Impossible question: Can you identify this portion of an album cover?

May 8, 2014 2:01 PM

When I launched Upcoming.org in 2003, I clipped this little piece of red texture from a vinyl album cover and used it as the header background. I'm pretty sure that the light bands are guitar strings, and I thought it was a Frank Zappa cover, but I can't find anything that fits. Can you identify it, or am I sunk?
posted by waxpancake to Media & Arts (9 answers total)

It's not from Halloween is it?
posted by jazon at 2:14 PM on May 8, 2014

Best answer: Back of Any Way The Wind Blows.
posted by beschizza at 2:16 PM on May 8, 2014 [39 favorites]

Can't find the album (don't see this on Halloween, no), but I'm pretty sure that the larger light-colored structure to the left shows the pattern of soundboard wood (of a guitar, one might guess). I do not see any strings, though, just some light and shadow play.
posted by Namlit at 2:16 PM on May 8, 2014

Best answer: Better pic!
posted by beschizza at 2:20 PM on May 8, 2014 [3 favorites]

Daaang nice beschizza
posted by stinkfoot at 2:20 PM on May 8, 2014 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: HOLY CRAP, ROB
posted by waxpancake at 2:34 PM on May 8, 2014 [19 favorites]

jj cale's 5?
posted by ouke at 2:34 PM on May 8, 2014

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posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 2:43 PM on May 8, 2014 [12 favorites]

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posted by wenestvedt at 1:00 PM on May 9, 2014