{"id":3545,"date":"2025-07-10T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/outtakes-the-kiss\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:30:00","slug":"outtakes-the-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/outtakes-the-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Outtakes: The Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/Outtakes-black-the-kiss.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>In April 1993, celebrating our 8th anniversary, like we\u2019d forgotten to do it the month before<\/strong> (entirely possible) because the launch was March 1985, we ran a cover of upcoming actress Adrienne Shelly kissing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2022\/03\/the-lemonheads-evan-dando-april-1993-cover-story\/\">Evan Dando<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6w7fc6IZlo5zwBaKT5jU1X\" target=\"_blank\">Lemonheads<\/a>. I mean, <em>really<\/em> kissing. No-one, we were delighted to discover, had ever shown two people with their tongues in each other\u2019s mouths on the cover of a mainstream magazine before.<\/p>\n<p>This was for our story the A-Z of Alternative Culture, and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=gxsArQZdyBwC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">S was for sex<\/a>. Which, honestly, is not exactly alternative, in that it is one of the most common things people do (or at least should be).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/deftones-new-album\/\">Deftones To Deliver Their \u2018Private Music\u2019 Next Month<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/ozzy-osbourne-second-memoir\/\">Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s Second Memoir, \u2018Last Rites,\u2019 Due In October<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/paul-mccartney-fall-north-american-tour\/\">Paul McCartney Plots Fall North American Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I, ahem, came up with the concept of a sexy kiss between two sexy people \u2014 again, this is not precisely the most innovative concept in the history of publishing, but, even in 1993, it was provocative, and that\u2019s what we wanted. Pretty much always.<\/p>\n<p>I asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lorenhaynes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loren Haynes<\/a>, a brilliant fashion and art photographer, and for a while our Staff Photographer, to do the shoot. This is one of the outtakes. By this point, they weren\u2019t even listening to Loren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you approach the shoot?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I felt the best way to get the shot to work was to find an actress trained and experienced in creating that reality for the camera or stage; in this case, it was both, with no narrative to follow other than we need to believe they embody enough passion and sexual chemistry to sell and capture that kiss. It took hours, but we got it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember who selected Adrienne. It wasn\u2019t me. Whoever it was, it was a great choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you make them comfortable?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preparation, preparation, preparation. I requested to be put up at the same hotel as Evan so we could spend time together the night before. I needed to get him comfortable with what we were looking to achieve. He was nervous about the kiss, being shirtless. We hung out in his room and spoke about his songwriting, he played a couple unfinished songs on his guitar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne had had starring roles in two independent films, <em>The Unbelievable Truth<\/em> in 1989 and <em>Truth<\/em> in 1990.<em> <\/em>I asked her to be the assertive one, and seduce Evan and that I felt that Evan would fall right in. It didn\u2019t take long for the two to click. It had to not be forced. That was the challenge and you can see in this shot, it clearly worked.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne brought to the shoot exactly what was needed and we got an image that would live as a moment in time, for years to come. It\u2019s been written about often and it\u2019s included in the HBO documentary <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P7X1gw-2URc?si=jUJKVEpKWhw193Eh\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 1993, celebrating our 8th anniversary, like we\u2019d forgotten to do it the month before (entirely possible) because the launch was March 1985, we ran a cover of upcoming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2554,31,2555,2552,24,496,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrienne-shelly","category-evan-dando","category-features","category-loren-haynes","category-oral-history","category-pushly","category-the-lemonheads","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}