LOU REED - Metal Machine Music

Item Description

2 x Vinyl,
LP Album

Subtitled "The Amine β Ring"

Text on the sleeve:
"SPECIFICATIONS
Sony 1/2 track
Uher 1/4 track
Pioneer 1/4 track
5 piggyback Marshall Tube Amps in series
Arbiter distortion (Jimi's)
Marantz Preamps
Marantz Amps
Altec Voice of America Monitor Speakers
Sennheiser Headphones
Drone cognizance and harmonic possibilities vis a vis Lamont Young's Dream Music
Rock orientation, melodically disguised, i.e. drag
Avoidance of any type of atonality.
Electro-Voice high filter microphones
Fender Tremolo Unit
Sunn Tremolo Unit
Ring Modulator/Octave Relay Jump
Fender Dual Showman Bass Amp with Reverb Unit (Pre-Columbia) white
No Synthesizers
No Arp
No Instruments?
--10 db + 57db
--20 hz--+30,000 hz
--12 kz--+28,000 kz
Distortion 0.02 bass and treble ceilings
Combinations and Permutations built upon constant harmonic Density Increase and Melodic Distractions.
STRICT STEREO SEPARATION
No panning
No phasing
No"

℗ 1975 RCA Records
Special thanks to Bob Ludwig
Mastered at Sterling Sound

Lead-out groove matrices. Hand-etched:
CPL- 21101 - A
CPL- 21101 - B
CPL- 21101 - C
CPL- 21101 - D
And an 'H' in a ring on each side.

Unlike the US version, D Side of the Netherlands pressing, does not end in a locked groove. Also, unlike the US version, this release comes in a single sleeve format. Orange RCA labels.