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stones1969
Was this original artwork by Michael Cooper, or is it artwork by an artist that was used for the inside of the record sleeve for Their Satanic Majesties Request?
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1963luca0
It’s been said mano times that each hologram cost $1. Luca
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stones1969
Thank you. I appreciate your response.
Yes, I've heard it might have been Michael Cooper, but I also heard the maze, anyway, was designed by Brian Jones. The problem with this album is that the information written about it doesn't seem to be very accurate. I was always led to believe it was a Japanese camera that was used to take the 3-D cover and it cost $25,000. I also heard that the albums which came with the 3-D cover were limited to only 5,000 copies. It seem like when I started researching it myself I was finding out different information. I recently spoke with two people who were familiar with the company Vari-Vue, which did the album cover, and they both told me it was NOT a Japanese-made camera. One guy told me the entire first run of albums was printed with that cover and NOT just 5000 copies, which makes sense because they are everywhere and not hard to find at all. There are probably 5000 of them on eBay. He also told me that he thinks $25,000 was the total production cost and not the cost of the camera. Again, that makes sense.
Thanks for responding. I love chatting with serious Stones fans.
Rob
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stones1969
Thank you. I appreciate your response.
Yes, I've heard it might have been Michael Cooper, but I also heard the maze, anyway, was designed by Brian Jones. The problem with this album is that the information written about it doesn't seem to be very accurate. I was always led to believe it was a Japanese camera that was used to take the 3-D cover and it cost $25,000. I also heard that the albums which came with the 3-D cover were limited to only 5,000 copies. It seem like when I started researching it myself I was finding out different information. I recently spoke with two people who were familiar with the company Vari-Vue, which did the album cover, and they both told me it was NOT a Japanese-made camera. One guy told me the entire first run of albums was printed with that cover and NOT just 5000 copies, which makes sense because they are everywhere and not hard to find at all. There are probably 5000 of them on eBay. He also told me that he thinks $25,000 was the total production cost and not the cost of the camera. Again, that makes sense.
Thanks for responding. I love chatting with serious Stones fans.
Rob
The entire cover design is elaborate, with a dense photo collage filling most of the inside cover (along with a maze) designed by Michael Cooper, and a painting by Tony Meeuwissen on the back cover depicting the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air). In some editions the blue-and-white wisps on the front cover are used in a red-and-white version on the paper inner sleeve. The inner-cover collage has dozens of images, taken from reproductions of old master paintings (Ingres, Poussin, da Vinci, among others), Indian mandalas and portraits, astronomy (including a large image of the planet Saturn), flowers, world maps, etc. The maze on the inside cover of the UK and US releases cannot be completed: a wall at about a half radius in from the lower left corner means one can never arrive at the goal labeled "It's Here" in the centre of the maze. [faroutmagazine.co.uk]
- Bill stated in Stone Alone (pg 460) : Michael took the first 3D pictures of us dressed up, using a 3-D camera from Japan.
- In Roy Carr's "The RS - an illustrated record - he writes: "When the Stones unveiled TSMR - resplendant in it's $25,000 3-D Op Art sleeve...."
- I doubt there were only 5000 copies world wide - maybe if you said 500,000 (still have my original copy from 1967/8). Strangely, they do not mention anything about the inside cover but do state the back cover illustration by Tony Meeviwiffen.
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jbwelda
Time for a super deluxe edition with some teeth.
jb
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jbwelda
Time for a super deluxe edition with some teeth.
jb
yup...I would like that. I don't think you can even blame ABKCO though. It's M & K I think that are calling the shots on previously unreleased material from the 60s.
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jbwelda
Time for a super deluxe edition with some teeth.
jb
yup...I would like that. I don't think you can even blame ABKCO though. It's M & K I think that are calling the shots on previously unreleased material from the 60s.
There were outtakes of songs for a bonus disc originally planned for the 50th-anniversary box set for Their Satanic, but the decision-makers at the record label decided to not include it in the box set.