The message from Josh Ryman rises higher:
JR> Without a doubt, _Tormato_ was the point where they got to psychedelic
JR> for their own good. (Though I LOVE that cover art!)
Did you hear the story behind that cover? This comes from an interview
with Jon Anderson that I have on tape somewhere. He said that at the
time they were not a happy band. The cover had been designed to have
something called a "Tor" on it (something like the Egyptian pyramids)
and a man with devining rods looking for water or "magical things", as
Jon put it. Someone in the band was upset at the time and threw a
tomato at the cover. The band decided to take a picture of it and use
that as the cover since it rather described the feelings of the band at
the time.
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