But, boy was I in heaven!
As a fan of mid-sixties garage bands I had spent the previous twenty years buying compilation LPs of obscure tracks. Now here was an opportunity to make my own nearly commercial grade comps!
But what good are CD-Rs without artwork to stuff in their jewel cases?
PowerPoint to the rescue!
Here are some random examples of inserts I've slapped together.
One category of comps are the ones I assemble by either transferring tracks from vinyl or cassettes or downloading from other "sixties-geek" websites. I usually just pick a song title from whatever group I've assembled and use that to name the collection-of-the-moment.
I like to use as much white space as possible to save on the old ink cartridge. It also looks "cleaner" to my eye.
Another category is where a fellow garage band enthusiast has created his own collection of tacks, but might not have done any artwork.
Once again, PowerPoint to the rescue!
Note: The bassist on the "World Without Fuzz" cover has a Vox violin-shaped bass just like one I used to own.In looking around my hard drive, I found an insert that I ultimately didn't use. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it.
An Internet acquaintance (hi, Lee!) had published the artwork from a mid-sixties Tom & Jerry story and I thought that would pretty funny to use for one of my comps:
Somehow, It must not have filled the bill because I ultimately made new artwork and retitled the same collection of tracks:
Yes, I am a nerd.
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