Boston 76

Found this one online while "researching" (ba-hyuk!) this project...

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

I'm amused by things like this... I know there are several sleeves for this, and other shows that were made ages ago, already. Does the current generation of fans just not know about them, or would they rather make their own?

Wild Weekend / A Wilder Weekend

This one has another silly explanation.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

Wild Weekend was a Siren-tour boot released by Scorpio Records and it got pretty heavy distribution. I saw it at close to a dozen different shops across the southeast. The problem was that it was taken from an FM broadcast with a little static and interference in a couple of places.

A few years later, a better copy of the FM master, not a copy from the broadcast, was sourced. This went into distribution with a fan in the DC area creating an amusingly revised cover. Unfortunately, neither my scan of the front nor the back are worth a darn. The back's just filled with artifacts and there should be an interior photo to go with the front. Any upgrades out there? Surely somebody can put the Scorpio CD on a flatbed and scan it at 600 dpi... we didn't all pass up on the silver CD because we had a CD-R at home, did we?

As for the original image, yeah, that's the band in front of one of those beautifully tacky old Holiday Inn signs adapted for the cover. The original picture might have first appeared in the pages of the cheeky American rock magazine Creem.

Sonic Sirens

Occasionally, you find cases where the person who designed the front is clearly not the person who designed the back, but there's no indication of who did what and why.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

Also of note: this artwork was probably made for a black and white printer in mind, with the black widow label on the front meant to be hand-colored. I think that "Bite Me!" was based in Tennessee. Great motto that label has.

There appears to be a signature on the lower left of the back cover, but it's obscured by the motto. I can make out a "pe." No idea why pe wanted a new back cover, unless he figured that an album called Sonic Sirens should have a siren on it somewhere.

Archive Volume Two

This is the second in Omnibus Records & Tapes three (?) volume series. The first volume was a Country Life show, and this one is a Siren concert, the oft-traded 1976 Boston show.

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.

I really like the uniform packaging of the three Archives. On the other hand, I can't think of a bigger turn-off than a model flipping her middle finger at the camera. Not for me, thanks!