Saturday, June 20, 2015

SPIRIT "FEEDBACK"

Artist: Spirit
Album: Feedback
Label: Epic
Catalog: KE 31175
Year: 1972
genre: rock
grading: VG+ cover / VG+ LP
Quantity: 1
Photographer: Don Peterson
Designer:  Spirit and Virginia Team
Grade: **** stars


There's something unique and disquieting in Don Peterson's pixilated photo of the band.   It's like something out of one of those '80s B horror flicks - the spooks are coming through the TV to grab your soul.  Anyhow, the cover was actually far better than the album itself.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

MASON PROFFIT "WANTED"


Artist: Mason Proffit
Album: Mason Proffit "Wanted"
Label: Happy Tiger
Catalog: HT 1009
Year: 1969
Genre: country-rock
Grading: VG+ cover / VG+ LP
Quantity: 1
Photographer: Peter Woulf
Designer:  See/Hear1 and Now!
Grade: **** stars


I must have owned this album a decade before the grisly back panel made an impact.  I'm sure I'd actually seen the image, but for some odd reason the sight of two men hanging from an old tree just never registered with me.   Truly disturbing - though the album itself is a classic, if virtually unknown country-rock release.