nine Lives Cover Art


The above image was the original artwork used for Aerosmith's 'Nine Lives'. Somehow it created some sort of backlash or uproar, because it was based on a Hindu religious painting:

Pretty trippy.  Perhaps the perceived sacrilege would be analogous to a picture or a crucified Jesus with a cat's head or something. So anyhow they changed the art to this, which I think is kinda dumber looking, not nearly as cool, but oh well: