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I was wondering if anyone knew the origins behind the Damage Done artwork, essentially the origin or source of the photo on the cover.

Also given how precise Von is/was about the images, font and layout etc, I'm surprised that they used Gustave Dore's image from Dante's Divine Comedy for Body and Soul as Factory band Crispy Ambulance had used the same image a couple of years earlier.

Flagg

I vaguely remember reading (on here somewhere probably) that the DD sleeve is a frame from an old silent movie?

poor that "1959 and all that" doesn't work anymore iirc there was a few information about sistres covers, as cooper's anaconda, national geographic's reptile house etc.

It's still working, look ...

http://1959.tsom.org/

Other covers:
Alice is "Blue Nude I" by Henri Matisse


Body Electric is "Head VI" by Francis Bacon


lachert mentions Anaconda, it's the cover of Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies":


Reptile House see lachert's post

Temple Of Love is a commissioned piece I believe.

As Randall Flagg mentions, Body And Soul is from the Divine Comedy.

Any more?

markfiend wrote:Other covers:
Alice is "Blue Nude I" by Henri Matisse

I have a painting very similar to this at home done by a friend's mother, no wonder Andrew S fell in love with it!

Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

Chairman Bux wrote:Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

'Gary, pass me that pencil. Craig that's rubbish, start again.' and so on....

Suffice to say it was the first and last time the drummer did the artwork.

Chairman Bux wrote:Suffice to say it was the first and last time the drummer did the artwork.

'Nuff said.
Good job done though.

And while I'm being helpful, there have been doubts raised elsewhere on here about the source & lineage of the Dante image for B+S.

Suggestions of deliberate sabotage and thievery are wildly over-stated, but I will say that the image was brought to the attention of The Sisters some time before it was actually used, and some time before the Crispy Ambulance record (which I've never heard of).

Chairman Bux wrote:Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

Ah. Like I said, I had understood that it was a commissioned piece (possibly from an art student). Thanks for the clarification.

Although most people will probably have to look "Nanker/Phelge" up...

just for the image collection:

Chairman Bux wrote:And while I'm being helpful, there have been doubts raised elsewhere on here about the source & lineage of the Dante image for B+S.

Suggestions of deliberate sabotage and thievery are wildly over-stated, but I will say that the image was brought to the attention of The Sisters some time before it was actually used, and some time before the Crispy Ambulance record (which I've never heard of).

One day over high tea Danny told me 'that bastard Eldritch robbed our idea'. Though I believe it was to be a white colouration

is the origin of anaconda really the alice cooper release, or was it also simply used thatfor and does come from a different source?

btw, bayon is a great place to be, although reptiles come from all over the world these days. middlesection comes quite close to the cover image.

paint it black wrote:One day over high tea Danny told me 'that bastard Eldritch robbed our idea'. Though I believe it was to be a white colouration

Tsk. You should know better than to trust anything Mr Horigan tells you, especially over high tea - he only ever tells the truth after 8pm.

yeah, that matches what i heard...

i was told that the dante image was going to be the artwork for salvation's debut album "clash of dreams", scheduled for release on merciful release (but the colours reversed - red image on white bg) until they fell out with the MR staff, or possibly eldritch himself, and the album was binned - along with the artwork

something like this i guess:



although the timelines dont quite work - from what i heard, CoD was supposed to be released in 1985, so unless danny had shown it to eldritch in late 83/early 84, i son't see how that works

or have i got the proposed release date for CoD wrong?

I was always under the impression that Mr E. was wholly responsible for the minimalist TOL artwork.

Chairman Bux wrote:Temple was a Nanker/Phelge job.

Brian Clough wrote:We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.

Perhaps Herr Chairman could clarify.

Chairman Bux wrote:Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

that's Jagger/Richards to them not clued in and

Keith says: “I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.�

Chairman Bux wrote:And while I'm being helpful, there have been doubts raised elsewhere on here about the source & lineage of the Dante image for B+S.

Suggestions of deliberate sabotage and thievery are wildly over-stated, but I will say that the image was brought to the attention of The Sisters some time before it was actually used, and some time before the Crispy Ambulance record (which I've never heard of).

That's fascinating, however the Crispy Ambulance 10" was released in 1980.

Flagg

so, what about Damage Done...? a silent movie?

Looks like Randall Flagg's right.



http://www.crispyambulance.com/recordings/fac32.html

pikkrong wrote:so, what about Damage Done...? a silent movie?

Y used to have a site with all of the test pressings (he owned them) on it. I remember there was an invoice to Gary Marx for the pressing costs, etc. The Damage Done cover was Gary's idea wasn't it?

Being645 wrote:It's still working, look ...

http://1959.tsom.org/

thanks Being645, i've got some geocities address

Big Si wrote:

pikkrong wrote:so, what about Damage Done...? a silent movie?

Y used to have a site with all of the test pressings (he owned them) on it. I remember there was an invoice to Gary Marx for the pressing costs, etc. The Damage Done cover was Gary's idea wasn't it?

poor that Y site is no more online but lachert still got that invoice:


+ damage insert:



nice, but nothing about the cover