FRED FRITH (HENRY COW) "Guitar Solos" 1974 UK CAROLINE

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  FRED FRITH (HENRY COW) "Guitar Solos" 1974 UK CAROLINE BEAUTIFUL 1st PRESS, SUPERB WORK FOR PREPARED GUITARS
FRED FRITH
Guitar Solos

ORIGINAL UK VIRGIN/CAROLINE RECORDS (C 1508) FIRST PRESSING (October 1974) OF FRED FRITH'S ASTONISHING, INNOVATIVE & HAUNTING "Guitar Solos" LP FOR PREPARED GUITARS (A KIND OF 'ROCK' EQUIVALENT TO JOHN CAGE'S SONATAS AND INTERLUDES FOR PREPARED PIANO)

AND THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST SOUNDING COPIES OF THIS FABULOUS LP I HAVE EVER HEARD
IT PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT WITH PRACTICALLY NO INTERFERENCE TO THE MANY QUIET/ALMOST SILENT PASSAGES WHICH ARE COMMONLY SPOILT BY EXCESSIVE SURFACE NOISE

VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

NOTE: THIS COPY IS BEING RE-LISTED DUE TO THE LAST WINNING BIDDER (WITH 0 FEEDBACK) NOT PAYING FOR RECORD

Guitar Solos is a 1974 solo album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, recorded while he was still a member of the English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow (1968-1978). The album comprises eight tracks of unaccompanied and improvised music played on prepared guitars by Frith without any overdubbing.

Guitar Solos was voted one of the best albums of 1974 by NME critics. Allmusic called it a landmark album because of its innovative and experimental approach to guitar playing. It also attracted the attention of Brian Eno, resulting in Frith's playing guitar on two of Eno's albums, and spawned two follow-up albums, Guitar Solos 2 (1976) and Guitar Solos 3 (1979)..
The January 1983 edition of Down Beat magazine remarked that Guitar Solos "... must have stunned listeners of the day and even today that album stands up as uniquely innovative and undeniably daring."

The album was recorded using a modified 1936 Gibson K-11. Frith added an extra pickup over the strings at the nut, enabling him to amplify sound from both sides of the fretted note. He then split the fretboard in two with a capo, effectively giving him two guitars, each amplified separately that he could play independently with each hand. To split the sounds further he attached alligator clips at various positions on the strings. The net result was a guitar with multiple sound sources that could be channeled to a mixer and distributed across the stereo soundscape.
In the middle part of the track "No Birds", Frith played on two prepared guitars simultaneously, creating the timbre and range of an orchestra. He laid the two guitars flat on a table, neck to neck with the bodies of the guitars at opposite ends and the necks parallel to each other. Using volume pedals on some of the sound sources, he was able to filter sounds in and out of the mix without doing anything on the guitars.

PRESSED ON QUALITY MID-WEIGHT VINYL WHICH DELIVERS TREMENDOUS AUDIO - CLEAN, CLEAR AND BRIGHT
THE LP HAS THE FIRST ISSUE VIRGIN/CAROLINE LABELS
FIRST PRESS MATRIX: C 1508 A-2U / C 1508 B-2U (etched "Fred + Pete")
VERY EARLY MOTHERS AND STAMPERS: 1/A and 1/L
AND IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED SLEEVE "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL BLACK, POLY-LINED VIRGIN COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

Track Listing:
Side One: Hello Music / Glass c/w Steel / Ghosts / Out Of Their Heads (on Locoweed)
Side Two: Not Forgotten / Hollow Music / Heat c/w Moment / No Birds

LABELS: The labels are CLEAN and BRIGHT with only about a dozen or so light spindles
VINYL Visual: The surfaces retain their DEEP, LIKE NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are practically UNMARKED
VINYL Audio: OUTSTANDING audio delivery in every respect. This is a determinately avant-garde and serious piece of work and this copy must rank as one of the CLEANEST pressings of this fabulous LP I have heard. On playback at a LOUD volume there are NO scratches and barely any surface noise - not even on the very quiet passages (and there are are many quiet/practically silent passages with sparse instrumentation). Critically graded EXCELLENT++/NEAR MINT for audio I think a finer sounding copy would be pretty hard to locate indeed - TREMENDOUS LP
SLEEVE: The sleeve is in a strong EXCELLENT condition. Nice deep gloss to the laminated surfaces with just a little rubbing on the front surface and a tiny patch of laminate lift on the opening edge of the back otherwise, CLEAN, CRISP, SQUARE and SOLID with very little wear to the edges and all text on the spine CLEAR and BOLD

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