Hidden Findings discovered in Backspacer Cover (Updated)

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  • pleatherman
    pleatherman Posts: 472
    So, there is still no exact match on some of the first frame, on the legs in the red dress and on the meaning behind the Seattle picture.
    Are we still assuming that each picture represents a song on the album?

    I read Tom Tomorrow put the Empire State Lady "amongst the waves" without even knowing Eddie was writing that song. Of course, Johnny Guitar is the obvious one. The rest may or may not be more implicit, depending if the lyric sheets and album package reveal anything. I've looked endlessly for the locomotive but it's just one dead end after another. By now, we have an entire think tank looking for those legs.
  • igotid_8
    igotid_8 Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 510
    One of the all time great threads - thanks everyone!

    For what it's worth, I just got the Fixer 45, and the two circles in the corners (PJ and Backspacer) DO glow in the dark.

    Wonder if certain images on the LP will light up and shed some light (pun intended) on the mystery.
    2000 Columbus, Pittsburgh
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    2009 Chicago
    2010 Cleveland
    2013 Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 Detroit
    2016 Tampa, Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2018 Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2022 Hamilton
    2023 Chicago 1, Chicago 2, Austin 1, Austin 2
    2024 Las Vegas 1, Las Vegas 2, Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2025 Pittsburgh1, Pittsburgh 2
  • igotid_8
    igotid_8 Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 510
    The mystery of the little red dress now solved...

    Sandy-Orphan-Annies-Dog.jpg
    2000 Columbus, Pittsburgh
    2003 Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus
    2004 Toledo
    2005 Hamilton, Pittsburgh
    2006 Cleveland, Auburn Hills, Pittsburgh
    2009 Chicago
    2010 Cleveland
    2013 Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 Detroit
    2016 Tampa, Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2018 Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2022 Hamilton
    2023 Chicago 1, Chicago 2, Austin 1, Austin 2
    2024 Las Vegas 1, Las Vegas 2, Wrigley 1, Wrigley 2
    2025 Pittsburgh1, Pittsburgh 2
  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    If you want to go ahead and make a separate thread about this news - go ahead. I feel like a stalker if I do! ;)

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    September 9th, 2009
    Tom Tomorrow:
    It’s only rock and roll

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    From today’s Apple press event. Via.

    posted by Tom Tomorrow at 2:00 PM
    JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
    EV: It's your band.
    ~Q Magazine


    "Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    IamMine wrote:
    If you want to go ahead and make a separate thread about this news - go ahead. I feel like a stalker if I do! ;)

    _______________________________________________________________________________

    http://thismodernworld.com/4896

    September 9th, 2009
    Tom Tomorrow:
    It’s only rock and roll

    appleevent.jpg

    From today’s Apple press event. Via.

    posted by Tom Tomorrow at 2:00 PM

    cool shit! what is that!?
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  • Tenzing N.
    Tenzing N. Posts: 466
    I think this thread might come back alive soon...
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,331
    DiRtyFranK38 wrote:

    cool shit! what is that!?
    Steve Jobs threw it up on the screen during yesterday's(?) Apple Music Event. Bill Gates will probably go with REO Speedwagon when he unveils the next Zune :mrgreen: . Yeah, I'm a Mac snob.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • pickupyourwill
    pickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    igotid_8 wrote:
    The mystery of the little red dress now solved...

    Sandy-Orphan-Annies-Dog.jpg

    lol!!
  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    LOL
  • mattcoz
    mattcoz Chicago Posts: 2,243
    Dark Star wrote:
    But check out the Moon Kit below! ;)

    http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/drums/1966_moon-red-sparkle-kit.jpg

    http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/drums/equip-moondrums-65.html

    Ahh, that makes so much sense! :)
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Man what the Hell is This? I started at the beginning thumbing through this thread not realizing how many pages it had. Ledderman10 told me about it after I posted how I liked his Johnny Guitar Watson toon avatar. He sent me here and how I wished I had jumped in from the beginning.

    This was amazing and I love mysteries and so do many of you :D !

    Anyway here's JGW live of whom I saw back in NYC. Hell of an entertainer, funkmaster and guitarist.

    Vedder was inspired to write the lyrics for "Johnny Guitar" after viewing a collage of album covers that is pasted on the bathroom wall of the band's rehearsal space. He noticed the album cover for Johnny "Guitar" Watson's 1979 album, What the Hell Is This?, and imagined a man who becomes attracted to one of the various women on the cover and then wonders why this woman would rather be one of Watson's many girlfriends instead of his only one.


    Johnny *GUITAR* Watson A Real Mother For Ya

    J *GUITAR* W Gangster Of Love

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

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  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    :mrgreen:

    I am so glad to be still reading some more good stuff.... I will be sad to see this end when we all get our CDs/LPs.... fun over here, at least for this thread. :cry:
    JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
    EV: It's your band.
    ~Q Magazine


    "Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
  • Dark Star
    Dark Star Posts: 496
    doompony wrote:
    someone please find the red legs. i can't keep searching for 1960s movie moments...

    I almost thought she could possibly be from "Attack of the 50 ft. Woman" but I couldn't find any shots showing if she wore heels in the movie.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Dark Star wrote:
    doompony wrote:
    someone please find the red legs. i can't keep searching for 1960s movie moments...

    I almost thought she could possibly be from "Attack of the 50 ft. Woman" but I couldn't find any shots showing if she wore heels in the movie.

    I'm pretty sure she was barefooted.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Hey just heard *Got Some* on ESPN Sportscenter

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • pazman
    pazman Posts: 197
    BEST THREAD EVER!
    Loving it
    I had it all once I gave it back
  • broloco
    broloco Posts: 1,237
    so just throwing it out that I love the fact that all the pictures hark "back" to another time ...
    backspacing it to years ago. I know that technically the word backspacer doesn't have to do with back-in-time, but still having the word "back" in there helps with the visuals for me. the images perfectly match the title because the title is associated with another thing from back in time (typewriters).

    1st panel: 1950s-1960s gives off a Stand By Me vibe, and has the old steam engine locomotive
    2nd panel: 1960s those models sold as toys back in the day
    3rd: 1920s
    4th: 1940s-1950s
    5th: 1800s - 1950s
    6th: 1960s-70s
    7th: 1970s
    8th: 1940s

    and the whole "comics" look harks back to another time as well. at least when I think of comics I think of older times when kids used to read them religiously before tv.
    Tom being as old as he is was the perfect artist for this job! job well done~
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I am loving this thread.

    I have wracked my brains trying to think of a contemporary poster for the 3rd set of legs (to go with Raquel Welch and Ursula Andress). One that hadn't been mentioned that I remembered being popular around that time was Barbarella (Jane Fonda) so I tried looking at posters from that, since I didn't really remember exactly what it looked like. Wasn't even close:

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    I'll keep thinking about it.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    Bump.
    I've loved following this.
    Has anyone thought that the legs in red dress could be someone futuristic?
    We have legs from BC, then legs from Bond.
    Could it be some sort of timeline thing?
  • HeavyHands
    HeavyHands Posts: 2,131
    edited September 2009
    Jo wrote:
    Bump.
    I've loved following this.
    Has anyone thought that the legs in red dress could be someone futuristic?
    We have legs from BC, then legs from Bond.
    Could it be some sort of timeline thing?

    You mean like Uhura (sp?) form Star Trek? Futuristic and from the 60's/70's at the same time, no?

    I was thinking Diana Ross or Tina Turner myself. I almost found it on the cover of "Tina Live" but the feet are in the wrong position.
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