No Bozos on Sublime Album Cover

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No Bozos on Sublime Album Cover

The popular album cover for Sublime's self-titled album featuring singer Bradley Nowell's tattoo is actually a photograph taken by tattoo artist Opie Ortiz after he finished working on the piece for Bradley. It's not uncommon at all for a tattoo artist to take a photograph of the finished work. However, very few of such photos end up becoming iconic album covers.

The original album cover was supposed to feature the slobbish clown watching TV in his underwear. However, this piece was moved inside the CD booklet when the band decided to go with Opie's photo in honor of Brad after his passing.

"The original album art for Self Titled, it was an idea that we were gonna do this clown sitting in a chair, and it's like a fat clown. He's relaxing in his lounge chair with his drugs or whatever looking out the window and that was gonna be the album art...

And then what happened with Brad's passing is we had changed it to the picture that I'd tooken of the tattoo with the floral border pattern and then we moved the clown to the inside of the cd jacket." - Opie Ortiz, Sublime (Behind The Cover), TheofficialSublime, YouTube (Jul 30, 2021)