Picture Set Of The Month - May - Images By Neon Park

'Marlene Goes To Tunisia' a late work by 
Neon Park (1940 - 1993) an American illustrator
 who was more famous for designing the covers
of all but the first album by Little Feat   

This image of the inside of a gatefold sleeve
of a Little Feat album (I don't know which)
is a less known work by Neon Park

'Golden Slippers' here dates from 1985, when
 Neon Park was two years into his sensing
a decreasing adaptability with his hands
in the 1990s he could no longer paint
with the finesse he was known for
and accepting being a writer who wrote
as a one fingered typist 'search and stab' style. 

'City Lights' is a 1978 album by Dr John,
on which Doc Pomus co-writes two songs
with the good doctor. And with Dr John on fine form
as piano player, hear a track here, the cover
by Neon Park gives it the finishing touch.   

 

Picture Set of The Month - May

'Waiting for Columbus' 1978 Little Feat live release, 
sleeve design by Neon Park (1940-93)  

Original sleeve design for 'Weasels Ripped My Flesh'
By The Mothers of Invention 1969 as transcribed to a gable end.
More work by Neon Park, it was visual work like this that made
him and Frank Zappa continually shocking and therefore relevant.  

'Hoy-Hoy' by Little Feat, a 1981 album of out-takes demos
rarities and live cuts that closed the Lowell George era
of the band as if the band were still a going concern 
(they were....  it would take time to discover it though).