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Some of the best men ever . . ........2002-06-17
Of course, youýll find Falcon stalwarts in these pages: Ken Ryker, Joey Stefano, Mike Branson and Jeremy Penn are givens. What may surprise you, turn you on, or take you on a trip down memory lane (since some of these guys are no longer with us) is how many of the hottest and most successful guys in gay porn have been Falcon models at one time or another. Matthew Anders, Lon Flexx, Jeff Hammond, Brad Stone, Johnny Hanson, Hal Rockland, Tom Chase, . . . the list seems endless.
ýLegends: Men of Falconý is an outstanding collection of quality, top-notch color photos of these guys and many more, in a slick, well-published soft cover volume. The book has been criticized by some for its small size ý it canýt really be considered a coffee table book, at about 6 inches by 9 inches ý but it is just about the right size for one-handed reading, so maybe that was the publisherýs intention.
For more that 27 years, Falcon has been fueling gay menýs fantasies with studs like these ý hereýs wishing them well for the next 27.
"Legends"? Not likley...just more pap.......2000-07-28
The book is quite haphazardly organized. There is no chronological, no alphabetical, no "most popular" order to this book whatsoever. That's a complete tragedy. There are 131 images in this book, and providing no organization means readers have to search through a variety of images -- full-page to postage-stamp sized -- to find the performers they like.
Most models are given one or two images, no matter how popular or legendary they are. Flash-in-the-pan actors who've worked more recently are given better coverage than truly legendary performers like Kris Lord, Jack Dillon, Jeff Quinn or Joey Stefano. Mediocre performers like Billy Brandt, Matthew Anders, Lane Fuller, Mark Gray, Trent Black, Cort Stevens, and Brennan Foster are given full-page images -- and often several pages of photos.
Some of the models in the book -- like Nicholas Clay, Karl Tenner, Kevin Miles, and Gregor Yelson -- are bit-players in the Falcon stable. Meanwhile, only one image -- usually a smaller one -- is allotted to superstars like Michel Lucas, Matt Gunther, Allan Lambert, Vince Rockland, Logan Reed, Bill Henson, Michael White, Steve Henson, Steve Wright, Erik Houston, Johnny Hanson, Lon Flexx, Chris Williams, and Luke Bender -- men who built the Falcon name and did many of Falcon's early and best pictures.
Overall, the quality of the photographs isn't that high. The composition seems rushed and is unbalanced in many images. The poses are unimaginative, boring and often seem purposefully designed to NEGATE sexual arousal. The backgrounds and settings are bland, nondescript and unimaginably boring. The photos are grainy, lack color and warmth, and relatively emotionless. Many of the photos seem to be scans or prints made from existing prints rather than negatives. Many of the photos seem designed to be included in ad copy, rather than publishes as artist or sexual expressions of modern male gay erotica.
The choice of images seems haphazard as well. For instance, Mike Branson -- one of Falcon's all-time favorite performers and the man on whose back the studio was balanced for the last 4 years -- only warrants three images. One is thumb-nail size, and none of them show him with an erection (clearly his most valuable asset). Immediately following Branson's layout is a two-page spread for newcomer (and relative bit player) Karl Tenner. Tenner gets three images, too (albeit two are thumb-nail sized), but at least he's shown with an erection. Jeremy Penn, a mediocre performer but a popular model, gets four pages and four images. Yet, the only image to show him erect is a small postage-stamp image. Hal Rockland is show naked, but never erect; meanwhile, Logan Reed and Derek Cameron -- two recent and popular workhorses -- are not even shown nude.
The philosophy behind "Legends" seems to have been "Let's find as many throwaway photos as we can of whatever actors we can, and sell it for a high price to as many people as we can fool into buying it."
Apparently, Falcon Studios succeeded in implementing their philosophy. Let's hope they don't in their sales strategy.
Great Print Quality - Less than Legendary Contents.......2000-03-11
Falcon's Stableboys.......2000-01-27
Gorgeous Men...But "Legends"?.......2000-01-14
That's not to say the subjects aren't nice to look at -- it's a delight to see many of my favorite Falcon models -- but I'd be hard-pressed to want to really call them "legends" -- yet. While it's no lie to say that the talents of such models as Ken Ryker and Mike Branson -- among others in the book -- are somewhere just above amazing, I was expecting to see pictures of what I would call "true legends" of Falcon's stable of actors -- Dick Fisk, Casey Donovan, Race Jensen and other actors who, in the 1970s and early 1980s, made up the "Falcon look." There are a couple who, in my opinion, have achieved "Legend" status (Kevin Williams and Joey Stefano, to be exact), but the others...not *quite* yet.
Don't get me wrong here -- I definitely DO NOT want to take away from the looks and talent of Tom Chase, Branson, Ryker, Brennan Foster, etc...but give them a few more years for their videos and the like to gain that "legendary" status among viewers and then they'll have definitely attained the title of "Legends."
I think there should have been more pages. Some models got multiple pages, while others got to share space with another model on one page. Come on...would it really hurt to give them their own page? Certainly I'd be willing to pay more if by making it bigger and devoting more pages to models there were a price increase. It's Falcon, for goodness sakes! :)
It's a great book and I can but hope that perhaps the powers that be at Falcon will consider making a larger version of this or perhaps another volume to this impressive -- nearly outstanding -- book. Certainly the "true legends" of Falcon's past deserve their time in publication -- and much more than just in a back issue of "Advocate Men".
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The name says it all. California-based Falcon-Studios, the source of living porn legends like Ken Ryker, Mike Branson and Jeremy Penn, is the largest producer of gay pornography and erotica. Bruno Gmünder Verlag now presents the first and only photo book featuring Falcon photographs. "Legends, The Men of Falcon" presents 136 high-gloss images of Falcon´s hottest American heroes. Size does matter!Customer Reviews:
A VERY HOT BOOK.......2007-01-24
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