M- 1973 UK Orig "NO PUSSYFOOTING" ENO & FRIPP King CRIMSON PsYcH Space PrOg

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• FINAL COLLECTION MINTY ORIGINAL
  
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• 1973 U.K. FIRST PRESS
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• Far superior to the also now rare chintzy USA Copy
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• ENO & FRIPP
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• "No Pussyfooting"
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• "made in England" - HELP 16 (Island) stereophonic
  

1. Best you'll find ... that's a money-back guarantee on the spot!
   
   
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3. BEAUTIFUL 1973 BRITISH "HELP" GATEFOLD Original
   
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5. Original ALL: BLACK inner sleeve

1. Brian Eno, Roxy Music's art-schooled keyboard and tech wizard, and Robert Fripp, King Crimson's mostly self-taught guitarist, convened in Eno's home studio in 1972. Both were conceptually inclined: Eno called himself a "non-musician," while Fripp claimed to be tone deaf and rhythmically impaired when he began playing. Both of them would go on to reinvent their chosen tools-- Eno the studio, Fripp the guitar (he would eventually devise his own standard tuning and picking techniques)-- to suit their unique talents and visions ... certainly iconic works.
   
   One technique is central to both records: the use of two Revox reel-to-reel tape recorders as a primitive looping system, wherein sounds recorded to the first deck resurfaced unpredictably when the tape passed through the second deck. Eno and Fripp didn't pioneer this technique; Terry Riley, among others, had used it before. But Eno would master it in his Ambient albums, where it became an end unto itself, not a background. As Eno refined the technique for the studio, Fripp refined it for the stage in his "Frippertronic" performances, which prefigured the use of looping pedals among arty rock bands later comin' along.
   
   On No Pussyfooting we hear Eno and Fripp discovering the process-- it was the very first thing they recorded together in this vein. The album bursts with a sense of spontaneity.
   
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3. "The Heavenly Music Corporation" sequence is raw and rambunctious, resolving in long deep waves of aggression, with Fripp's molten, fluent guitar leads putting his rock prowess on display. The effervescent "Swastika Girls" strikes a contrast. In fact, "The Heavenly Music Corporation" and "Swastika Girls" seem designed as opposites-- the former gooey, deep, and broadly rolling, the latter effervescent, high, and cramped with wiry spirals. Clutter and impulsiveness haunt the margins, especially on "Swastika Girls", and Fripp's leads seem to stand somewhat apart from Eno's manipulations on "Heavenly".
   
4. But whatever Pussyfooting lacks in subtlety, it compensates for with sheer mojo magic inventiveness

1. Side One :
   
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3.  "The Heavenly Music Corporation"    20:55
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   2.    "Swastika Girls"    18:43
   
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9. The cover: rated: M- a beauty, nearest to 50 years onward first BRITISH print... anyone would be hard pressed to find a better copy ... Flat & square delicate gatefold with original vivid colors (no fade) = all 4 sharp corners ...there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... pretty much in a time capsule from 1973 UK ... 

1. The vinyl: Rated: M- mirrors the cover, looks and plays perfect from 'the day' only 50 years of age next year... both original HELP labels are fine (look!)