I drove over to Roy Brizio Street Rods in South San Francisco today, to give Roy his copy of ROCKIN'. He was really pleased with the book, and that made me feel terrific.
Roy has built rods for Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, as you'll when you get to pages 230 - 231.
Roy had a surprise for me. In his back lot, he has Neil Young's white '57 Cadillac Biarritz (he may be putting in a new motor for Neil). This car is shown on page 161, as it was the subject of a famous promo poster for Neil's TRANS album in 1985. Neil is holding a white Gretsch guitar in the poster shot.
Darrell Mayabb, who illustrated ROCKIN's front cover, used Neil's poster as an inspiration (substituting a red Fender guitar), but also decided (in the spirit of rock & roll improvisation) to base the cover on a '58 Biarritz. You can see in the two photos (with Roy holding both the open pagespread and the cover) the difference between the years: the '58 has dual front headlights, different style under-bumper signal lights, and a chrome strip. Same beautiful "Dagmar's" tho!
I just autographed copies of ROCKIN' for Neil and Eric--and I'll be excited to relate what they have to say.
4 comments:
How's that for kismet? The car that provided the inspiration for Darrell's killer cover art is at Brizio's the day you bring him a book. Unbelievable.
Signer,
Yer Editor
You can see in the two photos (with Roy holding both the open pagespread and the cover) the difference between the years: the '58 has dual front headlights, different style under-bumper signal lights, and a chrome strip.
You can see in the two photos (with Roy holding both the open pagespread and the cover) the difference between the years.
replica bags buy online a15 r6e23g7b65 gucci replica bags c76 s8v94m3d26 Ysl replica bags x56 p9l06k7a17
Post a Comment