# Funkadelic S/T back cover line up **URL:** \ **Category:** Records/Books\ **Tags:** funkadelic\ **Created:** [April 14, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692 "2025-04-14T20:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whatsupfront](https://pfunkforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@whatsupfront](https://pfunkforums.com/u/whatsupfront)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/1 "2025-04-14T20:43:44Z")
Can anyone identify each player on the back cover of Funkadelic (self-titled) with absolute certainty? I’ve been trying to figure this out, looking at photos of the members from that era, but it’s still not clear to me. If I had to guess, I’m going with Billy in orange w/ sunglasses, Mickey Atkins in purple, Tawl in red, Eddie in blue, and Tiki in green. ![R-3020811-1439550202-3423](https://pfunkforums.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cac8d33745b852b27714c31c2292908f6694a725.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![swang](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/swang/32/2692_2.png) [@swang](https://pfunkforums.com/u/swang)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/2 "2025-04-14T22:40:34Z")
Billy in green, Eddie in blue, Tawl in red, Bernie in orange, Tiki in purple. Mickey not pictured. ---
**Author:** ![swang](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/swang/32/2692_2.png) [@swang](https://pfunkforums.com/u/swang)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/3 "2025-04-14T22:42:58Z")
And welcome to the forum! 🤘🏽🤘🏽 ---
**Author:** ![whatsupfront](https://pfunkforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@whatsupfront](https://pfunkforums.com/u/whatsupfront)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/4 "2025-04-14T22:52:47Z")
Thank you! Interesting that Bernie is included in the photos but not credited on the record. And vice versa for Mickey. ---
**Author:** ![swang](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/swang/32/2692_2.png) [@swang](https://pfunkforums.com/u/swang)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:23am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/5 "2025-04-15T03:23:10Z")
True! If memory serves, Bernie does play on one song on the album. I don’t recall which. @DannyBedrosian would have the info. ---
**Author:** ![silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/silentboatman/32/11_2.png) [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/6 "2025-04-15T08:26:04Z")
Checked the book 🙂 . Appears Bernie is not on any track on the album. Although he’s on the b-sides _Open Our Eyes_ and _Fish, Chips & Sweat_. Mickey Atkins is on _I Got A Thing_, _Good Old Music_, _Qualify & Satisfy_ and _What Is Soul_. Great question! ---
**Author:** ![whatsupfront](https://pfunkforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@whatsupfront](https://pfunkforums.com/u/whatsupfront)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/7 "2025-04-15T23:59:18Z")
Thanks for the info! That all makes sense. Although it still seems odd that Bernie is pictured when he’s not playing on it, and Mickey is credited but not pictured. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![timmyfunk1](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/timmyfunk1/32/2696_2.png) [@timmyfunk1](https://pfunkforums.com/u/timmyfunk1)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/8 "2025-05-06T02:21:28Z")
Bernie is definitely not on the first Funkadelic album. According to a quote from Bernie directly, he’s on everything from Free Your Mind down. ---
**Author:** ![FreedomFlower](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/freedomflower/32/910_2.png) [@FreedomFlower](https://pfunkforums.com/u/FreedomFlower)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/9 "2025-05-13T09:19:51Z")
If you have the reissue with the expanded track list - then, technically, I suppose he is on the album as he plays piano on Open our Eyes. Until Danny’s book I assumed Tawl was also missing from the album despite the promotional pic of the classic line up. Micky Atkins is missing from that picture but at least we now know that, like Tawl, he was not absent from the album. The received wisdom prior to this seemed to be no Tawl, no Atkins, not very much - maybe a couple of tracks, tops - from Eddie, Billy and Tiki, whilst almost all of the heavy lifting is done by the Funk brothers. As much as I love them Motown boys, that made me feel, ever so slightly, like Funkadelic wasn’t a proper Funkadelic album. ---
**Author:** ![silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/silentboatman/32/11_2.png) [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/10 "2025-07-03T10:15:48Z")
> [@45 RPM analog cut of the first Funkadelic album](https://pfunkforums.com/t/45-rpm-analog-cut-of-the-first-funkadelic-album/1677/15): > > .. Now only the Bernie picture seems incongruous. So this is my guess on how it went down: Mickey was credited since he played on the album (and Bernie didn’t). But they didn’t want to add a photo of Mickey since he wasn’t in the group any more. So they went with the current lineup for the images. ---
**Author:** ![FreedomFlower](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/freedomflower/32/910_2.png) [@FreedomFlower](https://pfunkforums.com/u/FreedomFlower)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/11 "2025-07-03T10:42:59Z")
Agreed. That album was made over a couple of years, wasn’t it? With plenty of to-ing and fro-ing along the way. It’s not as misleading as it seemed previously although it would be nice to have a picture with Mickey Atkins in there somewhere. Bernie is on open our eyes as previously discussed and that’s close enough. ---
**Author:** ![DannyBedrosian](https://pfunkforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@DannyBedrosian](https://pfunkforums.com/u/DannyBedrosian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/12 "2025-09-12T08:10:13Z")
And the inverse is true with the osmium album… Bernie is all over that album, but the photos from it featured Mickey Atkins…sort of the opposite of the situation with the first funkadelic album ---
**Author:** ![silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/user_avatar/pfunkforums.com/silentboatman/32/11_2.png) [@silentboatman](https://pfunkforums.com/u/silentboatman)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 8:21am UTC](https://pfunkforums.com/t/funkadelic-s-t-back-cover-line-up/1692/13 "2025-09-12T08:21:48Z")
Mickey’s the one behind the letters, right? On the original cover that is. That was my theory anyways. Check this topic I posted a while back on exactly that. 🙂 > [@That guy that disappeared from the Osmium cover (but came back)](https://pfunkforums.com/t/that-guy-that-disappeared-from-the-osmium-cover-but-came-back/294): > > The [Osmium/Rhenium/First Thangs](https://pfunkforums.com/t/osmium-rhenium-first-thangs/288) topic got me to think about all the Osmium cover variations. And especially that guy that ended up behind the “Parliament” text on the original cover. When they on a later release (actually First Thangs, so almost Osmium) moved that “Parliament” text, they also photoshopped (or whatever they used at the time) him out of it. Did you notice that? smile . Damn, poor guy! But then, at last, they put him back in. Although I wonder…