Created By: Jonathan Dysart (DJJD)
Original Creation Year: 2007
Year of Re-master: 2010
Song Listing
Side A
4. Anytime: Journey
Side B
Side C
Side D
Origin of the Album
The construction of this album is quite similar that to DJJD Volume 22 – really being the second part of a “double album”.
Like I mentioned before for DJJD Volume 22, I was at a transition time, finally had my own personal computer and internet so I could continue my CD collection projects (as well as other media projects) at home. The same idea of making a straightforward Rock album, relating to the classic rock station 100.5 WYMG, was still there.
However, I was still distracted by transferring all the iTunes songs from my office personal computer into my home computer. The quality was not up to par.
Concept and Theme of the Album
Like I mentioned before, this was originally just a compilation of classic rock songs that I heard on 100.5 WYMG. Please refer to the “Rock Reconstruction” section for how this album was remastered.
Concept and the Album Cover
The initial album cover was taken from another existing classic rock compilation album, and just manipulated the album to take and make it my own. This applied also to DJJD Volume 22. Never really satisfied with the album cover during the remastering phase of this album (see “Rock Reconstruction” section), I decided to redo it by more mainstream AM and FM radio hits.
I thought the album cover should be pretty straightforward, having a picture of an old analog radio, showing both the AM and FM bands. I did find a decent picture of one, shot from a low angle. However, the radio did not look very inspiring, just like the bad earth–tone colors of 1970’s fashion. I was playing around with the picture using Roxio Photo Suite tinkering with the special effects functions. I selected the “Plasma” effect, and it made the picture come out alive. I saved the revised picture, applying the album title along the grooves of the radio and giving it a nice perspective. That’s my front album cover.
For the back-album cover, I found a music picture of a guitar as well as the capitol shape, taken from the Springfield Government website, and incorporating the two together. From there, I changed the background to a brownish-tan shade, applied the album title and song listing. It was a simple construction for both album covers.
Rock Reconstruction
I was never really satisfied with my original creation of the three
albums DJJD Volume 22, DJJD Volume 23, and DJJD
Volume 26. Most of the songs were just, in my opinion, just thrown
together without some form of coherency to them. When it came time to
remaster these albums, I decided to do a complete reconstruction, reshuffling
the songs among each other as well as adding or removing songs, to make each
album more coherent and organic in structure.
I reorganized the albums into three rock
styles or motifs:
·
DJJD Volume 22: Hard rock, progressive rock, with
some instrumental blues
·
DJJD Volume 23: Mainstream classic rock and pop, with
some blues
·
DJJD Volume 26: Glam rock, with some progressive rock
and mainstream rock
Here is how the remastered song listings were
acquired.
Side A
1. Cold
as Ice: Foreigner (DJJD Volume 23)
2. I
Need a Lover: John Mellencamp (DJJD Volume 23)
3. Feeling
That Way: Journey (DJJD Volume 26)
4. Anytime: Journey (DJJD
Volume 26)
5. The
Loco-Motion: Grand Funk Railroad (DJJD Volume 22)
Side
B
6. Never
Been Any Reason: Head East (DJJD Volume 23)
7. Good
Vibrations: The Beach Boys (DJJD Volume 26)
8. Judy
in Disguise: John Fred & His Playboys (DJJD Volume 23)
9. Abacab: Genesis (DJJD
Volume 26)
Side C
10. Go
Now: The Moody Blues (DJJD Volume 23)
11. Albert
Flasher: The Guess Who (Added)
12. Mighty
Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo): Manfred Mann (DJJD Volume 23)
13. Happy
Together: The Turtles (Added)
14. Reelin’
And Rockin’ (Live): Chuck Berry (DJJD Volume 22)
Side
D
15. Bye
Bye Blackbird: Joe Cocker (DJJD Volume 22)
16. Hummingbird:
B.B. King (DJJD Volume 22)
17. And
You and I: Yes (DJJD Volume 23)
18. Dreamers
Ball: Queen (DJJD Volume 23)
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