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

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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

Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link

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

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

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"

marcos, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link

Really? I thought that was Pedro Bell.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link

i could be wrong, blame wikipedia

marcos, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link

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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marcos, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link

haha what that is totally not right

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link

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

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link

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.

xp

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link

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)

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link

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

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link

lol, correcting the record, nice work

marcos, Friday, 12 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link

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

marcos, Friday, 12 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link

I need a Foot Fooler record

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 12 September 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link

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

Popture, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link

lol 'tall woman'

mookieproof, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link

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.

Tuomas, Saturday, 13 September 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

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

odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link

FREE ME

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link

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

mahb, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 07:59 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

otm

╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link

yes i like these results!

marcos, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link

good turnout imo

marcos, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link

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

andrew m., Wednesday, 17 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link

Troubleman Unlimited, I mean

andrew m., Wednesday, 17 September 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link

i love the dude in the dashiki on that gatefold

marcos, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link

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

The Reverend, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link

who gets your vote rev?

marcos, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link

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

marcos, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link

too difficult xp

The Reverend, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link


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