Analyzing album covers: Live in Boston

[WildHearted]

The photoshopping is laughable.

It's also not spaced very well - everything is crowded to the right, and there's that random empty left corner.

[michelej1]

And what? They just threw in a setting sun for kicks?

They used this picture to promote the tour. I remember taking this full page FM ad out of my newspaper (back when I still got a paper newspaper) and saving it, but I wasn't happy about the photo.

Michele

[FierySequences]

I like it, it seems fitting and realistic (albeit the giant Stevie) just glimpses of the band in action...makes sense.

Yeah, I can see why the dispreportioning of members would irratate some, and the rising/setting sun. Never really noticed/thought about sun until now.

[moon]

I like the giant Stevie...but not the full cover!

[Ulpian]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And what? They just threw in a setting sun for kicks?

They used this picture to promote the tour. I remember taking this full page FM ad out of my newspaper (back when I still got a paper newspaper) and saving it, but I wasn't happy about the photo.

Michele

It isn't a setting sun, it's a light that was half lit above the speaker behind John. It's clear if you watch shots of John on the DVD.

[cantgoback]

It's pretty poorly pieced together if you ask me, it is a live album though so i'll cut 'em some slack.

[GypsySorcerer]

Not a fan of this album cover. I never liked the giant "Cousin It" Stevie.

[michelej1]

Today, I passed the Staples center and they had Fleetwood Mac on the Billboard for this summer. They used the same band photo from the SYW tour. I guess the members have decided they want SYW photos etched on their graves.

Anyway, it was good to see that towering picture of them as I passed, but then when the Billboard image changed, it was Taylor Swift and she will be playing Staples for four dates in August. So, I felt jealous and a little sad.

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

I would imagine the proportions of the pics of the various members were not accidental but very carefully negotiated by managers. It establishes Stevie's dominance/prominence/drawing power. Lindsey seems far too diminished however. And really, the two guys whose NAMES are the band's name are teeny.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Not a fan of this album cover. I never liked the giant "Cousin It" Stevie.

That's very funny - the Cousin It reference! I wonder how many people caught the Addams Family reference.

I agree with the comments made by other Ledgies. The design quality is at the level of a high-school amateur or Chris Nicks. The disparate proportions of the band members is a huge graphic flaw. It's just a thrown together mess. I don't understand why a band of their stature puts out product that is so visually inferior. Their tour programs (along with Stevie's solo tour programs) are also really embarrassingly bad.

I see so many other artists who give much more care and attention to their packaging, with really beautifully inspired and innovative, professional quality graphics. It's a huge shame that they (Fleetwood Mac/Stevie/Lindsey) seem totally clueless and careless about that. They just defer to talentless hacks. Any number of Ledgies here could produce exceptional and stunning designs, and we'd do it for free!

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

The photoshopping is laughable.

Hell, I have seen bootlegs that are better packaged than an official release..."Live in Boston" looks like a Jr.High art student pieced it together.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

Hell, I have seen bootlegs that are better packaged than an official release..."Live in Boston" looks like a Jr.High art student pieced it together.

If I had the original images they used for this cover, I could make something more professional in less than 10 minutes.

Did they actually pay someone to do this?

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

If I had the original images they used for this cover, I could make something more professional in less than 10 minutes.

Did they actually pay someone to do this?

I know many a fan who took pictures that would have been a superior cover to the actual artwork used....

Knowing Mick, he payed someone half a quadrillion dollars in Monopoly money for the artwork used