STUNNING SHRINK STICKER 1969 ORIG 360 "CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY" 1ST - HARD
  $   117

 


$ 117 Sold For
Jun 12, 2022 Sold Date
Jun 7, 2022 Start Date
15   Number Of Bids
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  • 1969 COLUMBIA 360 SOUND TWO-LP CLASSIC ALBUM

    ===Still In factory Cellophane===
  • With (rare) custom STICKER
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  • USA - 360 Sound Columbia - GP8
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  • note: relisting from the highly popular auction item won by a bidder whom suddenly decided he couldn't pay ...
  • so, for those who had interest, here it is. 53 years of age with a cover/shrink/sticker you won't likely find, as such, on the original 360 sound Columbia label
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    HARD TO FIND COLLECTION WORTHY TOP COPY

    1969 CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
    STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE

    with RARE CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY SONG TITLES STICKER ON OUTSIDE OF CELLOPHANE --
  • '69 ORIGINAL!

    SCARCE 1969 first pressing of the very first and *BEST* Chicago Transit Authority album on the highly collected 360 Sound Columbia label of the sixties... 2LP set in thick gatefold cover includes both original printed inner sleeves...all said, a lavish stylistic production:

    CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY was the very first album by the Chicago-based (then) underground rock band who would later be known as the mass popular "Chicago." And don't confuse the two bands...this, the first line up of the band features a phenomenal guitarist in Terry Kath who really unleashes brilliant fuzz solos all throughout the 4 sides. This first album was recorded and released in April of 1969.

    Upon the band's 1967 inception, they were initially called "The Missing Links". Then changed its name to "The Big Thing" (occasionally performed in areas outside Chicago and Milwaukee as "The Big Sounds" due to some venues complaining about the double entendre that the name "The Big Thing" also alluded to), before adopting the moniker The Chicago Transit Authority

    ... Yes their first and their best, one of the most powerful jazz-rock statements made. When 'Free Form Guitar' cracked a mention in a popular psych book, so one would most certainly have to give this epic jazz-rock monster a listen. It starts out decent enough...six tracks of a sort of throbbing, upliftin' hybrid of rock music that would come to help spawn many bands alike. Their long "I'm A Man" jams like crazy, fuzzed out leads and heavy percussions...the FM Underground stations LOVED this version... Then, you guessed it, 'Free Form Guitar'. Seven minutes of squealing, searing, acid-drenched guitar feedback from hell. It's hard to believe that it was made only two years after White Light/White Heat and eons before Keiji Haino's guitar spazzouts. If we'd heard this thing back in 1969 you'd make like Speed, Glue & Shinki and form a radical psychedelic musical collective aspiring to make sub-FFG freakouts. It's that good.

    Side one

    1. "Introduction" – 6:35 (Terry Kath)

    Lead singer: Terry Kath

    2. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" – 4:35 (Robert Lamm)

    Lead singer: Robert Lamm

    3. "Beginnings" – 7:54 (Robert Lamm)

    Lead singer: Robert Lamm

    Side two

    4. "Questions 67 and 68" – 5:03 (Robert Lamm)
    Lead singers: Peter Cetera and Robert Lamm
    5. "Listen" – 3:22 (Robert Lamm)
    Lead singer: Robert Lamm
    6. "Poem 58" – 8:35 (Robert Lamm)
    Lead singer: Robert Lamm

    Side three

    7. "Free Form Guitar" – 6:47 (Terry Kath)
    instrumental
    8. "South California Purples" – 6:11 (Robert Lamm)
    Lead singer: Robert Lamm
    9. "I'm A Man" – 7:43 (Steve Winwood/James Miller) Spencer Davis Group cover.
    Lead singers: Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, and Robert Lamm

    Side four

    10. "Prologue (August 29, 1968)" – 0:58 (James William Guercio)
    11. "Someday (August 29, 1968)" – 4:11 (James Pankow/Robert Lamm)
    Lead singers: Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera
    12. "Liberation" – 14:38 (James Pankow)

  2.                  CONDITION:

  4. The cover: rated: MINT is solid all over; -- in original factory shrink wrapper ... 50+ years ago '69 FIRST PRINT ...
  5. As you know, more than hard to find THIS black cover clean after 50+ years, wears so easily, and most original covers are totally worn...so here, a highly worthy collection survivor ...has no seam splits, no bends, no writing, no delete marks...still crisp, flat & square! ...ages old original '69 era SONG TITLES STICKER on outer cellophane as well

  1. The vinyl: Rated: VG++ and better (M-) .. one disc has wispy faint hair scuffs, no problem: playing very enjoyable, only cosmetic visuals in sunlight, the other disc is clean (minty) playing flawless as well ... both
  2. 360 Columbia Sound labels are VERY clean
All four sides play fantastic !
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A cool addition to anyone's music library! 
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  GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M    Completely clean, no marks, plays clean
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