Created By: Jonathan
Dysart (DJJD)
Original Creation Year:
2004
Year of Re-master:
2010
Song Listing
Side A
Side B
The Amboy Dukes (featuring Ted Nugent)
Side C
George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Side D
Origin of the Album
Sometimes a creative
spark apparently comes out of nowhere when you are creating something or
anything. This has occurred periodically
to me, especially in regards my CD album collection. The first time this occurred was with DJJD Volume 1, which was constructed in
a day. That same instance occurred with
my personal masterpiece DJJD Volume 27. However, this album was created in that spark
as well.
I was looking on the
internet at the end of the work day, scrolling through the MTV2 Subterranean
website, when all of these ideas just flowed out. Staying late in the office after hours, I
made the CD within three to four hours. I did some test listens of the album that
night, and it was set. Usually it is the
spontaneous ones that are the special ones.
Concept and Theme of the Album
The
concept here: Rock and roll – nothing
fancy and no concepts. I did not have
any backlog of songs to carry over from the previous albums. I pretty much wanted rock songs, with some more
mellow blues and folk at the end.
The first set of songs was easy to
find, especially after looking through the MTV2 Subterranean website. Being created in 2004, this is the first
album containing contemporary songs. The
first quarter of this album is contemporary songs that I liked but was not main
stream yet in popularity.
Then
I wanted to get at least these three songs: “Journey to the Center of Your
Mind”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, and “Our House”. After retrieving those, I found songs around
them as the foundation: hard rock, southern rock, blues, and folk.
Concept and the Album Cover
Since
the album is basically straight rock and roll, I originally was going to do a
general rock motif. That idea did not
work for me at that time. With a lot of contemporary
songs in there, I decided to completely make a montage of images, and have the
album have a contemporary look to it.
Therefore,
this album cover is probably my most creative of the bunch. I did full use of Roxio picture editing
software, taking various pictures found on the internet and warping them in any
way or shape.
For
example, the picture of the smiling man with the weird painted mask was
contorted several times. The front
picture, as you see now, is a negative of the original picture, while there are
several versions of the same picture manipulated and saved as a background of
the negative image. The actual
background of the album is a warped picture of the NASA picture of various
galaxies. The orange picture on the
bottom-right is a picture of some people dancing at a night club, being
strentch out and contorted as well. And
then, I added those surreal pictures, like the eye-ball man and the shower
breasts.
The
shower breasts picture is a picture from an actual advertisement of a product
that you could buy. The breasts actually
hold body wash and shampoo for the customer.
You just need to squeeze the nipple to get the product out. HA!
HA!
Having a wacky, surreal album cover would fit right
with an album that does not have a concept.
If you really look at it, most of the best album covers in rock history
are surreal, portraits of barely clothed women, or actual art paintings (like
“Yes” albums). I just want to keep the
tradition alive.
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