It's the 40th anniversry of its release this week so Happy Birthday!!!:music::music::music:

How many have a copy? and how mint is it? (I have two, one on white vinyl..:thmbsp:)

Still rocking after all these years

I have a mint MFSL copy!

Got a standard issue green apple label from the era, with poster. the scratches are all mine.

Nowadays I get my fix via tracks ripped from the Dr. Ebbett's boot..

40 years?? Unbelievable. One NM, one VG+, 1 unknown.

WOW....40 years. its still commercially viable and can holds its own.

I have 1 copy (reissue) on vinyl and one copy on CD

I have a French Pathe' on white vinyl and the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition CD mini-album from the U.K.

Great album. I've got an Apple label reissue from the mid-seventies and also the MFSL reissue (part of the box set).

1 Apple reissue from the mid-seventies and on CD. One of my deserted island 5 for sure.

FORTY...... FRIGGIN'...... YEARS..... !!! YIKES!

Yeah, I had one. Had an original issue, lost it. Got a reissue, got stolen. Got another, son won't give it back!

Guess I better head out and renew, review and redo. :D

Ok, keep in mind this was 40 years ago.

Bought my copy brand new. Didn't like it.

Took it back for a refund.

I have no idea what I was thinking.

Even the clerk at the record store was like..."Are you sure you want to return this???".

:sigh:

I got a German pressing, on white vinyl. Cool!

I got one on white vinyl about 20 years ago, with all the posters. I took the 4 pictures of the band members and had them framed, and hung it over my turntable. I didn't know it was the 40th annerversary, I was playing that record last night.

Ok, keep in mind this was 40 years ago.

Bought my copy brand new. Didn't like it.

Took it back for a refund.

I have no idea what I was thinking.

Even the clerk at the record store was like..."Are you sure you want to return this???".

:sigh:

I love stories like that!

It was your first exposure to what you have to admit was a departure in their usual sound. A big step forward, in hindsight, but many think it is too big, sprawling, too all over the map, which can be off-putting. George Martin sure thought so.

"Glass Onion" is still in my Beatles all-time Top 3.

I have a beat-to-hell US Stereo version on white vinyl and one of the purple label 70s reissues that is mint and has all the posters.

I also have the official CD which I threw up on sometime in the early 90s after following beers and B&B shots with a cheeseburger.

Ken

i have my copy in VGC ...was just thinking it would be a good time to spin that album .

I have a beat-to-hell US Stereo version on white vinyl and one of the purple label 70s reissues that is mint and has all the posters.

I also have the official CD which I threw up on sometime in the early 90s after following beers and B&B shots with a cheeseburger.

Ken

Nice story!

This is off topic, but my LP of Electric Ladyland had a giant drop of a beer- with a single hair stuck to it- for years after an epic party. The hair finally fell off a while back.

I feel deja-vu- I think I may have told this story somewhere on AK already. I apologize if that's the case- I don't want to become one of those annoying uncles who tells the same crusty old stories over and over again at family reunions.

I can remember buying my first copy on the day it was released. I bought it at Marshall Music in East Lansing, Michigan. The line of people waiting to get a copy ran out into the street. The store was full of unopened cartons of the album. Oh yeah, it cost $6.66.

I no longer have that copy but I do have a sealed copy on white vinyl as well as several CD copies including the 30th anniversary edition in mini-lp packaging.

I have a few different versions, my original release copy is beat to hell - it came out of my college radio station's library. They had set out boxes of records they would no longer need due to some format changes in the early 80's...

I have no idea what I was thinking.
Clay, I'm going to keep telling myself you were suffering from a high fever. :smoke:

Todd

I bought it within a day or 2 of its release- it was in my car a few days later (the wee hours of the Friday after Thanksgiving Day) when I got...err...umm...detained by the local constabulary in Daytona Beach. After getting sprung, went to get my car out of the impound lot- it was obvious the boys in blue had tossed the interior looking for contraband- and I couldn't find the album.

Being the level-headed young man that I was in those days, I immediately started accusing the owner of the impound lot of stealing my album and damaging the rear grille of my car when he towed it, among other things. Things got heated, the cops returned, and I almost got re-arrested. I scrounged around in the car some more and found the album had been crammed behind the fold-down rear seat back during the search, which didn't keep me from continuing to cast aspersions on the impound lot guy, who, by this point, was threatening to grab me by the goozle and learn me some manners. The rollers escorted me to the county line, and advised me not to come back anytime soon- advice that I have heeded to this day, with only 2 exceptions.

O, and I sold the album for $15 almost a year later to get eating money for a trip to the War Moratorium march in Washington on 11/15/69.

I currently have a Canadian pressing of it.

I bought it within a day or 2 of its release- it was in my car a few days later (the wee hours of the Friday after Thanksgiving Day) when I got...err...umm...detained by the local constabulary in Daytona Beach. After getting sprung, went to get my car out of the impound lot- it was obvious the boys in blue had tossed the interior looking for contraband- and I couldn't find the album.

Being the level-headed young man that I was in those days, I immediately started accusing the owner of the impound lot of stealing my album and damaging the rear grille of my car when he towed it, among other things. Things got heated, the cops returned, and I almost got re-arrested. I scrounged around in the car some more and found the album had been crammed behind the fold-down rear seat back during the search, which didn't keep me from continuing to cast aspersions on the impound lot guy, who, by this point, was threatening to grab me by the goozle and learn me some manners. The rollers escorted me to the county line, and advised me not to come back anytime soon- advice that I have heeded to this day, with only 2 exceptions.

O, and I sold the album for $15 almost a year later to get eating money for a trip to the War Moratorium march in Washington on 11/15/69.

I currently have a Canadian pressing of it.


Great story, thanks Tentoze.

I love stories like that!

It was your first exposure to what you have to admit was a departure in their usual sound. A big step forward, in hindsight, but many think it is too big, sprawling, too all over the map, which can be off-putting. George Martin sure thought so.

I fell that thought it has a few truly great songs, it also is a large collection of brilliant but half finished ideas.

Number Nine...Number Nine...Number Nine...We become Naked...

One late 70s/purple label copy still in pretty good shape. Even with the space filler its a masterpiece. John is probably at his artistic peak, that would continue through to his first couple of solo albums.