Just moved our GUITAR Exhibit into the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond!
Thanks to Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh for a great summer installation of GUITAR. And good luck to Orlando Science Center (our first host) with its Star Wars exhibit. In honor of that, here’s the NGM’s Rock Ock 8-neck guitar with Darth Vader, courtesy of Gerard Huerta.
Tracks
: Boston - “Don’t Look Back”.
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A lot of people don’t realize that the image on Boston’s album cover is a gigantic flying guitar with the city of Boston located under a dome on top (technically, the guitar’s back). On 1978’s “Don’t Look Back”, the band’s 2nd album, artist Gary Norman painted the low-flying guitar craft up close enough to see the frets and the gleaming machine heads. If that wasn’t enough, the inside sleeve of the record actually had a blueprint of the Boston craft that showed the guitar craft’s dimensions (in case you wanted to build one yourself).
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The Boston logo emblazoned on the side was courtesy of Gerard Huerta, who did the logos for AC/DC, Ted Nugent, Foreigner, the NGM, and countless others.
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One bit of trivia: Norman’s album art ultimately was copied for the design of Atari’s “Space Invaders” game pack.
