What a strange cover!!!

[JimN]

on the other hand besides this weird 'birds' cover version which I do have (found it in a charity shop a few years back) and the 'bench' cover and original 'blue with pink photos' UK MFP covers the album was also released, as Chris refers, on Ember Records with a great cover of a colour photo of the band with instruments looking like they are performing on a TV show circa 1966-67

The Ember version (yes, the cover shot was very interesting) was licensed out to Ember after the original 1970 MfP release (in either cover) had been deleted. If I remember correctly, that was about 1975.

The Ember sleeve had a textured finish, like photo-print shops use when trying to make a picture look more like portrait on canvas.

[Fenderman]

Looks like a photo taken around 1966/67 period.
I think the guitars are plugged in and the amps liked up so it could be a TV show rehersal or something or that could be just for the shot.
Nice to see Hank's original Burns model.

[nivramarvin]

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Lol, this is the weirdest cover I've seen so far.

I agree. On my copy I had marked some of the graphical mistakes back then.

[Fenderman]

I've studied that picture a bit more closely and there's something very odd about it.