Gentle Giant Octopus' Roger Dean cover: what are the "true" colors?

[moecurlythanu]

^ It would have been even more riveting if they had used rivets to stick the cardboard together.

[Halmyre]

I remember some years ago seeing a CD in a record shop of In The Court of the Crimson King which had a distinctly blue tint instead of the usual red. Didn't appear to be a special edition or anything so might have been a pirate?

[Rajaz]

Maybe this one will be the true Octopus.


Octopus by AI.JPG

[moecurlythanu]

^ AI...aieee!

[Rajaz]

Correct :-)

[Progbear]

This (the "spaceship" Vertigo release) was the version I originally had, and I had no idea it was Roger Dean that did the artwork (since his name appears nowhere in the credits) until years later when someone on the Internet told me. I kind of felt cheated out of not getting the cool die-cut domestic version, but my copy probably had better sound (in those days, I wasn't looking for specific versions in general, I just bought the first copy I found of an album I wanted).

I always thought that the Gentle Giant character resembled John Weathers.

Which is a little funny, as the artwork predates Weathers being a member by a few years.

I remember some years ago seeing a CD in a record shop of In The Court of the Crimson King which had a distinctly blue tint instead of the usual red. Didn't appear to be a special edition or anything so might have been a pirate?

Could be worse. Could be this.