Favorite character from Miles Davis "On the Corner" album cover

if you need more info here is another shot of most of the same folks

http://www.music-graffiti.com/images-miles-cd/img_miles-davis-on-the-corner-b.jpg

I call green suit "Sherman Helmsley"

Always thought he looked like Al Sharpton. And "Vote Miles" = Sly Stone

easy choice, plaid hat.

this thread is

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"Free Me" for sure. Curious how come his giant "SOUL" pin isn't visible on the front cover, though...

such a weird cover, but perfect in some strange way.

Lester Bangs listed this and Water Babies (along with "any Journey cover") among the worst album covers of all time in the 1981 Book of Rock Lists.

"Corky McCoy's my best friend. I just called him up and told him what to do. In fact, he was afraid to do it, and I... you know, look at those covers, man. He just lives it. Black life! It's different from white life, Chinese life, whatever. My life's different from yours."

lester bangs is full of shit (in this case at least). love this cover and water babies. wish miles saved the water babies art for one of his weirder albums though

feel like i have to go with "free me" but i kind of really love green suit

sad that yellow shirt's abs are not on the cover

there are also these folks:

http://yattonda.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/kubo/image/Miles20Davis2019720920On20The20Corner_Na.JPG

and these

http://yattonda.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/kubo/image/Miles20Davis2019720920On20The20Corner_Nb.JPG

McCoy also did the covers for In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall and Big Fun.

https://1nnerspaceboy.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/miles-davis-big-fun.jpg

Now that I remember it, Bangs mentioned those also. Dunno why he hated Corky McCoy, but he definitely loved those records.

yea i love all these covers, philharmoinc one especially. big fun might be my least favorite of mccoy's.

he did a funkadelic cover too, "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On"

Really? I thought that was Pedro Bell.

yeah McCoy did not do a Funkadelic cover, esp not THAT cover

i could be wrong, blame wikipedia

Other illustration works

McCoy created the cover art for the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (1974) by the band Funkadelic. He also created the cover art for the album Fresh Mode, released by a hip-hop group Ugly Duckling, in 1999.

McCoy created illustrations for comedian Tim Meadows' 2000 book The Ladies Man: Sexin' and Lovin' Leon Phelps Style, co-written with Andrew Steele and Dennis McNicholas (ISBN 9781575001876). The book was released in connection with the Tim Meadows comedy film The Ladies Man, that featured a character with the same 1970s street-funk aesthetic associated with McCoy's album covers for Davis.
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haha what that is totally not right

I just wish they still made the In Concert t-shirts.

I mean for one thing that sleeve is signed w Bell's name on it, looks like all of his other sleeves for Funkadelic, contains handwritten liner notes similar to all of his other sleeves for Funkadelic (signed as Sir Lleb of Funkadelia), and bears no resemblance to McCoy's other work.

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c'mon now it's obvious whose work this is:
http://www.slothy.com/pfunk/albums/stand1.gif
http://www.funkyparts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SVGinside.jpg

(one of my favorite sleeves of all time btw)

Related: Tiki Fulwood was Miles' drummer for a very brief period in 1972.

huh I did not know I could edit wikipedia pages! magic

lol, correcting the record, nice work

http://www.lactualite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/miles-in-concert-int.jpg

yes! i was looking for that. so columbia records people had a hard time with all these guys cartoons apparently

I need a Foot Fooler record

Vote for Miles guy because I've found myself mumbling 'Vote for Miles' out loud over the years.

lol 'tall woman'

Is Yellow Shirt coded gay, it seems like he is? And Tall Woman looks like she has one of those "clothes painted on skin" outfits, not proper clothes.

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Sly Stone Vote Miles guy seems to be having the most fun, although I like Free Me's electric trumpet

FREE ME

There's a woman on the OFF side who isn't on the ON side (flowery top, pink shoes). I vote her.

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otm

yes i like these results!

good turnout imo

I used to have a copy of the gatefold version (gave it to friend as a gift LIKE AN IDIOT), which had the extra characters inside, including the one that became the iconic Troubleman Records logo. Don't know that I'd have voted for it, just pointing out that there's even more potential candidates.
http://pixhst.com/avaxhome/4f/da/0015da4f_medium.jpeg

Troubleman Unlimited, I mean

i love the dude in the dashiki on that gatefold

oh damn I didn't see this poll it is the best poll

who gets your vote rev?

also i am psyched that two "on the corner" threads have been hovering at the top of sna today

too difficult xp