Album covers done by musicians for their own albums

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  1. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    Here it is:
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    cover by Cat Stevens
     
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  2. Capt. Cadillac

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    And Greetings from the West, too.
     
  3. mschrist

    mschrist Forum Resident

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    I didn't know that! Those are fantastic covers, too--hope you don't mind if I post:

    Baroness, "Red"
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    Baroness, "Blue"
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    Baroness, "Yellow"
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  4. Zongadude

    Zongadude Music is the best

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    Album covers done by musicians for their own albums: as in many examples above, sometimes it's great.
    But sometimes it looks like it's been done by a three years old discovering Microsoft Paint :
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  5. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    Here's one (although I think I much prefer RON Wood!):
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    cover by Roy Wood
     
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  6. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    Here's a couple of more obscure examples I spotted at Amoeba the other day:

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    cover by Mark Bieber

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    cover by Michael Ryan Reinhart
     
  7. kinkling

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    Band of Skulls' Emma Richardson:
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  8. ReggieNJ

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    The train on this single was drawn by Syd Barrett.

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  9. Nick Seymour of Crowded House did a few of their covers (and stage outfits and set designs)
     
  10. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    Forgot about this one, or else I would have posted it sooner!
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    cover by Ron Wood
     
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  11. cboldman

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    Producer/writer/musician Mark Hudson did this cover illustration.
     
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  12. groundharp

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    Funny how similar this cover is to the one by RON Wood for John Baldry's Everything Stops For Tea (which doesn't qualify for the thread as Ron Wood does not play on the album).
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    cover by Roy Wood
     
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  13. 24voltsdc

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    That's a good one!
     
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  14. October Man

    October Man Extraordinary tunes from the hard drive

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    All of Sniff 'N' The Tears albums were painted by singer Paul Roberts.
     
  15. JRM

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    Cover art by Jerry Garcia
     
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  16. The Mothers' "Fillmore East, June 1971" was done by Frank Zappa, although designed by Cal Schenkel (FZ wrote on the back cover: "He made me do it")...

    (...Hope someone will post a picture for me! I am challenged with finding a good picture source with an URL address!)
     
  17. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    Good one, ParloFax! Here it is:
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    cover by Frank Zappa

    Don't forget that John Lennon took Zappa's cover and made his own version for his own Fillmore East disc.
     
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  18. cboldman

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    Here's the John and Yoko version:

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  19. Splendid! Thanks!

    ...Wait a minute. It's pretty hard to believe, but out of the millions of repros of this cover which pop up with Google Images, you picked exactly the one I had put in my "My images" folder and which I initially wanted to post for this thread (before realizing it didn't have a URL address)!!

    The German pressing... Scary!!
     
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  20. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    As far as picking the same cover image you had selected, well, it was a good size so that made it the choice for me. I always try to avoid images which are too small or too large, although sometimes I don't have that option.
     
  21. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

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    4 pages on, and no mention of Robyn Hitchcock?!?
    I think almost all his catalog (along with the Egyptians, too) has his artwork, drawings, scribbles, penmanship, etc...
    And if the photos are not all his, I'm sure the concept has been filter through his idiosyncratic synapse system.
     
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  22. JoeF.

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    I believe the cover for Jimi Hendrix, Valleys of Neptune was based on a (watercolor?) picture he did as a teenager....
     
  23. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger Thread Starter

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    No, Laibach already posted a couple of Robyn Hitchcock album covers on the third page of this thread.
     
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  24. groundharp

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    Here's another one:
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    cover by Cat Stevens
     
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