Second Opinion

[Fenderman]

Can someone tell me where the cover for the Marvin, Welch & Farrar LP 'Second Opinion' was taken? It looks like a dried up riverbed, i assume it's somewhere abroad.
Theres another picture on the inside cover that looks like it was taken on a boathouse or something.

[ecca]

That's always intrigued me as well....

[Ivan Pongracic Jr]

I'd love to find out, as well. A striking photo, for sure. The people behind the cover (as well as the s/t MW&F album, the M&F album, and I believe Rockin' With Curly Leads and Specs Appeal as well) went under the name Hipgnosis. They were also behind many of the iconic Pink Floyd covers (as well as a bunch of other stuff). I was just watching the newly released documentary on the making of Floyd's Wish You Were Here from '75, so the same period as these other albums I mentioned, and in there the band members talk about the main guy behind Hipgnosis and how he would always want to go to the most remote and exotic areas to shoot the photos for the covers, and how expensive it was as well as what a bother it was! I bet you that would apply in the case of this cover....

[chas]

Reminds me of salt flats - Bonneville?

[chas]

Just looked at the cover for the first time in awhile - too dark, must be a river bed.

[nivram106]

I have a feeling it was somewhere in Holland. I'm sure the question was in either Shadsfax or SCOFA at the time of release. Am I correct? someone must know for sure.

Jim

[JimN]

I have a feeling it was somewhere in Holland. I'm sure the question was in either Shadsfax or SCOFA at the time of release. Am I correct? someone must know for sure.

Neither Shadsfax nor the SCOFA magazine was anywhere near running at the time of release of that 1971 LP. The SCOFA mag started in the mid-eighties (I have most editions) and I have an idea that Shadsfax started only in the very late 1990s or perhaps even the 21st century.

I tried to Google the answer - no luck so far, but there is a site http://www.hopgnosiscovers.com which references an excellent image of the cover in question, as well as a couple of hundred others.



JN

[martcaster]

It was taken at Saltmarsh Flats near Billingham when MW & F were doing a week at Stockton's Fiesta Nightclub.
Love to all,
Mart.

[RayL]

Ah, so they're looking for the stars that fell on Stockton?

Ray

[ecca]

We had a sewerage works at Bescot that looked like this.
The dare, when we were kids was who could walk the furthest into it before it turned into sloppy......erm......stuff.