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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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This is the first bit of music I ever purchased myself, purely because I loved the album cover.
I was eight years old.
I'd never heard the Dead and, frankly, couldn't even make out what it said.
My older siblings laughed.
Little did I know that I'd become a Deadhead for life.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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I picked this up in Moscow in 1990 (just barely still USSR or CCCP depending on your alphabet):
Russian glam rock!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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that's funny drljefe
what they were saying was "if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind"
As I recall the first album I bought with my own money was Paul Butterfield. I did not pick up any incense, oil, or herbs though.
I always wondered why Bloomfield was off to the side with a topcoat. Elvin Bishop did have a nice set of those 'sans-a-belt" slacks.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Yeah, when record stores doubled as bong shops!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nita, the Captain is always worth repeating.
How's this?
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Gary, That's why i deleted. ...It's one of Timid's favorite too...I actually was surprised, you always put up classical tunes on the ~ what are you listening thread...(-:
Cheers!
btw, good pick...lol.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2014 - 01:43am PT
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Great pick Hankster!
Jefe, I had a feeling I was saving Blues For Allah for a reason!
Gary, OMGWTFLOL!!! That is so bad it's good!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Then there was In Through The Out Door, create your own art. It was the inner sleeve actually. It came as a line drawing and if you painted it with water it would activate the colors.
The actual album cover came in 7 different styles and was shipped in a brown paper sleeve as a ploy to get people to buy multiple copies and "collect the whole set". Each variation is one of the persons view.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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the wind blows
so does the art director
paint me
activate my colors
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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food looks good you say?
actually, the photographer was late, about 2 hours late, so that food is really old, the beer was poured to make it look fresh,
why is everybody laughing? Duane ran off the the shoot to go grab a bag of coke from his dealer who was walking by, he has the bag in his hand, note Butchy giving the finger,
what do these two bands have in common? Duane gave Billy G his famous Pearly Gates Les Paul that was used on most of the ZZ albums,
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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And my all-time favorite....
Saw this album in a $.99 clearance bin and bought it solely based on the unfukwitable cover art. Never heard of Yngwie, hate his music, still have the album to this day.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Great to see some of the old classics relevant to my increasingly irrelevant demographic.
The death of vinyl was the death of an art form and we were often as excited about the album cover as the music itself.
It was always nice to have the right cover for rolling the seeds out of the bunk that passed for high grade back then.
Favourites?
Yes; Fragile and Close to the Edge
ELP; Brain Salad Surgery
Zappa; Overnight Sensation
Hendrix; Axis Bold as Love
Santana; Abraxas
Little Feat; Most of them!
RTF; Romantic Warrior
The CTI label often had some tasteful offerings, inside and out; like Billy Cobham's Crosswinds
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