FRIPP ENO NO PUSSYFOOTING 1ST PRESS HELP 16 A1-U B1-U

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A NM-/EX Copy of  BRIAN ENO and ROBERT FRIPP's 1973 masterpiece NO PUSSYFOOTING. 1st UK Pressing on PINK (i) ISLAND HELP 16.  The LP is in immaculate condition.   ISLAND PINK (i) labels and vinyl NM-.  This copy plays beautifully.  Inherent to this (HELP 16) pressing is a small amount of faint crackles during the quite moments.   My own personal copy has this same small bit of crackles and the labels on my copy are shit! Whenever I pick up a copy of this LP, it is the labels that I notice first (perhaps because of the poor condition on my own).  These are the nicest set of Pink (i) labels I have seen.  The vinyl very glossy and heavy weight.  I would have to say that if you want perfect sound, buy the CD.  In my opinion, nothing sounds better than vinyl. I would gladly add this LP to my own collection. The jacket is tight and square with a very minimal bit of rubbing over the title and down near the bottom, consistent with the "Excellent" rating noted below. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

I have been collecting Roxy Music and Brian Eno since 1972. Whenever I see a nice copy of anything from that trajectory, I like to pick it up and offer it to other collectors.

For anyone who is not familiar with this wonderful recording,  here is what I found in Wikipedia:

(No Pussyfooting) is a 1973 ambient music[1] album by the British musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. (No Pussyfooting) was the first of three major collaborations between the musicians, growing out of Eno's early tape recording experiments and Fripp's ability to input music with an electric guitar.

(No Pussyfooting) was recorded in three days over a period of a year. It was released very closely to Eno's own debut solo album Here Come the Warm Jets (1973) and is considered to be one of his early experiments in ambient music.

Production

Brian Eno invited Robert Fripp to his London home studio in September 1972. Eno had developed a tape system using two tape recorders set up so when a sound was played, it would be heard at a lower volume level seconds later, and seconds later again at a lower level. With this method, new sounds could be laid upon each other without overwriting them. Fripp played further material over the top with Eno selectively enabling or disabling the recording. This allowed Eno to remove portions of the loop, or add further new layers on top of the existing material. The result is a dense, multi-layered piece of ambient music.[3][4] This technique later came to be known as "Frippertronics".

(No Pussyfooting) 's first track is a near 21-minute piece titled "The Heavenly Music Corporation". Fripp originally wanted the track titled "The Transcendental Music Corporation", which Eno didn't allow as he feared it would make people "think [they were] serious".[5] Recorded in two takes — first the background looping track, then adding an extended guitar solo over the backing track — the track features the sole sound source as Fripp's electric guitar, played through a tape loop system devised by Eno determining the amount of the time in which each piece of audio would be layered.[4]

The second track "Swastika Girls" was recorded almost a year after "The Heavenly Music Corporation" in August 1973 at Command Studios in London. The track's title refers to an image of nude women doing a nazi salute that was ripped out of a pornographic film magazine that Eno found left in Air studios. Eno stuck the image on the recording console while recording the track with Fripp and it became the title of the track. "Swastika Girls" uses the same technique as "The Heavenly Music Corporation".[6] Fripp and Eno took the tapes of "Swastika Girls" to British record producer George Martin's Air Studios at Oxford Circus to continue mixing and assembling the track there.[7]

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MINT (M): Perfect! This record looks like it has just left the manufacturer, with NO flaws what so ever. It looks as though it had never been handled. No scuffs or scratches, blotches or stains. No stickers address labels, writing on the covers or labels. No tears or seam splits. No wear to the cover or record period! Age of the record has nothing to do with it.

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