Iconic album cover locations in real life on Google Maps Pt. 1 | Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rush 

Cool, I may have to add that one to my list for next time. Thanks!

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The Pronouced cover is in Jonesboro Ga. The train station and the album cover area are also shown as Texarkana TX. in Smokey and the Bandit ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lQjlU82c31Y.html jump to the 2:15 mark.. Skynyrd's album cover spot was just off to left (in the video) you can't see it... about 100 feet in front of the heritage bank.

I was there this past December. It's pretty cool, it'd changed a good bit. Would reccomend!

Bobby, been following your channel for 3 months, and I wonder why you don't get verivication sign from youtube bcuz you have 300k-ish subs?

@@williamjohnwidjaja5714 I used to but then I changed my channel name from BobbyCrispy to GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy, I think that's why.

If you're ever curious as to what it looks like or what's going on there at this very moment, you can always see a live streaming video of the spot at www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk (although the view seems to be looking in the oppisite direction than the famous album cover photo) I wonder how long you have to watch the cam on average before you happen to catch a group of tourists attempting to re-create the photo?

Cross it on my way to work 😂

Way to make this about yourself

And one of the messages was used on their album Check your head. “Yo Paul, this is Al, and you can kiss my ass cause I ain’t interested in you anyhow, I’m just interested in the B-Boys, so fuck you my man”

I always thought it was Ozzy too.

Same

me too

I just thought it was a witch or something. I remember when I was a kid, maybe 8 yrs old or so, in about 1972, I was at my cousin's house and we were down in his "bedroom" which was really just a dark corner of their unfinished basement, and he pulled this album out from on top of a duct where he had it hidden, and the album cover scared the shit out of me. He was a few yrs older than me, so probably 14 or 15, and he says, "You HAVE to promise you won't tell my mom I have this!" I agreed to keep my mouth shut...back then, Sabbath REALLY scared the shit out of people! People that are younger will never fully appreciate the impact this band had at that time, but back then, people talked about Sabbath with a fearful reverence. People really thought they were Satanists and evil as hell, and getting caught with their albums as a kid meant serious punishment...just listening to them was nearly a guarantee you're heading for Hell, if you listened to a lot of the adults, lol. Anyway, he checks to make sure we were alone in the house, and he puts the album on and turns out the lights! Listening to the song "Black Sabbath" cranked up in that dark basement as a kid scared me like nothing else ever had at the time...listening to Ozzy scream from Hell on that song had a serious impact on me and it changed my life...that was the moment I started listening to harder rock and developed a serious addiction to it that is present to this day. A HUGE thanks to my cousin Mike (RIP) for introducing me to the dark side of things, lol.

I realized he was not Ozzy like 2 months ago 👉🏼👈🏼

I got that album when I was 13, parents weren't happy. I knew it was a creepy woman

Very cool. So I take it that you found it?

@@Channel33RPM I did! FB message incoming :)

Is it on Mean Street?

Thanks Roger!

I was about 10 years old when I saw that album cover. I thought it was a witch, or some ghostly apparition of a woman. I'd just discovered Hammer horror movies and she looked like she could have been in one of their movies. I still have that album.

Same here

With that tinge of green skin, Oh Yeah!

Yes it does have a 'Hammer' look to it.

No witch

Especially with a cover like The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request", with it's lenticular (3D) picture. There would probably have been more albums with that kind of cover except that the cost of producing them is prohibitively expensive. Originally the picture for "Satanic" was meant to cover the whole front of the jacket, but that would have been way too expensive, so they reduced it and added a swirling blue and white border.

I used to design album covers, back when they were ALBUM covers, & it was a very involved process with lots of meetings with the artist & management, discussing concepts & whatnot, mocking up comps, usually had a couple of revisions or at least a request for some small detail to be finessed. Then after the advent of CDs, the process became a lot quicker, & eventually it seemed like the artwork wasn't nearly as important, at least not down to the last detail, as it once had been. I quit doing them when people stopped paying the big bucks to have them designed. Shame. It was a legit art form, as far as I'm concerned. I remember as a teenager coming home with a new record & combing over every square inch of the album cover while I listened to it. Back in those days (before MTV & certainly before RU-vid), they were the only VISUAL we had to associate with the music we listened to. They played heavily into what we knew about the artists behind the music & the feelings the music evoked. Most importantly, they stimulated our imaginations. Now they're inconsequential, if they even exist at all. Yet another dimension of music that has been lost to technology. I feel sorry for kids today. They'll never hear the warmth & depth of an analog recording. They'll never know the beauty of a live performance, how differently a song can manifest itself from one night to the next, without real-time pitch correction & a backing track being blended in to smooth out the "rough" edges. And they never have to use their imaginations, never see where their minds might take them. Sad.

@@tomfurgas2844 Haha! I actually found that cover at my local Value Village with the lenticular image still intact, but it was missing the record inside, but that particular album, music-wise, sucked in my opinion, but luckily for me, the record included with the cover was The Gene Rains Group "Rains in the Tropics' exotica album which is very hard to find, so I had the best of both worlds; a cool Rolling Stones album cover and a highly sought after and rare exotica record for only $2 purchased two years ago. :)

@@nannettefreeman7331 Wow! That's amazing that you designed record and CD covers, Nannette, and I agree that it's a lost art form much like movie posters these days with lazy Photoshop shots of the actors faces (or shots of the band for albums) and not inspirational at all to make one want to see the movie or buy the album. However, I have seen younger people for the past several years (teens and twenty-somethings) that are discovering the beauty of vinyl records and I hope it becomes a lifelong passion for them, not just a hipster trend. We'll see and the absurd prices of newly-released record albums won't help to keep that passion alive or it will just be a small niche market.

@@nannettefreeman7331 Great share, Nannette! As a "jacket nerd," (and former radio jock and retail record store mgr in the '70s and early '80s), I'd love to know, if you're game to share, the label(s) for whom you worked. One Barry Hansen (Dr. Demento) once wrote about jacket SPINES! Thinking I was the only one who noticed or even cared, it was cool to hear his dissertation on, say, the squared-off spines (with the angled lines at the top that accompanied the catalog #) of Columbia's jackets, or the rounded ones of RCA and Warner Bros (and most everybody else). Gatefolds, of course, had spines that simply included the continued artwork that was displayed on front and back covers. Plus, with the advent of CDs and downloads, the spine was one of the first real pieces of the album jacket to became completely extinct. With CDs, you still had the artwork, but as mentioned, frustratingly smaller, with many times, the jacket back either non-existent, or radically different than the original LP release. Anyway, thanks again, Nannette!😎🎶✔

Thank you! I logged in to clear that up myself!

Ha, ha, ha, as a YES fan since 1976 I just was thinking along those same lines that I want him to find the locations Roger Dean uses. On a serious note, I was thinking he could do the cover to Going For The One. I think they are towers in LA.

@@pschroeter1 it's to bad we don't have albums like we use to what's we get the art work

The Relayer Cover always reminded me of something out of Lord of the Rings. One of my favorite Yes albums.

@@gerardcooney1810 I listened to that album REALLY high on mushrooms about 30 years ago. It blew my mind! I will never hear "Sound Chaser" quite the same again.

@@thislazylife same here! My friends always stayed stuck on grateful dead, but everytime i tripped i went straight to Yes on headphones, especially Relayer!

Good call!

In the concert, the pictures moved as well.

Definitely! I spent an hour in Studio 2 at Abbey Road back in 2005. It's as close as I've ever got to a religious experience!

Dude, do I know you?! Love those guitar shops (my band mates and I get most of our gear from Andertons) Know Mapledurham well - but where’s Headley Grange?

Those would be awesome places to visit!

Am I right in thinking that the band purchased the grange for a tiny amount of money? Also Jimmy Paige it is said practiced devil worship or seances there? That could just be a tale? Thanks.

D'oh!!!! Apologies for the error.

And the art director's name Hugh Syme is pronounced S-I'm not S-I'm-ee.

You're both wrong...Moving Pictures was Rush's 7TH Album. Rush, Fly By Night, Caress of Steel, 2112, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and then Moving pictures! Not 6th or 8th! Sorry fellas!

@@mr.mojorisin1616 you forgot about "A Farewell To Kings". "Moving Pictures" was indeed their 8th studio album.

@@PetePidgeon You ARE right! I totally forgot ( I have no idea how) about AFTK! MY BAG!

Thanks Graham!

But the cover was hardly worthy of much praise, not REALLY? I mean not in itself. It's only by it's association that photo is anything.

I think you'll find Public Enemy were doing this a few years before that..

Thanks, will do!

Thanks 👍

Glad you enjoyed it

Dude. You can't be serious

@@Frankybroadcast I was a kid and never owned the album.

The figure does look a bit like Ozzy, but only if it was Ozzy 20 or 30 years after the album was released. He was slim in 1970 and he only started to get chubby many years later.

Good idea, Tom. I will definitely consider this. Thank for for the suggestion. Frank

Thanks man

It was the 1937 hindenberg Zepplin Airship blowing up and crashing to the ground at lakehurst New Jersey

I know what u mean. Miss the album art work. All we have is cds

@@mikekeeler6362 well start collecting vinyl

@@jimb2416 I have stared back up. It's just hard to find the album covers in great shap

Thank you! Will do!

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks 👍

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, you too!

Thank you, I appreciate that

Glad you liked it!

Glad you found there video useful. Frank

Thanks Danny - I would like to check them out someday as well.

Thanks Jeff. I will do another one -- hopefully in June.

Thanks!

Thanks John!

Glad you enjoyed it

I'd like to see that someday.

I used to live in Memphis, TN, and any time you drove by Sun Studio you had to watch out for tourists standing in the road taking pictures of the building. It would be the same way by the fence and gates at Graceland if there wasn’t a place for people to pull off of the road in front of the fence. You still have to watch out for people crossing the street from the parking area on the other side of the road.

There used to be a webcam set up so people around the world could gawk at idiot tourists doing exactly that. Might still be there I dunno

Thank you! Will do!

Thanks John. I really dig the history of rock music. I do hope to do more of this sort of stuff. Thanks for the comment. Frank