45 RPM Record Sleeves
Cheap Trick
A few Cheap Trick 45 RPM record sleeves include images of 12-string basses either on the front or back cover. The band was using a 12-string bass on recordings at the time when 45 RPM records were rapidly declining in popularity and being phased out in favor of cassette tapes.
12-String Bass on the Front Cover
12-String Bass on the Back Cover
The 45 RPM sleeve for ‘I Want You To Want Me / Look Out’ from 1979 exists in a number of different varieties depending upon the country in which it was printed. All show the At Budokan album and Hamer Quad 12-string bass.
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam released this 45 rpm record in 2010, it includes the songs “Unthought Known” and “Amongst the Waves” which were recorded live in 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. Only 2,500 of these 45’s were produced. The cover shows Jeff Ament’s Hamer B12A 12-string bass in mid-leap.
LP Albums
Cheap Trick
Hamer Quad 12-string bass is included in this ‘Metropolitan’ photo from the Heaven Tonight LP album.