Sold Date: December 1, 2021
Start Date: April 15, 2019
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it is a used record.... made in the Usa with a picture sleeve.. I'm Looking For Something Cops Too Taang! Ting If Six Was Nine Known most for his early membership in the Clash and also for his slicing, slashing guitar work with Public Image Limited, Keith Levene is one of the more overlooked key players of punk and post-punk, not only as an innovative guitar player but also as a major factor in punk's sound collision with reggae. Levene had also been practicing guitar intensely since his early teens and fell in with Mick Jones around the age of 16, joining up with a band that would morph into the Clash. Levene was eventually voted out of the band, somewhere between mid-August and mid-September of 1976, prior to the recording of their first record; while many claim it was drugs that led to his forced departure, Levene claims it had more to do with a power struggle between himself and Jones. Levene then played in the Flowers of Romance (a group named by John Lydon), with Viv Albertine, Palmolive, and Sid Vicious, but the band's lifespan was cut short by Vicious' defection to the Sex Pistols as the replacement of Glen Matlock. Albertine and Palmolive formed the Slits, a group Levene often mixed sound for. Levene also worked occasionally with Ken Lockie in Cowboys International. Once the Sex Pistols split in early 1978, Lydon was off to form Public Image Limited with Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker. Levene and Lydon had agreed to start a band together upon the Pistols' dissolution and followed through on the plan; Levene's six-year stint with the group spawned their best records, most of which obliterated the standards of rock & roll. PiL, along with the Pop Group and the Slits, helped usher in the influence of reggae -- most specifically dub -- into punk music. 1979's Metal Box (known as Second Edition in the U.S.) is the best example of this fusion, featuring Levene's atonal guitar slashes and weird keyboard effects, Wobble's molasses-thick throbs, and production values that had more than a thing or two in common with a Lee Perry or King Tubby production. Troubles between Levene and Lydon reached a head during the making of the band's fourth record. With Lydon away making a movie, Levene put together the majority of the record and eventually took off. Lydon didn't like what he heard and replaced most of Levene's work, releasing it as This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get. Levene, who owned half of the PiL name, took the original masters and had the record pressed up as Commercial Zone, releasing it on an independent label.Apart from a guest role on a Dub Syndicate record, the guitarist wasn't really heard from until the release of a pair of EPs in 1987, 2011 -- Back Too Black and Keith Levene's Violent Opposition. While the debut was mainly conceived entirely by Levene, the second release included help from the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Flea & Hillel Slovak) and Fishbone...
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