Recently discovered masters mean we can put these up in significantly-improved fidelity. Hard to believe these are 2-tk Revox recordings.

"A project that has been on the Glass drawing board for many years is to release everything that was done under the Arcadia tapes. There are two sets of sessions and a bunch of recordings that we did with Paul Black, many of which have never seen the light of day. There’s some really good stuff that we did with Paul. I just want to get this stuff out there. We’re not getting any younger. When I’m gone I don’t want my wife to be stuck with a bunch of boxes of tape. I just want to get it out there, and who knows maybe fifty years down the road Glass might be a Progressive Music household name."
- J.S.

Tracks 1-5 recorded at the Arcadia Barn, Port Townsend WA June 30 to July 2, 1973. Jerry Cook☉ was on drums.

"Those who know a little about Glass, know we’re from a little seaside town called Port Townsend on the Olympic Penninsula in Washington State. We pretty much grew up there our whole lives. It was an idyillic existence and we were fortunate enough to have early support during our formative creative years there. One of those encouragers was a man named Mr. Sumers who owned this estate just outside of town called Arcadia. We always dreamed about owning that place someday and turning it into a kind of “Glass Commune.” Not only was it beautiful but it boasted a huge barn out back that we dreamed of turning into a recording and rehearsal studio. So one day in 1973 on a whim we called him up and asked if we could take over the barn for a couple nights and record our latest batch of songs there. Much to our surprise, he said, “Yes”! And that was the start of us getting to create in a very magical space. . . "
-J.S.

Two years later, on July 26-7, 1975, we returned to the Barn with our new drummer, Paul Black⭐︎, to prepare a demo tape for him to take to New York (tracks 6-9).

In the summer of ’75, as fate would have it, our drummer Jerry Cook grew impatient with the demands of being in a band for basically no reward－he had a young family to support－so after all of his investment of time & energy in Glass, Jerry did the honorable thing and quit the band. He even sold his drum kit to reduce temptation!(¹) Greg and I recruited Paul Black, our childhood friend and drummer for "The Mob" from Lester's(²), to keep the music going. He was someone who was familiar with our music and who had been mentoring us even before we were Glass. In fact he was one of the first people who pushed us into our own songwriting － when he first heard our new tunes we were working on he said “Man this is it, you guys have found your way.” When everyone else seemed confused as to our direction, he was someone who totally got it. So bringing Paul in was a fairly seamless transition, but his playing style was different than Jerry’s, and of course we had to learn to adapt the music more to his style.
(¹) - therealglass.bandcamp.com/track/for-ursula-major-and-sirius-the-dog-star
(²) - therealglass.bandcamp.com/album/after-playing-at-lesters

We returned to Arcadia in '75 to make a set of recordings with Paul that he could take to New York. Paul had a sister living there, where he could crash while he took our recordings around The Big Apple in an attempt to get us some work, and find somebody (anybody) in the recording industry who would be interested in what we were doing. He found us a producer (who shall remain unnamed) who said he would get us a whole bunch of gigs. We got all excited and drove all the way across the country (towing our U-Haul™ full of equipment) to meet Paul and start playing in New York City－but it turned out there was nothing! No gigs, no recording sessions, no publicity. We managed to book a couple of tiny little gigs ourselves, all the way out on Long Island at a bar called Michael's － where we were basically paid with free dinner. We did make a couple of recordings there (see NSTTS-IV), but the New York trip turned out to a unmitigated financial disaster. Greg and I decided, on the slow and sad drive home, that we needed to re-evaluate, because by that point we had been 100% focused on promoting Glass for 8 years straight. We never sat down and said we were breaking up the band. We just decided it was time to pause and take a break for a little while.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_(band)#Dissolution

Little did we realize Glass would be "on ice" for the next 20 years.
jeffreysherman.bandcamp.com/album/sherman-bros-band

And then of course we returned to Arcadia 36 years later for another dose of their magic:
therealglass.bandcamp.com/album/palindrome

© 1975 Relentless Pursuit Music, BMI. All Rights Reserved.


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