Most Retarded-Looking Family Stone Member on the Cover of "A Whole New Thing"

Jerry's the one with the socks /sandals combo, right? That's a clear winner.

Yep. Freddie's orange pants/white boots combo + go-on-smell-my-pits-I-dare-you pose was a good attempt.

That album cover almost belongs on this thread

silly for sure but retarded? nah. socks & sandals is classic nerdware, granted.

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The guys in front are atrocious, but what does it say when you are 500 X bigger than them and sit around watching these dorks?

Props to dude on right's ridiculous side bend, though.

It's just struck me that the rest of the band are tiny cardboard cutouts and Sly is really there in the photo with them because it was 1967 or whenever and Photoshop had little functionality then.

huh I have never seen this cover. Totally different from the vinyl copy I have.

uh and isn't that cover missing a member?

ie where is Rose?

She wasn't in the band then

Larry posing as a grumpy gorilla isn't bad either.

I really don't know what Larry Graham thinks he's doing on that cover

Me too, but its beautiful! :)

Many times I have I listened to Sly & found myself doing the Grumpy Gorilla, the Ridiculous Side-Bend or the Go-On-Smell-My-Pits-I-Dare-You.

don't forget the Greg-Errico-Goose-Step!

No votes for Cynthia looking like she's about to break into "I'll Plant My Own Tree"?

okay, process of deduction...

It's not Sly...or Cynthia, even though her jazz hands are kinda goofy. Larry's pose and Jerry's wardrobe are interesting, but not truly off the deep end. This leaves Greg, who looks like an extra from the Monty Python "Ministry of Funny Walks" skit on uppers, and Freddy, who who knows what. What the fuck is that on his waist? Is that a wolverine? Hold up, Freddy wins this by a long shot.

Never thought I'd see any Sly & the Family Stone criticism on ILM. Shame on all of you!

xxxxxxxpost - It took me forever to finally see this cover after 30 years of exposure to the reissue. In retrospect, it's obvious that that one never could've existed in 1967, with that so-70's font.

Incidentally, that was my first-ever cassette, to go with the first cassette player, both birthday gifts from grandparents. No idea why they chose that tape; I'd never asked for it or even heard of 'em. (I knew "Family Affair", but had no clue who recorded it.) And I was disappointed to discover that "Underdog" had nothing to do with the cartoon.

I am really sorry I don't recognize them good enoough to name names, but a couple of those poses could have been take directly from the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Well, well, well... what do we have here!?

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― Tom D., Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:27 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow. Mind blown.