PATTI SMITH "HORSES" 1975 ARISTA AL 4066 PROMO EX/VG+ 1st PRESS.LAMINATED COVER

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THREE YEARS AGO I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

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ARTISTS: PATTI SMITH

TITLE: “HORSES”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Gloria:

5:54

A1.1

In Excelsis Deo

Written-By – P. Smith*

A1.2

Gloria (Version)

Written-By – Van Morrison

A2

Redondo Beach

Written-By – L. Kaye*, P. Smith*, R. Sohl*

3:24

A3

Birdland

Written-By – I. Kral*, L. Kaye*, P. Smith*, R. Sohl*

9:16

A4

Free Money

Written-By – L. Kaye*, P. Smith*

3:47

B1

Kimberly

Written-By – A. Lanier*, I. Kral*, P. Smith*

4:26

B2

Break It Up

Guitar – Tom VerlaineWritten-By – P. Smith*, T. Verlaine*

4:05

B3

Land:

9:36

B3.1

Horses

Written-By – P. Smith*

B3.2

Land, Of A Thousand Dances

Written-By – Chris Kenner, Antoine Dominoe*

B3.3

La Mer (De)

Written-By – P. Smith*

B4

Elegie

Guitar – Allen LanierWritten-By – A. Lanier*, P. Smith*

2:42

Companies, etc.

• Mastered At – Sterling Sound

• Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound

• Recorded At – Electric Lady Studios

Credits

• Design – Bob Heimall*

• Drums – Jay Dee Daugherty

• Engineer – Bernie Kirsh

• Engineer [Assistant] – Frank D'Augusta*

• Guitar, Bass – Ivan Kral

• Lacquer Cut By – RL*

• Lead Guitar – Lenny Kaye

• Mastered By – Bernie Kirsh, Bob Ludwig

• Photography By – Robert Mapplethorpe

• Piano – Richard Sohl

• Producer – John Cale

Notes

Otherwise identical to Patti Smith - Horses except this states "NOT FOR SALE" on labels at 6 o.clock.

Per Patti Smith - Horses:

Label variant 1st pressing with "Horses" in white lettering on glossy cover.
STEREO printed in bold below bold cat # AL 4066 and album side #'s (AL 4066 SA/SB) @ 9:00.
Difference also in run outs, no scratched out incorrect cat #'s or RE matrices from other "Horses" (glossy cover/white lettering) found here: Patti Smith - Horses

?&© 1975 Arista Records Inc.
Executive Producer: Wartoke Records Inc.
Recorded and mixed at Electric Lady Studios NYC
Mastered at Sterling Sound Inc.

"Birdland" was inspired by Peter Reich and Huey Smith

First pressing. Laminated, glossy cover.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side 1 [etched]): AL-4066-SA MOM+DAD RL

• Matrix / Runout (Side 2 [etched]): AL-4066-SB Daddy Frank Linda+Todd RL

• Matrix / Runout (Side 1 & 2 [stamped]): STERLING
  

LABEL: ARISTA RECORDS

CAT. #: AL 4066

YEAR: 1975

RECORD CONDITION:THE RECORD IS IN EX/EX-- CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR,SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS ON SIDE 2.THE SONGS SOUND & PLAY SUPER CLEAN. SOME VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG+ CONDITION. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO TEARS, WRINKLES, NO WRITING OR MARKS, OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC...CUT CORNER DONE BY THE RECORD LABEL (SEE PHOTO). WITH LAMINATED JACKET. THERE IS SOME VERY LIGHT RING WEAR FRONT TOP, BACK BOTTOM (SEE PHOTOS), CORNER “DING” UPPER LEFT. THERE IS SOME BLACK SPOTS ON THE BACK OF THE JACKET LOWER LEFT CORNER (SEE PHOTO), NOT INK,NOT SURE WHAT LOOKS LIKE IT COUNLD BE CLEANED OFF.

MORE INFO: I TRY AND MATCH WHAT I AM SELLING WITH DISCOGS LISTINGS. THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. PRINTED ON BOTH LABLES IS “NOT FOR SALE”. PRODUCED BY JOHN CALE.

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song is "Because the Night," which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 197] and number five in the U.K. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

On November 17, 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. She placed 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010 and was also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.

By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music, initially with guitarist, bassist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral on guitar and bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl on piano. Kral was a refugee from Czechoslovakia who had moved to the United States in 1966 with his parents, who were diplomats. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he decided not to return.] Financed by Sam Wagstaff, the band recorded a first single, "Hey Joe / Piss Factory", in 1974. The A-side was a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken word piece about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst ("Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women ..."). A court later heard that Hearst had been confined against her will, and had been repeatedly threatened with execution and raped. The B-side describes the helpless anger Smith had felt while working on a factory assembly line and the salvation she discovered in the form of a shoplifted book, the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations. In a 1996 interview which discusses artistic influences during her younger years, Smith said, "I had devoted so much of my girlish daydreams to Rimbaud. Rimbaud was like my boyfriend."

Later that same year, she performed spoken poetry on "I Wake Up Screaming" from Ray Manzarek's The Whole Thing Started with Rock & Roll Now It's Out of Control album.

The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and in 1975 recorded their first album, Horses, produced by John Cale amid some tension. The album fused punk rock and spoken poetry and begins with a cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria", and Smith's opening words: "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" (an excerpt from "Oath", one of her early poems). The austere cover photograph by Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images. As the popularity of punk rock grew, Patti Smith Group toured the United States and Europe. The rawer sound of the group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, reflected this. Considerably less accessible than Horses, Radio Ethiopia initially received poor reviews. However, several of its songs have stood the test of time, and Smith still performs them regularly in concert. She has said that Radio Ethiopia was influenced by the band MC5.

Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, released on November 10, 1975, on Arista Records. Smith, a fixture of the then-burgeoning New York punk rock music scene, began recording Horses with her band in 1975 after being signed to Arista Records, with John Cale being enlisted to produce the album. With its fusion of simplistic rock and roll structures and Smith's freeform, Beat poetry-infused lyrics, Horses was met with widespread critical acclaim upon its initial release. Despite a lack of airplay or a popular single to support the album, it nonetheless experienced modest commercial success, managing a top 50 placing on the US Billboard 200.

Horses has since been viewed by critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums not only in the history of the American punk rock movement, but also in the history of all rock and roll. Horses has also been cited as a key influence on a number of succeeding post-punk, and alternative rock acts, including Siouxsie and the Banshees, R.E.M., the Smiths, PJ Harvey and Hole.

By 1975, Patti Smith and her band had established themselves as favorites in the New York underground club scene. The band eventually caught the attention of industry executive Clive Davis, who was scouting for new talent to sign to his new just-launched label Arista Records and later offered Smith a record deal. Recording sessions for Smith's debut album Horses began later that year, with Smith retaining her longtime backing band from a lengthy residency at the New York club CBGB—Jay Dee Daugherty on drums, Lenny Kaye on guitar, Ivan Kral on bass, and Richard Sohl on keyboards.Smith enlisted Welsh musician John Cale, formerly of The Velvet Underground, to serve as the album's producer, as she was impressed by the raw sound of his own albums, such as Fear.

According to Smith, Horses was a conscious attempt "to make a record that would make a certain type of person not feel alone. People who were like me, different ... I wasn't targeting the whole world. I wasn't trying to make a hit record." Recording sessions for the album were marked by frequent arguments between Smith and Cale, owing in part to their different work ethics.By the end of recording, and for some years immediately following the album's release, Smith was quick to downplay Cale's contributions and suggested that she and her band ignored his suggestions entirely.In a 1976 interview with Rolling Stone, Smith described the experience:

My picking John was about as arbitrary as picking Rimbaud. I saw the cover of Illuminations with Rimbaud's face, y'know, he looked so cool, just like Bob Dylan. So Rimbaud became my favorite poet. I looked at the cover of Fear and I said, 'Now there's a set of cheekbones.' In my mind I picked him because his records sounded good. But I hired the wrong guy. All I was really looking for was a technical person. Instead, I got a total maniac artist. I went to pick out an expensive watercolor painting and instead I got a mirror. It was really like A Season in Hell, for both of us. But inspiration doesn't always have to be someone sending me half a dozen American Beauty roses. There's a lotta inspiration going on between the murderer and the victim. And he had me so nuts I wound up doing this nine-minute cut that transcended anything I ever did before.

Cale would later recall that Smith initially struck him as "someone with an incredibly volatile mouth who could handle any situation", and that as producer on Horses he wanted to capture the energy of her live performances, noting that there "was a lot of power in Patti's use of language, in the way images collided with one another."He described their working relationship during recording as "confrontational and a lot like an immutable force meeting an immovable object"] Smith herself would later attribute much of the tension between herself and Cale to her inexperience with formal studio recording, recalling that she was "very, very suspicious, very guarded and hard to work with" and "made it difficult for him to do some of the things he had to do". She expressed gratitude for Cale's persistence in recording and producing the band, noting that he would always leave much of the band's "adolescent and honest flaws" in and ultimately "helped us in the birth of ourselves", calling him "like a brother to me, a brother who gave me a helping hand.

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