elferoony Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 What is some of the stuff on album covers? When records have poor liner notes, I have no idea. -That guy with the three balls in his mouth on Exile on Main Street. -That concrete slab on Who's Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanG Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 I loved passion and warfare as a youngster I'd look at the cover trying to figure it all out. Not a bad CD too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elferoony Posted February 16, 2004 Author Share Posted February 16, 2004 Did Steve Vai draw that picture himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanG Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 I dunno... I doubt it can he draw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackEngOff13 Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Iono but the cd is ona my favs (see avatar) -Zack When our war for love overcomes our love for war, we will b happy... -Jimi Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comfortat Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 The concrete slab (my opinion here) is the hybrid of the monolith from 2001, and an outhouse. Dats what i always thot it was anyway. Not sure bout exile... but i bet Mick just met him and said he wanted him in it. A sreet performer? If you don't wanna be nibbled, don't play with the bunny. God created Eve and me, not Steve and me. - Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanner Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 i miss album covers AMPSSOUNDBETTERLOUDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolead Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Well nowadays most album art is done with digital imaging and photography. I like it better personally. I looked through all my dad's old Genesis records and I can't help but look like this: Shut up and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanner Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Originally posted by revolead: Well nowadays most album art is done with digital imaging and photography. I like it better personally. I looked through all my dad's old Genesis records and I can't help but look like this: let me clarify: i often bought albums(records) as opposed to anything else(cds!) because of the cover art. here is a great example:: saw "are you experienced" in a woolworths(in the instrumental section) in york,pa.in 1967-picked it up just 'cause the cover looked so cool w/ that fisheye lens- had NO idea who it was but man it changed my whole life.!!!! i dont think cd format(visually,tactilewise) encourages that... s AMPSSOUNDBETTERLOUDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elferoony Posted February 20, 2004 Author Share Posted February 20, 2004 I still want to know who that guy with the balls in his mouth is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeronyne Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Originally posted by elferoony: I still want to know who that guy with the balls in his mouth is! Google is a wonderous thing: The general tone of the time was one of anarchy -- drug dealers and freaks and crazy people left over from the Sixties, all defiant and distorted," says John Van Hamersveld, designer of the cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The album's chaotic, slipshod look captures the time perfectly. Van Hamersveld was working on a songbook with the Stones at a Los Angeles mansion where they were staying when legendary photographer Robert Frank walked in the room; he was quickly recruited for the cover of the band's upcoming album. The cover shot, assorted pictures of circus freaks, is not a collage but a photo Frank took in 1950 of the wall of a tattoo parlor somewhere on Route 66. The comparison to the notorious Stones -- jet-setting tax exiles, cocaine-fueled satyrs and perpetual outsiders -- is clear. To drive the point home, an identical layout on the back cover features Frank's photos of the Stones themselves, shot on L.A.'s seedy Main Street. (Frank's 1972 film documentary of the Stones, the unreleased Cocksucker Blues, would explicitly portray them as freaks.) The inner sleeves were even more casually slapped together, with titles and credits hand-lettered by Jagger himself. The layout perfectly complements the sprawling, ramshackle sound of Exile itself. Perhaps the most memorable photograph on the cover is one of a guy holding three balls in his mouth. Marshall Chess, who was then the Stones' manager, needed an image for billboards and other advertising; Van Hamersveld had a great idea. "Lookit," he said, "why don't we take the guy with the balls in his mouth. That is the most amazing photograph I've ever seen. And doesn't it look like Charlie!" "For instance" is not proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elferoony Posted February 21, 2004 Author Share Posted February 21, 2004 Thanks zeronyne. But I had already seen that on Google. I just wondered if anyone knew the story of that specific freak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolead Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Originally posted by stanner: let me clarify: i often bought albums(records) as opposed to anything else(cds!) because of the cover art. here is a great example:: saw "are you experienced" in a woolworths(in the instrumental section) in york,pa.in 1967-picked it up just 'cause the cover looked so cool w/ that fisheye lens- had NO idea who it was but man it changed my whole life.!!!! i dont think cd format(visually,tactilewise) encourages that... s I think that's cool. But it doesn't mean photography can't do the same thing. Shut up and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedro Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 These are two of my favorite covers. Nothing fancy, basically just photograph that have been posterized, but simple and classic. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ALR4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UBF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Everybody knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. - Homer Simpson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hound Dog Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 I liked to stare at the cover of Robin Trowers Bridge of Sighs for hours. Yum, Yum! Eat em up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hound Dog Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 I always like this one, too. http://earlybeatles.com/images/something.jpg Yum, Yum! Eat em up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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