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| Artist: Jimi Hendrix Title: Birth of Success Date: 1970 Sleeve Design: Geoff Hocking
Notes: Another odd album from my collection. This is a very young Jimi playing a variety of cover tunes, performing with Curtis Knight and the Squires. There is very little of that familiar Hendrix guitar, but just for novelties sake this album is a hoot. It was Recorded live at George's Club 20; Hackensack, NJ. on December 26, 1965. This copy is on MFP Records and was made in Holland. The quality is lacking, but listenable. There are no notes as to who the players are, but it's Jimi's voice carrying the tunes.
Track Listing Side 1 I'm a Man Side 2 Last Night
I'd like to thank Tim for the information on this album. |
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provided by Mr. Hocking: I designed the cover art when I was living in London in 1970-75. I worked as art director for Music For Pleasure, Hamlyn for a couple of years, then went freelance. I broke the budget on this album with the fading colours going in and art of the stars, we actually did it by using an air-brush turned down so low that it sprayed dots onto the film. Of course all this was done years before we had computer technology, we could probably do the art using Photoshop in a couple of hours today. The butterflies were cut out of one of Hamlyn's books and pasted together to be photographed - today a scanner and Photoshop would do it so easily. I am today Senior Lecturer in design at La Trobe University, Bendigo Australia, the city were I grew up and did my early training. I'm still designing, mostly CD, not pop, mostly repackaging old stuff, even some of the old things I did years ago. My main interest is in writing, designing Australian social history, I have a few books published on this subject. Thanks for publishing my art on the web, after thirty years it makes an old aussie designer feel pretty cool, Cheers Geoff Hocking |
