Indiana wants me

September 20th, 2009 in Art and Artists, Rock, Types and Fonts by lpcoverlover | 6 Comments

“Blues Helping”   Love Sculpture   Rare Earth Records (1967)   Love Sculpture was a British band that formed in Cardiff in 1966 out of the remnants of another local band called The Human Beans. The band, featuring lead guitarist Dave Edmunds (Right), John Williams on bass, and drummer Bob “Congo” Jones disbanded in 1970 after two LPs, this is their first. (Edmunds then went on to success with the number one song “I Hear You Knocking” and “I Knew the Bride (When She Used To Rock and Roll)” and then with Nick Lowe formed the band Rockpile.)

“Blues Helping” is pretty straight forward British blues rock with covers of “Summertime,” “Wang Dang Doodle,” and “Shake Your Hips”

Below is Robert Indiana’s “Love Sculpture” located on the corner of 6th Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan, NY.

Below is the album cover for “Renegade” by Rage Against The Machine which parodies the “Love” sculpture.   (Neither Robert Indiana nor Rage have any other connection with the “Blues Healing” LP that started this ramble.   None that I know of that is.)

(40 votes, average: 3.05 out of 5)

 Loading ...

6 Comments

1. #1 Pat Darnell and Friends says:
   September 20th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

   That is the Leaning O above, and the Tired G below… see also Enron, and Dell for the crooked E companies. Funny stuff lpcoverlover. Exxon was called the Double Cross Company after they spent millions renaming themselves.

   I am here because Pribek.net challenged us to figure out who that “grinning guitarist” is on the cover photo of the “Love Sculpture Blues Helping.”
   ‘thought you might like that one…

   Pribek.net

2. #2 Scotty G. says:
   September 21st, 2009 at 10:16 am

   Ramble on, rage on!

3. #3 Mike M. says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm

   I believe Dave Edmunds is on the right, and the photo of that LOVE sculpture is New York. Great site!

4. #4 lpcoverlover says:
   September 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 am

   Thanks Mike, I knew that, really, just got dyslexic for a minute. Thanks too for the photo correction, I didn’t realize that there are versions of this same sculpture in cities all around the world.

5. #5 calzone! says:
   September 24th, 2009 at 4:01 am

   LOVE is…never having to say you’re sorry. I saw that in a movie.

6. #6 Curt Lundgren says:
   October 4th, 2023 at 2:19 pm

   The band did a 90 mph cover of Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance” in 1968. Mid-charting single in the U.S.