Keith Levene-If Six Was Nine (1988)


 

Artist: Keith Levene

Title: If Six Was Nine

1If Six Was 9
Written-By – Jimi Hendrix
2Back Too Black
Written-By – Keith Levene
3Fast Brass Slam (Version II)
Written-By – Keith Levene

Label: Rykodisc

Format: CD3

Catalog Number: RCD3-1004

Year of Release: 1966

Country and Year of Edition: US 1988

Sell Price: $4.82

Sell Date: 1/17/25

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 6/13/24 M/M $18.52

Low: $4.82

Median: $12.35

Average: $10.10

High: $18.52

Current low price: $4.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 17

Have/Want: 34/20

Where Sold: San Francisco, CA

Time It Took To Sell:  13 years

Where and When Bought: new around time of release, Nuggets Boston

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

The short lived CD-3 format was a flop.  I remember reading in Billboard a Ryko executive that I possibly interned for a few years later stating the CD-3 was going to be a hit with teenagers that couldn't pay for expensive compact discs that were going for around $15 at the time, but they would pay for 3" singles the same way that they paid for 45's in the pre-CD era.   Seems quaint, doesn't it?  I was still a teenager at the time and had myself a chuckle. 

Of course, what Ryko had to offer in the CD-3 format was mostly for older generations anyway.  I  seem to remember some Zappa CD-3's they put out and Capitol got on board with Beatle singles reissues, but Beatle collectors will buy anything.  Keith Levene's Violent Revolution album came out on Taang! Records on vinyl and cassette, Ryko issued the CD.   

Levene of course was primarily known as the guitarist for Public Image Ltd. in their early peak era.  Ryko ended up putting out this EP a year prior to issuing Violent Revolution in 1989. This release opened with a great cover of the Hendrix track "If Six Was Nine" with two other tracks on the then forthcoming album.  "Back To Black" was on it, the alternate second version of "Fast Brass Slam"   with an added layer spoken sample narrative was not.  This second version has been lost in the world of streaming and wasn't reissued later on.  Fortunately, I have a stand alone CD-R burner that has a drawer and a spindle as opposed to a slot which won't take those tiny discs even with the unwieldly adaptor that worked with CD trays.

A miracle of modern technology.


FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Death Disco (Mojo Presents a Compendium of Post-Punk Grooves) (2014)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Axis: Bold As Love (1967)

Jah Wobble @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 7/24/24


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