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Title: Album covers as art
Post by: Wardsweb on July 23, 2010, 06:14:38 PM

I've framed album covers before and hung them, but this Steely Dan Aja on canvas is more like real art.

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Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Grainger49 on July 24, 2010, 02:27:31 AM

Very nice!  It looks to be a bit bigger than 12" X 12".  For some reason I have a framed The Doors' Morrison Hotel in our guest bedroom.

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Wardsweb on July 24, 2010, 02:56:40 AM

Quote from: Grainger49 on July 24, 2010, 02:27:31 AM

Very nice!  It looks to be a bit bigger than 12" X 12".  For some reason I have a framed Doors' Morrison Hotel in our guest bedroom.

Yes, it is closer to 24" x 24". By the way, the little turntable is actually a radio. Press the silver botton on the front and the lids opens. Move the tone arm and it turn on. Move the platter to find your station. I just had to have it.

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Grainger49 on July 24, 2010, 04:33:34 AM

I completely missed it.  Maybe because of the size, maybe because of my eyes.  Very Cool !

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Jim R. on July 25, 2010, 06:37:19 AM

Luther,

Nice find! sounds very cool.  One of my desert island discs for sure.  I wish HDtracks or somebody would come out with a hi-res version of the remastered vinyl.  I had the 180g vinyl that Fagan and Becker remixed they way they originally wanted it (i.e. not for fm play), but sold it with the rest of my collection.

-- Jim

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Maxwell_E on July 25, 2010, 08:06:49 AM

One of my favorite posters is just the song list/lyrics sheet from a copy of The Allman Brothers "Eat A Peach". The inside of the jacket on the same album is a little too crazy for the rest of my room.

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Grainger49 on July 26, 2010, 02:27:57 AM

Quote from: Maxwell_E on July 25, 2010, 08:06:49 AM

One of my favorite posters is just the song list/lyrics sheet from a copy of The Allman Brothers "Eat A Peach". The inside of the jacket on the same album is a little too crazy for the rest of my room.

I got to see them first in 1969 as the "Warm-up Group" for Santana.  This was after Santana's first LP and just before Abraxis.  I was a fan of both, still am.  Well, I am a fan of early Santana.  but I'm an old fart.

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Maxwell_E on July 26, 2010, 04:10:06 AM

Haha, you and my dad would get along. He was living in Atlanta after getting out of the Navy and talks about their free shows in the park on Sundays.

Title: Re: Album covers as art
Post by: Grainger49 on July 26, 2010, 05:46:34 AM

Yes, Piedmont Park.  The concert I saw was in the Atlanta City Auditorium, called the Concrete Castle.  It wasn't a bad hall acoustically.  Your father and I would share a number of memories.