Live in Tokyo 1979

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

There's no credit on it, but I am pretty sure I remember this being a Reklaw Record, and I think it's terrific. They did a great job using the images of both variants of the Manifesto sleeve - clothed and nude - and using that great promotional photo of the 1979 lineup. I remember being quite envious that I didn't come up with it.

Archive Volume Three

This is the third, and believed to be last, of Omnibus's Archive series.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

The model on this record appears to be fetish model Lydia "Ivy" West. She would appear on the other two volumes of the Archive series. Where Omnibus sold or traded their wares, I do not know.

Volume one was a Country Life show, volume two was a Siren show and this third one is from Manifesto. I hold some small hope that one day I'll learn that Omnibus did a fourth album, a Flesh + Blood show with this girl on the front!

Live in Boston 1979

This is another Mr. Monopoly commission.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

Mr. Monopoly remembers making sixty gajillion thumbnails of the work in progress for the fan who commissioned it, although it was probably a lot fewer than that. This really worked to the finished piece's benefit, as the trader's input was very valuable and, in places, his desires very specific. A model, Ana Hickman, was settled on and three images chosen by the fan, and a back cover which, if Mr. Monopoly recalls correctly, came from one of the tour books. The commission called for "girl on the front, band on the back."

There are actually two versions of the front cover. The trader chose to have the front cover with the words "Live in Boston 1979" underneath the words "Roxy Music." This never looked right, nor felt right, to Mr. Monopoly, who preferred to simply have the band's name, as per the design of the original five LPs. So if you have this CD in your collection, you can tell whether the artwork came down the vine from the fellow who commissioned it, or from the artist.

Montroxy

Uh-oh. Full frontal nudity here.



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There are a number of awesome 1979 shows for the Manifesto LP. Since at least a half dozen of these were broadcast on various radio stations, there are a lot of bootlegs, and a couple of quasi-legal albums, out there from this tour. The band sounded great and the promotion worked wonders in the US, where the record became Bry's highest charting in America. They toured Europe before hitting the US, and this shows the band firing on all cylinders.

But the artwork is... a lot more explicit than anything Mr. Monopoly would design for public swapping. This was a private commission for a fan in Japan. The model is Gig Gangel, who was probably photographed for this Playboy session right around the time this tour, if not this show, was going on. Mr. Monopoly was pleased that his work was so well-liked that complete strangers were e-mailing him to ask for naughty pictures.

Interestingly, the name "Montroxy" was originally used by the bootleg label Big for their vinyl release. Looks like everybody who ever made CD artwork for it used the same name.