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[Fritz The Cat]

Whät is the problem with this cälf? At least pärtly it has än änätomicäl äbnormälity. It älso doesn't speak underständingly...

[Kay Pirinha]

'France's answer to Barclay James Havest.'

See the Can't Stand thread !

Best regards!

[bedrock602]

[Fritz The Cat]

RIP
"Invitation to the Blues" B3

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Patterns
(1960, United Artists) MONO

[SpeakerLabFan]

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
(1973, ABC Dunhill)

[SpeakerLabFan]

Stan Getz - The Greatest Of Stan Getz
(1963, Royal Roost) MONO

[SEAWOLF97]

A very interesting concept from the master sleeve designers, Hipgnosis. The sleeve "proper" features a man in a bar burning a "Dear John" letter, watched by a bemused barman and a couple of ladies in the bar, whilst the piano player bashes out a tune of some sort. The scenario has been photographed from 6 different viewpoints within the bar and the 6 different sleeve variations have been created (with the letters A-F at the top of the spine denoting each variation).
To diguise the buyers which sleeve variation they were purchasing, an outer brown bag was added - creating a sense of mystery when the sleeve design was revealed.
The (no doubt expensive) concept was further enhanced by the inclusion of an inner sleeve that featured "magic ink". Gently wet the inner sleeve and different colours would appear on the design: the Dollar bill, the cigar in the ashtray and b/w the burnt "Dear John" letter and the broken glass.
The goal for all Zeppelin collectors is to collect pristine copies of all 6 versions, complete with outer brown bags and with uncoloured inner sleeves.
"Dear John" Paul, the keyboard parts you played are too cheesy to accept! Important for this (mishandled by "Dear John") album: the vocals of Robert Plant are the best he ever did with Led Zeppelin (also on Presence LP) - a matured distinctive voice with a range of lower level as usual. That means: less ambulance horn screamings! But these crappy keyboards! Let's burn the letter, "Dear John". You have broken the glass. Actually this album was the swan song (Schwanengesang) of LZ...

I picked up a very nice copy of this yesterday (B version) with correct inner & brown paper wrapper. Had never seen the wrapper before, nor the color spot on the cover ... maybe the 5 or 6 that I've had were the "F's".

In the late 1980s, the record company stopped making five varieties of jackets, and the "F" cover was all that was produced. A bar code was added on the back as well.

did not realize the history of this. (confirms much of what Fritz said)

The 6 Variant Album Covers of Led Zeppelin's "In Through the Out Door"

https://hubpages.com/entertainment/L...h-the-Out-Door

I never picked up on the "burning the letter" part either.

[Fritz The Cat]

RIP. Er ruhe in Frieden.

[Fritz The Cat]

Charlie Mariano sax, Rainer Brüninghaus kb, Jon Christensen dr
Music of outstanding merit?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap
(1984, Polygram)

[Kay Pirinha]

Don't forget to krank your Marshalls to eleven!

Best regards!

[Pigboat]

Near mint
Goodwill $.99