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·       JACKSON BROWNE (WITH STEVE NOONAN) - UNDOCUMENTED AND UNKNOWN TO EXIST 16-TRACK NINA DEMO ACETATE - INSANELY RARE  ORIGINAL 1966 NINA DEMOS VERSION OF 16 VERY EARLY JACKSON BROWNE TRACKS, NEVER RELEASED IN ANY MANNER, SHAPE OR FORM)

 

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

 

 

** ULTRA-RARE ONE-OF-A-KIND 12-INCH, 33rpm MONO ACETATE (REFERENCE PRESSING), APPARENTLY NEVER RELEASED**

 

 

*** THIS ACETATE COMES - BAFFLINGLY - IN HOWLIN' WOLF'S "THE REAL FOLK BLUES' ALBUM COVER (1965) WITH JACKSON BROWNE'S NAME PROMINENTLY WRITTEN ON THE FRONT SIDE (THE HANDWRITING CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED, BUT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE BROWNE'S); THE COVER AND THE DISC WERE A PROPERTY OF PAMELA POLLAND, ONE HALF OF THE LEGENDARY 'GENTLE SOUL' FOLK-PSYCH DUO AND AN INFLUENTIAL SINGER-SONGWRITER IN HER OWN RIGHT; HER SIGNATURE IS CLEARLY VISIBLE ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THE HOWLIN WOLF'S ALBUM (PLEASE SEE OUR IMAGE GALLERY FOR ILLUSTRATION)  ***

 

 

 

The acetate consists of 16 out of 30 (just over one half) of the legendary unreleased "Nina Publishing Demos", one of the rarest unreleased Rock recordings in history: some 100 copies were originally pressed, of which AT LEAST 70 were either deliberately destroyed or remain unaccounted for; to the best of our knowledge ONLY ONE known copy has been offered for sale online in the entire history of eBay (and none have been offered elsewhere). Without any hesitation, we claim that THIS ACETATE IS EVEN RARER than the Nina Publishing Demos TEST PRESSING (not acetate) and may, in fact, be a unique, one-of-a-kind item (for the other half of the "Nina Demos", please see our other auctions -- do note, however, that the other half we have is a regular test pressing, not an acetate, and that some minor overlapping between the two discs does exist).

 

·       Because of the previous owner's personal, very immediate (and we should add: dramatic)  involvement in the early history of The Velvet Underground (we are not at freedom to disclose more details), and because the acetate contains the earliest studio recording of 'These Days' (Browne's anthem and signature song), we firmly believe that it was precisely FROM THIS PARTICULAR ACETATE that Nico was pitched to record her incredible version of 'These Days', which appears on her first studio album ("Chelsea Girls") and that it was precisely FROM THIS ACETATE that she'd first heard and learned the song (Nico's first album also features another two early tracks by Jackson Browne: Fairest of the Seasons and Somewhere There's A Feather). It is not entirely impossible that the disc was her personal property at one time, but it is nearly impossible to establish the exact chain of ownership at this time.

 

·       The tracks on this acetate were recorded at Columbia Records Studio in Los Angeles, California in October 1966 and PRECEDE those recorded at New York's Jaycina Studios in February 1967.. At least one track ("I saw you") has never been documented before in any shape, manner or form and appears to exist ONLY on this acetate and absolutely, positively nowhere else. 

 

·       PLAIN WHITE, GENERIC COLUMBIA MUSIC PUBLISHING LABELS WITH TYPEWRITTEN TITLES, ARTIST NAME, SPEEED, AND FORMAT (MONO)

 

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST (AND THE ONLY KNOWN) U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

 

·       As far as we know, this recording has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

 

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

 

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Jackson Browne had more to show for his time in New York (1966-1967) than a small stash of cash. One afternoon in February 1967 he stepped into Jaycina Studio with Elektra staff producer Peter Siegel and, in the span of hours, did a two-track recording, guitar and vocal, of more than twenty of his tunes. The session wasn't that unusual; publishing companies often have their staff writers catalog their material on tape. But instead of doing the next usual thing-making single-song acetates of the songs and plugging them to the appropriate artists and/or producers- Nina Music pressed the songs from the Jaycina session and a two-hour Columbia session from the previous year...thirty Jackson Browne tunes in all...onto two long-playing records. (Ten Steve Noonan songs, a couple of them co-written by Jackson, were also included in a nod to Noonan, also signed with Nina at the time).

 

One hundred copies of the unorthodox showcase LP's, packed in plain white jackets, were distributed in the music community. The records, which came to be known collectively as the Nina Demos, are a treasure. Comprising virtually every demoable song in Jackson Browne's repertoire at the time, they tell an enlightening tale of an eighteen-year-old doing his conscientious best to pin down his life as well as his art.

 

To Browne's credit his Nina Demo songs don't stray far from his own experience. A favorite, and convincing, theme is that of the earnest, motivated and optimistic young man on the threshold of discovery and growth. In "Holding" Browne writes of holding his door open to the wind. In "Love Me Lovely" he advises his girl in tried-and-true folk-song style to make the most of today with him because tomorrow he's out that door. In "And I See" he compares the drawing of the day with the drawing of his personal growth.

 

The problem with the Nina Demo isn't his folk/pop-flavored melodies, which are alternately bright and-with his fondness for diminished chords-moody, catchy, and with enough surprises to keep a listener's interest. Rather, the problem is how Jackson himself sounds...like a singer in search of a voice. Not that there isn't evidence of the singer as purposeful striver, too. For example, he's mechanically proficient-he knows how to hold his notes. Also he seems to have done a noble job of ridding his voice of obvious cops from other singers (although a faint British accent peppers his performance on a couple of tunes, which, along with his nature-boy stance, evokes Donovan, whom Jackson had seemed to harbor an interest in). But his singing reveals that he hadn't learned a far more important lesson yet...how to feel with his voice. His vocals, dragging and wooden, tend to turn his more plaintive songs into dirges, and to sabotage his upbeat tunes. In short they illustrate why Jackson, for all the Nina Demo evidence of his young genius, was signed to a songwriter contract instead of recording contract with Elektra Records in 1967.

 

Jackson was hardly happy with the demo. He didn't see a purpose in bunching so many of his songs on long-playing records when artists and producers were typically plugged with only one or two tunes at a time for a given recording project. And he felt humiliated by his vocal performance. He was so upset, in fact, that he personally hunted out and destroyed nearly half of the copies.

 

 (Excerpt from 'The Story of a Hold Out' by Rich Wiseman; Dolphin Books ISBN: 0-385-17830-1)

 

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS ACETATE APPARENTLY NEVER HAD A CUSTOM COVER;  THE ALBUM WILL BE SHIPPED IN A PLAIN, GENERIC [WHITE] CARDBOARD COVER. ACETATES AND REFERENCE PRESSINGS ARE RARELY – IF EVER – FOUND IN CUSTOM (STOCK) COVERS.

 

While this acetate is in a very decent state of preservation, we do expect bidders to understand that the aluminum-based, shellac-coated acetates can never be graded by using the exact, same stringent standards used by collectors for modern long-play, hi-fi LPs or singles. The buyer – if not familiar with acetate (reference) recordings - should be cautioned that these discs were intended for brief, limited use only; they were meant to be played only a few times, then discarded or destroyed. In view of this, the surface layer of the disc is manufactured in such a manner that it will wear off pretty quickly, even under normal conditions -- and specially if not handled with due care. Each subsequent playing increases wear and tear of the disc’s surface layer and diminishes the disc’s playability. This disc appears to have been unplayed recently and the grooves are still well-formed and fully visible.

 

This acetate is in about VERY GOOD (VG) condition, with some minor, superficial, but definitely visible,  scuffs. Absolutely NO part of the shellac (surface layer) of the disc is  missing, and the surface layer is NOT dented, chipped, broken or otherwise compromised.

 

ON A SCALE FROM 1-10 (where 10 is the best), WE GRADE RECORD AS 5

 

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·       COVER : This acetate comes without any custom jacket, and will be shipped in a plain, generic, white cardboard cover (we are not grading the Howlin' Wolf's cover with Pamela Polland's autograph separately, as it clearly isn't of the pair and is here only by accident).

 

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