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Originally posted by geodeticman:
Misty -
Thats a good point I think about Gord's albums always having pictures of him. Now I'm thinking about other music I like, and sure enough - lotd of favourite albums come to mind,
without the musician's picture.
IWhat if a cover showed a Rennaissance-era theme; just an imaginary setting like you'd see at a festival ?
Sort of Arthurian, A little Quixotic, Maybe even a picture of a Castle in the background, or drawn artwork of same ? Maidens with those "cone-hats" ! Cone heads in Troubador-land !
geo Steve
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well now you come to mention it there is to my knowledge a singular case of a Lightfoot album being released that does not have a photograph of Gordon on the front cover but instead has one of Geo Steve's imaginary settings.
No not the (name only) Did she Mention My Name United Artists album
the one I am thinking of has a presumably masculine figure on it but whether it is of Gord and more importantly if he would have approved of using it is anyone's guess'
I refer to the 1977 release On the Trade Sevices Label of the switchboard recording of his appearance at the 1976 Montreux Switzerland Jazz Festival on june 26th that year
Front Cover
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it's magic folks!!
(all except the last one below which in its original address at:-
http://artwork.easytree.org/artwork/...nd_booklet.jpg
is a whopping 2835 by 1416 pixels and is nearly 2MB.so I resized it to 800 wide then uploaded the far smaller jpg to imageshack
Back Cover
I have never seen the full sized vinyl album cover (if it were ever issued as an LP or just, as here, a modern day CD
NOTE that the back cover contains three glaring errors
1. the year should have been 1976 not 1977
2. track 8 was Don Quixote not Cobwebs And Dust
3. track 11 is not the GL "Jazz Band" performing "Garden rag" but is actually "The Auctioneer"!!
ALSO
NOTE that there used to be an official page on line now only viewable on the Internet archive see:-
http://web.archive.org/web/200107271...e/1976/337.htm
pity they mispelt the number two singers surname**!!
I have read various criticisms of the that front cover's unnecesarily garish design a candidate for the worst ever album cover art for any artist in my book and at least one person obviously objected to it enough to make his own that I recently found:-
**In passing I was reading in either a recently showing corfid topic or was it a Newsgroup thread? various comments about the one time "backing singer"'s "effectiveness"
but nowhere hitherto had I read such a negative comment as this made by berinaidan at 2006-07-12 23:55:43 GMT
as one of 14 comments appended to the current "torrent" listing.
NOTE If anyone wishes to see the original or has no idea what a torrent is please PM me for details and a link or search here for "torrent" because one old posting told all about bit torrent.
Here is what berinaidan had the temerity to say
"Great sound. I really wish there was a way to bury the vocals of that annoying backup vocalist, though!"
John Fowles
Please
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[ July 18, 2006, 14:30: Message edited by: johnfowles ]