City of Glass

[Teasing the Korean]

I had the LP version of this, paired with "This Modern World" with a fairly generic album cover - A mid-century UN-style Man from U.N.C.L.E globe on a black background. I always wanted the original cover art.

And like an idiot I scratched it. (Red wine was involved).

For years I could not find the vinyl.

I REFUSED to by the CD reissue, because they had replaced the original art deco modernerist artwork with a bland cityscape.

I did not want to hear this music again with the wrong cover.

Now - TONIGHT - I found a very clean ten-inch LP with the right cover!!! FINALLY, I can hear this masterpiece the way it was meant to be heard!!!!

I CANNOT WAIT, BUT MY WIFE IS DOING YOGA SO I CAN'T BLAST THE STEREO!!!

Edited December 9, 2009 by Teasing the Korean

[Chuck Nessa]

Your wife is doing Yoda and you don't want to disturb her?

[Teasing the Korean]

Your wife is doing Yoda and you don't want to disturb her?

She's been chasing him for a while.

[Jazzmoose]

Found him, she did.

Edited December 9, 2009 by Jazzmoose

[JSngry]

Edited December 9, 2009 by JSngry

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i was happy too when i upgraded from my west coast jazz radio show cassstette early 90s dub to the 10 inch

[JohnS]

Nice find. I last saw a 10" of this back around 1957. Front cover was torn halway across. Gave it a spin in the shop listening booth and, as a teenager, hated it. I didn't hear it again until the cd issue and I'm more toleratnt of it now!

[Rooster_Ties]

My mom owned a copy of this (cover below), and I've still got it!

She got Ellington's autograph back in the day too (which I got as a surprise Xmas gift to me about 10 years ago).

And she saw/heard Harry Partch back in the day too -- saw/heard Cage a time or two as well.

(The only music my dad ever liked was barbershop quartets, and german polkas.)

[John Tapscott]

True story heard in a jazz record shop. Guy brings in a pile of used records including City of Glass. Says to the the proprietor, "That's one's only been played once." Prop replies, "Yep, never seen one any different."