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          1969 COLUMBIA 360 SOUND TWO-LP CLASSIC ALBUM

                                                      #1

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            STILL FACTORY SEALED -- NEVER OPENED - NEVER PLAYED~!~

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                Chicago TRANSIT Authority

      

                                                  

                     

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STILL FACTORY SEALED -- NEVER OPENED!

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         Chicago TRANSIT Authority

UN-PLAYED ~~ SEALED ~~  with RARE CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY SONG TITLES STICKER ON OUTSIDE OF CELLOPHANE -- '69 ORIGINAL!

you never see this ( '69 first pressing) still sealed

SCARCE 1969 first pressing of the very first and *BEST* Chicago Transit Authority album on the highly collected 360 Sound Columbia label of the sixties... 2LP set in thick gatefold cover = will include both original printed inner sleeves...all said, a lavish stylistic production:

The Chicago Transit Authority was the very first album by the Chicago-based (then) underground rock band who would later be known as the mass popular "Chicago." And don't confuse the two bands...this, the first line up of the band features a phenomenal guitarist in Terry Kath who really unleashes brillant fuzz solos all throughout the 4 sides. This first album was recorded and released in April of 1969.

Upon the band's 1967 inception, they were initially called "The Missing Links". Then changed its name to "The Big Thing" (occasionally performed in areas outside Chicago and Milwaukee as "The Big Sounds" due to some venues complaining about the double entendre that the name "The Big Thing" also alluded to), before adopting the moniker The Chicago Transit Authority

... Yes their first and their best, one of the most powerful jazz-rock statements made. When 'Free Form Guitar' cracked a mention in a popular psych book, so one would most certainly have to give this epic jazz-rock monster a listen. It starts out decent enough...six tracks of a sort of throbbing, upliftin' hybrid of rock music that would come to help spawn many bands alike. Their long "I'm A Man" jams like crazy, fuzzed out leads and heavy percussions...the FM Underground stations LOVED this version... Then, you guessed it, 'Free Form Guitar'. Seven minutes of squealing, searing, acid-drenched guitar feedback from hell. It's hard to believe that it was made only two years after White Light/White Heat and eons before Keiji Haino's guitar spazzouts. If we'd heard this thing back in 1969 you'd make like Speed, Glue & Shinki and form a radical psychedelic musical collective aspiring to make sub-FFG freakouts. It's that good.

Side one

1. "Introduction" – 6:35 (Terry Kath)

Lead singer: Terry Kath

2. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" – 4:35 (Robert Lamm)

Lead singer: Robert Lamm

3. "Beginnings" – 7:54 (Robert Lamm)

Lead singer: Robert Lamm

Side two

4. "Questions 67 and 68" – 5:03 (Robert Lamm)
Lead singers: Peter Cetera and Robert Lamm
5. "Listen" – 3:22 (Robert Lamm)
Lead singer: Robert Lamm
6. "Poem 58" – 8:35 (Robert Lamm)
Lead singer: Robert Lamm

Side three

7. "Free Form Guitar" – 6:47 (Terry Kath)
instrumental
8. "South California Purples" – 6:11 (Robert Lamm)
Lead singer: Robert Lamm
9. "I'm A Man" – 7:43 (Steve Winwood/James Miller) Spencer Davis Group cover.
Lead singers: Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, and Robert Lamm

Side four

10. "Prologue (August 29, 1968)" – 0:58 (James William Guercio)
11. "Someday (August 29, 1968)" – 4:11 (James Pankow/Robert Lamm)
Lead singers: Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera
12. "Liberation" – 14:38 (James Pankow)

 

CONDITION:  a BEAUTY! Solid all over; STILL FACTORY SEALED from 46 years ago - a great investment item in this SEALED condition ...as you know, more than hard to find THIS black cover without wear after 46 years worn...so here, the ULTIMATE collection survivor ...has no seam splits, no bends, no writing, no delete marks...still crisp and sharp, flat & square!  

          STILL FACTORY SEALED - 1969 FIRST PRINT!

     

A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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