| Steve Power did a great job on the cover using a picture of me from the Manuels River Trail. Unfortuanately this was put together just before I left to get back to school and I didn't have the resources to make copies of this for all the albums. If I had it would have been cheap looking and not done Steve's work any justice. So in keeping with the ideas that this was a very live album, simply put together and independent, a new album cover was designed. This one was plain white with the words Bare Bones in the center. I really liked the title Tin Men, but it just didn't work with this new design. I wanted to save it for something cooler. The night before the release party, when I was rushing around trying to get everything done, an artist friend of mine, Pat Canning, offered to do some on -the-spot lettering for the cover. He came up with a very cool looking boney text, but troubles with photocopiers meant that I couldn't use it without Pat having to do each one individually. Doing the covers in basic letters was much easier. Since the back cover was a little more elaborate, with track listing, thank yous, etc, these were photocopied. More trouble with the machines meant I couldn't double side the copies. So each back side had to be glued on to the front side. It took a while, but everything came together in the end in time for the release... |
