![]() “There was something special and risky about albums that did not show the band," said Joe Butler, the drummer for The Lovin' Spoonful. To rockers at the time, the ambiguity of the design worked in its favor. Yet the cover art "gave it a science-fictional feel, as if Martians had landed and took over Earth using a particularly post-apocalyptic guitar tone and frequency." The cover would have become iconic anyway, says Lenny Kaye, the guitarist, author, and Patti Smith collaborator, since the album was an out-of-box success. So we came up with the Earth-blowing-up idea,“ she said. “The first space ship cover idea we showed Scholz had a Boston invasion of the planet, but Scholz said that space ships should be saving the planet, not attacking. She and Epic Records product manager Jim Charney compromised with a guitar-shaped space ship. Take the cover for Boston: Tom Scholz, the band's guitarist and songwriter, wanted a guitar on the cover, which in Scher’s artistic lexicon was a cliché. Yet the album has endured: The guitar-ship has been repeated on subsequent records and as backdrops on concert stages.Īlbum images don't always turn out as planned-their popularity is often a matter of timing. The Matrix Resurrections Is a Self-Aware Sequel David Sims ![]()
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