What album is John Lennon carrying as he walks into Abbey Road studios for the Sgt Pepper sessions?

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http://www.microknee.com/images/john1.jpg

http://www.microknee.com/images/john2.jpg

http://www.microknee.com/images/john3.jpg

http://www.microknee.com/images/john4.jpg

― thing of thing, Friday, 30 April 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam Ant, The Basement Tapes

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

heh!

Seriously though, it was this:

http://www.freewebs.com/marimari/withframe/html/sddiscography/tintin/hawks.gif

WORDS OF HOPE by The Hawks

― daz ad, Friday, 30 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e275/e27533uhg2o.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks like "Between the Buttons", the Rolling Stones.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(That Hawks single was a highlight of a "50 new wave singles and 10 albums for £20" job lot I bought. The other was the beasties first single, I sold on for £30)

Hmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I can only see a guy in a Santa Claus hat playing a guitarron=must be an Os Mutantes bootleg.

― J (Jay), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'That Hawks single was a highlight of a "50 new wave singles and 10 albums for £20" job lot I bought.' Good deal, mark - I just bought that single for 35 quid, and I thought I'd done well, having recently seen the same sell for 80 odd on ebay. My suspicion is that a Hawks band member may have emptied his shed recently, as there does seem to be more floating around than there ever has been.

― daz ad, Friday, 30 April 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost to J.: those must be some good drugs you're smokin'.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

3xpost

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Unfortunately it's just my normal instability (you do realize I was kidding about the OS Mutantes part, right?).

― J (Jay), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

daz ad. Good Grief, I never knew. I knew they used to be the subterranean Hawks, and were various exDuranDuran bods (Steven Duffy, Kurwain?) off one of those (what a nice way to turn seventeen) various oddbods LPs.

I oddly enough knew the song when I played the single. (Why? was it a small hit, or was it covered by tintin?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

gimme some o' those drugs, J.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Stephen Duffy talks quite movingly about his early days here: http://www.stephenduffy.com/bio/80s.html

And old pictures of the five Hawks members (including Stevie Duffy, as he was known then) can be found here http://www.davekusworth.com/gallery.php

http://www.davekusworth.com/images/gallery/hawks/images/3.jpg

http://www.davekusworth.com/images/gallery/hawks/images/4.jpg

Looks like Ron Sexsmith was in the band, too?

Incidentally, that single is going for 50 or 60 pounds (didn't convert from dollars) on Gemm.com

― daz ad, Friday, 30 April 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to know where John Lennon got the Zip Drive.

― earlnash, Friday, 30 April 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, that cover is so TOTALLY Stevie Nicks dancing next to Rick Nielsen playing a mandocello! Thus, I have absolutely no clue what it is! But apparently, he has an 8-Track of it as well.

― J (Jay), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I'm actually starting to think that it's the back cover of a PETER, PAUL & MARY ALBUM!

― J (Jay), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone's t'inking that maybe Philip K. Dick could have given John a copy of Kurt Nilsen's I ... see http://www.unsogno.net/177

― Snickers, Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://stefanogemelli.com/gully/immagini/rutles/001.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

did anyone ever identify this?

http://www.unsogno.net/177/john2.jpg

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

http://static.last.fm/coverart/300x300/153084.jpg

― and what (ooo), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Looks more like this:
http://shop.bbarak.cz/images/wares/pic_small_1982.jpg

― max (maxreax), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

is it this?

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/battleofthebands.jpg

― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 11:08 (sixteen years ago)

That's from '68, I believe

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 14:15 (sixteen years ago)

Remarkably prescient, then.

― Mit der Kattzheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

The excellent Kenwood blog considers this very question today:

the 1966 Electronic Music album

― Bob Six, Friday, 9 July 2010 21:05 (fifteen years ago)

Computer, enhace image!

― strong boy burger (KMS), Friday, 9 July 2010 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

(reposting original photos from beginning of thread)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/john1.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/john2bigger.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/john3.jpg

― Bob Six, Saturday, 10 July 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

this is gonna drive me nuts - there's text right there at the middle of the picture but I can't make it out

― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

It looks like he went forward in time two years (assuming this pic was taken circa 1967 judging by hairstyle and 'stache) and came back with the Stooges' first album. There is no way this picture is from 1969.

― strong boy burger (KMS), Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:38 (fifteen years ago)

is it an album for sure?
it might be a picture

― Zeno, Saturday, 10 July 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)

OTM.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/john1.jpg

that is not a 12" album cover.

― StanM, Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

do you mean it dreams it is a picture or it's excellent at being a picture

― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe a magazine?

― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

Who is this guy and why should I care...?

― Hank Kingsley, Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

original, rotated 90°, upside-down, rotated 270°

http://i29.tinypic.com/53jtye.png

― StanM, Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

I bet it's sheet music.

― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 July 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)

just ask the guy

― Zeno, Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

Looks like a picture of railroad tracks with something casting a shadow on them.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)

picture yourself...

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

total nerd in that picture.

― scott seward, Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

shape on the left looks like George Harrison, maybe? middle shape looks like a naked woman (well, maybe that's just wishful thinking).

― Euler, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

I don't think anyone's naked. It looks like an African-American singing group of mixed genders. Like the Fifth Dimension or someone.

― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

...against a new york style fire escape maybe

― Bob Six, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

what do you guys make of this?

http://holisticgender.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/rorschach.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

12 vaginas

― StanM, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

Paul is dead?

― Euler, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.turnmeondeadman.com/IBP/IBPX/Skull.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

crop out the S in that picture and you've got the cover of my new album.

― scott seward, Saturday, 10 July 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

http://i29.tinypic.com/53jtye.png person left-hand in the image second from left looks like Lol Creme
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/lk/f/a/852f96fe3f55e921d0d643400bf5c1f9/2787457.jpg

― piscesx, Saturday, 10 July 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

to me it looks like a press photo of some girl group along the lines of Martha & the Vandellas, the Ronettes, the Supremes, the Crystals, or the Marvelettes.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/349/supremes001.jpg
(Supremes, dunno what year)

actually the more I look at StanM's 90° rotated shot, I think I see (left-right) a man in a light-colored suit facing left and a woman w/ bouffant haircut and dress facing the camera. so kingkong otm: it looks like an African-American singing group of mixed genders. the haircut isn't very Fifth Dimension-y, though.

I dunno if this question will ever gets answered to anyone's satisfaction, but it's it's an entertaining study of pareidolia at the very least.

― if you see her, say ayo (unregistered), Saturday, 10 July 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

Has anyone heard this?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5M-hcl4At-c/TDc2gtBydbI/AAAAAAAADF8/oSuVvGbrMAE/s1600/e1.jpg

― Darin, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:05 (fifteen years ago)

Thank God these Lennon pics weren't taken recently, otherwise he might've end up on LATFH.com

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/john1.jpg

― strong boy burger (KMS), Monday, 12 July 2010 05:11 (fifteen years ago)

BTW, thanks for linking that site upthread, Bob Six - some amazing photography I've never seen before.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5M-hcl4At-c/SzNJl0mxHaI/AAAAAAAACuo/aSzcOTbLqqQ/s1600-h/rolley+001.jpg

― Darin, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5M-hcl4At-c/SzNJl0mxHaI/AAAAAAAACuo/aSzcOTbLqqQ/s1600-h/rolley+001.jpg

― Darin, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

Damn it! Well, anyway, cool stuff....

― Darin, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:15 (fifteen years ago)

'electronic music' comp mostly worth it for the early Mimaroglu tracks. sole sound source of 'Bowery Bum' is one short recording of him plucking a rubber band, splicing it into a loop & tape-scrubbing it into tunes, sounds like early turntablism. it's a dry comp but I swoon on all this stuff anyway and hearing early pre-Moog Walter/Wendy pieces is fun if you love her later original music

http://antigravitybunny.blogspot.com/2009/05/andres-lewin-richter-ilhan-mimaroglu.html

― Milton Parker, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:41 (fifteen years ago)

Awesome - thanks!

― Darin, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:49 (fifteen years ago)

Oh SWEET!!!

― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 July 2010 06:08 (fifteen years ago)

yah what milton said esp re: mimaroglu.

― Pants Perdu (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 12 July 2010 06:40 (fifteen years ago)

Where is the LOVE for Ilhan Mimaroglu

― Milton Parker, Monday, 12 July 2010 07:21 (fifteen years ago)

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