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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 9, 2012 8:21:07 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 9, 2012 9:00:32 GMT
Love this here's my fav to start; i48.images obliterated by tinypic/29kp0mr.jpg[/IMG] only recently found out that the designer was George Hunter of the Charlitans (?) and the artist was Kent Hollister. It was influenced by a painting by the brilliant American artist Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 called Ecstasy i47.images obliterated by tinypic/33ct7vn.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 9, 2012 19:08:15 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 9, 2012 20:51:08 GMT
Have to hold my hands up (like the diner waitress) and say that all of my favourites would have to be from the 60's and 70's. I feel very privileged that I'm from the time when I sat on the bedroom floor, next to the stereo, after buying a brand new copy of one of the classics and was totally mesmerised by the cover and even better if I could open it out. i48.images obliterated by tinypic/nvbjtc.jpg[/IMG] i45.images obliterated by tinypic/352rqk1.jpg[/IMG] I love this one - it's just "of the time" I could just imagine walking along the street and hanging out here i47.images obliterated by tinypic/30kwxo6.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 10, 2012 2:30:54 GMT
The Charlatans were a bunch of SF hippies who got hold of cheap housing in Virginia City, Nevada and played regular, LSD-fueled gigs in an old cowboy place called the red dog saloon...their music became seriously psychedelic and influenced early Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver etc...they came to the Bay area and fragmented...one had a moderate, eclectic career...Dan Hicks, who still plays in the area and was famous for a second when his band was The Hot Licks. The druggy music/lights/acid scene in humble Virginia City was the root of the acid tests and the birth of west coast psychedelia....really. A punk band later, the Charlatans from England had to change their name to Charlatans UK because of these guys.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 10, 2012 13:55:10 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 10, 2012 14:18:55 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 10, 2012 15:10:53 GMT
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Post by hipflaskandy on Sept 12, 2012 11:48:53 GMT
Bowes-based artist Duncan Storr has designed this for a double album that's not yet finished and that will never be commercially released!- but I love the cover pic to bits and wanted to share... Oh dear - it's much darker in real life - looks faded at this resolution, sorry.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 12, 2012 17:33:17 GMT
As it states on the reverse of the sleeve Must be played in the dark
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 12, 2012 19:55:36 GMT
Good to see album art still going strong Hipflask. i48.images obliterated by tinypic/23mx1ti.jpg[/IMG] i48.images obliterated by tinypic/hx5gqs.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by hipflaskandy on Sept 14, 2012 9:26:38 GMT
Good to see album art still going strong Hipflask. Yep, NonRab - that's zackly why I dare put it up here - I think it's fab that there are still fine artists slaving away over some great new works specifically aimed at LP/CD covers. Photographs, photoshop - and all the quick and easy methods available through today's technology still havn't done away with them thar talented folks that can put their drawing and painting skills directly onto paper (or whatever medium) right under their very hands. Bless 'em! Funnily enough, Duncan Storr 'showed' or studied at one time alongside yon chappie that did the 'Broadsword' art, back in the day. But where that fella (name escapes me at this exact mo) went on to be really BIG (Star Wars work etc) and successful - Dunc did do book covers for Dick King Smith childrens books and one LP cover for Hawkwind! But remains to this day a hard working , not quite starving-in-a-garrett artist - bless him! I'll might pop another pic of his on here (he did it specifically for 'me' so I'm sure he won't mind)
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 14, 2012 15:24:44 GMT
Good to see album art still going strong Hipflask. Yep, NonRab - that's zackly why I dare put it up here - I think it's fab that there are still fine artists slaving away over some great new works specifically aimed at LP/CD covers. Photographs, photoshop - and all the quick and easy methods available through today's technology still havn't done away with them thar talented folks that can put their drawing and painting skills directly onto paper (or whatever medium) right under their very hands. Bless 'em! Funnily enough, Duncan Storr 'showed' or studied at one time alongside yon chappie that did the 'Broadsword' art, back in the day. But where that fella (name escapes me at this exact mo) went on to be really BIG (Star Wars work etc) and successful - Dunc did do book covers for Dick King Smith childrens books and one LP cover for Hawkwind! But remains to this day a hard working , not quite starving-in-a-garrett artist - bless him! I'll might pop another pic of his on here (he did it specifically for 'me' so I'm sure he won't mind) Please post more although I said my favs were from the 60's/70's I'm not that stuck in those decades There's some great raw talent in graphic art out there. Speaking of your man, Duncan Storr, he would have studied with Iain McCaig then the artist of B&TB? Did he go to Glasgow School of Art? I mixed in the same crowd as Iain and we had a nostalgic trip down memory lane on the correspondance for his Q&A here on the Forum; jethrotull.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=1750A hugely charming and very talented man.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 15, 2012 17:39:04 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 15, 2012 20:25:04 GMT
The best album covers are the ones that opened up and yielded enough weed to fill a bowl or roll a teeny joint years after being used to 'clean' seedy, stemmy weed. Not long ago, with daughter along, i was trading CDs for DVDs and when the shop guy opened up a CD box, out came a neatly folded piece of aluminum foil, a flattened pack of matches, a rolled up and equally falttened dollar bill and a ten dollar balloon of heroin...obviously squirelled away for some late nineties emergency that apparently came and went without requiring opiate therapy after all and then long forgotten. I kept the dollar bill and tossed the rest.....It was a CD by the Meat Puppets called...'Too high to die'.
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 17, 2012 11:12:43 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 17, 2012 20:23:54 GMT
Blue gives me flashbacks...a whole lot of flashbacks. Good ones, I may add.
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Post by hipflaskandy on Sept 18, 2012 7:54:21 GMT
NonRab - Dunc Storr didn't study with Iain McCaig, but both exhibited at some places after they both grad'ed. Mostly concerning 'Fantasy art' I believe. I'll check out the prescise connection when D comes down here on Sunday to attend part of Otley Festival - and then post any relevant info/anecdotes concerning Iain on here - ok?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 18, 2012 8:36:59 GMT
NonRab - Dunc Storr didn't study with Iain McCaig, but both exhibited at some places after they both grad'ed. Mostly concerning 'Fantasy art' I believe. I'll check out the prescise connection when D comes down here on Sunday to attend part of Otley Festival - and then post any relevant info/anecdotes concerning Iain on here - ok? Look forward to that and have fun at the Otley festival.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2012 16:36:55 GMT
The best album covers are the ones that opened up and yielded enough weed to fill a bowl or roll a teeny joint years after being used to 'clean' seedy, stemmy weed. Not long ago, with daughter along, i was trading CDs for DVDs and when the shop guy opened up a CD box, out came a neatly folded piece of aluminum foil, a flattened pack of matches, a rolled up and equally falttened dollar bill and a ten dollar balloon of heroin...obviously squirelled away for some late nineties emergency that apparently came and went without requiring opiate therapy after all and then long forgotten. I kept the dollar bill and tossed the rest.....It was a CD by the Meat Puppets called...'Too high to die'. Thanks for being so candid. My favourite albums seem to lead to my choice of Best Album Covers. The best album covers are the ones that opened up and fitted in the scanner... 2012
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Post by hipflaskandy on Sept 20, 2012 8:54:14 GMT
'The best album covers are the ones that opened up and fitted in the scanner...' !!!! Luddite here! - They have scanners that can take a full size double LP cover??? I'd have been happy if I coulda scanned a normal LP size. Jings! - Ours takes an A4 sheet of paper maximum - I feel so inadequate.... I sit here now, green with scanner-envy!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 13:18:48 GMT
hipflaskandy, That's a CD cover, I thought the staples would give that one away. Fits in the scanner, not so good for steelmonkey's weed rolling though. Here's the Rhino CD, no staples. close to the edge, Yes. - tootull ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 20, 2012 15:41:47 GMT
Does marijuana still have seeds or have they been botanized and bred out of the stong stuff they sell these days ? Love the album cover and the album...Close to the Edge got many, many careful and close listenings after school by me and my 11th grade friends when it was new. consensus: This album is IMPORTANT.
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 20, 2012 18:55:51 GMT
This one takes me back.
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Post by hipflaskandy on Sept 21, 2012 11:53:11 GMT
hipflaskandy, That's a CD cover, I thought the staples would give that one away. Phew! mebbe not feeling so inadequate now!
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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 22, 2012 13:48:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 14:45:03 GMT
hipflaskandy, That's a CD cover, I thought the staples would give that one away. Phew! mebbe not feeling so inadequate now! LOL
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 17, 2013 13:27:37 GMT
i41.images obliterated by tinypic/2ylvacy.jpg[/IMG] Most def in the right thread Don't know how true this conversation may have been or even took place - it's on Wiki "..Jethro Tull singer Ian Anderson has claimed that the name (Derek Smalls) was derived from the name "Derek Small", which appears in the liner notes of two of the band's albums (Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play). Anderson has asked Harry Shearer (actor who plays D. Smalls) in person about the origin of the name, to which Shearer responded "I don't know—it just came out of my head," though Anderson recalls then asking Shearer, "I don't suppose, Harry, you happen to have a copy of Thick as a Brick in your record collection at home?'" to which Anderson concluded (from Shearer's reaction): And he knew I'd gotten him then!!"
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 25, 2014 9:37:31 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2014 10:25:01 GMT
Bonanza was on one of the Sky channels last week. I watched 5 minutes of one episode and suddenly realised that the interior sets were as badly made as the ones constructed for the British soap opera Crossroads, of fond memory.
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