[Buying the albums sampled on "Picnic"].
It may be recalled from an earlier post, “Joy of a Toy (2)” I think, that I first acquired “Shooting at the Moon” at precisely the same time as I got “Joy of a Toy”. This was because I bought these together as a rereleased double album comprising the two LPs.
However, I was later able to pick up, for 20p (GBP 0.20), from a charity fair, an original copy of “Shooting at the Moon” [SHSP 4005]. The front cover has a deep blue background on which silver features are stencilled out. The central thing is a large circle, containing a picture of an archer standing on one leg and shooting an arrow from a modern recurve bow straight up, vertically, towards the moon, which is directly above him. Around the outside of the top of the circle is the name of the LP, and below the circle: “KEVIN AYERS AND THE WHOLE WORLD”.
The back cover has black and white photos of the 5 chaps in the band, being KA, David Bedford, Lol Coxhill, Mick Fincher and Mike Oldfield. Between the snaps of Lol and Mick is, in colour, Rupert Bear.
More of this back cover next time.
