Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition

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X-Multiply title screen (1989) 🔗


The proportions and angles are all a bit different and ... oh yeah, it's missing the guitar going through the guy's forehead, but there's still too many matching details to the album cover for Straight Between the Eyes by Rainbow to be a coincidence - yet another prog rock reference!

Discovered by Adam Heron on Bluesky.

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