She studies the album jacket, the song list on the back, the odd cover photo.
The music shop owner says he doesn’t know much about the album -- Tormato, by prog-rock band, Yes.
I step in to tell her what I know of the cover.
Critics had been crapping on Yes for some time. When their producer showed them their new album cover, commissioned by an artist who photographed a man in a suit, dowsing with two sticks on the British tors (hills), drummer Alan White cursed, and threw a tomato at the expensive art work. The band decided to include the smashed tomato on the cover, naming the album Tormato. It was a middle finger to the critics who, in any event (they assumed), were going to throw a proverbial rotten tomato at the finished product.
The woman decides to buy the album (for the $3 asking price), if nothing else, for the story.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
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