The Spectrum Album That Wasn't

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twentysixdollars
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The Spectrum Album That Wasn't

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Does this look familiar to anyone?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg

(circa 1994)

This can't just be a coincidence. Who designs Spectrum sleeves? Does anyone know who designed this one?

On a related topic, has anyone out there actually heard a Kim Fowley solo album? I've been searching - in morbid curiosity, I guess - for years. I've happened upon some really overpriced CDs, but I've never seen them on vinyl, and they generally don't turn up secondhand.

For those who don't know, he's a "maverick" and supposedly talentless singer-songwriter with roots in sock-hop pop (he cowrote Skip and Flip's "Alley-Oop", which the Beach Boys covered on Party in '66) now generally most well-known for writing the lyrics for some very contentious later Byrds songs, for starting Joan Jett's career, and for writing a few KISS songs (!). His website ( http://www.kimfowley.net/ ) is pretty mindblowing.
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twentysixdollars wrote:Does this look familiar to anyone?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg

This can't just be a coincidence. Who designs Spectrum sleeves? Does anyone know who designed this one?
according to allmusic it's Rev. Vincent Lewis

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... arqj6ioj0a

no links to Spectrum.

monkey copy though.....
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