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Post by kds on Mar 22, 2020 21:43:41 GMT
Not bad. The dark background makes the striped shirts really pop.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 24, 2020 16:53:03 GMT
This is the original Beach Boys Concert album with the gatefold and photos inside:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 24, 2020 17:36:39 GMT
SJS, it doesn't appear that the pictures uploaded. Thanks for the heads up; I fixed it.
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bellbottoms
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Post by bellbottoms on Mar 24, 2020 19:27:45 GMT
You know... I know the name of our forum is The Beach Boys Today!... but our colour scheme currently very closely matches that of the Concert album cover. And we all seem to like it, more or less...
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Post by lonelysummer on Mar 27, 2020 5:55:01 GMT
I think a lot of the criticisms you guys are making should be directed at Capitol's art department. Look at the covers they designed for their Beatles albums. I can't think of any Beatles album with a color back cover except Help!; Pepper changed all that, of course. And you just have to love the hype under the album titles. "The sensational new album by England's Fab Four!" 'The first album by England's phenomenal pop combo!" Imagine if the same art department had been responsible for packaging Pepper or the white album. "Here it is kids, the long awaited new album by John, Paul, George and Ringo - 30 new songs guaranteed to keep you on the dance floor!" lol
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 27, 2020 17:04:38 GMT
I think a lot of the criticisms you guys are making should be directed at Capitol's art department. Look at the covers they designed for their Beatles albums. I can't think of any Beatles album with a color back cover except Help!; Pepper changed all that, of course. And you just have to love the hype under the album titles. "The sensational new album by England's Fab Four!" 'The first album by England's phenomenal pop combo!" Imagine if the same art department had been responsible for packaging Pepper or the white album. "Here it is kids, the long awaited new album by John, Paul, George and Ringo - 30 new songs guaranteed to keep you on the dance floor!" lol Oh, I absolutely blame Capitol Records' art department. But it only starts there. Before the final artwork is submitted to the group, somebody at Capitol should've also been screening it and offering opinions. And then, finally, I would've hoped the group had some say in the final decision; now, how much is open for debate. This is just an opinion, pure speculation, but I don't think the band paid much attention to their album covers or else just went along with it.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 27, 2020 17:19:10 GMT
Probably safe to say that nobody involved ever considered for a second that 50-60 years later, people would care in the slightest. (Hell, 5-10 years later...)
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Post by kds on Mar 30, 2020 13:23:10 GMT
Probably safe to say that nobody involved ever considered for a second that 50-60 years later, people would care in the slightest. (Hell, 5-10 years later...) Same likely goes for some of the filler on those albums.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 30, 2020 13:35:36 GMT
Probably safe to say that nobody involved ever considered for a second that 50-60 years later, people would care in the slightest. (Hell, 5-10 years later...) Same likely goes for some of the filler on those albums. Absolutely. Just the whole industry, I don't think anyone would have thought that silly ol' pop culture, this stuff that distracts the kids for a few months here and there, would actually matter to anyone in the grand scheme of things, make multimillionaires, change generations. I'm sure almost everyone figured it was disposable and not worth that much thought at the time.
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Post by kds on Mar 30, 2020 13:41:40 GMT
Same likely goes for some of the filler on those albums. Absolutely. Just the whole industry, I don't think anyone would have thought that silly ol' pop culture, this stuff that distracts the kids for a few months here and there, would actually matter to anyone in the grand scheme of things, make multimillionaires, change generations. I'm sure almost everyone figured it was disposable and not worth that much thought at the time. Including Murry Wilson
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 30, 2020 13:48:12 GMT
Absolutely. Just the whole industry, I don't think anyone would have thought that silly ol' pop culture, this stuff that distracts the kids for a few months here and there, would actually matter to anyone in the grand scheme of things, make multimillionaires, change generations. I'm sure almost everyone figured it was disposable and not worth that much thought at the time. Including Murry Wilson Probably especially Murry Wilson (and his ilk)! To older people, I'm sure it was all considered the dumbest little fad ever. Chance to make a quick buck, sure, but that's it. (How seriously do I take people who make TikTok dance videos? Not very...but for all I know, if 50 years there will be people debating who revolutionized the medium!)
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Post by kds on Mar 30, 2020 13:57:18 GMT
Probably especially Murry Wilson (and his ilk)! To older people, I'm sure it was all considered the dumbest little fad ever. Chance to make a quick buck, sure, but that's it. (How seriously do I take people who make TikTok dance videos? Not very...but for all I know, if 50 years there will be people debating who revolutionized the medium!) That's a chilling thought, that the pop culture of 2020 might still be discussed in half a century. But, I'm sure there were people by age in 1970 who thought that about The Beatles.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 30, 2020 15:18:46 GMT
Same likely goes for some of the filler on those albums. Absolutely. Just the whole industry, I don't think anyone would have thought that silly ol' pop culture, this stuff that distracts the kids for a few months here and there, would actually matter to anyone in the grand scheme of things, make multimillionaires, change generations. I'm sure almost everyone figured it was disposable and not worth that much thought at the time. I agree, but it wasn't THAT far away, maybe just another year or two before things changed. With the huge success of The Beatles, by 1965, maybe 1966, the record companies started to think, "hey we might be on to something here", and this "music for kids to waste their time listening to" was given much more attention and...money. I don't want to exaggerate but things started to explode and there was no turning back.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 30, 2020 15:21:03 GMT
For sure. But I think even then it was an ongoing series of explosions that (before each) people wouldn't have considered. For example, they were still throwing away aging multitracks, never considering that these things would have historical value or long-term commercial value. Yes, they knew that in the here and now, these things were big and could earn a ton of money. They invested in them. The business became more serious.
But they weren't thinking there would be college courses on Bob Dylan, on the Beatles, on the rise of rap. Or 50-year anniversary box sets with session outtakes. Or people devoted to cataloguing every little recorded burp and fart of artists.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 30, 2020 16:01:44 GMT
But they weren't thinking there would be college courses on Bob Dylan, on the Beatles, on the rise of rap. Or 50-year anniversary box sets with session outtakes. Or people devoted to cataloguing every little recorded burp and fart of artists.
No, not for the "kids' music". But, to some extent the music industry did treat some of its older artists' recordings with care and historical significance. I'm thinking of Frank Sinatra and other artists from that era, the late 1940s and 1950s. I had a friend who was a serious Sinatra collector, and he played me some outtakes from several late 1950's Capitol recording sessions that were incredible. So, somebody had the foresight to save and catalogue those recordings. Maybe it wasn't the kind of foresight thinking that those recordings would be studied, revered, and collected 50 years down the road, which was your point.
Come to think of it, many of the early Beach Boys' sessions were also preserved. I'm thinking of that Sea Of Tunes series which was excellent, and now those recordings are being officially released with the 50th year copyright preservation packages.
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