See If You Can Spot This One

[Burro (He/Haw)]

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[MrPeabody]

What do you mean spot it? If you mean identify it, it's Led Zeppelin.

That's a nice sounding acoustic. What is it?

[Burro (He/Haw)]

What do you mean spot it? If you mean identify it, it's Led Zeppelin.

That's a nice sounding acoustic. What is it?

It's a Martin. WHAT SONG?!?!?!?!?:D

[MrPeabody]

The rain Song. Cut two on side one of Houses Of The Holy. I bought that album the day it hit the stores and still have it and listen to it.

I should have guessed it was a Martin, but I couldn't see the shape of the machine head. Very sweet sound. Even strumming, you can hear the sound of the individual notes.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

I didn't wanna play the entire song, it would have been too easy. :D

I should have guessed it was a Martin
I friend of mine has a big buck Taylor. GREAT sounding guitar, but a tab bright for my ears.

[MrPeabody]

Controversial album cover, would be even more so today. Banned in some parts of the country, covered over elsewhere.

Houses of the Holy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Burro (He/Haw)]

The cover for III was always my favorite. Then Physical Grafitti.

[MrPeabody]

The cover for III was always my favorite. Then Physical Grafitti.

Yep, covers with moving parts you could get stoned and play with. Just try rolling a joint on you iPod.:lol:

I have the first six Zep covers framed and hanging on my wall. They are all period originals and were bought within days of release.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

They are all period originals and were bought within days of release
Wow! :cert: Graffiti was my first "New" Zeppelin record. Hell, I was 7 when the first record was released. :D

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Controversial album cover, would be even more so today. Banned in some parts of the country, covered over elsewhere.

Houses of the Holy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_the_Holy)

Interesting.

Album sleeve design

The cover art for Houses of the Holy was inspired by the ending of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End. (The ending involves several hundred million naked children, only slightly and physically resembling the human race in basic forms.) It is a collage of several photographs which were taken at the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland, by Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis. This location was chosen ahead of an alternative one in Peru which was being considered.

The two children who modelled for the cover were siblings Stefan and Samanatha Gates. The photoshoot was a frustrating affair over the course of ten days. Shooting was done first thing in the morning and at sunset in order to capture the light at dawn and dusk, but the desired effect was never achieved due to constant rain and clouds. The photos of the two children were taken in black and white and were multi-printed to create the effect of 11 individuals that can be seen on the album cover. The results of the shoot were less than satisfactory, but some accidental tinting effects in post-production created an unexpectedly striking album cover. The inner sleeve photograph was taken at Dunluce Castle near to the Causeway.

In February 2010 Stefan Gates presented a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary entitled Stefan Gates's Cover Story, about his part in the making of the album cover. Gates claimed in the documentary to have felt there was something sinister about the image, although his sister disagreed. He also admitted never having heard the album. The programme ended with Gates returning to Giant's Causeway and listening to the album on a portable player, after which he claimed that a great weight had been lifted from him.

Like Led Zeppelin's fourth album, neither the band's name nor the album title was printed on the sleeve. However, manager Peter Grant did allow Atlantic Records to add a wrap-around paper title band to US and UK copies of the sleeve that had to be broken or slid off to access the record. This hid the children's buttocks from general display, but still the album was either banned or unavailable in some parts of the Southern United States for several years.


Houses of the Holy inner gatefold

The first CD release of the album in the 1980s did have the title logos printed on the cover itself. In 1974, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package. The cover was rated No. 6 on VH1's 50 Greatest Album Covers in 2003.

Jimmy Page has stated that the album cover was the second version submitted by Hipgnosis. The first, by artist Storm Thorgerson, featured an electric green tennis court with a tennis racquet on it. Furious that Thorgerson was implying their music sounded like a "racket", the band fired him and hired Powell in his place. Thorgerson did, however, go on to produce the album artwork for Led Zeppelin's subsequent albums Presence and In Through the Out Door.

[simpleman68]

I didn't wanna play the entire song, it would have been too easy. :D


I friend of mine has a big buck Taylor. GREAT sounding guitar, but a tab bright for my ears.

Very nice tone on that model. Martin makes some incredible guitars. Plant/museum is 5 miles from my house.
Scott

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/simpleman68/Martin%20Factory/089.jpg

More pics here:
Martin Factory pictures by simpleman68 - Photobucket

[Yerf Dog]

Plant/museum is 5 miles from my house.
Scott

Ever go dumpster diving?

:D

[simpleman68]

Ever go dumpster diving?

:D

No, but I don't remember seeing any dumpsters on the lot.
It's not a huge place.
Would be a score to find anything usable floating around in the discard pile.
Scott