YOR FAVORITE DOORS/ELEKTRA LABEL
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YOR FAVORITE DOORS/ELEKTRA LABEL
I have always been a vinyl-phile!! So it will have to be those kinds of labels for me.
The Brown/gold/pewter original color is my sentimental favorite. My first DOORS album is actually more metallic pewter silver colored than brown or gold.....they varied from silver to gold to brown to a kind of yellow gold
Then the guitar player label ...my Bleecker and MacDougal by Fred Neil is on that
Finally the "caterpillar" label that was used on 45s in the UK in the 70's...don't have any but I like it much better than the butterfly label...not too fond of the butterfly label..it looked like Elktra-lite to me after the refined 60's labels.
So what are yours?!!
OOH...I forgot...my promo Elektra odd ball logo....if it's Canadian as Chris thinks it is still a very odd Canadian label with the black "E" instead of white -- the standard Canadian labels are just USA labels with "white "E"...not like this one...it was housed in a promo jacket. Even Holzman was kind enough to talk to me ...no luck...of course he wouldn't know such unimportant production details....
BTW Jac's favorite Elektra album cover is Morrison Hotel.
The Brown/gold/pewter original color is my sentimental favorite. My first DOORS album is actually more metallic pewter silver colored than brown or gold.....they varied from silver to gold to brown to a kind of yellow gold
Then the guitar player label ...my Bleecker and MacDougal by Fred Neil is on that
Finally the "caterpillar" label that was used on 45s in the UK in the 70's...don't have any but I like it much better than the butterfly label...not too fond of the butterfly label..it looked like Elktra-lite to me after the refined 60's labels.
So what are yours?!!
OOH...I forgot...my promo Elektra odd ball logo....if it's Canadian as Chris thinks it is still a very odd Canadian label with the black "E" instead of white -- the standard Canadian labels are just USA labels with "white "E"...not like this one...it was housed in a promo jacket. Even Holzman was kind enough to talk to me ...no luck...of course he wouldn't know such unimportant production details....
BTW Jac's favorite Elektra album cover is Morrison Hotel.
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That is often the case, roughie, as many were first introduced to ELEKTRA...DOORS or Love or Judy Collins etc thru the Butterfly label.Roughie wrote:The caterpillar label is on the New Zealand 45's as well.
I am gonna go against you here and say that the butterfly is my favourite.
It just seemed to me to appear with the Disco, bubblegum era so I associated it with the wrong music to my ears! I can see its merits as a kind of creative muse incarnate, but it's just past my time--the golden age of rock...."new" was bad often in the 70's...it usually meant put down the 60's psych/anti-flower power, disassociation music....Disco, New Wave, Punk....bleah! Believe me, there is plenty of music that has come out since the 60's that I love but nothing compares to the 60's for shear greatness and originality!...Doors. Love, Kinks, Beatles , Stones, Country Joe, Who, Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield. Zep...you get me!
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I agree with the 60's being the best for music. I have never seen (other than on the net) the guitar label.jamestkirk wrote:That is often the case, roughie, as many were first introduced to ELEKTRA...DOORS or Love or Judy Collins etc thru the Butterfly label.Roughie wrote:The caterpillar label is on the New Zealand 45's as well.
I am gonna go against you here and say that the butterfly is my favourite.
It just seemed to me to appear with the Disco, bubblegum era so I associated it with the wrong music to my ears! I can see its merits as a kind of creative muse incarnate, but it's just past my time--the golden age of rock...."new" was bad often in the 70's...it usually meant put down the 60's psych/anti-flower power, disassociation music....Disco, New Wave, Punk....bleah! Believe me, there is plenty of music that has come out since the 60's that I love but nothing compares to the 60's for shear greatness and originality!...Doors. Love, Kinks, Beatles , Stones, Country Joe, Who, Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield. Zep...you get me!
When I finally get around to putting photos of my collection on here, I will have to include the labels.
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The guitar player label is pretty cool for it's kind of beatnik look.....which fit well with Jac's New York/Greenwich Village folkie direction at the time....before he moved to LA in the mid 60's...though they kept their NYC offices...it was all LA after that...guess Jac had that gut feeling!Roughie wrote:I agree with the 60's being the best for music. I have never seen (other than on the net) the guitar label.jamestkirk wrote:That is often the case, roughie, as many were first introduced to ELEKTRA...DOORS or Love or Judy Collins etc thru the Butterfly label.Roughie wrote:The caterpillar label is on the New Zealand 45's as well.
I am gonna go against you here and say that the butterfly is my favourite.
It just seemed to me to appear with the Disco, bubblegum era so I associated it with the wrong music to my ears! I can see its merits as a kind of creative muse incarnate, but it's just past my time--the golden age of rock...."new" was bad often in the 70's...it usually meant put down the 60's psych/anti-flower power, disassociation music....Disco, New Wave, Punk....bleah! Believe me, there is plenty of music that has come out since the 60's that I love but nothing compares to the 60's for shear greatness and originality!...Doors. Love, Kinks, Beatles , Stones, Country Joe, Who, Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield. Zep...you get me!
The only guitar player label I have is the Fred Neil album I mentioned...it is a beautiful album cover...one of my all time favorite of any-label covers....which can't really be appreciated except on a 12 x 12" vinyl record jacket! Not the best image ere....maybe I can get a good pic of my actual album.
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