Acetate LP - Music From Big Pink - The Band (Crackers)
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During the 1960's, and being born and raised in Liverpool, I was with my band playing around Germany and France during 1968. A friend of mine who was working for the British supergroup Cream came to spend some time with us and brought with him his portable record player. He brought this acetate disc with him and was raving about this fabulous "unknown" band. Unfortunately he'd left this disc on the turntable throughout his journey from Los Angeles to Bordeaux in France where my band was playing, and the stylus arm had come loose, rendering one track on side two (Lonesome Susie) completely unplayable. however, we played the disc over and over, and I bought the vinyl album the day I returned home to Liverpool. It's hard to explain now just how the completely organic sound of this album changed everything in popular music, it was truth in musical form. What makes this disc unique is The Band didn't have a name when recording, so for the record company to have a handle on it they were called "Crackers" on the recording masters. Though no longer completely playable, this is a piece of history, and many established artists found the Band's style of "roots rock" direction changing, even Eric Clapton cites this album as making him think about leaving Cream and changing direction. Acetate recordings were meant to be played very few times as they are extremely fragile, and were produced in very small numbers. this acetate was produced in May 1968, some 3 months before the album was released in vinyl 50 years ago this month, July.
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