Urban Hat€monger ?

I was reading up on that cover.

Apparently it was a painting in Frank Zappa's house

"Yes, I am the same person who did the painting used on the Alice Cooper album, Pretties for You. Actually, that was the title of the painting, which Frank Zappa then used for the album. Frank, a friend of mine, was visiting my studio one day, bought two paintings he wanted to used for album covers, one for Alice Cooper, another for the Mothers of Invention. The two paintings purchased: 'Pretties for You' and 'The Four Apostles'. Both ended up in Frank's home, 'Pretties for you' in the main livingroom, and 'Apostles' in the downstairs music studio. Who knows what happened to them after Frank's death. I'm still in touch with his brother, Bobby, but not his wife or kids.
The idea behind the painting are the dreams and regrets of old men on the occasion of their death. It was inspired by the funeral of an Italian movie director who died in '68 or '69. There was a photo layout in Life magazine, I think it was, detailing the funeral. They had photos of the old director, and I liked his look, especially his hat. I tried to imagine his thoughts at his own funeral. Death is the fate of us all, of course, and I suppose the moment defines us as human beings... given the reality, however absurd it may seem to us, that we are born only to die."

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right-track

^ wonderful stuff.

ashtray

I agree (I simply sent him a PM about it but guess I should have posted something here.). I am curious about the quote. Who is it? I wonder because there are references to Zappa and Cooper (unless it's Vincent Furnier then I understand.)
EDIT : A link to source for this would be too cool and appreciated.

right-track

Ed Beardsley apparently;

Link

Urban Hat€monger ?

It's from the SickThings website.

Ed Beardsley was the name of the artist.

Pretties For You

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right-track

Snooze yer lose.

ashtray

Wow must be a very unknown artist because I can't find nothing when I google him. Thanks right-track I see where you get your name from heh oh and of course thanks to Urban for bringing it to attention.
EDIT : Just read about the brown sticker on the girls undies on the earlier copies of Pretties. Too cool.

right-track

The cover doesn't deserve to be in this thread.

ashtray

Well it did before the discovery, but I say Urban redeemed himself. What a cool new thing to learn (too me), this place rocks!

right-track

You have a mission