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Ivor wrote:

cybot wrote: Wonder how many of the original four are still alive? Have a funny feeling only one of them is still standing :-(

Only Tommy Ramone. He's playing country, bluegrass and ol' timey stuff now. I saw him upstairs in Whelan's a while back. Interesting if a little calculating.
He's changed a bit.

Thanks for clearing that up Ivor.....and me thinking you finally thought of a stupendous image for an Lp sleeve ;-) Not to worry these'll do ....for now ;-)

Love this image on the vinyl only Taiga label.....last time I looked it was up for a design award.

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Bis Band and More Smiles, guess who's smiling:



Done Ellis Orchestra, Electic Bath, the music is super too:

Great stuff Sean :-) More please....

What could I possibly say about these images from Nick. The green and blue says it all.....despite the fact that the photographer Keith Morris hated the final design especially the green frame used for FLL!!

I must say that I much prefer the second image.

cybot wrote:What could I possibly say about these images from Nick. The green and blue says it all.....despite the fact that the photographer Keith Morris hated the final design especially the green frame used for FLL!!

Good ones Dermot! That Five Leaves Left is a a bit like Ummagumma at first glance, don't you think?

JAW wrote:

cybot wrote:What could I possibly say about these images from Nick. The green and blue says it all.....despite the fact that the photographer Keith Morris hated the final design especially the green frame used for FLL!!

Good ones Dermot! That Five Leaves Left is a a bit like Ummagumma at first glance, don't you think?

Never thought of that Johnny :-) BTW I've never actually found out what UMMAGUMMA actually means!?!? It doesn't have to mean anything, I'm just saying....

cybot wrote:.... BTW I've never actually found out what UMMAGUMMA actually means!?!? It doesn't have to mean anything, I'm just saying....

I would be too coy to tell you but I will merely direct you here!!!

fergus wrote:I must say that I much prefer the second image.

Food for thought:

From Nick Drake.com

I've just finished reading Trevor Dann's 'Darker than the Deepest Sea' and each of the Nick Drake album covers comes in for a large dollop of criticism, mainly from Keith Morris, the photographer.

Morris says of the cover for Bryter Layter, with Nick posed in a Georgian stick back chair behind a pair of suede brothel creepers; "the whole thing says loser".

Dann says; "Nick's portrait is set in a deep pink oval and surrounded by the most lurid violet of the sort used by cheap compilation albums. It was quite out of character with the music contained and must rank as one of the least appropraite sleeve designs in rock and pop history."

Again, Morris's shots were not used for 'Pink Moon' Island opting for a 'Dali-esque painting by Gabrielle Drake's friend Michael Trevithick.

Special venom is saved for the artwork for 'Five Leaves Left'. 'it's shite' says Morris, 'What was the point of cropping the running man and putting the derelict house shot in a livid green frame.' He blames Witchseason's in-house designer Danny Halpern, a Canadian in his mid 50-s who was, in Keith Morris's words, 'a bit jazz age'.

I've never particularly been bothered by album covers before, concentarting on what was inside the cover. But Drakes covers seem so out of tune with his music that you do have to question the management of the artist.