Patti Smith Group, EASTER w/ Insert, Arista PROMO (1978)

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Selected titles from the private collection of a music business veteran are now being made available for the first time. Titles offered by this Seller are one-owner and came directly from the pressing plant, record company warehouse, other label reps or record store unless otherwise noted. 

Grading is based on visual inspection.

Album ships in a 2 MIL poly cover sleeve.

I package records outside the cover to avoid seam splits.

• This album represented Smith's commercial breakthrough featuring the hit "Because The Night" that she co-wrote with Springsteen.
• This First Pressing on thick vinyl has never been played.
• The matrix runouts are AB-4171-SA & AB-4171-SB. Mastered at Sterling.
• The single piece board cover has 2 tight seams, a 1/2" split on the top seam and shows no wear. The Promo designation is a diagonal saw cut upper left. Arista, like most labels, created additional Promos by taking stock copies and cutting the corner, drilling a hole, etc.
• The 4 page insert features credits and lyrics (see below under Liner Notes).
• The inner sleeve and label copy are actually a light blue-gray color but it doesn't translate in these photos.
• Seller got this new from Arista in 1978. It has been in storage for 38 years.

Track listing[edit]

Side one[edit]

Side two[edit]

Personnel

• Patti Smith – vocals, guitar
• Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass guitar, vocals
• Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, percussion
• Ivan Kral – bass guitar, vocals, guitar
• Bruce Brody – keyboards, synthesizer

Additional personnel

• Jimmy Iovine - producer
• Richard Sohl – keyboards on "Space Monkey"
• Allen Lanier – keyboards on "Space Monkey"
• John Paul Fetta – bass on "Till Victory" & "Privilege"
• Andi Ostrowe – percussion on "Ghost Dance"
• Jim Maxwell – bagpipes on "Easter"
• Tom Verlaine - arrangement on "We Three" (in 1974)
• Todd Smith – head of crew

Technical personnel

• Jimmy Iovine – production, mixing
• Shelly Yakus – mixing
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Thom Panunzio – engineering
• Gray Russell – engineering
• Charlie Conrad – engineering
• Joe Intile – engineering

Design personnel

• Lynn Goldsmith – cover photography
• Robert Mapplethorpe – insert photography
• Cindy Black – insert photography
• John Roberts – insert photography
• Maude Gilman – insert design

Liner notes

In the insert with the original LP release (reproduced in the 1996 reissue), Smith's self-penned liner notes refer, among other things, to:

• Arthur Rimbaud – 19th century French poet, sometime companion of Paul Verlaine. Lived in Ethiopia for the last 11 years of his life.
• Frédéric Rimbaud – Arthur's brother.
• 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue, New York – 1970s crime-ridden zone.
• Privilege – 1967 British movie.
• Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones – A concert movie released in 1974.
• Alain Delon – French actor.
• Pier Paolo Pasolini – 1960s Italian poet and film director.
• Bernardo Bertolucci – 1960s Italian writer and film director.
• Jean-Luc Godard – 1960s Franco-Swiss filmmaker.
• August 16, 1977 – date of Elvis Presley's death.
• Ghost Dance – 19th century religious movement among some Native American tribes.
• r.e.f.m. – Radio Ethiopia Field Marshal.
• Jean Shrimpton – 1960s British model and actress.
• Paul Jones – 1960s British musician and actor.
• Charles Baudelaire – 19th century French poet.
• CBGB – New York music club.
• Little Richard – 20th century American singer-songwriter.
• New Jersey.
• The UN's declaration of 1979 as International Year of the Child.