The.Crimson.King wrote: Roger Dean for me...not only for the album covers but the fantastic Yes stage sets.  The 1st prog concert I saw was Gentle Giant/Yes in '76 and they had the incredible 3 headed hydra stage...fantastic!

Edited by Michael678 - January 28 2015 at 18:11

Roger Dean's definitely done more great covers, but I'll have to go for Whitehead. I love the surrealism, and the covers seem to go better with the music than Dean's (except Relayer). I don't think my life would be quite the same without those VDGG and Genesis artworks (especially Trespass) 

this is one of my favorite covers, don't know who the artist is; the album is great, too.

twosteves wrote: I think Dean has influenced so many people who followed him---not just in art but design in film etc--- James Cameron ripped him off big time in Avatar whether Dean won the lawsuit or not----Cameron is a thief who takes stuff and then acts like he thought of it. Cameron was a Yes fan from childhood and grew up seeing those Dean album covers. That whole thing got me so ......

I never knew that Roger Dean actually put a lawsuit against Cameron... I guess it would be hard to prove anything besides Cameron being influenced by Dean's artwork. However, it would make me thin why Cameron didn't go one step further and get in touch with Roger Dean to design his world? That would have made sense... and I guess it could have worked... very beautifully. And now, coming into a more wishful thinking, and unlikely possibility, he might actually have gotten some Yes related artist to help him with the soundtrack (I still believe prog could do wonders on a film score... you could do the songs, perhaps even poppy songs, for pleasing the audience, and then go into the dramatic music for the action scenes with the same band... and perhaps the very same song).

twosteves wrote: Yes Dellinger--There was a lawsuit and Roger lost---I have heard that Cameron is a notorious stealer of other peoples ideas and then passes them off as his "genius"---if you saw the movie he clearly stole scenic ideas all over the place and surely he has enough money to hire Dean and include him---but he wants to act like he came up with the floating islands for example.

Yeah, I saw the movie. Still, he must have hired someone to design the world and the landscapes... it might just as well have been Roger Dean. And I bet he would have agreed. Obviously I had noted the similarities before, and I had thought since then that it would have been great if Cameron had teamed up with Dean to do the landscape... I didn't really know if he really knew of Dean's work, but now I see it wouldn't have been so far fetched that it could have happened.

Edited by Dellinger - February 01 2015 at 00:36

Sci-fi/Fantasy genre is extremely incestuous. If everyone sued anyone who had a stolen an idea then they would be spending all their time in court and not doing anything. I sense a bit of a James Cameron backlash going on.

haven't seen the book but that cover doesn't say Dean to me

Roger Dean.