BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest

Subject: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:31 PM

Well, well, well...

I thought I had someone lines up to do the cover art and design fir my upcoming CD but, alsss, looks as if tshe ain't gonna work out so...

...hey, lookin' fir someone who'd like to give it a shot... The hours are long but the pay...

... is lousy.

But seriously, this is the real deal and I don't wnat no handdrawn thing that looks like crap... and I ain't too smart with pudder stuff an' all an' I sho nuff gibve crdit where credit it due on the CD and maybe dedercate.... ahhh, prolly not... the CD to the cover artsit.... But, hey, you'll get recognition, fir gosh sakes...

Plus you willbe part of one happenin' CD...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:35 PM

I've done a few. A couple here.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:43 PM

Whatever floats yer boat...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: jimmyt
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:43 PM

might I recommend a pen and ink like some of Cluin's work but including the Pedestrians? Might be a big seller with EJ, Gutbucketeer and myself for sheer male beauty. Just a suggestion.......ah, the hell with it, I know you won't include us.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:49 PM

Some nice danged stuff, Cluin, even if I din't take the time (dial up) to look at everything....

Ahhhhh, I'z poor...

(No, BObert, you ain't poor... What the heck gets into you???)

Nevermind... I ain't gotta a lot of money to throw at this project but I want it to look okay...

So like, let's cut the crapola.... Whatz yer take???

Tell ya what I propose.... I'll do 12 of my "(((o))))V(((o)))'s" over the next 12 months if you do it and then you will have a place fir Cluin to shine, where only Cluin shines... Okay, maybe some other folks got lucky... But you shined!!!

Hey, that's a heck of a deal, ain't it???

Unless, of course, Van Gogh applies fir the job....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:53 PM

Male beauty, jimmyt???

No such thing... Nasty lookin' things but hey..

... the womenz love us... Or at least that's their collective story???

Go figure??? Thay got lousy tastes... I mean, just look at 'um... the worst of 'um looks 110 times better than the best of the men folk...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:54 PM

I think a picture of a stick figure holding a Stella guitar from the middle 1960s would be perfectly representative.

Or better yet, one of those blackface minstrels is even better. It says, here's a CD by a white guy who is trying to act black.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:57 PM

I liked the anal concept.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:58 PM

Yeah, I liked that one best, also.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,On looker
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 09:59 PM

"I liked the anal concept."

Well, an asshole would, wouldn't he? Make a few of you guys feel right at home.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:01 PM

Fine...

Both Martin Gibson and last Guest are definately outtta the runnin' but maybe they could hook up in some dark alley fir a little fun 'n games... But please, no posts about it an', fir gosh sakes, no piccures...

So far, Cliun is runnin' in 1st...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:06 PM

Bobert,

I wish you every success with the CD. There are so many talented folks on the Mudcat that someone will be able to give you a hand with it. I hope the best for you on it.

You guys who are degenerating a musician's request for assistance from fellow musicians/artists should maybe take a second look at what you're doing. This is no way to treat someone, regardless of your differences.

There is no place for this here. Not this kind of shit. Take it outside. Fuckin' sad day when this happens.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:07 PM

Pardon my language.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:09 PM

Bobert. What the heck is this thread doing in BS? You getting too much aluminium in your diet?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:10 PM

Hey, Peace, forgive them because they know not of what they are doing... They are not musicans...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:16 PM

Hey, cool, Bobert! Give it a few days, see if you get any other better nibbles maybe closer to home, then if you still want to, you cam PM me and we can work something out. Always like to work with a fellow musician.

And there are ways to do things economically and still look good. Our country blues/alt coutry trio is planning to knock out a 5 song demo this winter to get a few more festival gigs next year and we're planning a cheap-as-we-can-get-away-with approach. It helps that our bass player's cousin has set up a studio in his basement since moving back home from his operation in Toronto.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:17 PM

Sorry, Bobert. Album covers are a touchy subject with me. I got to see one 'after' its release, one for which I still take ridicule, and I understand the importance of getting it right the first time. I also know how much love, effort--hell, just plain hard work go into the production of a finished product.

Musicians do NOT slag other musicians in this manner. IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:20 PM

Just saw Cluin's post. He has talent comin' out the yin-yang. (He's one crazy sonuvagun, but brilliant.) Did I mention he's crazy? But, brilliant. AND, you'd have the added bonus of a CANADIAN doing your cover. Like, how cool is that?!

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:42 PM

Contest OVER!!!!

We have a winner....

(drum roll...)

Hey, I don't care if yer Michaelangello, if Cluin want's in on this one, he's in!!!!

As fir the musican wantabee's who respnded, sorry Charlie, here's a quarter, go stick it in the juke box....

Hey, Cluin, welcome aboard... Gonna be fun... Ain't got everything mastered yet but it's gonna be mostly me playin' various guitars, all recorded over 4 days in Mississippi...

But some sho nuff kickbutt North Mississippi Hillstomp Blues...

Bobert (Sidewalk Bob)

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:48 PM

Hour and eleven minutes from when this thread started until you guys got it worked out. Jaysus, I love this place.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 10:49 PM

*thumbs up*

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 11:03 PM

Ditto, Cluin... check yer PM's...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 11:06 PM

Kewl, but Bobert, having been the lucky recipient of some of your own artwork, I am surprised you aren't doing it yourself! Cluin, your stuff is beautiful!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 05 - 11:24 PM

Thanks, Kat, but I ain't exactly in a good place fir doin' much art right now....

Plus, hey, Iz allready put a ot into this thing and jus need some help....

Luvya....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 12:47 AM

Hey, Bobert and Cluin, is there any merit to my idea of incorporating in the cover the Getaway 2005 photo of Bobert in all his finery and with the soulful, professorial look on his face? Just a thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 01:35 AM

Good idea Bobert, Cluin 's artwork is really good and CarolC and Alice are excellent artists as well and there probably are a whole bunch of others hiiding out there too.

Even the oddest things on Mudcat can be an excellent source of inspiration for other forms of art besides music. I did the artwork and concept for a CD titled Agents For Beehive, almost entirely based on this Mudcat thread and one of the cuts on the album. The band initially wasn't headed exactly in that direction regarding the cover, but they went with my idea, for good or ill. LOL

Good luck with your album.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 08:09 AM

Well I'm a King Bee, Baby
Buzzin' 'round yer hive'
Oh, I'm a King Bee, Baby
Buzzin' 'round yer hive
We can make honey, Baby
But yer gonna have to let me on inside...

(Slim Harpo)

Ahhhh, heck of an idea, Ebbie...

Ahhhh, anyone have a decent shot of me at the mini concert in my *blues-suit*???

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 11:56 AM

ah.....I was sort of thinking more along the lines of diodes and antennas Bobert and communicating with others, but that's the thing about communication via art, everyone takes from it what they want, within the context of their own life experiences and at their own different levels of perception....and sometimes on levels which the original artist wasn't entirely intending. LOL

Its what makes life and people interesting and if the artist manages to do it right, hopefully the art too.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 12:17 PM

You'll find them Here, Beaubear.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: DougR
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 05:28 PM

I've got an idea, Bobert, why don't you put up say $10,000 as a prize? You probably would get more entries in your design contest than you can shake a stick at!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 05:54 PM

I'd second Ebbie's idea. There were some cracking photos of you taken at the Getaway.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: gnu
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 06:14 PM

Wow Cluin!!!! WOW!!!

BTW... let me take this opportunity to address whassisname. And, how appropriate on this thread. T'was not long ago that Bobert challenged this insignificant piece of crap to a musical duel and he ran away like a frightened child. He seems to have girded himself with a coat of mail for his return to revel in his own filth at the expense of all who are mannered. Roll in your own shit and die... coward.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 08:22 PM

But, gnu, he made the right decission 'cause anyone who attended my mini-concert will tell ya' that had he shown up, he would have got embarassed... Me an' my Tumbleweed homies sould have beat up on the boy in a bad way...

No brag just fact...


Ahhhh, Ebbie, I din't see but tweo pics of me and niethjer lo9oks like CD cover stuff... Anyone get any piccures with my hair lookin; fuller and darker??? Jus' funnin'...

But really, neither of them two does much fir me fir a cover... Any others floatin' 'round? I know there were alot of folks taking piccures 'cause of them flashy things goin' off... Lot more than two, fir sure...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 08:24 PM

"'cause of them flashy things goin' off"

Keriste--I thought that was age catchin' up with me, like hot flashes or somethin'.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 08:30 PM

Vitamin E, Bruce.... Lot's o' Vitamin E....

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 08:41 PM

Thank you. Found this on a site. Looks pretty cool. I'll give it a try. Vitamin E

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 08:48 PM

Ah. NOW I see why I am never hired to do covers! In my opinion, the closer up photo of you, Bobert, is a fine fit for a CD cover, along with maybe a banner above saying something like 'Listen to the Bluesman'.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 10:13 PM

Not true, gnu or bobert. I told you already that I had a gig that night of my own that paid quite well, and quite frankly, bobert is small potatoes, and I hate playing the blues anyway.

So to paraphrase your own words, fuck off and die.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 10:30 PM

Yeah, that's exactly what you would have done if you had showed, MG... Like were'd ya' play... The local nursin' home??? Hey, I play 'um now and then myself but not fir nuthin' but the enjoyment of the residents...

Face it, MG, you ain't in yer element with real musicans... Maybe if ya' take the trainin' wheels off yer wind-up fake guitar, you'll get there but right now??? Nah....

'Bout everyone who was at the Getaway would have beat you in the Battle of the Bands... No, make that everyone...

Opps... Hey, the camp staff don't count...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 11:09 PM

Martin Gibson is indulging in fantasies again. His gig "that paid quite well" was hiding under his bed in fear and trying to keep from peeing his pants.

All of his performances are in the Carnegie Hall of his imagination.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 11:32 PM

Ouch!!!

You hear that Martin??? Seems that folks is payin' you not to play...

Get it yet???

Carnegie Hall???? Hmmmmmmm... There's drugs and there's, ahhhhh, gooder drugs...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: dianavan
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 11:55 PM

Well, Bobert, if that climbing hyacinth would have bloomed I could have taken a photo and sent it to you. It would have been real pretty and blue, too. I guess its just too cold in Vancouver. I think it needs that sultry, southern climate to flower.

Better yet, they could super-impose an image of you climbing up the stalk. Sort of like you're climbing a beanstalk to heaven. The background could be Jefferson's plantation.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 12:08 AM

Bobert, you're gonna hafta get someone other than Cluin to to it! He's never gonna do anything but link to bad album art for the rest of his life!

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: KT
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 02:48 AM

Bobert, if you PM me your email address, I 'll send you a good picture.      

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 09:28 AM

Question about the CD cover, Bobert: are you going to do your own spelling?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Peace
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 11:26 AM

leeneia,

I was going to ask that but didn't quite know how to broach the subject with my friend. He woulda driven Webster to drink. In fact, sometimes his spelling drives me to drink--for which I will remain eternally grateful (thank you, WC).

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,A
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 02:57 PM

I am new here - was this a serious request for cover art?
I thought this was a non-music section.

Peace, why the outrage when the posting is done in an incorrect section and based on all the other 'stuff' I have seen in this area,
commentary would appear to be at the option of the poster. I'm not apologizing, just inquiring.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 03:57 PM

Oh, Peace, I think we all know that Bobert has two different spelling systems, one conventional and one his very own, and that he chooses between them at will.

Kinda like "The Three Faces of Eve" don't you think?

Bobert: don't worry about the 3-chord blues songs. I do songs with only 2 chords or sometimes 1.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: number 6
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 04:03 PM

'If you play more than 2 chords, your showing off'

... Woody Guthrie said that

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's CD Cover Design Contest
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 04:48 PM

I think a nekkid Bobert, his guitar discretely positioned.

And since it's a blues album, he should be painted blue.