Whenever hip-hop started to take itself too seriously, ODB was there to disrupt, agitate, and give the middle finger to convention. Listen here: 97: Ol’ Dirty Bastard: Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (design by Alli Truch, photo by Danny Clinch) Put the notorious bathroom cover together with the engraved invitation on the US replacement, and you’ve got the yin and the yang of The Rolling Stones at the time. Listen here: 98: The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (design by Barry Feinstein)īeggars Banquet is a rare case where an album’s two famous covers really complement each other. The red velvet cover, with gold embossed lettering, served notice that Odessa was going to be unique and beautiful, which it was. If The Beatles could do a double “ White Album,” the Bee Gees could do a fuzzy red one. On their 1969 debut, the cavorting characters were there to remind you how much fun rock’n’roll was supposed to be.
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Davies was known to play some offbeat models including the Fender Coronado and Gibson L6-S.Bandleader Cyril Jordan’s terrific comic art has turned up on numerous The Flamin’ Groovies covers and posters over the decades. The guitar on the cover is a Guild Starfire III with humbucker pickups (the first generatoin featured single-coil DeArmonds) which belonged to Dave Davies. The Kink's third album, The Kink Kontroversy, was something of a transition from the band's earlier British Invasion sound to the more sophisticated style heard on such releases as Face to Face and the The Village Green Preservation Society. Guitar was actually gift from none other than George Harrison and canīe seen in images of Dylan playing at the 1969 Isle of Wightįestival. That in this era, Bob relied on that most country of flattops, theĬommanding Gibson SJ-200 super jumbo. New vocal style and country-tinged set of songs. Released in 1969, Nashville Skyline saw Bob Dylan explore a Legacy that Gibson actually released a reissue of it last year. For these recordings, Zappa deployed a modified '60s SG The work is taken from a fewĭifferent recorded live performances with some overdubs thrown on topĪll of which display Frank's unbridled virtuosity and innovation in Roxy & Elsewhere is often cited by Zappa-heads as perhaps Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Multiple compilations and greatest hits releases. Same guitar shows up on the cover of 1992's Human Touch and Guitar, and like many vintage Fenders, the exact date is unknown. Many have speculated as to the true origins of this iconic '50s Fender Esquire modified with an extra pickup at Closer inspection reveals that the guitar is actually a The Boss' mainstay axe seen on the cover his breakout 1975 albumīorn to Run looks on first glance like a run of the mill This national can be heard on most of the band's albums, Brothers While not the only resonator Knopfler owned, Resonator seen in all its shiny glory on the cover of 1985'sīrothers in Arms. Perhaps the most iconic guitar when itĬomes to Dire Straits, however, is the 1937 Style 0 National
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Mark Knopfler is associated with many guitars including Gibsons,įenders, Schecters and Suhrs. This Strat was bought new by Jimi in October of '68Īnd would be played through the rest of his career as one of his go-to Stratocaster featuring the enlarged CBS-era headstock and This particular Strat, however, is a 1968 Black Fender Playing Strat on the cover of the live album, Band of Gypsys. There's not a whole lot of mystery to the fact that Jimi Hendrix is Particular Rick currently resides in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Rickenbacker solidbodies, and like the smashed Clash bass, this Torpedoes cover helped spark a renewed interest in The 1963 360-12 prototype Rickenbacker gave to George Harrison.
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Remarkable is that this guitar is one single serial number away from It was actually a prototype model that Heartbreaker Mike Campbell cameĪcross while combing through the local classified ads.
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What's notable about this specific instrument is that Torpedoes from 1979, Tom holds a 12-string RickenbackerĦ25-12. On the cover Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' landmark Damn the Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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The tatters of this very bass currently hang on the wall of Smashing the bass which he cites as one of the best sounding basses heĮver played. Since this photo was taken, Paul has expressed regret at Of Elvis comes London Calling, featuring an iconic image of Clashīassist Paul Simonon destroying a White Fender Precisionīass. In stark contrast (and clear homage) to the rock 'n roll exuberance By 1956, however, ElvisĬhanged to a jumbo Gibson J-200 as his primary guitar. Playing as his main instrument in mid 1955. In his hands is a Martinĭ-28 wrapped in a custom leather cover which Elvis began May as well be a picture of The King heralding the arrival of rock 'n The famous picture of Elvis singing on the cover of his debut album