LOU REED Metal Machine Music 1975 RCA *PROMO* UNPLAYED/MINT
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Oct 16, 2017
Sold Date
Oct 6, 2017
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LOU REED Metal Machine Music 1975 RCA *PROMO* UNPLAYED/MINT
LOU REEDMetal Machine Music (The Amine ? Ring)
ORIGINAL USA RCA (CPL2-1101 ) FIRST PRESSING (July 1975) OF LOU REED'S INFAMOUS CONCEPT PIECE
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY IN UNPLAYED/MINT CONDITION
THE FRONT CORNER OF THE SLEEVE HAS AN IMPRESSED *PROMO - NOT FOR SALE* STAMP AND IS IN EXCELLENT+ CONDITION - THE FINEST I HAVE SEEN AND IN MY OPINION THE BEST YOU ARE EVER LIKELY TO FIND
A REALLY STUNNING EXAMPLE
MATRIX NUMBERS: (Side One is backed with Side Four, Side Two with Side Three)
RECORD ONE: CPL - 2 - 1101 - A - 1 / CPL - 2 - 1101 - D - 1
RECORD TWO: CPL - 2 - 1101 - B - 1 / CPL - 2 - 1101 - C - 1
As a radical departure from the rest of Reed's catalogue, Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a grudging fulfilment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music. Reed himself has said of the album "I was serious about it. I was also really, really stoned."
According to Reed the album entirely consists of guitar feedback played at different speeds. The two guitars were tuned in unusual ways and played with different reverb levels. He would then place the guitars in front of their amplifiers, and the feedback from the very large amps would vibrate the strings — the guitars were, effectively, playing themselves. He recorded the work on a four-track tape recorder in his New York apartment, mixing the four tracks for stereo. In its original form, each track occupied one side of an LP record and lasted exactly 16 minutes and 1 second with the last track timed, and playing to infinity - as the groove is locked (16.10 or ?) - the music has no beginning or end and can be started or finished anywhere
A major influence on Reed's recording, and an important source for an understanding of Reed's seriousness with the album, was the mid-1960s drone music work of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music (whose members included John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise and Marian Zazeela). Both Cale and Maclise were also members of The Velvet Underground (Maclise left before the group began recording). The Theater of Eternal Music's discordant sustained notes and loud amplification had influenced Cale's subsequent contribution to the Velvet Underground in his use of both discordance and feedback. Recent releases of works by Cale and Conrad from the mid-sixties, such as Cale's Inside the Dream Syndicate series (The Dream Syndicate being the alternative name given by Cale and Conrad to their collective work with Young) testify to the influence this important mid-sixties experimental work had on Reed ten years later.
In an interview with rock journalist Lester Bangs, Reed claimed that he had intentionally placed sonic allusions to classical works such Beethoven's Eroica and Pastoral Symphonies in the distortion, and that he had attempted to have the album released on RCA's Red Seal classical label; however, it is not clear if he was being serious, though he has repeated the latter claim in a 2007 interview.
Record One; Side 1: Metal Machine Music (A-1) 16.10
Record One; Side 2: Metal Machine Music (A-4) 16.10 or ?
Record Two; Side 1: Metal Machine Music (A-2) 16.10
Record Two; Side 2: Metal Machine Music (A-3) 16.10
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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811 (GS 7.0.9 (811))
