BRIAN ENO HERE COME THE WARM JETS - VINYL - ORIGINAL PRESSING (1973)

Artist: Brian Eno

Album Title: Here come the warm jets

Version: First UK pressing

Producer: Brian Eno

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Needles In The Camel's Eye / The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch / Baby's On Fire / Cindy Tells Me / Driving Me Backwards

Side 2: On Some Faraway Beach / Blank Frank / Dead Finks Don't Talk / Some Of Them Are Old / Here Come The Warm Jets

Label/Format: Island Records – white/sky blue background with palm tree.

Label Conditions: Immaculate. Both clean, fresh and attractive with light, mainly quite fine spindle marks.

Cat Number: ILPS 9268

Matrix: ILPS 9268-A  & ILPS 9268-B 

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables, even ‘budget’ decks.

Country of Manufacture: Recorded at Majestic Studios London, England.

Original Year of Release: September 1973

Musicians: 

Brian Eno – vocals, synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, treatments, instrumentation

Chris Spedding – guitar on tracks 1 and 2

Phil Manzanera – guitar on tracks 1, 2, and 4

Simon King – percussion on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 10

Bill MacCormick – bass guitar on tracks 1 and 7

Marty Simon – percussion on tracks 2, 3, and 4

Busta Jones – bass guitar on 2, 4, 6 and 8

Robert Fripp – guitar on 3, 5, and 7

Paul Rudolph – guitar on 3 and 10, bass guitar on 3, 5 and 10

John Wetton – bass guitar on tracks 3 and 5

Nick Judd – keyboards on tracks 4 and 8

Andy Mackay – keyboards on tracks 6 and 9, saxophone septet on track 9

Sweetfeed – backing vocals on tracks 6 and 7

Nick Kool & the Koolaids – keyboards on track 7

Paul Thompson – percussion on track 8

Lloyd Watson – slide guitar on track 9

Chris Thomas – extra bass guitar on track 2

 

Brief Info: Here Come the Warm Jets was recorded in twelve days at Majestic Studios in London during September 1973 by recording engineer Derek Chandler.It was mixed at Air and Olympic Studios by Eno and audio engineer Chris Thomas.The album's title was originally described by Eno as a slang term for urination.Eno enlisted sixteen guest musicians to play on the album with him, including John Wetton and Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Simon King from Hawkwind, Bill MacCormick of Matching Mole, Paul Rudolph of Pink Fairies, Chris Spedding and all the members of Roxy Music except vocalist Bryan Ferry. Eno selected them on the basis that he thought they were incompatible with each other musically.

Eno directed the musicians by using body language and dancing, as well as through verbal suggestion, to influence their playing and the sounds they would emit. He felt at the time that this was a good way to communicate with musicians. The album credits Eno with instruments such as "snake guitar", "simplistic piano" and "electric larynx".

Outside Cover Front: The front, with its chaotic imagery remains a classic. The only hints of wear are a slight creasing to the bottom right hand side. There is a slight brown discolouration mark (1.5 cm) towards the mid left hand side.

Outside Cover Back: The back is in good condition. There is evidence of creasing.

Spine and Text: Solid and quite straight with virtually no compression. The spinal text is clear and easy to read. Text reads ‘ENO - HERE COME THE WARM JETS ILPS 9268 – 1973 Island Records, which is printed clearly.

Corners: Moderate rubbing to all, good shape is retained.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT: a fine visual copy that is clean, shiny, intense black and solidly pressed. There are some mainly light surface marks but no penetrating scratches, hence no pops or significant clicks heard. Visually a splendid record that should please many a collector.