TELEVISION 12" LP 'ARROW' Orig Vinyl Pressing 1980 Tom Verlaine PATTI SMITH

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Up for auction is a RARE, ORIGINAL 1980 12" VINYL PRESSING of Television's ARROW - a live bootleg, recorded on March 28, 1978 at My Father's Place in Long Island, NY. Released in 1980. The disc has "F-85 A" etched into the run-off area on side one, and "F-85 B" on side two. This copy is in near mint condition, no scratches, surface is smooth, clean, and unmarked. Record might have been played ONCE. The same tapes were later released on the ROIR cassette and c.d. "THE BLOW UP", which I've also pictured here.
Was a GREAT performance from THE great band of the original NYC punk scene - a GREAT record! Guitars by Verlaine & Lloyd, Fred Smith Bass, Drums by billy Ficca. You know the deal...
Track Listing: 1.FIRE ENGINE  2.POOR CIRCULATION  3.JOHNNY JEWEL  4.HEAVEN'S DOOR  5.PROVE IT  6.FRICTION  7.SATISFACTION
Here's what the guy who made the tape and record had to say about it:

"I moved to New York in the spring of 1976, following a weekend jaunt which included a trip to CBGB for a first taste of live Television. Returning to Ohio, I spent a trial night in an apartment at The Plaza in Cleveland recently vacated by an aspiring Contortion. As I surveyed the frozen parking lot next morning to make sure my Studebaker was still there, I decided that if I was going to move someplace scary and bleak, I might as well think big. But by the time I got back to Manhattan, Richard Lloyd was in rehab in preparation for Television's European debut, so almost a year passed before I got the chance for a recharge. When show day finally came I hid my Nakamichi 550 in the bottom of a crumpled bag of thrift store shirts and set out for Long Island, where the expected fireworks ensued. A couple of years later a friend with a mail order record business (another big Television fan) suggested a bootleg of the big night. Most of them went to an exporter he worked with, but I would visit Bleecker Bob in the West Village a couple of times a week to sell to this notorious cheapskate, a pitiful few copies at a time. Although it was a steady seller in his shop, he refused to tie up his working capital. He always complained about the cover, too. At some point, Neil Cooper of ROIR decided to make a play for the cassette masters, advising my partner in crime that he intended to reissue with or without our cooperation. We eventually gave in, surprising Verlaine with a modest royalty payment the next time he came around to unload dispensables from his record collection - like the L'Intrepide Bavon Marie Marie LP I took home. Whenever our little project is mentioned, there's always a disclaimer that the original vinyl boot sounds better than the Blow Up reissue. Well, we tried. Disc mastering was done at an upper crust Hollywood establishment when Lindsey Buckingham had finally run out of coke and gone home for the day, the metal stampers came from Europadisk, the first high-end facility of its kind in the US. I also rejected test pressings from three boroughs plants before I found one in outer Jersey that could handle grooves narrowed by the twenty-five minutes per side running time. It was only as I was preparing this post that I discovered The Blow Up omits Poor Circulation, Arrow's rarest gem." 

A classic piece of vinyl by a classic band. Selling at no reserve. I accept PayPal or USPS MO's, and will ship the next day via USPS. Record will be well packaged. Shipping costs $3.99 in the USA, contact me for overseas rates. Good luck bidding and keep rocking and rolling!

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