Two double-sided 12″ vinyl test pressings of The Who’s renowned 1973 album Quadrophenia, each disc featuring two different sides of the final classic release. Generic white labels on both sides of the records are blank. In overall fine condition. Each disc is accompanied by its original paper sleeve, with notations on the sleeve for the first disc reading: “Rejected due to jumping track?” and “The Who Rec-One.” Much of Quadrophenia was recorded in Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio, which was built by Nevison inside an Airstream trailer. The album was exceptionally complex in both concept and production—designed as a double-LP rock opera that traced the four personalities of a single character, Quadrophenia incorporated impromptu recordings of waves on a beach, a diesel train, and brass band, and utilized synthesizers for even more sound effects. It was ultimately mixed at Pete Townshend’s home studio at Goring-on-Thames, where they didn’t have enough tracks for all the sound effects, and so put them on cartridge machines (used by radio for commercials) for the sea, rain, train whistles, etc., and mixed as they went. In an interview, Pete Townshend said of the project, ‘The music is the best music that I've ever written, I think, and it's the best album that I will ever write.’ RR Auction COA. Learn more about Ron Nevison.
