-- This was in a message from Clark Ray to Josh Ryman --
CR> Did you hear the story behind that cover?  This comes from an
CR> interview
CR> with Jon Anderson that I have on tape somewhere.  He said that at
CR> the
CR> time they were not a happy band.  The cover had been designed to
CR> have
CR> something called a "Tor" on it (something like the Egyptian
CR> pyramids)
CR> and a man with devining rods looking for water or "magical
CR> things", as
CR> Jon put it.  Someone in the band was upset at the time and threw a
CR> tomato at the cover.  The band decided to take a picture of it
CR> and use
CR> that as the cover since it rather described the feelings of the
CR> band at
CR> the time.
Whoa, cool!  It makes a statement, I'd say.  I was wondering how they came up 
with that...
Too bad the album itself has to be on the lame side.
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