Sunday, 24 April 2016

THE PRAWN TANK

Ever since my old Mum got me the album Squawk by Budgie in the early 1970's I have been aware of bio-vehicles.

The great Roger Dean's cover beautifully blended a bird skull with the body of a Blackbird spy plane, a visual pun if ever there was one. He even made a model of it first as pictured in his gorgeous book Views.


So I was thrilled when I saw this stunning bio-vehicle on the cover of I Romanza di Urania from Italy. It's a prawn tank and somehow it just works!

 The artist [Ceasar?] has made the most of the pinky pallet of the prawn and used the same for the turret. What do you think readers?

5 comments:

  1. Don't forget the cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Tarkus"

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    1. Nice one B! I had forgotten but it's coming back to me, an armoured armadillo?

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  2. Lobster Tank is very Salvador Dali-esque ;)

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  3. Prawn... my bad!

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    1. Lobster takes prawn! Your move! ha ha

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