Treads like these are why I lurk around here. Great work everyone!! Very interesting photos and stories!!
Hope this one hasn't been posted yet (I may have missed a few pages on the thread). 3614 Jackson Highway was always the one 60s Cher LP I could never find, it took me years to get a copy (pre-internet) - then when I eventually found it I barely played it at all! Maybe it's time to give it another spin.
yeah, we are starting to repeat ourselves these last 2 days. It may be worth searching the thread first.
I don't know that this is the same wall -- I assume not -- but this (the tiny Extra Place, NYC) is where the cover of the first Ramones album was shot. The building on the other side of the street is relatively new, so it's possible that the wall was there and has since been torn down.
Ah, OK. Based on a photo of the same alley I found from 1978, I'll *guess* then that the building stood on the opposite side of the street at the far end... the '78 picture shows what looks to be a demolished lot there. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p2jgVV2iZ...U/MrfNNQa8gls/s1600-h/extraplace1978+copy.jpg
that is the alley, "Extra Place," that once stood the wall that now contains a new building (think it's a college dorm now). here's another today shot and a vintage shot from the 1934
Oh no , for goodness sake. This thread is now 500+ posts long! how can you expect ANYBODY to take heed of all the posts?.....surely anybodies contributions are welcome? ...Irreguardless if YOU/HIM/ME/HER may have seen it before a few pages back?. Its supposed to be a fun/ irrelevant / nonsense thread?....isn't it? It's what galls me about this forum in particular , the amount of times you get "nerds" (and thats we ALL are) saying to newbies to the forum "OHHH we discussed this 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 years ago (and then inserts the relevant thread link to prove it) ...... or goodness sake , cut out the nerdishness that attracts you to these kind of forums and stop spoiling it for all those that join 5 years after you. Lets All be totally Honest here ...for once........If we were all to be forced to adhere to totally original subjects/topics ...it would close the forum tommorrow ....there would be nothing to talk about? ......nothing of any intrest to anybody YOU/I /US /THEY Did it all last year....ho hum .....boringgggggggggg to us. Just give those that are relativly new to this forum a break once in a while?. Honestly speaking , It seems that if your not part of the "in-crowd" on this forum that seems to anybody on the outside (lurking) that your a dreadfully unfriendly bunch of people. and thats a shame....a shame on you all
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies (back cover!) The traffic divider they stand on in 1971 is gone now, as well as the street sign, but the scene looks pretty much the same.
Yield To No Cyber-Bully Elitest Cliques... +1... er... what he said!!! and did Yield already get covered upthread??? Oh, and other thing, regarding this: "Honestly speaking , It seems that if your not part of the "in-crowd" on this forum that seems to anybody on the outside (lurking) that your a dreadfully unfriendly bunch of people." A terrific example of this is the current REM thread were a few elitest cliquesters dominate the thread and ignore/exclude all others who dare to offer up their own opines and/or to question these fellas' 'superior views' on all things REM... a bad side of this place... However, this thread, and MANY others, are a very good side... cheers,
According to Ethan Russell's Dear Mr. Fantasy (ER shot the Who's Next cover) the concrete pillars were there to prevent the slag heap from shifting about. The Who and ER were driving down the M1? when Townshend turned to ER and asked if he'd seen anything that might make a good album cover and ER said "We'll there was something a few miles back..." (I'm paraphrasing) and that's how the slag heap became the cover of WN.
Wikipedia claims the Yield cover was shot in Billings Montana. Your hill looks nothing like it. In any case, just to throw this whole thing further afield, here's the last known photo of Dean filling up his Porsche 550 in Sherman Oaks CA before leaving for Salinas CA. Just 5 hours before the fateful crash. And here is the same spot today.
Wow. Having a bad day. 1. It's just the interwebs. It's not reality. 2. It's just like anything else if it's so important to you--you gotta FIGHT your way in.
Theory Crashes and Burns... Quote: Originally Posted by mrbillswildride "I have a theory that this cover shot is looking east from the site of James Dean's deadly car crash, which occured about 20 miles east of here." Wikipedia claims the Yield cover was shot in Billings Montana. Your hill looks nothing like it. Thank you for the clarification. I stand corrected, with the exception to the rule that you can-not believe everything you see printed on the cyber-bible wikipedia--bane of most serious scholars... I have to disagree that the hills look different, like I said, if you go round that bend up the road a spell from the third pix--inside the car window, it looks just like that hill "exactly..." But, mystery solved...theory DOA... And I have just gone though all 27 pages of this thread, and must reagree once more, one the best SHTV threads ever... with proper acknowledgements to the OP and others who tried to start similar threads..."when the teacher is ready the students will arrive..." Also a follow-up to some topics on pages 7 and 14 I believe, maybe not in this order. Neil Young's On The Beach cover is reportedly, Zuma Beach, which would make sense as his next album was entitled Zuma and he had a place nearby, once... this according to fellow forum member drewslo... ex-Malabuian... Also, a member requested ( POST #267) quite a few album covers for future sleuths to uncover, and one of them was the first two Travis albums. Their second, The Invisible Band, my fave, was shot, IIRC, in the trees of Santa Cruz, Central California. Again, correct me if I am wrong. And, regarding post #133, that cover pix (of Unhalfbricking) was reported shot of Sandy's Denny's parent's (that's them in front of the gate) house garden gate area, in Wimbleton... Finally, supercontributer fuzzyramone, how on earth did you find the Madcap's room and get into it, or is that super-sleuthy top-secret cosmic-stuff... cheers, PS: Anyone notice anything odd in that B&W JD crash photo...
