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echo: 60s_70s_progrock
to: CLARK RAY
from: SCOTT RHODES
date: 1996-10-02 23:31:00
subject: Re: SILLY QUESTION...?

 CR> Did you hear the story behind that cover?  This comes from an
 CR> interview with Jon Anderson that I have on tape somewhere.  He said
 CR> that at the time they were not a happy band.  The cover had been
 CR> designed to have something called a "Tor" on it (something like the
 CR> Egyptian pyramids) 
Actually, a tor is simply a type of hill.
 CR> and a man with devining rods looking for water or
 CR> "magical things", as Jon put it.  
Typical Jon Anderson.
 CR> Someone in the band was upset at the
 CR> time and threw a tomato at the cover.  
Probably Wakeman. :-)
 CR> The band decided to take a
 CR> picture of it and use that as the cover since it rather described the
 CR> feelings of the band at the time.
Interestingly, Rolling Stone described the cover as looking like critics
had gotten ahold of it before the shrinkwrap was put on.  It seems that
for once, RS actually said something vaguely resembling the truth.
 
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